The Kurdish founder of a radical Islamic group has been jailed in Norway after making death threats against senior officials.
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Radical cleric jailed for Norway death threats
Posted on 29 March 2012.
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Custody granted in Reykjavík watch raider case
Posted on 24 March 2012.
The Supreme Court of Iceland has granted a police custody request for the Polish man who was recently extradited to the country from Switzerland following last October’s raid on a Reykjavík Rolex shop. The man has confessed.
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Former Iceland PM trial splits nation
Posted on 14 March 2012.
Slightly more people in Iceland were happy to see their former prime minister go on trial for negligence over the banking crash than were unhappy, new survey results reveal.
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Old Landsbanki to sue PriceWaterhouseCoopers for ‘deliberate’ auditing errors
Posted on 11 March 2012.
The resolution committee of the failed Icelandic bank Old Landsbanki has subpoenaed the international auditing firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers, accusing the company of creating wrong annual accounts which misled the markets. The committee’s damages claim runs to hundreds of millions of krónur.
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Iceland prime minister trial update
Posted on 10 March 2012.
11 witnesses gave testimony to the Landsdómur trial of former Icelandic Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde yesterday – day five. They included the current Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs.
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Breivik charged under terror laws
Posted on 09 March 2012.
Norwegian extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who is accused of killing 77 people and injured hundreds more in dual attacks last year, has been officially charged with terrorism.
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Dane admits burning daughters in car
Posted on 09 March 2012.
A Danish man has admitting drugging his two daughters and then burning them alive inside his car, claiming he also tried to kill himself but fled the vehicle when his natural survival instincts kicked in.
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Update from former Iceland PM trial
Posted on 07 March 2012.
A second former governor of the Central Bank of Iceland, Ingimundur Friðriksson, took the witness stand this morning at the Culture House in Reykjavík – where the trial of former Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde is taking place.
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