Search for missing 13-year-old ends in tragedy
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A five-day search for a 13-year-old who disappeared on her way to school has ended in tragedy. It is the kind of news that stops a small country in its tracks.
Elsewhere, public trust is being tested by the discovery that Tetra Pak cartons are still being incinerated rather than recycled. The Consumers’ Association is calling for a review of the Recycling Fund, while the executive director of Landvernd noted that being told the system is broken twice is worse than being told once. Meanwhile, a lawsuit seeking 100 million in damages has been filed against Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson and Birgir, and new legislation will grant the national broadcaster, RÚV, the power to shutter its own radio channels.
The Arctic fox is set to join the endangered species list this winter after a 40 percent population decline over three generations. In the capital, a foreign citizen has been charged with the rape of a disabled woman, and the death has been announced of former politician and journalist Mörður Árnason.