India's main parties call for protests after women visit Hindu temple

Two women defied a centuries-old ban on entering a Hindu temple in India in the early hours of Wednesday, leading to calls for protests from India's two main political parties and raising fears of a backlash from conservative Hindu groups.

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Train crash on Danish bridge kills six

Six people have died in a train accident on a bridge spanning two Danish islands, authorities say.

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Six killed in train accident on bridge in Denmark

Six people were killed in a train accident on a bridge in Denmark on Wednesday, train operator DSB said.

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Several killed in train accident on bridge in Denmark: police

Several people were killed in a train accident on a bridge in Denmark on Wednesday, police said.

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Cathay Pacific to honour $16,000 fares sold for $675

Cathay Pacific business class seats worth up to $16,000 were sold for as little as $675 return.

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Taiwan president defiant after China calls for reunification

Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen said on Wednesday the island would not accept a "one country, two systems" political arrangement with China, while stressing all cross-strait negotiations needed to be on a government-to-government basis.

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Iceland to fight HMRC over wage dispute 'madness'

The retailer's Christmas savings scheme is accused of breaking minimum wage rules by HMRC.

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Child slips into rhino pen, touched by animal's snout

A little girl entered the rhinoceros exhibit at a Florida zoo by slipping between two poles, and at least one of the massive pachyderms touched the child with its snout, officials said on Tuesday.

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Lebanon's Aoun, Hariri, 'determined' to form government

Lebanon's President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Hariri are "determined to form a government", state news agency NNA quoted Hariri as saying after they met on Tuesday evening.

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Rail fares rise by 3.1% in England and Wales

The price hike comes into force on Wednesday despite a 13-year low in punctuality across the network.

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Sharp rise in air crash deaths in 2018

Although the figures are much higher than for 2017, it was still the ninth safest year on record.

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The firm whose staff are all autistic

A California father set up a company where his sons could work - and now employs more than 150 people.

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You say you want a New Year's resolution...?

New Year's resolutions are often about how we spend our money and our time at work. Here's some advice on how to keep them for the rest of the year.

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'Defund Planned Parenthood': Abortion Killed 42M People Last Year, the Leading Global Cause of Death

More people died from abortions in 2018 than any other cause of death in the world. 

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Death toll from Philippine landslides, floods climbs to 85

The death toll from landslides and devastating floods in the central Philippines triggered by a tropical depression climbed to 85, officials said on Wednesday, and 20 people were missing as rescuers slowly reached cut-off communities.

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Australia stands by canceling citizenship of Islamic State recruiter despite Fiji challenge

Australia's government is confident it has grounds to strip an alleged Islamic State recruiter of citizenship, a minister said on Wednesday, as questions arose over whether doing so could be illegal and leave the man stateless.

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Myanmar says police attacked as western fighting displaces thousands

Myanmar police have clashed with insurgents in the troubled western state of Rakhine, state-run media said on Wednesday, as intensified fighting continued between the security forces and an armed group representing the Buddhist Rakhine ethnic group.

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Official from India's ruling BJP calls for protests as women enter Hindu temple

A local official from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party called for protests after two women entered a Hindu temple in the southern state of Kerala on Wednesday, defying a centuries-old ban on women of menstruating age entering the shrine.

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Two women defy centuries-old ban by entering Indian temple

Two women defied a centuries-old ban on entering a Hindu temple in India's southern state of Kerala in the early hours of Wednesday, the state's chief minister said, raising fears of a backlash from conservative Hindu groups.

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Cuba's Castro blasts United States on 60th anniversary of revolution

On the 60th anniversary of Cuba's revolution, ruling Communist Party leader Raul Castro blasted the Trump administration for returning to an outdated path of confrontation with the island nation and of intervening in Latin America.

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Landslides kill at least 15 in Indonesia after year of disasters

Indonesian rescue teams were searching for victims of a series of landslides that killed at least 15 people on New Year's Day, officials said, after a year of natural disasters killed thousands.

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