The animated history of Iceland
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Awakening volcanic region in Iceland could cause disruption for centuries – Reykjanes peninsula's last active period started in 10th century and lasted 300 years
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Icelandic farming union has been surprised by the enthusiastic response to its appeal for volunteers to help sick farmers out during the Covid-19 outbreak
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Iceland employs detective work, testing and quarantine in coronavirus fight
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Iceland's Daði Freyr Pétursson says he will not return for Eurovision 2021 selection as a singer
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Iceland's large-scale testing strategy includes people who don’t have any symptoms
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Iceland: 330 cases, quarantine for all returning Icelanders
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Icelandic prime minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir wants to introduce a well-being economy – GDP becomes merely one of thirty-nine indicators of national progress
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England have been drawn to face Iceland, Denmark and Belgium in the 2020/21 UEFA Nations League
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Daði & Gagnamagnið win Iceland's Söngvakeppnin 2020 with 'Think About Things'
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Hatari feat. Bashar Murad - Klefi / Samed (Chamber / Steadfast) (2019)
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Immigrants from over twenty countries are taking part in a program that will help them develop, set up, and operate a food truck specialising in food from their home countries
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Icelanders celebrate Bolludagur – the cream-filled buns are generally made of choux pastry and topped with a chocolate or caramel glaze
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The lessons a buoyant Finland can take from Iceland's Euro 2016 success
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LGBTQ activists in Iceland are protesting the planned deportation of a transgender teen and his family who fled Iran last February
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KFOR and Iceland sign technical agreement on lower airspace – an important step in the process to establish all of the necessary conditions for the opening of new aviation routes
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Hildur Guðnadóttir becomes first woman to win Best Original Score – Icelandic composer also won Golden Globe and BAFTA awards for her work on 'Joker'
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Cod war tensions with Iceland – British trawlers, bunched together as they are, make easy prey for Icelandic gunboats in 1976
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Mt. Þorbjörn, Reykjanes – Icelandic volcano swell signals potential eruption
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An attempt to name a child after the Devil has won no sympathy from Iceland's official naming committee
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Iceland didn't hunt any whales in 2019 – and public appetite for whale meat is fading
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In 2017, Iceland had the lowest number of prisoners per inhabitants (thirty-nine per 100,000) among European countries, according to Eurostat
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David Gunnlaugsson – Iceland's melting glaciers are nothing to panic about
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Icelandic broadcaster RÚV has presented the ten artists and their songs that have been selected to take part in the national selection Söngvakeppnin 2020
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Two Chinese nationals in their early twenties have been found dead at the site of a 1973 plane crash in southern Iceland
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Iceland's tourism revolution
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Langjökull – Thirty-nine tourists got stuck for hours in a blizzard at an Icelandic glacier, but are now safe
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How climate change threatens Iceland's iconic puffins – and the community that has gone from hunting and eating them, to rescuing them
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For the eleventh year in a row, Iceland is the country ranking first in the World Economic Forum's Geneva Equality List
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Iceland's prime minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir has urged governments to adopt green and family-friendly priorities, instead of just focusing on economic growth figures
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Icelanders used more electricity per capita in 2017 than any other country in the world, the World Economic Forum reports
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Iceland accused of putting mackerel stocks at risk by increasing its catch
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Iceland's biggest fisheries company Samherji stands accused of bribing Namibian politicians
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Denmark and Iceland clash over priceless medieval manuscripts – Reykjavik wants collection bequeathed by Icelandic scholar returned
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Vikings killed off Iceland's walruses – ancient DNA says the extinct Icelandic walruses were a genetically distinct population
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Iceland has become the world's leading miner of digital currency – then the crypto-crooks showed up
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Icelander livestreams ten-year-old McDonald's cheeseburger – Hjörtur Smárason bought his McDonald's meal in 2009 to see how long it would take to decompose
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On October 24, 1975 over ninety percent of Icelandic women refused to work – to show how much society depended on women's labor, from farms and factories to the home
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The European Union, Iceland and Norway agree to deepen their cooperation in climate action
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My own private Iceland—tourism has never been “authentic”
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Ahead of her ambitious Cornucopia tour reaching the UK in November, we select the greatest work by the Icelandic pop-polymath Björk
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In Iceland, a memorial ceremony for the Okjökull glacier suggests new ways to think about climate change
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FATF – Iceland could land on a gray list of countries which have failed to take sufficient measures to combat money laundering and the financing of acts of terrorism
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Set to rights – Iceland's new Gender Autonomy Act
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Iceland's massive Laufskálarétt pony party is a wild and windswept ride
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Government-backed initiative is designed to open up the country's unique musical culture by offering a 25% rebate to international artists using Icelandic recording studios
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‘I am not my husband's handbag’ – Iceland's first lady, Eliza Reid speaks out about her incredibly weird job
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Meet Ari Eldjárn, Iceland's hottest comic – the former flight attendant started standup as a dare
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US Navy Surface Action Group consisting of a cruiser, three destroyers, and a helicopter strike squadron are operating in the Arctic waters surrounding Iceland
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Icelandic company Flygildi has been developing a drone in the shape of a bird – which caught the attention of US investors during Mike Pence's recent visit
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