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Iceland parliament recognizes Palestine
The Icelandic parliament has passed a resolution recognizing Palestine as a sovereign state, UPI reported. The Althing voted on the proposal by Minister for Foreign Affairs Ossur Skarphedinsson, which specifically recognizes the pre-1967 borders of (...)

01 - 12 - 2011
Iceland rejects Chinese bid for resort land
AlHijjah 29, 1432, Nov 25, 2011, SPA -- Iceland's government has rejected an application by a Chinese entrepreneur to purchase land for a resort development, as AP reported. The government said Friday that the company controlled by Huang Nubo did (...)

25 - 11 - 2011
Iceland central bank increases interest rate to 4.50 per cent
Iceland's central bank Wednesday raised its key interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 4.50 per cent, citing rising inflation, according to dpa. Inflation in July was at 5 per cent compared to the central bank's goal of 2.5 per (...)

17 - 08 - 2011
Iceland president rejects overseas bank compensation plan
Awwal 17, 1432 H/Feb 20, 2011, SPA-- Iceland's president Sunday rejected a revised plan to repay compensation to Britain and the Netherlands over the collapse of an Icelandic bank three years ago, saying it should be subject to a new (...)

20 - 02 - 2011
Icelandic parliament approves deal on bank compensation plan
Awwal 13, 1432 H/Feb 16, 2011, SPA -- - Iceland's parliament Wednesday approved a revised plan to repay compensation to Britain and the Netherlands over the collapse of an Icelandic bank three years ago. The deal was approved by a 44 to 16 vote (...)

16 - 02 - 2011
Iceland panel wants charges over 2008 bank collapse
Iceland should bring negligence charges against former ministers over its banking collapse in 2008, a committee of the Althingi parliament said on Saturday, but was split on who should stand trial, according to Reuters. Five of the nine members of (...)

11 - 09 - 2010
Icelandic volcano rumbles on as ash cloud blows clear
Iceland's erupting volcano has showed signs of increased activity, but the cloud of ash which wreaked havoc on European air travel is blowing clear of busy flight paths, Reuters quoted a panel of scientists as saying on Thursday. High altitude (...)

06 - 05 - 2010
Iceland closes two airports over volcanic ash cloud
Icelandic authorities closed two airports near the capital Reykjavik on Friday over volcanic ash from a volcano that erupted last week, according to dpa. The ash cloud from the volcano under the Eyjafjallajoekull glacier in southern Iceland (...)

23 - 04 - 2010
Iceland volcano spews less ash, eruption goes on
The Icelandic volcano which grounded air traffic over Europe is still erupting, but it is spewing less ash, Reuters quoted reported the meteorological office and experts as saying today. Close monitoring of the neighbouring and potentially more (...)

21 - 04 - 2010
Volcano spewing less ash as lava boils up
The dramatic volcanic eruption that belched out the ash plume responsible for grounding much of Europe entered a new phase today _ producing less smoke but bubbling with lava and throwing up chunks of molten rock, according to AP. Less ash is (...)

19 - 04 - 2010
Iceland's volcano keeps spewing ash
A volcano in Iceland continued to spew ash and smoke skywards Thursday evening with no sign of letup in the days ahead, officials said in Reykjavik according to dpa. According to the Foreign Ministry, experts said the risk of ongoing volcanic (...)

15 - 04 - 2010
Iceland's volcanic eruption winding down
Scientists said the country's latest volcanic eruption is coming to an end. The tourist boom it sparked may now subside, as well. The Eyjafjallajokull (AYA-feeyapla-yurkul) volcano erupted March 20 after lying dormant almost 200 years, AP (...)

12 - 04 - 2010
Iceland and IMF agree on loan payment
Iceland and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced today that they had agreed on the terms of a 159- million-dollar loan payment to the North Atlantic country, dpa reported. The government of Iceland said the payment hinged on a review (...)

09 - 04 - 2010
Volcano erupts in Iceland; U.S. flights diverted
Authorities evacuated hundreds of people after a volcano erupted beneath a glacier in southern Iceland, Iceland's civil protection agency said Sunday. The eruption occurred around 11:30 p.m. Saturday (1930 EDT) beneath the Eyjafjallajokull (...)

21 - 03 - 2010
Iceland expected to turn down bank failure repay
Still smarting from the crippling aftermath of the global financial crisis, grudging Icelanders were expected Saturday to vote down a $5.3 billion plan to pay off Britain and the Netherlands for debts spawned by the collapse of an Icelandic Internet (...)

06 - 03 - 2010
Iceland rejects new proposal on repaying bank debt
Iceland today rejected a new proposal on terms for the repayment of 5.4 billion dollars to British and Dutch investors following the collapse of an Icelandic bank, according to dpa. Officials from the three countries have in recent weeks (...)

22 - 02 - 2010
Iceland considers new proposal on repaying bank debt
Iceland was Sunday considering a new proposal on terms for how Reykjavik is to repay 5.4 billion dollars to British and Dutch investors after the collapse of an Icelandic bank. The British and Dutch governments had initially stepped in to (...)

21 - 02 - 2010
Iceland still in talks on plan to repay bank debt
Iceland, Britain and the Netherlands have yet to agree on terms for how Reykjavik is to repay 5.4 billion dollars to British and Dutch savers after the collapse of an Icelandic bank, dpa quoted public broadcaster RUV as reporting today. The (...)

19 - 02 - 2010
Report: Iceland to discuss how to repay bank debt
Iceland, Britain and the Netherlands are due next week to discuss how Reykjavik is to repay 5.4 billion dollars to British and Dutch savers after the collapse of an Icelandic bank, dpa cited public broadcaster RUV as reporting today. The (...)

11 - 02 - 2010
Icelandic team rescues two from quake rubble in Haiti
Members of a 35-strong Icelandic team of search and rescue workers today pulled two people alive from the rubble of the Caribbean Market in Haiti"s capital Port-au-Prince, dpa quoted the Icelandic foreign ministry as saying. The Icelandic (...)

14 - 01 - 2010
Icelandic parliament debates bill on referendum
The Icelandic parliament held an emergency session today to debate details of a referendum on repaying $5.7 billion to Britain and the Netherlands _ a poll that is seen as a defining moment in the bankrupted country"s economic recovery, according to (...)

08 - 01 - 2010
Bomb squad searches Lufthansa jet in Iceland
A Lufthansa flight en route from Frankfurt to Detroit with about 200 passengers made an emergency landing in Iceland on Saturday after it was found to be carrying luggage whose owner had not boarded the plane, Reuters reported. A bomb squad (...)

26 - 12 - 2009
Iceland"s central bank lowers interest rate to 11 per cent
Iceland"s central bank today lowered its key interest rate by 1 percentage point to 11 per cent, according to dpa. Announcing its decision, the Monetary Policy Committee said the currency "has remained broadly stable since late summer, although (...)

05 - 11 - 2009
Iceland lawmakers approve Icesave repayment plan
Icelandic lawmakers voted on Friday in favour of a bill to repay Britain and the Netherlands more than $5 billion lost in Icelandic deposit accounts last year, a move seen paving the way for further international aid needed to repair the (...)

28 - 08 - 2009
Iceland's president injures shoulder when riding
Iceland's President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson has broken his left shoulder in a horse-riding accident, news reports said Thursday, according to dpa. Grimsson was riding Wednesday with a group of people including his wife at Hunavellir in the (...)

20 - 08 - 2009
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