Iceland
Prime witness in Assange case admits to lying, details expose misleading indictment
Sigurdur Thordarson, a convicted hacker and one of the prime witnesses in the US indictment against Julian Assange, admitted that he fabricated his testimony in exchange for immunity from prosecution
Icelanders take out a ‘funeral’ for glacier lost to global warming
Rise in global temperatures has induced large scale melting of the ice cover in the Arctic region. After the complete loss of a glacier in Iceland, a symbolic funeral was held to protest global inaction over climate change.
Activist groups demand an end to deportation of refugee children from Iceland
The groups are protesting the two impending deportation cases involving two Afghan families, a single father with two sons and a single mother with her son and daughter
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- Postal workers in the UK to escalate struggle for pay rise
- Families of disappeared persons rally in Sri Lanka, continue struggle for justice
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