Ingvi Steinn Jóhannsson, newly elected chairman of the Icelandic Customs Association and Chief Customs Officer at Keflavík Airport, has praised customs officers for their professionalism and efficiency following the seizure of 20,000...
The first wood anemone blooms have already been spotted in several locations. The flowers are traditionally associated with Mother's Day, which on 11 May this year.
53 Swedish authors are urging Culture Minister Parisa Liljestrand to take action against tech company Meta for the possible use of copyrighted works to train the company's AI model. Parisa Liljestrand has called Meta's actions...
Daði Már Kristófersson, Iceland’s Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, has responded to the U.S. government’s decision to impose a 10% import tariff on Icelandic products, calling the move “not good news” — but also noting that...
The trial begun today against five people accused on being involved in coercing a 13-year-old boy into firing a weapon at the premises of the Swedish subsidiary of an Israeli defence and security tech company in Gothenburg last year. At...
A powerful earthquake struck near Kleifarvatn Lake at 6:03 pm yesterday, shaking the southwest corner of Iceland and being widely felt in the capital area. A series of aftershocks followed, several of which were also felt across the region.
Police are warning of the risk of criminals and unscrupulous employers profiteering from the collapse of Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt, which up until recently employed over a thousand people from outside the EU on a work permit...
Inflation in Sweden fell from 2.9 % in February to 2.3 % in March, which is more than many analysts had expected. The preliminary figures published by Statistics Sweden, Friday, are according to the CPIF measurement which excludes...
The April 1st eruption, which began at 9:44 a.m., officially ended at 4:45 pm the same day, making it the shortest eruption in the ongoing Reykjanes Peninsula eruption series that began in March 2021.
After Trump unveiled worldwide tariffs, stock markets have been plummeting. Joakim Bornold is a Swedish economist and says that economic uncertainty is the biggest problem around Trump's tariffs. "The Swedish companies will prevail and...