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The former boyfriend of the woman who has been charged with murdering her newborn child and leaving it in a dumpster last summer demands ISK 3 million / USD 24,000 as compensation for his baby’s loss.
The main hearings continue today. The prosecution is asking for a penalty of sixteen years in prison, rúv.is reports.
Yesterday, the woman bore witness, as well as her boyfriend and several experts. The prosecution’s case began this morning. Prosecutor Helgi Magnús Gunnarsson said that no case had caused him as much grief as this one. He demands that the woman be found guilty of voluntary manslaughter.
The defendant has steadfastly denied having been pregnant. At the main hearing yesterday she stated that she did not remember having given birth.
Two psychiatrists and a psychologist have deemed the woman culpable and at the hearings testified that in their opinion, she does not have any major psychological illness, personality disorder or anything of that sort. They could not find explanation for her state of mind during the deed she allegedly committed.
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Iceland is among the top five OECD-countries where immigrants help to boost the economy and increase nation-wide production by approximately 1 percent, according to a new report from the OECD.
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Neither Prime Minister of Iceland Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson nor Minister of the Interior Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttir have responded to Edward Snowden’s request for a political asylum in Iceland, as spokesperson for Wikileaks Kristinn Hrafnsson wrote in a letter published in Fréttablaðið today.
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The first fin whale to be hunted in Iceland this season was killed by the crew of whaling vessel Hvalur 8 yesterday evening. The vessel, which set out yesterday along with Hvalur 9, is expected to unload the catch today.
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U.S. negotiator Lee C. Buchheit, who led Iceland’s last Icesave negotiation in 2010, met with Minister of Finance Bjarni Benediktsson last week to discuss Iceland’s planned talks with creditors of the banks, according to Fréttablaðið’s sources.
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The 2013 June-July issue of Iceland Review is out. Themed ‘We Are Young’ the magazine celebrates the arrival of summer by interviewing young energetic Icelanders who excel in art, sports, business and politics—and Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, the youngest PM in the republic’s history and the world’s youngest ruling state leader. Click here to take a look at a selection of the current issue and here to subscribe to the magazine.
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Eygló Svala Arnarsdóttir interviews new Prime Minister of Iceland Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson.
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Sin Fang will celebrate the release of his third album with a release concert in Iðnó on June 12. Flowers was released in February by Morr Music and has been well received by music enthusiasts and critics alike. The concert will be supported by Vök, this year’s winners of the Icelandic Music Experiments.
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