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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran test-fired a surface-to-surface short-range missile, while a military training plane crashed outside the capital Tehran after catching fire, state-run television reported Sunday. The missile testing came a day after Iran launched a series of large-scale military maneuvers geared at introducing the country's new defensive doctrine. "Saegheh, the missile, has a range of between 80 to 250 kilometers," state-run television said. It said the missile was tested in ...

BILBAO, Ecuador (AP) -- In normal times, Luis Egas would have risen before dawn to tend livestock or fields of potatoes and onions. But as the sun rose Saturday, all he could do was survey his village, laid waste by a volcanic eruption that spewed incandescent rock, showers of ash,and rivers of molten lava. "We never thought Tungurahua would awake like this," Egas said of the volcano, whose name means "throat of fire" in the local Quichua language. (Watch the volcano erupt ...

TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of at least 6.9 hit in the Scotia Sea between South America and Antarctica, Japanese and U.S. officials said Sunday. No tsunami alert was issued by the Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, said Dale Grant, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center. The warning center moni ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Police on Saturday set up roadblocks and launched helicopter searches for thieves who scaled a cliff and stole a 700-year-old religious icon from a monastery in southern Greece. The Icon of The Virgin Mary, which is credited with miracles, was reported missing Friday at the Orthodox Christian monastery of Elona, near the town of Leonidio, about 300 kilometers (185 miles) s ...

WASILLA, Alaska (AP) -- Flooding and mud slides brought on by heavy rain closed the main highway and rail line Saturday between Anchorage and Fairbanks, the state's two largest cities. At least 150 people were evacuated from their homes, not counting campers and fishermen who use numerous roadside campgrounds, said Dennis Brodigan, Matanuska-Susitna Borough Emergency Services director. A home and a cabin were destroyed in the flooding, while more than 100 houses were damaged, Brodigan said. N ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) -- Calling their lives blessed, more than a dozen young women and girls from polygamist families in Utah spoke at a rally Saturday, calling for a change in state laws and the right to live their life and religion. "Because of our beliefs, many of our people have been incarcerated and had their basic human rights stripped of them, namely life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," said a 19-year-old identified only as Tyler. "I didn't come here today to  ...

DREXEL, Missouri (AP) -- The remains of at least two and as many as six people were found on property in rural Missouri, sheriff's officials said. The remains were found on the ground late Friday on property northeast of Drexel, in western Missouri, after deputies working a theft case received a tip, Cass County Sheriff's Cpl. Kevin Tieman said. The deaths appeared to be "drug-related" ...

TRENTON, New Jersey (AP) -- The former nurse who admitted killing 29 patients in New Jersey and Pennsylvania has donated a kidney to a dying New York man. Surgery on Charles Cullen was performed early Saturday, his court-appointed attorney Johnnie Mask told The Star-Ledger of Newark. Mask said the surgery went well and the kidney is a perfect size because Cullen is so healthy. The kidney is exp ...

BERLIN, Germany (AP) -- German authorities on Saturday arrested a Lebanese student suspected of helping plant two bombs that failed to explode on trains last month, officials said. The 21-year-old was detained a day after investigators released surveillance camera footage from July 31, the day of the attempted bombing, showing two men with heavy luggage who were believed to have planted the devic ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is "deeply concerned" about Israel's commando raid in eastern Lebanon Saturday, which he said violated the cease-fire resolution concerning Israel and Hezbollah, his spokesman said in a written statement. According to the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), there also have been other air violations by Israel, according to the statement. Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Murr has threatened to halt the deployment of army tr ...