The Icelandic Red Cross is collecting money to help with the famine crisis in Somalia. Read the full story

The Iranian asylum seeker who tried to catch himself alight two weeks ago at the Icelandic Red Cross HQ in Reykjavik, will be released from custody today. He faces a possible four-year prison sentence. Read the full story

An asylum seeker from Iran this morning took two cans of petrol into the Icelandic Red Cross headquarters in Reykjavik, covered himself in the fluid and threatened to set fire to himself. He later told police he did it out of desperation. Read the full story

Around ISK 21 million (USD 188,000) was collected this Saturday by the Icelandic Red Cross in a co-ordinated door-to-door collection across the whole of Iceland. Read the full story

Two medically-trained Icelandic Red Cross volunteers will become the latest in a long line of Red Cross crisis workers from Iceland in Haiti when they set off this coming Monday. Read the full story

If you have been wondering why the Red Cross shop on Reykjavik’s Laugavegur shopping street is looking a bit different, read on… Read the full story

Norwegian doctors are in Haiti helping victims of the earthquake and the Norwegian Red Cross has set up a hospital near the Port au Prince airport, which has been operating in unbearably hot temperatures with inadequate air conditioning. New air conditioning units are now on site provided by the Icelandic Red Cross. Read the full story

A charity concert will take place this evening at Reykjavik’s Nasa nightclub with performances from many of Iceland’s biggest music stars, both new and old. Reykjavik City Council has also pledged money to support Haiti. News of today’s massive aftershock, measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale, has only heightened the need for such fundraising. Read the full story

The Icelandic International Search and Rescue Team has started work in Haiti. Two teams are searching the rubble of the four-storey Caribbean Market shopping centre in Port au Prince, and have already pulled two people out alive. At least one more is thought to remain alive inside. Read the full story

A group of Palestinian refugees will land this evening at Iceland’s Keflavik Airport and be taken straight to the western town of Akranes. The group is made up of 29 women and children who had previously been living in the Al Waleed refugee camp in Iraq, Frettabladid reports.

The group’s arrival is in accordance with government policy on the reception of refugees, which states that Iceland should take 20 to 30 per year.

The refugees will move in to flats provided by the town of Akranes and the Akranes branch of the Icelandic Red Cross is reported to have furnished and decorated the flats and is also collecting clothes.

Three support families will be on hand to help each refugee family arriving in Akranes and one in Reykjavik. Their role will be to support the people in their new and strange environment.

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