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Icelandic Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir To Announce Presidential Bid
UPDATE: April Fool’s!! Icelandic Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir will hold a press conference at Kjarvalsstaðir today to formally announce that she is running for the office of President of Iceland. Jakobsdóttir, who has served as Prime Minister since 2017, has not ruled…
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April Fool’s In Iceland: Fast Becoming Outdated, If It Isn’t Already
If you’re reading the news online on April 1, your defences are probably way up; reading stories with a critical eye and assuming any story that is not obviously true might in fact be a joke. This is going to be the…
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FAKE NEWS: Icelandic Billionaire Does Not Have Tips For Getting Rich
We have to deal with a lot of fake news about Iceland and Icelanders. Who can forget last summer’s classic hoax that the Icelandic government is paying foreign men to marry Icelandic women? Well, a new fake news story about Iceland has…
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Int’l Media Gets Icelandic News Wrong Again: This Is NOT A Unicorn
The international media has erroneously reported that there is a unicorn in Iceland, but even the most cursory research will reveal that this is in fact not the case. MBL’s story about a “unicorn” on an Icelandic farm has been making the…
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Fake News! No, There’s No Football-Fueled Baby Boom in Iceland
A single tweet from an obscure Reykjavík anesthesiologist on Monday suggested that a spike in the number of hospital epidurals last week was correlated to Iceland’s berserk victory over England in last year’s EuroCup. The doctor, Ásgeir Pétur Þorvaldsson, noted that exactly…
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Iceland To Abandon Currency Altogether
Sources close to Grapevine within the Central Bank have confirmed that Iceland is going to abandon its age-old love-hate relationship with the króna, and just stop using money altogether. The króna—long a point of national pride—has also been subject to drastic swings…
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News In Brief: May
As per hallowed Icelandic media tradition, Grapevine joined in the fun of kicking off the month of April with fake news. In fact, all our news on April Fool’s was fake, except for one story. In this case, that the government was…