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“It was an easy decision to put this book together. When the company was approaching its eightieth anniversary, in March 2024, Haukur Alfreðsson from the Loftleiðir Historical Society approached me and suggested that I make a grand photo...Sunday, February 23, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The Swedish-speaking band hails from Finland but is competing to be Sweden's Eurovision representative.Sunday, February 23, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
“I think I can say that nothing has changed since this room was opened; I certainly haven’t changed anything since I took over,” says Geirlaug Þorvaldsdóttir, owner of Hotel Holt, about the hotel’s venerable Library.Sunday, February 23, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Jukka Manner, professor of internet technologies at Aalto University, compares the situation in Finland to Ireland, which has seen energy consumption skyrocket due to data centres.Sunday, February 23, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Authorities urge the public to refrain from calling 112 and emergency services about the flares on Sunday unless there is an actual emergency.Saturday, February 22, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
With the agreement in place, planned strikes and solidarity actions in the technology industry will be called off.Saturday, February 22, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
A group of architects, engineers and artists is demanding immediate action to stop the decline of Icelandic architecture. At the same time, more attention should be paid to the beauty of buildings and other key aspects in the public...Saturday, February 22, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The injured victims remain hospitalised, but their lives are not believed to be in danger.Saturday, February 22, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Each year, approximately 2,000 people choose to enter civilian service rather than military service, with over 2,300 applicants last year.Friday, February 21, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
Heiða Björg Hilmisdóttir will be the new mayor of Reykjavík. This was announced at a press conference by the leaders of the Social Democratic Party, the Pirate Party, the Socialist Party, the People's Party and the Left Green Party...Friday, February 21, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Negotiations are set to continue on Monday.Friday, February 21, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The case concerns the taxation of Hakkarainen's income from the European Parliament for the tax years 2020 and 2021.Friday, February 21, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
Updated modeling calculations show that the amount of magma that has accumulated under Svartsengi is now as large as it was before the eruption that began on November 20 last year.Friday, February 21, 2025 from Radio Sweden
An innovative Swedish speech-to-text AI model has been developed by the National Library of Sweden. The model, called KB-Whisper, is 47% more accurate in Swedish than the American original which was developed by AI-research organisation...Friday, February 21, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Two teenage girls aged 13 and 15 have been found guilty of murdering a 14-year-old girl in Landskrona. The victim had been subjected to extreme violence when she was found in an old freight train yard last summer. The two girls had...Friday, February 21, 2025 from Radio Sweden
The implementation of new security requirements for schools proposed by the government to come into force this August is causing some concern for school principals in the country. After the mass shooting at the Risbergska centre for...Friday, February 21, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
MPs voted 91-66 to reject the initiative, with 42 lawmakers absent.Friday, February 21, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
The Icelandic Association of Local Authorities (SÍS) rejected an internal proposal submitted by the state mediator in the teachers' dispute.Friday, February 21, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
In 2024, over 3,000 reservists applied for crisis management roles, with more than 2,300 qualifying for standby service.Friday, February 21, 2025 from mbl.is - News in English
Negotiation committees and local government leaders are now meeting at the Association of Icelandic Local Authorities in connection with the internal proposal of Ástráður Haraldsson, the state mediator in the teachers’ dispute. Teachers...Friday, February 21, 2025 from Radio Sweden
The crime wave that hit Sweden at the start of the year is now over, according to National Police Commissioner Petra Lundh. She tells Swedish Television SVT police have been able to arrest the bomb makers, and that the situation has...Friday, February 21, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
The cable was previously damaged over Christmas, with suspicions pointing to Russia's shadow fleet.Friday, February 21, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
At the same time, a Finnish MEP says Russia now has an ally in the White House.Friday, February 21, 2025 from Radio Sweden
Another cable in the Baltic Sea has been damaged, according to several media reports. The Swedish Coastguard tells Swedish Radio that one of its ships is on the way to where the damage is thought to have happened, near the island of...Friday, February 21, 2025 from Yle Uutiset | News |
Monday marks the third anniversary since Russia invaded Ukraine.