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“Criminal” Immigration Officials Still At Large

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In recent months, the treatment of refugees in Iceland and the failure of the authorities to uphold the domestic and…

BARCELONA: Great Scenery, Tragic History

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A Sophisticated European Metropolis A part of modern Barcelona’s allure is its multiple identities, the second city of Spain, the…

BARCELONA Picks

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DIETRICH: C/ DEL CONCELL DE CENT, METRO Universitat If high class drag’s your bag, Dietrich revives the lost art of…

MAKING HISTORY:

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Acting on an election promise to further equality, Zapatero began by breaking the European political mould by appointing 50% of…

No democracy please; we´re Americans

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Like My Lai, the Florida fiasco is no inexplicable exception but is part of and at the same time obscures…

Geysir: The Resurrection

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All the fun and frolics took place in Yellowstone National Park, renamed Jellystone for the purposes of the cartoon. Of…

Westman’s Your Man

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The islands, just a few miles off the south coast, are composed entirely from lava, formed when volcanoes erupted under…

PLAYING THE GREEN CARD

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Both the product and the puppet of seismic activity, Iceland’s resulting terrain is as unique as it is spectacular. For…

Belfast And The IRA

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Once upon a time about 800 years ago in a green and distant isle, a young clansman called Diarmaid was…

The Media

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Did you ever hear the one about the politician, the actress and the White House dog? Well, the year was…

The Name Game

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Þóra and Gunni were just your average carefree shopaholic Icelandic couple. Theirs was a tender love story that had now…

THE SUPERLEAGUE

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Sports tend to get dull, let’s make them interesting!!! In the world of sport, you constantly hear of drug abuse…

An Introduction To Local Politics: No, We Don’t Get It Either

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Parliamentary democracy in Europe does not come much older than in the proud republic of Iceland. In fact these sophisticated…