Cairn Energy has vowed to continue drilling for oil off Greenland, but says it will try to rebalance the risk by acquiring new, safer assets elsewhere.
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Cairn to keep Greenland and look elsewhere
Posted on 30 March 2012.
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Silk underwear to protect privates’ privates
Posted on 26 March 2012.
Danish soldiers serving in Afghanistan have a new weapon in the fight against the Taliban – silk underwear.
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Iceland Foods sales process extended
Posted on 13 February 2012.
The much discussed auction for the British discount supermarket chain Iceland Foods has been lengthened as two private equity funds who submitted bids have decided to extend their due-diligence process, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Iceland Foods bids in, US Republican candidate connected to one
Posted on 05 February 2012.
Offers on the British supermarket chain Iceland Foods are close to the value which the resolution committee of failed Icelandic bank Old Landsbanki had hoped for. The likely Republican presidential candidate in the USA is connected to one of the bidding investment funds.
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70th anniversary of British soldiers’ rescue in Iceland
Posted on 23 January 2012.
This weekend marked 70 years since residents of the Veturhús farm near Eskifjörður, east Iceland, saved the lives of over 40 British soldiers.
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Lost seal pup to be flown home
Posted on 20 January 2012.
An electronically tagged seal pup with a terrible sense of direction is to be flown back to Greenland after washing up over 3,2oo km from home on England’s east coast.
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Iraqi ‘torture victims’ to sue Denmark
Posted on 31 December 2011.
A group of Iraqi civilians are to sue the Danish Army for damages, after new evidence suggests that they were handed over to Iraqi forces following their arrests in south Basra and subsequently tortured.
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EFTA to take Iceland to court over Icesave
Posted on 15 December 2011.
ESA, the EFTA (European Free Trade Association) surveillance authority, has decided to take the Icelandic state to the EFTA court over its handling of the Icesave case. By discriminating against foreign depositors and not reimbursing the British and Dutch governments within one year, it is claimed Iceland broke European law.
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