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16 Mar 2022, 5:15 am by Raj S. Dave, D.Sc., J.D.
” The list of “unfriendly countries” includes the United States, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, New... [read post]
15 May 2013, 7:03 am by Julie Ferguson
Austerity's impact on public health - over at Managed Care Matters, Joe Paduda looks at the impact that financial austerity measures in Greece and Iceland have had on public health, suicide rates, hospital admissions, and other measures of... [read post]
5 Sep 2008, 12:14 pm
Baugur Group, the retail investor based in Iceland, has long expressed interest in buying the luxury department store chain, but is unlikely to make a bid this year, the paper reported citing unnamed sources. [read post]
11 Nov 2005, 5:35 am
The Barents Euro-Arctic Council (BEAC) [official website] consists of representatives from Russia, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland and the European Commission. [read post]
27 Mar 2018, 4:13 am by Tracy Thomas
Petra Foubert, The Enforcement of the Principle of Equal Pay for Equal Work or Work of Equal Value: A Legal Analysis of the Situation in the EU Member States, Iceland,Liechtenstein and Norway (July 2017) Sixty years after the principle of... [read post]
23 Apr 2010, 4:37 am by Glenn Reynolds
“The New York Times asked me and three other people the following question: ‘The Icelandic volcano that disrupted global air travel last week raised a concern: should we be thinking of alternative ways to move masses of people and goods? [read post]
12 Jan 2015, 5:03 am by John Kang
From the Guardian UK: On Wednesday, Iceland will host a conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York City to discuss issues of gender equality such as violence against women, parental rights and female representation in business. [read post]
6 Jul 2011, 3:22 pm by J DeVoy
DeVoy One of Iceland’s largest and most active volcanos, dubbed the “Gateway to Hell” in the Middle Ages, is ready to erupt again. [read post]
3 May 2013, 2:31 pm by Jonathan Bailey
This week’s stories include: House Judiciary Committee to Hold Hearings on Copyright Law Craigslist Wins Early but Important Victory Against PadMapper, 3Taps Pirate Party Wins Seats in Icelandic Parliament Belgian ISPs Sued for Not Paying Copyright Levies The Pirate Bay Moves Domains Again Chinese Court Fines Apple Over App Store Infringement Game Developers Teach an Interesting Lesson About Piracy You can download the MP3 file here (direct download). [read post]
12 Mar 2023, 7:26 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain and Sweden as well as Germany and the Netherlands were the nations offering full equal rights for men and women, at least from a legal perspective… The United States ranked at 91.3 percent below countries like Peru and Albania. [read post]
19 Apr 2010, 5:13 am by Mike "No Man" Navarre
We are told that due to the Icelandic volcano and its disruption of air travel the SO2 Keefe and SO1 Huertas courts-martial may be re-scheduled or re-ordered. [read post]
16 May 2012, 9:30 am by Glenn Reynolds
Jim Bennett emails: “This article is interesting first as a comment on the strength of the economy of the more pro-capitalist part of North America, and second as a picture of life in Iceland under capital controls. [read post]
26 Sep 2010, 10:53 am
The IPKat confesses, in at least one of his incarnations, to being a big fan of the Icelandic group Sigur Rós, and keeps up to date from time to time with what they are doing via their website "eighteen seconds before sunrise". [read post]
27 Mar 2018, 5:19 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Google Blog:  “…Today, we’re making Google Maps even more useful by adding 39 new languages—spoken by an estimated 1.25 billion people worldwide: Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Burmese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, Georgian, Hebrew, Icelandic, Indonesian, Kazakh, Khmer, Kyrgyz, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swahili,… [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 12:00 am
’s Sunday Times published an investigative piece exposing Japan, the largest profiteer among the world’s three whaling nations (the others are Iceland and Norway), for bribing small nations with cash and prostitutes in exchange for their votes on the IWC. [read post]
27 Oct 2014, 2:52 am by Edgar (aka MrConsumer)
 A new low-cost airline from Iceland called WOW air has just started advertising fares as low as $99 one way to Europe, including all taxes. [read post]
30 May 2015, 1:56 pm by Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento
Iceland’s official contribution to the 56th Venice Biennale, a temporary, working mosque set up in a deconsecrated church created by Christoph Büchel, was shut down by city officials last week, only two weeks after it opened. [read post]