Scandinavia and Iceland Around the Web
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Swedish Far-Right Make Gains
Posted 1 year, 4 months ago
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Finland’s Snake-filled Summer
Posted 1 year, 6 months ago
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Norway — A Terror Target
Posted 1 year, 6 months ago
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Swedish MPs Vote to Replace Nuclear Reactors
Posted 1 year, 7 months ago
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Royalty Descends on Stockholm
Posted 1 year, 7 months ago
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Iceland Bans Strip Clubs
Posted 1 year, 10 months ago
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Three Dead in Oslo Train Crash
Posted 1 year, 10 months ago
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Swedish City Mayor Receives Death Threats in Anti-Semitic Row
Posted 1 year, 11 months ago
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SAS Airline Stewardess Battered to Death
Posted 1 year, 11 months ago
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The Perils of Roof-Shovelling
Posted 1 year, 11 months ago
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Danish Paper Says Sorry for Muhammad Cartoon
Posted 1 year, 11 months ago
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Transvestite “Robin Hood” on the Run in Finland
Posted 1 year, 11 months ago
Volcano in Iceland Erupts — Fears of Bigger Eruption to Come (Updated)
Posted 1 year, 10 months ago
As if echoing the recent domestic volatility in Iceland with the financial crisis and the referendum over Icesave, a volcano erupted in southern Iceland (about 75 miles east of Reykjavik) at around midnight, shooting lava over a hundred meters in the air. Several hundred residents in the area…
KEEP READING »Icelanders Reject $5.3 Billion Icesave Deal
Posted 1 year, 10 months ago
Icelandic Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurdardóttir had branded the referendum “meaningless” urging citizens not to vote, but still Icelanders came out in their thousands yesterday to overwhelmingly — one Icelandic blogger even called it a “Soviet vote” with over 90% (of votes counted so far)…
KEEP READING »Maritime Mayhem on the Frozen Baltic
Posted 1 year, 10 months ago
In the worst freeze-up since 1996, sea ice combined with strong winds is causing havoc to passenger ferries and merchant shipping in the Baltic Sea.
As the latest victims to the vagaries of this winter’s harsh weather, 51 ships, including passenger ferries and cargo ships, were stuck in the…
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