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Icelandic minister’s house attacked
The home of Icelandic Interior Minister, Ogmundur Jonasson, was attacked over the weekend while the minister was at home. Nobody was hurt. Jonasson’s house was attacked at around 03.00 on Sunday...
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Chinese investor’s Iceland resort construction bid rejected by minister
Ögmundur Jónasson, Iceland’s Minister of the Interior, has rejected Chinese billionaire Huang Nubo’s application to buy 30,639 hectares in northeast Iceland for the construction of a luxury resort....
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Icelandic minister sued for Hell’s Angels remarks
Iceland’s Minister of the Interior is standing his ground against the Hell’s Angels. The bikers’ club has subpoenaed the minister for his comments that the Hell’s Angels are a global organised crime...
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Left Green minister supports letting former Iceland PM off negligence charges
Ögmundur Jónasson, Iceland’s Minister of the Interior, says he will support an opposition proposal to cancel the ongoing trial of former Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde. Ögmundur has been an outspoken...
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Left Greens at boiling point over Geir Haarde trial
Iceland’s Left Green Movement is up in arms about Left Green Minister of the Interior, Ögmundur Jónasson’s very public decision to support the opposition’s bill to halt the trial of former PM Geir H....
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Iceland FM in intra-coalition EU spat
Össur Skarphéðinsson, the Social Democratic Minister for Foreign Affairs in Iceland, has ignited controversy within the coalition government with comments that it is much too late for his Left Green...
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Icelandic ministers threatened, security tightened
Ögmundur Jónasson Steingrímur J. Sigfússon Bodyguards are now following the Icelandic interior and trade ministers’ every step and their homes are under 24 hour surveillance following threats made...
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Iceland’s porn ban effort draws fire from abroad
Reykjavik’s proposition to ban internet pornography in Iceland has drawn fire from international anti-censorship campaigners. Last month saw the country’s lawmakers introduce legislation that would...
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