ISLAMABAD - Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that India is destroying the peace of the entire region through its oppressive measures. He said this during a telephonic discussion with the Foreign Minister of Iceland, Gudlaugur Thór Thórdarson, the Radio Pakistan reported. The foreign ...

MONTREAL - An Icelandair flight made an emergency landing in Canada after a cockpit window shattered during flight. The pilot warned passengers to "prepare for landing" before carrying out a rapid descent and dropping 26,000ft in just 10 minutes. On its website, the airline said only that Flight ...

MOSCOW - Iceland held the Argentina men’s national football team, also known as La Albiceleste (The Albiceleste), to a draw in a 2018 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup Group D match on Saturday. Strákarnir okkar (Our Boys) made a stunning first-ever World Cup ...

REYKJAVIK – A British man was recently arrested for wearing too many clothes to avoid excess luggage fee at Keflavik airport, Iceland. The man identified as Ryan Hawaii was wearing eight pairs of trousers and ten shirts, according to Iceland Monitor. Hawaii claimed that he was denied a boarding ...

REYKJAVIK - In Iceland, an unusual law dating back to 1940 allows a murderer or a paedophile to become a lawyer or a judge. Known as "restored honour", the legal procedure does not erase a convict's criminal record, nor is it a pardon. It is intended to restore a convict's civil rights and help ...

REYJAVIK - Iceland has introduced the world's first legislation that would mandate equal pay for men and women in both the public and private sectors. Lawmakers in Reykjavik are weighing the legislation which mandates that companies with more than two dozen employees be certified by the Icelandic ...

PANAMA CITY – The Panama government is suspending its probe into the Panama Papers, the leak of a legal firm's files on clients who stashed their assets in a number of offshore companies. The Panama Papers, records from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, are 11.5 million leaked documents ...

WASHINGTON - Despite US allegations that Russia ran a hacking campaign to influence the American presidential elections last year, Donald Trump’s first foreign trip as president is expected to be a visit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to reports. In a move which is said to echo ...