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Climeworks’ direct air carbon capture plant in Orca, Iceland. Photo: Handout
Business of climate change

Swiss unicorn makes green investment pitch to Hong Kong investors

Climeworks, the builder of the world’s largest carbon capture plant, is seeking investors for ambitious multibillion-dollar ventures.

Iceland headed for early election after coalition collapses

Luxury Hotels

Review | The Reykjavik Edition: true luxury in the heart of Iceland’s capital

Accidents and personal safety

Hong Kong policeman dies, wife hurt in Iceland when car crashes into river

Icelandic police tell the Post man lost control of rental car on gravel path, crashing into Fossa River in north of country.

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The couple rented a car in Iceland and one of them was driving when the accident occurred, a source said. Photo: Shutterstock
High Jewellery

Creative director Claire Choisne reveals the inspo behind recent Boucheron collections

Choisne describes defying convention and adventuring in Iceland for the water-inspired Or Bleu, while More is More arose from a post-pandemic moment and Histoire de Style is drawn more from the brand’s archives

Tourist in Iceland killed in ice cave collapse

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Nordic nations

Police in Iceland call off search at ice cave collapse that killed 1 man, saying no one is missing

A group of 23 foreign tourists were on an organised tour of the glacier Breidamerkurjokull with a guide when the cave collapsed on Sunday.

Rescue teams at the scene after an ice cave partially collapsed at the Breidamerkurjokull glacier in southeastern Iceland on Monday. Photo: TOD2 / Vilhelm Gunnarsson via AP
Transport and logistics

My Take | The next battleground between East and West may be the Arctic

As the ice melts and new shipping lanes open up, Canada’s sovereign claim over the Northwest Passage is likely to become hotly contested.

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Style Edit

Style shoot: Boucheron’s Iceland-inspired Or Bleu high jewellery collection

Creative director Claire Choisne used waves of silver, sprays of precious stones and icicles of pearls to convey the power of the country’s majestic landscape

Nato

Nato backs effort to save internet by rerouting to space in event of subsea attacks

Proposed initiative comes amid intensifying fears in the West that Russia or China could mine, sever or otherwise tamper with undersea cables during a military crisis.

Nato headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Photo: AFP
Tourism

How to say place names most get wrong like Laos, Oaxaca, Leicester

Think you can pronounce these hard-to-say countries, cities and other places? Try your hand at Phuket, New Orleans, Leicester, Reykjavík, Kaohsiung, Laos, Yosemite, Oaxaca, Edinburgh and more.

Can you pronounce Leicester properly? Photo: Shutterstock
Gender

Global equality champion Iceland to elect woman as president for second time

Katrin Jakobsdottir, who stepped down as prime minister to run for president, is neck-and-neck in polls with equality advocate Halla Tomasdottir.

Nordic nations

Iceland volcano erupts again, spews lava for fifth time since December

The new outburst happened as another eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula recently ended after spewing fountains of molten rock for almost eight weeks.

European Union

Romania and Bulgaria partially join Europe’s Schengen travel zone

After years of negotiations to join Europe’s ID-check-free travel zone, there is now free access for travellers arriving by air or sea from both countries, marking new step in countries’ integration with the EU.

Passengers arriving from Berlin receive European Union and Bulgarian flags after Bulgaria’s official partial entry into Europe’s open-borders Schengen area at Sofia airport on Sunday. Photo: AFP
Russia

Russia sentences Pussy Riot activist to 6 years in absentia for Ukraine war fakes

Lyusya Shtein found guilty of spreading ‘war fakes’ over 2022 post on X that accused Russian soldiers captured by Ukraine of bombing foreign cities, Russian media reported.

Masked members of Russian feminist group Pussy Riot protest inside the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow in 2012. On Wednesday, Russia sentenced band member Lyusya Shtein to six years in prison in absentia for anti-war social media posts. Photo: AP
Nordic nations

Lava from Iceland volcano continues to advance after latest eruption

Icelandic police declared a state of emergency shortly after the latest eruption on Saturday.

Ukraine war

Opinion | Welcome thaw in Arctic relations but Russia’s shadow looms large

After two years of frosty relations and a stalled LNG project in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, there is sign of a thaw amid pressing climate concerns: Arctic Council working group meetings are resuming virtually.

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Nordic nations

Iceland volcano erupts again, spewing lava and cutting heat and hot water

The eruption site is close to Grindavík, a coastal town of about 3,800 people that was evacuated before a previous eruption on December 18.

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Iceland’s Meteorological Office says a volcano is erupting in the southwestern part of the country. Photo: AP
Europe

‘Black day’ of town fires as volcano erupts in Iceland

Volcanoes

Lava engulfs homes in Iceland as volcano erupts

For the second time in four weeks, a volcano has erupted in Iceland, with lava this time reaching a coastal town and setting houses on fire.

Iceland volcano erupts after weeks of activity

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Volcanoes

Iceland volcano erupts after weeks of earthquakes

A volcanic eruption started Monday night on Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula, turning the sky orange and prompting the country’s civil defence to be on high alert.

A volcano spews lava and smoke as it erupts in Grindavik, Iceland. Photo: Civil Protection of Iceland via Reuters
Earthquakes

Iceland hit by 880 earthquakes overnight, amid volcanic eruption fears

Eruptions in 2021, 2022 and July this year were all preceded by a series of quakes, with thousands of tremors in the last couple of weeks.

Tourism

Update | Spa guests flee, state of emergency declared as quakes raise volcano fears

‘There was a panic situation’ at Blue Lagoon Iceland spa, taxi driver says, as guests fled one of the country’s biggest tourist attractions, fearing a rash of earthquakes presaged a volcanic eruption.

Nordic nations

‘Unacceptable in 2023’: Iceland’s PM to strike for equal pay, end to violence

Tuesday’s walkout, under the slogan “Do you call this equality?” is being billed as the biggest since Iceland’s first such event in 1975, when 90 per cent of women refused to work, clean or look after children.

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Iceland’s prime minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir is refusing to work in protest at the gender pay gap and gender-based violence. Photo: AP
Conservation

Iceland resumes whale hunting, but slaughter needs to be faster

Animal rights groups responded to the decision with dismay and called it ‘shameful’.

Opposition to whaling has been on the rise in Iceland. File photo: AFP

Volcano erupts near Iceland’s capital Reykjavik

Local media footage shows a massive cloud of smoke rising from the ground as well as a substantial flow of lava at the site around 30km from Reykjavik. Icelandic authorities advised against going to the site.

Switzerland

Another 131 years to close gender gap, World Economic Forum report finds

Iceland took the top position for the 14th year – having closed 91.2 per cent of its overall gender gap – while the US dropped to 43rd on the list, down from 27th last year.

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Iceland
Iceland
The latest news, analysis and opinion on Iceland. In-depth analysis, industry insights and expert opinion.
Capital
Reykjavik
Head of State
President Halla Tómasdóttir
Head of Government
Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson
last updated:
25 September, 2024
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