Head of the Directorate of Labor Gissur Pétursson said 20 of the 29 foreign-born workers, who were in a bus accident in east Iceland on Sunday, are not legally registered in the country.
Pétursson also claimed that legally obligated tariffs had not been paid in relation to some of the workers’ salaries this year, Fréttabladid reports.
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Taliban militants agreed today to free 19 South Korean church volunteers held hostage for more than a month after Seoul agreed to end all missionary work and keep a promise to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year.
The agreement, reached in direct talks between Taliban negotiators and South Korean officials meeting [...]

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A strong earthquake has hit fire-ravaged southern Greece.
The Athens Geodynamic Institute says it had a magnitude of five.

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A suicide bomber blew himself up next to a group of NATO troops helping to build a bridge in eastern Afghanistan today, killing three soldiers and wounding six others, the alliance said in a statement.
The bomber was also killed in the blast, the statement said. NATO did not disclose the nationalities of the victims or [...]

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Authorities in Greece have intensified efforts to find out what caused forest fires that have left more than 60 dead.
Anti-terrorist squads have been questioning some of the 32 suspected arsonists arrested so far, as new fires continue to break out around Greece.
A state of emergency has been declared and a 1m euro (£678,000) reward has [...]

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A Turkish deputy from Tansu Ciller’s True Path Party (DYP) yesterday revealed that Turkish paramilitary organizations are responsible for arson fires in Greece’s islands while, at the same time, an article published in the pro-government Turkish daily “Yeni Safak” provocatively boasted in its title: “We Burned Rhodes.”
According to the DYP deputy Sedat Bucak, the perpetrator [...]

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