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The Vietnamese government will soon grant amnesty to 3,800 prisoners, including 20 foreigners.
Today at 10:37 am there were two earthquakes in the Bárðarbunga crater. The first one was of size 3.7 and was followed by another of size 3.9.
The Left-Green Movement start their national assembly today and you can expect some action over the weekend. It is clear that a new chairman will take over the leadership, and then the incumbent chairman has a counter offer from a colleague for the position of vice chairman.
"Moving the airport to Hvassahraun is not improving the situation with regard to natural hazards. Then the situation is being made even worse, because there is a much greater chance of lava flowing over that station than ever where the airports already are."
"I am from Vestmannaeyjar, so I know Herjólfur's staff well and know that the company is well run. I decided at the time to give it a go and apply for the job, but I have to admit that when I got the call that I got it, it was a big surprise."
Weather-wise, there is nothing to prevent the development of an airport in Hvassahraun. Also, the airport area is mostly outside the defined volcano systems and the probability of eruptions in the area is negligible, in addition to the fact that the area is not exposed to the lava flow of small eruptions that occur in the nearest volcano. Also, transportation is not considered to have a major long-term impact on domestic flights.
Electricity came back on at 14.05 yesterday after a major disruption in Landsnet's transmission system.
It is disappointing that the substation at Grundartangi did not prevent the power outage that affected half of the country today, says a member of the Parliament's Environment and Transport Committee. He considers the power outage to be the most serious in the last five years.
A large area of ​​the country is without electricity. The power outage extends from the Westfjords, across the North and all of the Eastfjords. Work is in progress restoring the system.
Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson says that restraint in government operations and economic policy has yielded results.
The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Iceland has decided to lower the bank's key interest rate by 0.25 percentage points. This is the first time since November 2020 that the Central Bank has lowered interest rates.
Rúrik Gíslason, musician, actor, and former soccer player, is the face of a new men's fragrance, Trussardi Primo, from the Italian fashion house Trussardi. He announced this on his Instagram page last night.
The Labor Inspectorate believes that, among other things, the fatal accident that occurred when a man on a soil compactor fell into a crevice in Grindavík at the beginning of the year can be attributed to the fact that there was no adequate risk assessment for the work.
Due to road construction and road painting to Reynisfjara Black Beach, there will be significant traffic disruptions and parking lot closures on Friday and Saturday.
The board of Vatnajökull National Park has agreed to allow ice cave tours on the glacier again. There have been no ice cave tours in the area of ​​the national park since an American man died in an accident during such a trip on Breiðamerkurjökull glacier at the end of August.
"Most experiments like this don't last long," says Eiríkur Bergmann, professor of political science at the University of Bifröst, when asked about Arnar Þór Jónsson's founding of the Democratic Party, which he introduced this weekend.
Arnar Þór Jónsson, a lawyer and former presidential candidate, has founded a new political party called Lýðræðisflokkurinn or the Democratic Party - an organization for self-determination.
An earthquake of magnitude 3.7 occurred in Goðabunga, near Austmannabunga in Mýrdalsjökull glacier before 6 o'clock this morning.
The probability of a shield eruption in the Sundhnúkagígar crater row increases with time. That would mean that the Reykjanesbraut Road is not the only infrastructure on the Reykjanes Peninsula that is in danger. Such an eruption could last for several years or even decades.
"In 1991, I was asked to give an IQ test to Oliver Campbell, there were two of us who came up with this, a psychiatrist and I, and my part was somewhat limited," says Gísli Guðjónsson, professor emeritus of forensic psychology at King's College University in London and expert in false confessions, in an interview with Morgunblaðið about a more than a three-decade-old case that turned an innocent man's life upside down.
"I have always been political. During the presidential election campaign, I found that I really enjoyed this. That's why I started looking into the possibility of going to parliament," says Jón Gnarr, former presidential candidate and mayor of Reykjavík. He intends to run for the Liberal Reform Party (Viðreisn) in the next parliamentary elections.
The chemical composition of the magma in the first four eruptions in the Sundhnúkagígar crater row on the Reykjanes Peninsula suggests that the magma comes from several magma chambers or vents that are close to each other at a depth of about five kilometers.
Þorvaldur Gissurarson, the CEO of ÞG Verk, says that the housing market has cooled down in recent weeks. However, it is premature to draw too many conclusions based on the sales of the last few weeks. A real estate agent that Morgunblaðið spoke to said the same thing, that the market had been slowing down recently. He believed that the main explanation was that the banks had raised interest rates on indexed housing loans.
"The weight of lambs after the summer is lower than sometimes before, and this can be attributed to the cold weather in the first week of June and the unfavorable weather this summer. This has an impact," says Eyjólfur Ingvi Bjarnason, a farmer in Ásgarður in Dalir and chairman of the section of sheep farmers in the Icelandic Farmers Association.
Svandís Svavarsdóttir, Minister of Infrastructure, plans to run for the position of chairman of the Left-Green Movement. She confirmed this to a journalist after the cabinet meeting yesterday.
Another fatal accident was yesterday, when a man who fell into Hlauptungufoss waterfall in Brúará River yesterday was found dead. It has been confirmed by the police in Suðurland that the man was a foreign tourist.
The driver of the car that crashed on the side of the road in Skagi earlier today has died. A passenger in the car was taken by ambulance to the Akureyri Hospital for further treatment.
The police in the North West a say that a notification was received at 2 pm today about a serious traffic accident at Fossá River on Skagi.
The police in the capital region will today demand the continued custody of the man who is suspected of killing his ten-year-old daughter last week.
This is what Minister of Justice Guðrún Hafsteinsdóttir says, but she met with Nordic justice ministers in Sweden last Friday. The main issue on the agenda was organized crime in the countries.
Grímur Grímsson, senior police officer of the central investigation department, says that the police received a lot of footage from passers-by who drove along Krýsuvíkurvegur Road on September 15 between 1pm and 6pm, the same day a ten-year-old girl was found dead there.
The Coast Guard's helicopter is on its way to check if more polar bears can be found in the country.
So-called circular economy shops are becoming increasingly popular in this country, and in most of them, you have to book a stand several months in advance. A circular economy shop is a store where you can shop and sell used items such as clothing, shoes, and household goods. Usually the seller rents a booth, and sets up the products, but does not have to be on duty himself. The service to the seller then varies between stores.
The founder of the Yeastie Boys Bagels has arrived in collaboration with Deig and started conjuring up the famous sandwiches this morning, which are very popular in the state of California.
The police have received footage from passers-by who drove along Krýsuvíkurvegur Road, between Vallahverfi district in Hafnarfjörður and Vigdísarvallavegur Road on September 15 between 13 and 18, the same day a ten-year-old girl died there. The girl's father is suspected of having taken her life.