Fascinating political events in Iceland, where the conservative prime minister had to step down because of revelations in the Panama Papers about his tax avoidance. But the electorate doesn't seem to trust the traditional left-of-center parties either because of its responsibility for the nation's financial...
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I wanna see how this turns out: Struggling to stand upright against a howling wind, Bragi Benediktsson looked out over his family’s land — a barren expanse of snow and.
Ahem.In an official lunch with foreign diplomats, Icelandic President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson shocked neighboring Nordic countries with inviting Russia to take use of the strategically important airbase.Foreign diplomats hardly believed.
In Tom Clancy's classic Red Storm Rising, the Soviets opened a general NATO-Warsaw Pact War with a covert amphibious invasion of Iceland, then used the island as a base for MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters. Now, the Russians may just buy Iceland. Times change, I guess. I...