A person in Iceland’s Westfjords region has admitted to the gruesome drowning of a dog. The story was widely reported in December; along with the shock and sadness it caused in the town of Þingeyri. Read the full story
Posted on 31 January 2012.
A person in Iceland’s Westfjords region has admitted to the gruesome drowning of a dog. The story was widely reported in December; along with the shock and sadness it caused in the town of Þingeyri. Read the full story
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Posted on 23 January 2012.
A Swedish couple have been convicted of animal cruelty after 53 cats, at least half of which were said to be neglected, were found in their Stockholm house. Read the full story
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Posted on 02 January 2012.
The World Trade Organisation has been reassured by Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus that they will impose a ban on the import and export of seal skins from Greenland and Canada. Read the full story
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Posted on 02 January 2012.
A young man who “sadistically” tortured and killed a tiny puppy has received the longest sentence ever handed down for animal cruelty in Sweden. Read the full story
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Posted on 22 December 2011.
The chief suspects in the recent gruesome ‘murder’ by drowning of a dog in northwest Iceland have gone missing. Police are looking for them but stopped short of saying they have gone on the run. Read the full story
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Posted on 12 December 2011.
Dýrafjörður, taken from Þingeyri
Police in the Westfjords of Iceland are investigating the brutal ‘murder’ of a dog in the town of Þingeyri. Suspect(s) have been interviewed and townspeople are still in shock. Read the full story
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Posted on 02 December 2011.
New undercover videos showing pigs in squalid and cramped conditions in Finnish farms have raised the issue of cruelty and negligence again in the meat industry. Read the full story
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Posted on 29 June 2011.
A man and a woman from Bronderslev, northern Denmark, have been jailed after being found guilty of abusing their ten children over a number of years. Read the full story
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Posted on 06 March 2011.
After a week of controversy surrounding the treatment of animals in Finland’s fur farms, it has been revealed that candidates from every political party except the Greens will receive donations from one of the country’s biggest fur manufacturers. Read the full story
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Posted on 06 January 2011.
The mayor of Reykjavik, Jon Gnarr has declared that Iceland should take more care to rehabilitate visitors from overseas than to shoot them. This, even though the visitors in question are the biggest and most dangerous land predators anywhere: hungry and dangerous polar bears stranded many hundreds of kilometres from home. Read the full story
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Multiple shooting in Greenland hamlet
IMF refutes claim it tried to shut Icelandic national theatre and museum
Iceland central bank holds rates, predicts ongoing economic growth
Continued Malmö violence embarrasses police
Currency exchange privacy case thrown out of Icelandic court
Sauli Niinistö wins Finland presidential race
Iceland historic French village restoration finance secured
Murder in Hafnarfjörður
Workplace drug tests increase tenfold
Mythical Icelandic monster captured on film?
