US sanctions Iran over missile test...2 dead in Florida tornadoes...Drug trial volunteer dies

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has imposed sanctions against 11 individuals and entities involved in Iran's ballistic missile program as a result of Tehran's firing of a medium-range ballistic missile in October. A U.S. Treasury official says Iran's ballistic missile program poses "a significant threat to regional and global security." The announcement comes a day after the U.S. lifted sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program.

DUETTE, Fla. (AP) — Officials say severe weather sparked a pair of tornadoes that ripped through central Florida overnight. A couple was killed and their adult son and four grandchildren were injured when one of the twisters destroyed their mobile home. The National Weather Service says that tornado was a category EF2 tornado, with winds between 111 mph and 135 mph.

PARIS (AP) — A man who took part in a botched drug trial in France has died. A French hospital announced the death today, but didn't identify the man, who had already been in a state of brain death. He was one of six male volunteers hospitalized last week after volunteering to take an experimental painkiller based on a compound similar to cannabis. The other five remain hospitalized, and authorities have said three of them face possible brain damage.

BERLIN (AP) — The head of the International Organization for Migration says Europe must avoid viewing migrants as a "security threat" following the New Year's Eve assaults in Cologne and November's attacks in Paris. William Lacy Swing is visiting Berlin at a time when Chancellor Angela Merkel faces mounting pressure over her open-door policy toward refugees. Germany registered nearly 1.1 million people as asylum seekers last year but most other European Union countries remain reluctant to take significant numbers.

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is making his first visit to a synagogue as pope. He greeted Rome's Jewish community in the city's main synagogue today in a show of interfaith friendship at a time of religiously-inspired violence around the globe. Francis began his visit by laying a wreath at a plaque outside the synagogue marking where Roman Jews were rounded up by the Nazis in 1943 and at another marking the slaying of a 2-year-old boy in an attack by Palestinians on the synagogue in 1982.