The former foreign minister and ex-leader of Iceland’s Social Democrats, Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir has revealed that she still has a brain tumour diagnosed in 2008. She was this week spared from the Landsdomur high court; but former PM Geir Haarde will face negligence charges. Read the full story

The head of the United Nations Human Rights Council is likely to request that former Icelandic foreign minister Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir head up an investigation into the Israeli attack on Gaza-bound aid ships. Read the full story

Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir, former Icelandic Foreign Minister and current MP and chairman of the Social Democrats, announced this afternoon that she is to leave politics altogether. Gisladottir invited the media to a press conference at her home on Nesvegur shortly before 17.00 to announce her decision. Read the full story

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) sent a message to the Icelandic government in April last year saying how important it was to react effectively against the problems of having a too-big banking sector with very light regulation in the country. Read the full story

Head of Iceland’s Social Democrats and former Foreign Minister Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir has confirmed that she intends to run for parliament again at the upcoming elections in April. Read the full story

Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, the President of Iceland, asked Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir, the leader of the Social Democrats, and Steingrimur J. Sigfusson, leader of the Left Green Party, to discuss together the formation of a minority coalition government between their two parties. The President said he had asked Gisladottir to chair the talks. Read the full story

A group of ten to 15 protesters, mostly wearing masks, gathered outside the Icelandic Foreign Ministry on Friday afternoon and pelted the building with balloons filled with red paint. Read the full story

“The meeting went very well and there was a really good atmosphere at Austurvollur (square),” Hordur Torfason, the singer/actor/songwriter who has been organizing the weekly protests in front of the Icelandic parliament, said to MBL.is.

When asked if he was happy with the turnout to today’s event, Torfason said that Austurvollur Read the full story

Geir H. Haarde, Icelandic Prime Minister today announced (at a press conference) his intention that all elected officials and judges should take a pay cut. President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson suggested a few weeks ago that he would welcome such a move and that he hoped Haarde would consider it. Read the full story

A press conference held by the Icelandic Prime Minister, Geir H. Haarde, and the Icelandic Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir, is taking place in the Cultural House at 5pm today.

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