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Icelandic Minister of Foreign Affairs Bjarni Benediktsson is appointed Prime Minister after Katrín Jakobsdóttir's resignation on 5 April.
2024-04-9

Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir resigns and announces that she is standing as a candidate for the presidential election on 1 June.
2024-04-5

The mayor of Derna, Libya, Abdelmounem al-Ghaithi, and several other officials are detained over mismanagement and negligence accusations following the Derna dam collapse which killed over 5,000 people.
2023-09-25

Katrín Jakobsdóttir is confirmed as Prime Minister of Iceland after forming a coalition with other parties.
2017-11-30

U.S. President Donald Trump's lawyers tell a federal court, in a case alleging negligence and incitement to riot during a 2016 campaign rally in Louisville, Kentucky, that he is "immune from suit because he is President of the United States." A lawyer for the plaintiffs responds that, in "Clinton v. Jones", the Supreme Court found the president could be sued for events that occurred before he took office.
2017-04-15

Former Icelandic prime minister Geir Haarde is found not guilty of negligence over the island's 2008 economic meltdown. He is to face no punishment and his legal expenses are to be paid.
2012-04-23

An American judge has ruled that a six-year-old may be sued for negligence after crashing into an elderly woman while riding a bicycle at age four.
2010-10-29

Iceland's parliament, the Althing, refers charges of misconduct in office related to the 2008–2012 Icelandic financial crisis against former Prime Minister of Iceland Geir Haarde to the Landsdómur, a special court for such cases.
2010-09-28

Reykjavík's mayor, Jón Gnarr of the Best Party, dresses in drag for the opening of the city's gay pride festival.
2010-08-6

An American Boeing 767 passenger jet makes an emergency landing in Iceland after reports of chemical fumes in the cabin. A spokesman for Keflavik airport outside Reykjavík says several crew members on the American Airlines flight had complained of dizziness.
2010-04-13