Fleiri fréttir Hopes To Raise Maximum Penalty For Child Pornography A Reform Party MP has been working on a bill to increase the penalties for child pornography from a maximum... The post Hopes To Raise Maximum Penalty For Child Pornography appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 29.10.2020 23:31 The Minister Reviewed: The Grapevine Interns Take On Icelandic Politics ‘Ráðherrann’ (‘The Minister’) tells the story of Benedikt Ríkharðsson, a populist MP who is elected Prime Minister following a radical... The post The Minister Reviewed: The Grapevine Interns Take On Icelandic Politics appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 29.10.2020 22:30 Iceland Copes With A Cancelled Halloween Due to the pandemic, many of the usual Halloween festivals have been cancelled, although the civil defence has not issued... The post Iceland Copes With A Cancelled Halloween appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 27.10.2020 16:01 Iceland Removed From Grey List Iceland has been removed from the Financial Action Task Force’s Grey List after satisfactorily completing measures against money laundering and... The post Iceland Removed From Grey List appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 27.10.2020 14:58 11-Year-Old Boy Cheered Up By Anti-Bullying Supporters Many people have contacted eleven-year-old Ólíver after his mother told the story of the bullying he had faced at school,... The post 11-Year-Old Boy Cheered Up By Anti-Bullying Supporters appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 26.10.2020 17:01 Shipping Company’s COVID-19 Denial Exposed It is alleged that the shipping company Hraðfrystihúsið Gunnvör forbade the crew of the Júlíus Geirmundsson from discussing the COVID-19... The post Shipping Company’s COVID-19 Denial Exposed appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 26.10.2020 16:05 Flags On Police Uniform Raise Questions; Capital Area Police Respond A photo used with an unrelated crime story on MBL has raised numerous questions amongst Icelanders, chief amongst them being... The post Flags On Police Uniform Raise Questions; Capital Area Police Respond appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 21.10.2020 18:30 Death Begets Life: Krummi On The Pandemic, The Future & Frozen Teardrops “It’s a strange and scary time,” Krummi Björgvinsson says—over FaceTime, to be safe—when talk inevitably turns from his newest solo... The post Death Begets Life: Krummi On The Pandemic, The Future & Frozen Teardrops appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 21.10.2020 18:01 Earthquake News: How To React, More Quakes This Morning, Supermarket Trashed Yesterday’s powerful earthquake—a 5.7 just 3.3km beneath the surface near Krýsuvík—shook the greater part of southwest Iceland and prompted a... The post Earthquake News: How To React, More Quakes This Morning, Supermarket Trashed appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 21.10.2020 17:34 Child Befriends Swan–Iceland Swoons Nine-year-old Baltasar Máni had an exciting day at the Tjörnin pond yesterday when he befriended a swan, Vísir reported. Baltasar... The post Child Befriends Swan–Iceland Swoons appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 20.10.2020 17:01 The City Needs To Do More To Protect Drug Users Guðmundur Ingi Þóroddsson, the chairman of Afstaða, the advocacy group for improved prison policies and betterment, has expressed concern for... The post The City Needs To Do More To Protect Drug Users appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 20.10.2020 15:55 Mixed Opinions On Car-Free Streets, Most In Favour Residents of Vesturbær are the happiest with the city centre’s pedestrian streets, whilst residents of Grafarvogur are the most negative,... The post Mixed Opinions On Car-Free Streets, Most In Favour appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 17.10.2020 17:00 Creating Visibility With Sound: Julius Rothlaender & Claire Paugam On ‘Vestur í bláinn’ Seemingly random, in front of wood paneling and amid shelves of books, an odd looking, torn, bright yellow dress hung... The post Creating Visibility With Sound: Julius Rothlaender & Claire Paugam On ‘Vestur í bláinn’ appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 16.10.2020 08:00 Nasal Spray Developed To Help Fight COVID-19 Icelandic company Kerecis has developed a nasal and oral spray that kills 99.97% of the COVID-19 virus, RÚV reports. The... The post Nasal Spray Developed To Help Fight COVID-19 appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 15.10.2020 17:00 Prime Minister Reveals Plans To Write A Crime Novel Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir has revealed that she is planning on branching out into the world of fiction writing, Fréttablaðið... The post Prime Minister Reveals Plans To Write A Crime Novel appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 15.10.2020 16:00 Wage Theft Claims Amount To One Billion ISK The total amount of unpaid wages that Efling has demanded from employers has amounted to 345 million ISK last year,... The post Wage Theft Claims Amount To One Billion ISK appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 15.10.2020 14:00 83 Diagnosed With Coronavirus Yesterday 83 new coronavirus cases were diagnosed domestically yesterday, Vísir has reported. 49 were quarantine at the time of diagnosis but... The post 83 Diagnosed With Coronavirus Yesterday appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 13.10.2020 13:00 Ask An Expert: What Was The First Guitar Solo In Icelandic History? Iceland has certainly made a name for itself as a seemingly boundless source of great music, starting with its full-armed... The post Ask An Expert: What Was The First Guitar Solo In Icelandic History? appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 12.10.2020 16:45 50 Diagnosed With Coronavirus Yesterday 50 people were diagnosed with coronavirus domestically yesterday, Vísir reported this morning. Of these, 33 were in quarantine at the... The post 50 Diagnosed With Coronavirus Yesterday appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 12.10.2020 16:00 Iceland’s Unlikely Role In Space Exploration: From 1965 And Into The Future With the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, Earth’s exploration of space began in earnest. Since then, the focus had... The post Iceland’s Unlikely Role In Space Exploration: From 1965 And Into The Future appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 9.10.2020 14:30 97 New Coronavirus Infections Diagnosed Yesterday 97 new coronavirus infections were diagnosed domestically yesterday, Vísir reported this morning. More than half, or 54 of the 97,... The post 97 New Coronavirus Infections Diagnosed Yesterday appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 9.10.2020 13:00 Iceland Vs Romania In UEFA EURO Qualifiers The Icelandic Men’s National football team will tackle Romania at Laugardalur tonight, after the UEFA qualifying match was postponed due... The post Iceland Vs Romania In UEFA EURO Qualifiers appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 8.10.2020 15:30 94 New Coronavirus Cases 94 new coronavirus infections were diagnosed yesterday, Vísir reported this morning. Of these, 40 were already quarantine and eight were... The post 94 New Coronavirus Cases appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 8.10.2020 14:55 Minister Of Health Temporarily Steps Down An announcement on the cabinet website has revealed that the Minister of Health, Svandís Svavarsdóttir, is on temporary leave until... The post Minister Of Health Temporarily Steps Down appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 7.10.2020 16:54 Data Protection Authority Allowed Credit Card Tracing In a follow up to news that credit cards had been traced to help track the spread of COVID-19, the... The post Data Protection Authority Allowed Credit Card Tracing appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 7.10.2020 12:37 99 Diagnosed With Coronavirus Yesterday In the highest number to be diagnosed with coronavirus in a single day since April, 99 people were diagnosed with... The post 99 Diagnosed With Coronavirus Yesterday appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 6.10.2020 16:00 Jón Þrastar Jónsson’s Family Launches Media Complaint The family of Jón Þrastar Jónsson, who disappeared in Dublin in February 2019, are planning to submit formal complaints to... The post Jón Þrastar Jónsson’s Family Launches Media Complaint appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 6.10.2020 14:00 Minister Of Justice Under Fire For Refugee Camp Proposal Minister of Justice, Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir, has come under fire after suggesting that demarcation areas be set up to accommodate refugees... The post Minister Of Justice Under Fire For Refugee Camp Proposal appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 6.10.2020 13:00 Landslide In Eyjafjörður A landslide fell from the mountains above the farm Gislá 2 in Eyjafjörður at eleven o’clock this morning, according to... The post Landslide In Eyjafjörður appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 6.10.2020 12:00 Data Protection Authority Allowed Credit Card Tracing In a follow up to news that credit cards had been traced to help track the spread of COVID-19, the... The post Data Protection Authority Allowed Credit Card Tracing appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 6.10.2020 10:00 Credit Card Transactions Used To Trace COVID-19 As reported by Vísir this morning, credit card transactions have been used, on more than one occasion, to find people... The post Credit Card Transactions Used To Trace COVID-19 appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 5.10.2020 16:00 Americans In Iceland Concerned Over Delayed Postal Votes Delays in the Icelandic and U.S. Postal Service due to COVID alongside President Trump’s campaign against the USPS is making... The post Americans In Iceland Concerned Over Delayed Postal Votes appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 5.10.2020 15:05 ‘The Creak On The Stairs’ Praised In The UK Eva Björg Ægisdóttir’s ‘The Creak On The Stairs’ has been elected one of the five best crime stories of October... The post ‘The Creak On The Stairs’ Praised In The UK appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 2.10.2020 16:16 Cancer Society Completes Cervical Screening Review The Iceland Cancer Society has now completed its review of cervical cancer samples following the misdiagnoses of patients in 2018,... The post Cancer Society Completes Cervical Screening Review appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 2.10.2020 15:30 Children Present Human Rights Report To UN A children’s report on the state of human rights in Iceland has been presented to the United Nations Committee on... The post Children Present Human Rights Report To UN appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 1.10.2020 15:30 Icelandic Author Tops German Bestseller Lists Ragnar Jónasson’s ‘Hidden Iceland’ has made history by occupying three of the top places on the German bestseller list published... The post Icelandic Author Tops German Bestseller Lists appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 1.10.2020 14:00 Sjá næstu 50 fréttir
Hopes To Raise Maximum Penalty For Child Pornography A Reform Party MP has been working on a bill to increase the penalties for child pornography from a maximum... The post Hopes To Raise Maximum Penalty For Child Pornography appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 29.10.2020 23:31
The Minister Reviewed: The Grapevine Interns Take On Icelandic Politics ‘Ráðherrann’ (‘The Minister’) tells the story of Benedikt Ríkharðsson, a populist MP who is elected Prime Minister following a radical... The post The Minister Reviewed: The Grapevine Interns Take On Icelandic Politics appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 29.10.2020 22:30
Iceland Copes With A Cancelled Halloween Due to the pandemic, many of the usual Halloween festivals have been cancelled, although the civil defence has not issued... The post Iceland Copes With A Cancelled Halloween appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 27.10.2020 16:01
Iceland Removed From Grey List Iceland has been removed from the Financial Action Task Force’s Grey List after satisfactorily completing measures against money laundering and... The post Iceland Removed From Grey List appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 27.10.2020 14:58
11-Year-Old Boy Cheered Up By Anti-Bullying Supporters Many people have contacted eleven-year-old Ólíver after his mother told the story of the bullying he had faced at school,... The post 11-Year-Old Boy Cheered Up By Anti-Bullying Supporters appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 26.10.2020 17:01
Shipping Company’s COVID-19 Denial Exposed It is alleged that the shipping company Hraðfrystihúsið Gunnvör forbade the crew of the Júlíus Geirmundsson from discussing the COVID-19... The post Shipping Company’s COVID-19 Denial Exposed appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 26.10.2020 16:05
Flags On Police Uniform Raise Questions; Capital Area Police Respond A photo used with an unrelated crime story on MBL has raised numerous questions amongst Icelanders, chief amongst them being... The post Flags On Police Uniform Raise Questions; Capital Area Police Respond appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 21.10.2020 18:30
Death Begets Life: Krummi On The Pandemic, The Future & Frozen Teardrops “It’s a strange and scary time,” Krummi Björgvinsson says—over FaceTime, to be safe—when talk inevitably turns from his newest solo... The post Death Begets Life: Krummi On The Pandemic, The Future & Frozen Teardrops appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 21.10.2020 18:01
Earthquake News: How To React, More Quakes This Morning, Supermarket Trashed Yesterday’s powerful earthquake—a 5.7 just 3.3km beneath the surface near Krýsuvík—shook the greater part of southwest Iceland and prompted a... The post Earthquake News: How To React, More Quakes This Morning, Supermarket Trashed appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 21.10.2020 17:34
Child Befriends Swan–Iceland Swoons Nine-year-old Baltasar Máni had an exciting day at the Tjörnin pond yesterday when he befriended a swan, Vísir reported. Baltasar... The post Child Befriends Swan–Iceland Swoons appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 20.10.2020 17:01
The City Needs To Do More To Protect Drug Users Guðmundur Ingi Þóroddsson, the chairman of Afstaða, the advocacy group for improved prison policies and betterment, has expressed concern for... The post The City Needs To Do More To Protect Drug Users appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 20.10.2020 15:55
Mixed Opinions On Car-Free Streets, Most In Favour Residents of Vesturbær are the happiest with the city centre’s pedestrian streets, whilst residents of Grafarvogur are the most negative,... The post Mixed Opinions On Car-Free Streets, Most In Favour appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 17.10.2020 17:00
Creating Visibility With Sound: Julius Rothlaender & Claire Paugam On ‘Vestur í bláinn’ Seemingly random, in front of wood paneling and amid shelves of books, an odd looking, torn, bright yellow dress hung... The post Creating Visibility With Sound: Julius Rothlaender & Claire Paugam On ‘Vestur í bláinn’ appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 16.10.2020 08:00
Nasal Spray Developed To Help Fight COVID-19 Icelandic company Kerecis has developed a nasal and oral spray that kills 99.97% of the COVID-19 virus, RÚV reports. The... The post Nasal Spray Developed To Help Fight COVID-19 appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 15.10.2020 17:00
Prime Minister Reveals Plans To Write A Crime Novel Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir has revealed that she is planning on branching out into the world of fiction writing, Fréttablaðið... The post Prime Minister Reveals Plans To Write A Crime Novel appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 15.10.2020 16:00
Wage Theft Claims Amount To One Billion ISK The total amount of unpaid wages that Efling has demanded from employers has amounted to 345 million ISK last year,... The post Wage Theft Claims Amount To One Billion ISK appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 15.10.2020 14:00
83 Diagnosed With Coronavirus Yesterday 83 new coronavirus cases were diagnosed domestically yesterday, Vísir has reported. 49 were quarantine at the time of diagnosis but... The post 83 Diagnosed With Coronavirus Yesterday appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 13.10.2020 13:00
Ask An Expert: What Was The First Guitar Solo In Icelandic History? Iceland has certainly made a name for itself as a seemingly boundless source of great music, starting with its full-armed... The post Ask An Expert: What Was The First Guitar Solo In Icelandic History? appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 12.10.2020 16:45
50 Diagnosed With Coronavirus Yesterday 50 people were diagnosed with coronavirus domestically yesterday, Vísir reported this morning. Of these, 33 were in quarantine at the... The post 50 Diagnosed With Coronavirus Yesterday appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 12.10.2020 16:00
Iceland’s Unlikely Role In Space Exploration: From 1965 And Into The Future With the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, Earth’s exploration of space began in earnest. Since then, the focus had... The post Iceland’s Unlikely Role In Space Exploration: From 1965 And Into The Future appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 9.10.2020 14:30
97 New Coronavirus Infections Diagnosed Yesterday 97 new coronavirus infections were diagnosed domestically yesterday, Vísir reported this morning. More than half, or 54 of the 97,... The post 97 New Coronavirus Infections Diagnosed Yesterday appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 9.10.2020 13:00
Iceland Vs Romania In UEFA EURO Qualifiers The Icelandic Men’s National football team will tackle Romania at Laugardalur tonight, after the UEFA qualifying match was postponed due... The post Iceland Vs Romania In UEFA EURO Qualifiers appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 8.10.2020 15:30
94 New Coronavirus Cases 94 new coronavirus infections were diagnosed yesterday, Vísir reported this morning. Of these, 40 were already quarantine and eight were... The post 94 New Coronavirus Cases appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 8.10.2020 14:55
Minister Of Health Temporarily Steps Down An announcement on the cabinet website has revealed that the Minister of Health, Svandís Svavarsdóttir, is on temporary leave until... The post Minister Of Health Temporarily Steps Down appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 7.10.2020 16:54
Data Protection Authority Allowed Credit Card Tracing In a follow up to news that credit cards had been traced to help track the spread of COVID-19, the... The post Data Protection Authority Allowed Credit Card Tracing appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 7.10.2020 12:37
99 Diagnosed With Coronavirus Yesterday In the highest number to be diagnosed with coronavirus in a single day since April, 99 people were diagnosed with... The post 99 Diagnosed With Coronavirus Yesterday appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 6.10.2020 16:00
Jón Þrastar Jónsson’s Family Launches Media Complaint The family of Jón Þrastar Jónsson, who disappeared in Dublin in February 2019, are planning to submit formal complaints to... The post Jón Þrastar Jónsson’s Family Launches Media Complaint appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 6.10.2020 14:00
Minister Of Justice Under Fire For Refugee Camp Proposal Minister of Justice, Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir, has come under fire after suggesting that demarcation areas be set up to accommodate refugees... The post Minister Of Justice Under Fire For Refugee Camp Proposal appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 6.10.2020 13:00
Landslide In Eyjafjörður A landslide fell from the mountains above the farm Gislá 2 in Eyjafjörður at eleven o’clock this morning, according to... The post Landslide In Eyjafjörður appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 6.10.2020 12:00
Data Protection Authority Allowed Credit Card Tracing In a follow up to news that credit cards had been traced to help track the spread of COVID-19, the... The post Data Protection Authority Allowed Credit Card Tracing appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 6.10.2020 10:00
Credit Card Transactions Used To Trace COVID-19 As reported by Vísir this morning, credit card transactions have been used, on more than one occasion, to find people... The post Credit Card Transactions Used To Trace COVID-19 appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 5.10.2020 16:00
Americans In Iceland Concerned Over Delayed Postal Votes Delays in the Icelandic and U.S. Postal Service due to COVID alongside President Trump’s campaign against the USPS is making... The post Americans In Iceland Concerned Over Delayed Postal Votes appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 5.10.2020 15:05
‘The Creak On The Stairs’ Praised In The UK Eva Björg Ægisdóttir’s ‘The Creak On The Stairs’ has been elected one of the five best crime stories of October... The post ‘The Creak On The Stairs’ Praised In The UK appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 2.10.2020 16:16
Cancer Society Completes Cervical Screening Review The Iceland Cancer Society has now completed its review of cervical cancer samples following the misdiagnoses of patients in 2018,... The post Cancer Society Completes Cervical Screening Review appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 2.10.2020 15:30
Children Present Human Rights Report To UN A children’s report on the state of human rights in Iceland has been presented to the United Nations Committee on... The post Children Present Human Rights Report To UN appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 1.10.2020 15:30
Icelandic Author Tops German Bestseller Lists Ragnar Jónasson’s ‘Hidden Iceland’ has made history by occupying three of the top places on the German bestseller list published... The post Icelandic Author Tops German Bestseller Lists appeared first on The Reykjavik Grapevine. 1.10.2020 14:00