Alfreð Erling Þórðarson, a 45-year-old man accused of killing a couple in Neskaupstaður on August 21, was reportedly on his way down to Hallgrímskirkja church to light a cross when he was arrested.

A number of teachers have gathered outside the Althingi building at Austurvöllur, where the prime minister's policy speech and her replies are being delivered tonight.

The majority of the Reykjavík city council is broken. The mayor, Einar Þorsteinsson, broke the majority during an hour-long meeting with the parties' leaders on Friday.

A total of 154 individuals who have been denied international protection in Iceland are registered as missing in the police system and are hiding in this country. This is stated in the response of the National Police Commissioner to a query from Morgunblaðið.

"I say a lot and maybe I don't mean anything by it. I'm not alone in that." These words that Sindri Snær Birgisson uttered are what his defense attorney, Sveinn Andri Sveinsson, wants to say are the essence of the terrorism case. The communication between Sindri Snær Birgisson and Ísidór Nathansson was only careless and vulgar talk, not part of the preparation for acts of terrorism.

“We as a society must set boundaries,” said prosecutor Anna Barbara Andradóttir in her argument in the terrorism case in the Supreme Court. She said it would not be a good precedent if it was possible to prepare a terrorist act and then call it a joke without any consequences.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court upheld the verdict of the District Court against Mohamad Thor Jóhannesson, formerly known as Mohamad Kourani, who had his name changed this summer, as mbl.is reported.

According to a meteorologist at the Icelandic Meteorological Office, after stormy days with red, orange, and yellow warnings across the country, there are no warnings on the maps for the next few days.

About 700 people responded to 300 calls across the country yesterday, according to Jón Þór Víglundsson, Landsbjörg's information officer.

A great deal of damage has been caused in Stöðvarfjörður in the storm last night, night and this morning. Roof panels have blown off houses and, among other things, the entire roof of a garage has disappeared.

There have been a number of calls to rescue teams in the country due to damage to the weather. Several rescue teams in the capital area have been called out, and it is mainly roof panels, railings, and other loose items that are blowing away.

Severe storms are forecast for the country over the next 24 hours, orange warnings from the Icelandic Meteorological Office cover the entire country, red warnings have been issued and the National Commissioner of Police has declared a civil protection level of uncertainty.

Red warnings have been issued for almost the entire country, most of which will take effect this afternoon and again tomorrow morning and the National Commissioner of Police has declared a civil protection emergency.

“There is no shame in turning back,” said Halla Tómasdóttir, President of Iceland, when she addressed the members of parliament at the opening of the parliament yesterday.

“This is not a good forecast and probably the worst weather of the year. Especially considering that this is affecting the whole country,” says Katrín Agla Tómasdóttir, a meteorologist at the Icelandic Meteorological Office, but bad weather, strong winds, and precipitation are forecast today.

The Civil Protection Department of the Capital Region is asking parents to take their children to school tomorrow and Thursday due to the bad weather forecast, as an orange weather warning has been issued for the Capital Region tomorrow and Thursday.

Certain rules need to be tightened to provide clearer legal authority for confiscating the proceeds of crime, including when it comes to seizing and freezing funds that have been shown to have been generated in connection with crime. This is according to Minister of Justice Þorbjörg Sigríður Gunnlaugsdóttir, who is announcing a new bill in this regard in March.

Víkingur Heiðar Ólafsson won a Grammy Award for the first time at the 67th Grammy Awards ceremony held in Los Angeles, USA, on Sunday evening.

"We are just on our toes and on alert," says Benedikt Gunnar Ófeigsson, head of deformation measurements at the Icelandic Meteorological Office, in an interview with mbl.is when asked about the situation on the Reykjanes Peninsula.

The teachers' strike action will resume today and will cover fourteen preschools and seven primary schools.

In the 1990s, many people fled the terrible war in Yugoslavia, and some of them came all the way to Iceland. At that time, I was working as a photographer for the newspaper and was sent to welcome the group in Blönduós in June 1998 and capture the event on film. This group of 23 people, including women, men, and children, was well received there. The project was both interesting and joyful, but it was one June evening that we, journalist Sigríður B. Tómasdóttir, met the group in the town's community center and then accompanied the Popovic family to their new home at Mýrarbraut 16. The family included the father Zeljko, the mother Radmila, the son Bosko, eight years old, and the daughter Nikolina, six years old, who had come here to escape the war and seek a better life.

People from the media were recently made to leave the offices of the State Conciliation and Mediation, called the Karphús. The reason given was that negotiations were at a sensitive point, but the negotiating committees of the Icelandic Teachers' Union and the Association of Icelandic Local Authorities are now meeting there.

Both the Foreign Minister and the Prime Minister said that the government is in close contact with other Nordic countries on security and defense issues, although ministers do not have the opportunity to attend all meetings. There is no need to fear that this issue is being neglected; on the contrary, the current government is not afraid to discuss openly the issues that were not the case with the previous government.

The police in Suðurnes advise people against unnecessary travel to Grindavík.

Members of the Skagafjörður Preschool Teachers' Association and the Skagafjörður Preschool Administrators' Association believe that the chairman of the Skagafjörður Education Committee has violated the code of conduct for elected representatives by participating in a class action lawsuit by parents against the Icelandic Teachers' Union, due to the implementation of strike action in a few selected schools. In doing so, he has chosen personal interests over public interest. Members also believe that he has violated the trust that has been built up over the past few years.

"I think we have to start preparing for another eruption," says Benedikt Ófeigsson, head of deformation measurements at the Icelandic Meteorological Office.

The main hearing in the case of parents of preschool children against the Icelandic Teachers' Union regarding the implementation of strike action began at 3 pm yesterday in the Reykjavík District Court.

Many places in the capital area can make life difficult for drivers in traffic this morning.

Just after 5 am last night, the Coast Guard control center called out the crew of the rescue ship Björg on Rif on the highest priority due to a fishing boat with two people on board that had lost its rudder and was drifting close to land.

Inga Sæland, Minister of Social Affairs and Housing, says in an interview with mbl.is after a government meeting yesterday that she did not mention the police or her position in society in a phone call with Ársæll Guðmundsson, headmaster of Borgarholt School.

“I find this news very concerning if it is true. If Inga [Sæland] has become a minister at this time, then this is a major abuse of ministerial power, which I would say is very serious.”

A few avalanches fell over roads in the Westfjords last night, and the Icelandic Meteorological Office's avalanche watch is monitoring the situation closely due to the avalanche risk.

There will be widespread snowfall or sleet in the country today in an easterly or variable direction 3-10 m/​s. The wind will be more northerly in the afternoon and it will reduce the wind and ease in the south of the country. Frost will be between 1 and 10 degrees.

A runway at Reykjavík Airport had to be closed an hour ago due to an accident. A plane skidded off the runway during landing. Guðjón Helgason, Isavia's public relations officer, confirms that no one was injured.

A change in the healthcare system needs to be viewed in the same light as the new construction of Landspítali National Hospital, it is a similarly extensive project but no such work is underway. Elderly patients with chronic diseases often receive a lot of medication that can have serious side effects. Then gender differences can arise in the excretion of drugs.