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UEFA Women’s Euro 2025: Norway and Sweden qualify to football tournament
Norway’s and Sweden’s national women’s teams have both qualified for the UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 football tournament. Norway be...
Elections in Iceland: Social Democratic Alliance becomes largest party
After a snap election called by Iceland’s Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson, the center-left Social Democratic Alliance won the most election votes, ...
Street Art Norge Breaks New Ground with AI and Street Art Fusion
Street Art Norge is again making headlines with their latest exhibition, “Bringing Street Art / Art Alive,” from December 1st to 20th, 202...
2025 fisheries agreement signed between Faroe Islands and Greenland
The Faroe Islands and Greenland have signed a reciprocal fisheries agreement for 2025, noting that the deal is essential for both Nordic countries. Ne...
Jon Fosse Prize launched in Norway for literary translations
A new Jon Fosse prize has been launched in Norway to acknowledge the country’s literary translations for translating Norwegian to other language...
Finnish FA President sacks Markku Kanerva as football manager of Finland
The President of the Finnish FA, Ari Lahti, has announced that the board has sacked Markku Kanerva as the manager of Finland’s men’s national football...
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Spjallgrímur: The Multilingual AI Chatbot Simplifying Iceland’s 2024 Elections for a Global Audience
Icelandic voters and political enthusiasts worldwide have a new tool: Spjallgrímur, an innovative AI-powered chatbot designed to make the 2024 parliam...
Ukraine-Nordic summit in Iceland: President Zelenskyy discusses future with Nordic leaders
Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy marked his first working visit to Iceland on 29th October as part of the Ukraine-Nordic summit, where Ukraine’s future w...
Politics in Iceland: Iceland’s government coalition collapses
Iceland’s Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson has announced that Iceland’s coalition government has disbanded due to disagreements on political issues,...
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Over half of Iceland’s population reads 30 minutes per day
A new study conducted by the Icelandic Literature Center shows that 55% of Icelanders read at least 30 minutes daily, with an average of 2.6 book...
Oldest manuscripts in Iceland receive police escort to exhibition
Some of the oldest manuscripts in Iceland received a police escort as they were relocated to an exhibition at Edda, the House of Icelandic Studies, th...
Police in Iceland cause unease for use of AI-generated imagery
Police in Iceland’s Suðurnes have caused some unease for its use of AI-generated imagery after an image shared to its Facebook page was found to be un...