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If Iceland is on your bucket list, you are just one non-stop flight away there on Iceland Air. Travel journalist Jennifer Broome joined us from the Blue Lagoon with how to make Iceland the trip of ...
Iceland has confirmed it is bringing the shutters down on one of its town centre stores in Kent. The supermarket in College Square, Margate, has been earmarked for closure by bosses at the frozen ...
The yearly changes table looks at the last quarter's/month's index values for a given year and compares it with the same quarter/month of the previous year to gauge the change in house prices during ...
Iceland’s only active whaling company, Hvalur hf., will not be operating this summer, marking the second consecutive year without a hunting season. According to reports, the company cited ongoing ...
The controversial practice of ‘whaling’, hunting and killing whales to extract and sell their meat is currently only permitted in Iceland, Norway and Japan. Iceland's largest whaling company ...
The EFTA Surveillance Authority (ESA) has referred Iceland to the EFTA Court for its reported failure to enforce rules to prevent packaging waste, regulate the types of packaging brought to market, ...
Hyatt recently announced plans to open its first Hyatt-branded hotel in Iceland — Hyatt Centric Reykjavík. Scheduled for a 2022 opening, Hyatt Centric Reykjavík will be a 169-room boutique property ...
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"I don't want to drive our EU accession talks based on fear," Icelandic Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir told Euronews in an interview. The powerful shifts shaking the geopolitical order ...
Architecture firm Sp(r)int Studio has restored, extended and added polycarbonate roof panels to a 1950s timber structure protecting a Viking-era archaeological site in Iceland. Sp(r)int Studio has ...
The glacier lagoon Jökulsárlón in southern Iceland brings to mind Pytheas’ description of the “island with ice floes close to it.” Credit: Martin Peeks/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0 The Greek ...