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5.6-magnitude earthquake hits Iceland, no injuries reported

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Iceland's Holmar Eyjolfsson, right, and Belgium's Romelu Lukaku, centre, battle for the ball during the UEFA Nations League soccer match between Iceland and Belgium at the Laugardalsvollur stadium in Reykjavik, Iceland, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Brynjar Gunnarsson)

Lukaku scores 2 as group leader Belgium wins 2-1 in Iceland

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In this Friday, June 12, 2020 file photo, a woman has blood drawn for COVID-19 antibody testing in Dearborn, Mich. Antibodies that people make to fight coronavirus infection last at least four months and do not fade quickly as some earlier reports suggested -- a good sign that vaccines may be able to give long-lasting immunity, scientists are reporting on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020, in the New England Journal of Medicine. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Large antibody study offers hope for virus vaccine efforts

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Wednesday, April 29, 2020, people gather at a restaurant in Reykjavik after the country recorded days of zero new cases of COVID-19. High schools, dentists and hair salons are about to reopen in Iceland, which has managed to get a grip on the coronavirus through the world’s most extensive regime of testing. By identifying infected people even when they had no symptoms, the tiny North Atlantic nation managed to identify and isolate cases where many bigger countries have struggled. (AP Photo/Egill Bjarnason)

With testing, Iceland claims major success against COVID-19

By Egill Bjarnason - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 20, 2019, file photo, Binghamton's Hakon Hjalmarsson (1), of Iceland, shoots as Pittsburgh's Terrell Brown (21) defends during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Pittsburgh. Hjalmarsson is just starting his American basketball experience and trying to find his role at Binghamton. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

Iceland’s ‘basketball family’ chasing dreams at US colleges

By ERIC OLSON - Associated Press

US Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen Pence arrive at Shannon airport from Dublin during an official visit to Ireland, Tuesday Sept. 3, 2019. Pence said Tuesday during a visit with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar in Dublin on Tuesday that the United States supports Britain's decision to leave the European Union and wants to see negotiations succeed. (Jacob King/PA via AP)

Iceland grants Mike Pence guards special permission to carry guns

By Egill Bjarnason - Associated Press

In this photo taken Wednesday, Sept.4, 2019, at Keflavik Airport, Iceland, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence meets with Iceland Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir at the end of a seven hour visit to Iceland. Jakobsdottir had initially announced she would not be able to meet Pence due to a scheduling snafu but the two of them merged schedules days before Pence's arrival. (AP Photo/Egill Bjarnason)

Peaceful Iceland amazed at weapons in Pence security detail

By EGILL BJARNASON - Associated Press

This photo taken Monday, May 13, 2019, shows Karen Guttensen and Ingvar Ingolfsson, right, both 14-years old, outside the Tjornin youth center in Reykjavik, Iceland, on a bright summer night. The island nation in the North Atlantic has dried up a teenage culture of drinking and smoking by focusing on local participation in music and sports options for students, with such success that Icelandic teens now have one of the lowest rates of substance abuse in Europe. (AP Photo/Egill Bjarnason)

Iceland cuts teen drinking with curfews, youth centers

By EGILL BJARNASON - Associated Press

Whales from Chinese aquarium starting retirement in Iceland

By EGILL BJARNASON - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Tuesday, April 30, 2019, Thuridur Einarsdottir, founder of the Handknitting Association of Iceland, folds a 'lopi' sweater in Reykjavik. Trouble is rattling one of Iceland’s most distinctive industries: the production of the thick, hand-knitted “lopi” sweaters adored by tourists and worn with pride by locals. The individually produced, very warm sweaters have become a symbol of Iceland. But increasingly the local wool is being shipped to the cheaper labor market of China, where the sweaters are hand-knitted and then sent back for sale on the North Atlantic island. (AP Photo/Egill Bjarnason)

Made in China? Iceland’s sweater-knitters are unhappy

By EGILL BJARNASON - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Thursday, Nov. 2, 2006, Newcastle midfielder Emre Belezoglu of Turkey, in action during a UEFA Cup soccer match against Palermo, in Palermo, southern Italy. An unidentified man held a cleaning brush up to the face of team captain Emre Belezoglu who was speaking to media, and Turkey has lodged a formal protest Monday June 10, 2019, against authorities in Iceland over the way its national soccer team was treated on its arrival Sunday for an upcoming European Championship qualifying match.(AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, FILE)

Turkey says national team treated badly at Iceland airport

By EGILL BJARNASON and SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo talks to the media on the sidelines of the Arctic Council ministers' working dinner at the Arktikum museum in Rovaniemi, Finland, Monday, May 6, 2019. (Mandel Ngan/Pool Photo via AP)

Climate change missing as US defends Arctic policy

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

Man suspected of illicitly filming library patrons arrested

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FILE - In this file photo dated Saturday Aug. 23, 2003, Seagulls mill around in search of food as a whale is hauled onto a fishing boat after it was killed in the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Iceland. Iceland's whaling industry will be allowed to hunt up to 2,130 whales over the next five years, it is revealed Saturday Feb. 23, 2019, under a new rule issued by the Nordic nation's government. (AP Photo/Adam Butler,FILE)

Iceland to keep hunting up to 2,130 whales over 5 years

By EGILL BJARNASON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 1, 2017 file photo, the Northern Lights, or aurora borealis, appear in the sky over Bifrost, Western Iceland. Police in Iceland say tourists are often putting themselves at risk searching for the Northern Lights, whose spectacular streaks of color light up the winter skies at night. Police say sleep-deprived tourists are dividing their attentions between the road and the sky, and often underestimate the challenging conditions posed by Iceland’s twisty, narrow, often-icy roads in the winter. (AP Photo/Rene Rossignaud, file)

Iceland’s Northern Lights: Beautiful sight, risky drives

By EGILL BJARNASON - Associated Press

Investigators: Suspect in library camera case is in Iceland

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In this UGC photo provided by Tour guide Adolf Erlingsson on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018 , emergency services at the scene of a crash, in Skeidararsandur, Iceland. An SUV carrying seven members of a British family plunged off a high bridge Thursday in Iceland, killing three people and critically injuring the others, authorities said. (Adolf Erlingsson via AP)

3 British tourists die in Iceland crash; 4 severely hurt

By Egill Bjarnason - Associated Press

Maine school strengthens partnership with Icelandic colleges

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Tour guide Thorhallur Thorhallsson talks to tourists during a city walk around Reykjavik, Iceland, Sunday Oct. 7, 2018. After the collapse of Iceland's financial sector the country's economy has been focused on tourism. On the 10-year anniversary of the financial crash, now known as “hrunid”, the collapse, the last in a series of prosecutions of those deemed responsible has started, and Icelanders look for some closure after years of reckoning and reconstruction. (AP Photo/Egill Bjarnason)

Iceland seeks financial crash closure with last prosecution

By EGILL BJARNASON - Associated Press

England's Raheem Sterling, left, celebrates after scoring his side's third goal during the UEFA Nations League soccer match between Spain and England at Benito Villamarin stadium, in Seville, Spain, Monday, Oct. 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Miguel Morenatti)

England hands Spain its first home loss in 15 years

By TALES AZZONI - Associated Press