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New WTTC report calls for balanced approach towards overtourism
Travel Daily Media
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July 7, 2025
With the global travel and tourism sectors getting to the height of the northern summer travel season, the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) released a new report calling for a more balanced approach to managing tourism in popular...
WTTC Urges Smarter Tourism for Summer 2025
FTN News
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July 7, 2025
As Travel & Tourism enters the height of the summer season, the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has launched a new report calling for a more balanced approach to managing tourism in popular destinations. While overcrowding is often seen as a...
Palestine Action launches secret recruitment website after terrorist designation
Yahoo Sports - Canada
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July 7, 2025
Palestine Action has reportedly launched a secret website to recruit new members for further direct action. The protest group’s original website was blocked after the UK government designated it as a terrorist organisation last week. Palestine...
Owner of Iceland's largest tourist attraction issues dire warning about island's future: 'I've seen dramatic changes'
The Cool Down - Oregon
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July 4, 2025
It is a vicious cycle. by Kristen CarrJuly 4, 2025 The melting and vanishing of Iceland's glaciers could affect tourism in the future, Skift reported. The glaciers are a major attraction, and if they no longer exist, it would be a direct threat to...
Monday briefing: What Zarah Sultana’s new breakaway party could mean for Labour and the left
The Guardian
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July 7, 2025
Good morning. Last week, Zarah Sultana resigned from the Labour party and announced she was co-founding a new leftwing political party alongside former leader Jeremy Corbyn. The MP for Coventry South, first elected in December 2019, lost the...
Iceland concludes Samherji fishrot investigation
Namibian Broadcasting Corporation
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Iceland’s District Prosecutor has concluded a five-year investigation into the fishing giant Samherji regarding its alleged involvement in the 'Fishrot corruption scandal.' According to Iceland’s national broadcaster RÚV, the investigation...
Iceland Calls for Eurovision to Ban Israeli Flag After Being Accused of Plagiarizing Israeli Song
Breitbart
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July 2, 2025
The president of Iceland’s National Broadcaster (RÚV), Stefán Jón Hafstein, published a commentary on Tuesday calling for Israel to be banned from the Eurovision Song Contest – and suggested in the event the ban was impossible, the contest could...
Iceland calls for stripping Israeli symbols from Eurovision
Israel Hayom
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July 2, 2025
Could Israel's Eurovision 2026 participation face a new threat? Amid international boycott calls, Iceland proposes a different approach – not removing the Israeli delegation entirely, but establishing new participation conditions that would...
Legal questions raised over climate conflict of $200 million fossil fuel fund
Renew Economy
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July 2, 2025
One of New Zealand’s trading partners is investigating whether the creation of an investment fund for gas producers breaches a “sustainable” free trade agreement that explicitly blocks new fossil fuel subsidies, the deputy leader of the Greens...
Aberdeen sign Icelandic wonderkid as they announce radical overhaul of youth set-up
The Herald (Scotland)
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July 3, 2025
However, the Scottish Cup winners, who plough £2.2m a year into rearing potential stars of tomorrow, are determined to retain their elite status within the Club Academy Scotland (CAS) framework. However, Aberdeen have decided they will not compete...
Kartan Mar Kjartansson seals Aberdeen transfer as Jimmy Thelin wins race with bigger clubs for Icelandic starlet
Daily Record & Sunday Mail
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July 3, 2025
Aberdeen have beaten off stiff competition to land rising Iceland star Kjartan Mar Kjartansson. Dons boss Jimmy Thelin has confirmed that the club have agreed a fee to sign the midfielder on a four year contract from Starjan. The 18-year-old, who...
Upper Burrell tech center to coordinate expanded international technology pilot program
Pittsburgh Tribune Review - Pennsylvania
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July 3, 2025
Pittsburgh-based Arconic Technology Center (ATC) is bringing enhanced international technology to its metal manufacturing company. ATC and Icelandic metal analysis company DTE are expanding their collaboration, which began in October 2024. An...
MPs to debate new law which would mandate purpose-led business
Edie
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July 3, 2025
The Company Directors (Duties) Bill has been introduced to Parliament by Liberal Democrat MP Martin Wrigley, representative for Newton Abbot since last year’s General Election. The Bill would amend section 172 of the Companies Act 2006 to require...
Politico: Lethal Heat Is Europe’s New Climate Reality with Thousands at Risk
To Vima
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July 1, 2025
Europe is facing a deadly new climate challenge as a severe heatwave grips Southern Europe, pushing temperatures beyond 40 degrees Celsius and putting thousands of lives at risk over the coming days, according to experts. Southern Europe is...
MERCOSUR presidents hold summit in Buenos Aires
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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July 3, 2025
However, the most striking event of the day, attracting public and media attention, is the visit of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday evening to former President Cristina Fernandez at her apartment in Buenos Aires...
International Aerial Photographer of the Year competition winners
Times-Georgian
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Top-down aerial drone photo of a spinner shark creating a gateway into a school of menhaden fish in the Atlantic Ocean, Southampton, New York. (Joanna Steidle/International Aerial Photographer of the Year via SWNS) By Dean Murray The winners of...
Low turnout and an unfair voting system: UK elections ranked in the bottom half of countries in Europe
The Conversation
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July 3, 2025
The UK has historically been held up as leading democracy with free and fair elections. However, our new report shows election quality in the UK is now ranked in the bottom half of countries in Europe. The Global Electoral Integrity Report...
Politically-Connected W.Va. GameChanger Program Receives Opioid Funds Amid Doubts from Experts
100 Days in Appalachia - West Virginia
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July 1, 2025
On a Tuesday afternoon, Michelle Allen is in her office in an empty Robert C. Byrd High School. Allen is the career and technical instructor at RCB and also runs GameChanger, the school’s prevention education club. In an empty classroom, Allen...
Iceland Power Market Outlook To 2035: Market Trends, Regulations, And Competitive Landscape, With Landsvirkjun Hf, Orkuveita Reykjavikur, And HS Orka
MENAFN
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July 1, 2025
(MENAFN- GlobeNewsWire - Nasdaq) Explore the "Iceland Power Market Outlook to 2035," offering insights on market trends, regulatory landscape, and competition. Review historical and forecasted data on capacity, generation, and consumption....
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, May 2025
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
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July 3, 2025
Explanatory Notes Goods (Census basis) Data for goods on a Census basis are compiled from the documents collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and reflect the movement of goods between foreign countries and the 50 states, the...