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Icelandic authorities should have made sure UK Icesave depositors were insured by the UK, a report says.

Iceland's civil protection agency says a volcano has erupted in the southern part of country.

Voters in Iceland went to the polls Saturday for a national referendum on whether to repay billions of dollars the country owes to the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.

Icelanders are set to reject the terms for repaying Anglo-Dutch debts in a referendum on Saturday, forcing new negotiations with creditors and delaying financial aid the country needs to fix its shattered economy.

Icelanders are sure to vote against repaying $5 billion in "Icesave" debts if a referendum goes ahead on Saturday, but conditions are good for reaching a revised deal with Britain and the Netherlands, Iceland's Foreign Minister was quoted on Wednesday as saying.

Parliament in Iceland is set to vote on whether the country should seek to join the 27-member European Union.

Crisis-hit Iceland announces a new government headed by the world's first openly gay leader, Johanna Sigurdardottir.

Iceland's president tries to establish an interim coalition, after the cabinet quit amid an escalating financial crisis.

Iceland’s prime minister says the island nation’s coalition government has collapsed amid a deepening financial crisis.

Iceland's Minister of Business Affairs Bjorgvin Sigurdsson resigned Sunday, three months after the collapse of several of the country's leading banks and its stock market.