Iceland’s three-party coalition government, in power since November 2021, collapsed October 13 due to disagreements on policy issues, with new elections to be held in November, Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson announced. Benediktsson, the head of the conservative Independence Party, told reporters tensions had mounted within the coalition in recent months on a range of issues,...

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