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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Custody granted in Reykjavík watch raider case
Posted on 24 March 2012.
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Swiss love blossomed from Iceland volcanic ash
Posted on 20 August 2011.
A couple in Switzerland, Marcel and Lynali Keller, found love because of the ash cloud from the Eyjafjallajokull volcanic eruption in Iceland last year.
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Huge year for Icelandic books in German language
Posted on 27 June 2011.
Fully 180 different Icelandic books and books about Iceland are being published in German this year. The German book market caters to 100 million people.
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Icelandic company feels heat from Visa and Mastercard over Wikileaks service
Posted on 08 December 2010.
Datacell, a website hosting company in Iceland and Switzerland, says it is under increasing pressure from outside sources including Visa and Mastercard, to stop hosting the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks. This despite the fact that it is just one of many companies hosting Wikileaks around the world, and that Datacell has thousands of other customers besides [...]
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Televised assisted suicide reopens euthanasia debate
Posted on 11 October 2009.
Debate has raged in Denmark following the Sunday broadcast by TV2 of the story of Kaj Guldbech, a cancer sufferer who chose to end his life after living with an incurable case of pancreatic cancer.
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“Only buy Icelandic cod!”
Posted on 15 December 2008.
“Stop buying cod except that which comes from the Arctic Ocean or from Iceland.” These are the words of an appeal from the independent French seafood organisation, L’Alliance produits de la mer.
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