Iceland could end whaling from 2024, a government minister has said.... Svandís Svavarsdóttir, the country’s fisheries minister, said there was little evidence of an economic benefit to the practice.... It is estimated thousands of whales have been killed since the International Whaling Commission banned the activity in the 1980s. Iceland, as well as Norway and Japan, still allow the hunting of these animals for commerical purposes. But the country’s fishing minister has now signalled a move a

The island nation that has been praised for its coronavirus response and its world-leading vaccination rate is now seeing its highest levels of infection since the start of the pandemic. Support our journalism.... arrow-right Just one month after the government scrapped all covid-19 restrictions, masks, social distancing and capacity limits have returned.... So even as new cases multiplied, Iceland’s rates of covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths have remained low....