Irksome in Iceland, brusque in Britain? US envoys draw ire

arnitorfa@gmail.com

Iceland's president Guni Th. Jhannesson waves as he gets into a car following his inauguration in Reykjavik, Iceland Saturday Aug. 1, 2020. In Iceland, a nation so safe that its president runs errands on a bicycle, U.S. Ambassador Jeffery Ross Gunter has left locals aghast with his request to hire armed bodyguards. He's also enraged lawmakers by casually and groundlessly hitching Iceland to President Donald Trump's controversial "China virus label for the coronavirus. (AP Photo/rni Torfason)