GRINDAVIK, Iceland — A volcano has erupted in southwestern Iceland, sending a flash of light into the evening sky and spewing semi-molten rock into the air in a spectacular show of Earth's power in the land known for fire and ice. The eruption Monday night appears to have occurred about 2½ miles from the town
PITTSBURG — U.S. Steel, the steel producer that played a key role in the nation's industrialization, is being acquired by Nippon Steel in an all-cash deal valued at approximately $14.1 billion. The transaction is worth about $14.9 billion when including the assumption of debt. The combined company will be among the top three steel-producing companies
SANDY — Patricia North, originally from Santiago, Chile, but now living in Vineyard, is a long way away from the South American nation. But she still cares about what happens there, and on Sunday she was one of perhaps hundreds from around Utah who cast a ballot in the nation's plebiscite on a proposed new
MOSCOW — Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin dismissed as complete nonsense remarks by President Joe Biden that Russia would attack a NATO country if it won the war in Ukraine, adding that Russia had no interest in fighting the NATO military alliance. The war in Ukraine has triggered the deepest crisis in Moscow's relations with the
JERUSALEM — The Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and Gaza opened on Sunday for aid trucks for the first time since the outbreak of war, officials said, a move intended to double the amount of food and medicine reaching the enclave. The crossing had been closed after an Oct. 7 attack by Hamas and aid
VATICAN CITY — A Vatican tribunal on Saturday convicted a cardinal of embezzlement and sentenced him to 5½ years in prison in one of several verdicts handed down in a complicated financial trial that aired the city state's dirty laundry and tested its justice system. Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the first cardinal ever prosecuted by the
SALT LAKE CITY — A new missionary training center will be opened in Bangkok, Thailand, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced on Wednesday. The training center will accommodate missionaries from southeast Asia and other regions, according to a church news release. It will be an annex of the complex surrounding the Bangkok
LONDON — Prince Harry scored the biggest win yet in his legal war against British tabloids on Friday when London's High Court ruled he had been a victim of phone hacking and other unlawful acts by Mirror Group journalists with the knowledge of their editors. King Charles' younger son, who became the first senior British
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that Israel is losing support over its "indiscriminate" bombing of Gaza and that Benjamin Netanyahu should change, exposing a new rift in relations with the Israeli prime minister. Biden's remarks, made to donors to his 2024 re-election campaign, were his most critical to date of Netanyahu's handling
WASHINGTON — His country's future at stake, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy used inspirational words, optimistic resolve and a nod to Christmas in appealing Tuesday to leaders in Congress for U.S. aid for his fighters in the war with Russia. But after hours of talks on Capitol Hill, additional American support appeared in grave doubt as
