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Icelandic officials declare a state of emergency after a new volcanic eruption cuts off hot water for approximately 20,000 people south of Reykjavík.
2024-02-8

Iceland announces that it will suspend operations at its embassy in Moscow, Russia, beginning on August 1, saying that "commercial, cultural and political relations" with Russia are "at an all-time low" and that maintaining the embassy is "no longer justifiable".
2023-06-9

Iceland reports a record 672 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours.
2021-12-27

Analysis of ancient ice cores extracted from Greenland dates an eruption on Eldgjá volcano in Iceland. Iceland's largest eruption in the last 2,000 years was described in ancient poem Völuspá.
2018-03-20

Voters in Iceland go to the polls to elect 63 members of the Althing.
2017-10-28

Voters in Iceland head to the polls to elect a new president with a historic low voter turnout expected. Independent candidate Guðni Th. Jóhannesson claims victory.
2016-06-25

Prime Minister elect of Iceland, Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, declares that a January decision to freeze European Union membership talks will be extended indefinitely.
2013-05-22

Iceland's most active volcano, Grímsvötn, erupts, triggering 50 small earthquakes.
2011-05-21

A "spy" computer is found in an office next to Icelandic MP Birgitta Jonsdottir who has been the target in the United States Department of Justice-Twitter case concerning the WikiLeaks website.
2011-01-23

Eruption in glacier volcano Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland, enters a new phase, causing local evacuations.
2010-04-14