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RÚV English Radio - ÁKI TAHIEL’S MAGICAL MULTILINGUAL WORLD
Alondra Silva Munoz moved here from Chile, bringing her Spanish linguistic background with her.
Now, she and her Icelandic husband Helgi Silva Þorsteinsson have written a book called Áki Tahiel’s Magical Multilingual World / Töfrandi fjöltyngdur heimur Áka Tahiel, presented in Icelandic and English, which tells the story of a six-year-old boy who speaks two languages at […]
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Presidential Veto Power Under Scrutiny Amid Election Campaigns
Half of the applications will be approved by end of week
The board of Þórkatla real estate company has now approved the purchase of 263 properties in Grindavík and the owners of the properties concerned have received confirmation of approval. The approved applications have been sent to the purchase agreement which can take up to ten working days.
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Children's Culture Festival underway
The Children's Culture Festival in Reykjavík is held in April every year, and is now underway.
Various events take place in elementary schools, kindergartens, leisure centres, cultural institutions, art schools and elsewhere, and cover all art forms for children and their families. Admission to every event is free.
The guiding principles of the festival are quality, […]
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Lowest inflation in over two years: 6.0%
Kópavogur mother also charged with attempted murder
Yesterday, the district prosecutor issued an indictment against a woman from Iraq for murder and attempted murder.
She is accused of murdering her six-year-old son at their home in Kópavogur at the end of January, and also of attempting to murder her older son, who is eleven years old.
The indictment cannot be handed over immediately as it is not impossible that the trial will be closed. The woman's lawyer presented the charges to her yesterday […]
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Solace in Icelandic skies
An artist plans to publish a book of photographs of the skies above Iceland.
Solace - Skies of Iceland is a response to the grief that the Berlin-based photographer, Pako Quijada, felt after losing their mother in 2017. The work features 60 photographs of Icelandic skies taken during three trips to the country in 2017, 2019 and 2021.
After losing their mother when she was only 51, Pako was going through a deep […]
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Dacia Duster is no longer in the lava field
The fact that tourists try to get too close to the eruption site at Sundhnúkagígar crater row is a problem that has also occurred in previous volcanic eruptions on the Reykjanes peninsula. However, no rescue teams have been called in connection with the current eruption, but it was noted that an attempt was made to drive a Dacia Duser car offroad in the area. That car is no longer in the lava field as we reported earlier.
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