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The premier of Australia's Queensland state has declared parts of its coast a disaster zone as a tropical cyclone approaches.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian investigators will be given access to the Chicago man who pleaded guilty to helping plan the Mumbai attacks, but he won't be extradited to India on current charges, a U.S.

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) - At least 1,500 people rallied against the government of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the Far East city of Vladivostok in the first of a string of opposition rallies planned across Russia on Saturday.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Tons of sand from deserts in China's interior blew into Beijing Saturday, shrouding China's capital in a yellow-orange haze that authorities warned made the air quality "hazardous."

Richard Starke could die in prison for what he says was a show of force to compensate for being disabled in a wheelchair. He’s doing time because a jury believed he pulled out a small handgun and used it to threaten two young men who towed his vehicle out of a snow bank in January of 2009 and had come inside his house to collect their towing fee.