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Iceland moves to withdraw EU application
ICELAND'S government will seek parliamentary approval to withdraw its application to join the European Union, opting not to restart accession talks that were put on ice a year ago. A bill proposing the withdrawal was sent to parliament late on Friday and was due to be debated next week, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Saturday.
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As Iceland's Auroracoin “Airdrop” Approaches, What Does It Mean When A Nation Adopts A Cryptocurrency?
Iceland has its own Satoshi. A programmer called Baldur Friggjar Odinsson has created an alternative to bitcoin that he is calling AuroraCoin and in twenty-three days he will “airdrop” 31.8 coins to every citizen of Iceland – all 330,000 of them. It is, in short, a pretty ballsy move.
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Literary Tourism: Iceland
'I live in the land of books. Also of mountains and prettiness, but mostly books. More books are published per person in Iceland than anywhere else (about 5 per 1000 people). The culture is deeply bookish, and the question “read anything good lately?” a perfectly normal conversation starter at the dinner parties. Here are a few …'
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Just making coffee over a fire in an ice cave
Here is Einar Runar Sigurdsson (photographer) priming the stove to make coffee in the Café Vatnajokull Ice Cave in southeast Iceland, close to Skaftafell.
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Iceland: outdoor playground - TRAVEL.SEE.LIVE
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Thousands Of Intense Earthquakes Rock Iceland
Thousands of small intense earthquakes are rocking Iceland amid concerns that one of the country's volcanoes may be close to erupting. Iceland has raised its aviation alert level for the risk of a possible volcanic eruption to orange — the second-most severe level.
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Watch Footage Of Iceland's Ongoing Volcanic Eruption
Lava started spewing forth Sunday morning from the same fissure in between Iceland's Askja and Bardarbunga volcanoes where a smaller eruption was observed earlier this week.
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Iceland cuts aviation alert to orange, no ash from new eruption
Iceland cut its ash warning level for aviation to orange from red on Sunday, saying a fresh fissure eruption in Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano system was not creating ash.
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EU, U.S. blast Iceland for stepping up whaling
The European Union and United States delivered a strongly worded complaint to Iceland on Monday condemning an increase in whaling and urging it to observe an international ban on the commercial hunting of whales.
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Strokkur Geyser on the Verge of Eruption
In this perfectly timed photo we see Strokkur, a famous geyser in Iceland, on the verge of eruption. Located in the geothermal area beside the Hvítá River (in the southwest part of the country, east of Reykjavík), Strokkur erupts about every 4–8 minutes and can reach heights of 15–20 meters (50-65 ft), and sometimes even up to heights of 40 m (131 ft).
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Two Lands - Greenland & Iceland
From the creators own words: "Two Lands is the result of a very brief 10 day shoot I did for Panasonic. The video is a compilation of some of the footage I shot while there. Some of the other shots are in lockdown by the client so I used what I could to create this video. I spent 4 days shooting in Iceland and 6 days shooting in Greenland."
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Christmas on the Road in Iceland
247 minutes. That’s the small amount of daylight we had to travel, hike and explore southern Iceland. We made sure to not waste a single minute of these precious moments of daylight. That meant driving and hiking through the darkness of 20 hour nights.
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Iceland Lava Field Biggest In Over 200 Years
It's larger than the entire island of Manhattan and it's the biggest they've seen in centuries. For over four months now, the Icelandic Highlands, which make up most of the country's interior and are largely uninhabitable, have seen a constant eruption of lava that continues to spread, bringing with it massive amounts of sulfur dioxide and hundreds of earthquakes.
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Iceland to build first temple to Norse gods since Viking age
Icelanders will soon be able to publicly worship at a shrine to Thor, Odin and Frigg with construction starting this month on the island’s first major temple to the Norse gods since the Viking age. Worship of the gods in Scandinavia gave way to Christianity around 1,000 years ago but a modern version of Norse paganism has been gaining popularity in Iceland. “I don’t believe anyone believes in a one-eyed man who is riding about on a horse with eight feet...
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Lækjarbrekka Restaurant - Home
Icelandic restaurant
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The Most Isolated House in the World
No rowdy neighbours keeping you up at night. A view that we could only dream of.
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Iceland convicts bad bankers and says other nations can act
Iceland's Supreme Court has upheld convictions of market manipulation for four former executives of the failed Kaupthing bank in a landmark case that the country's special prosecutor said showed it was possible to crack down on fraudulent bankers. Hreidar Mar Sigurdsson, Kaupthing's former chief executive, former chairman Sigurdur Einarsson, former CEO of Kaupthing Luxembourg Magnus Gudmundsson, and Olafur Olafsson, the bank's second largest shareholder at the time...
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Former heads of failed bank Kaupthing receive the heaviest jail sentences for financial fraud in Iceland’s history
The Supreme Court of Iceland sentenced today four former heads of failed bank Kaupthing to jail for their role in market manipulation of share prices in Kaupthing bank in 2008. Former CEO, Hreiðar Már Sigurðsson, received a five-and-a-half year long sentence, which is the heaviest sentence for financial fraud in Iceland’s history. Former chairman, Sigurður Einarsson, received a four-year sentence, Magnús Guðmundsson, former CEO of the bank’s Luxembourg branch, got four-and-a-half...
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Iceland looks at ending boom and bust with radical money plan
Icelandic government suggests removing the power of commercial banks to create money and handing it to the central bank.
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The Coffee of Civilization in Iceland
One might even see the Icelandic coffee cult as one case of a too-little-touched-on aspect of the human comedy: our tactical amnesia about trade. We tend to abstract and accent the unpleasant or disconcerting aspects of trade while domesticating the bits that seem essential to us. In “ David Copperfield,” there’s an old lady who spends all her time drinking tea and decrying foreign travel (“Let us have no meandering”) while other nineteenth-century English characters...
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