DiscoverIceland Weekly News RoundupFilibuster ends, heat record, hotel shooting, war on a plant, listener's questions
Filibuster ends, heat record, hotel shooting, war on a plant, listener's questions

Filibuster ends, heat record, hotel shooting, war on a plant, listener's questions

Update: 2025-07-14
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The Reykjavík Grapevine's Iceland Roundup brings you the top news with a healthy dash of local views. In this episode, Grapevine publisher Jón Trausti Sigurðarson is joined by Grapevine's staff journalist Jóhannes Bjarki Bjarkason, and Grapevine friend and contributor Sindri Eldon to roundup the stories making headlines in recent weeks. On the docket this week are: 

✨End of longest Filibuster ever at Althingi

✨Will the Icelandic heat record of 30,5 fall today?

✨Hotel shooting. 5 arrested, then released. 

✨City of Reykjavík’s war on a plant: The giant hogweed 

✨We answer select listener’s questions on museums, saints and why Iceland is a better place to live in than the other Nordics


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Filibuster ends, heat record, hotel shooting, war on a plant, listener's questions

Filibuster ends, heat record, hotel shooting, war on a plant, listener's questions

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