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[ad_1] Publisher Penguin Random House said Friday it will publish "classic" unexpurgated versions of Roald Dahl's children's novels after it faced a backlash over its plan to cut and rewrite sections of his books with the intention of making them suitable for modern readers. The new editions, which remove passages related to weight, mental health, gender and race, will appear along with reprints of 17 of Dahl's books in their original form later, with the latter branded as "The Roald Dahl Classic Collection" so "readers will be free to choose which version of Dahl's stories they prefer." The move comes after the changes sparked a backlash among both readers and literary figures, with author Salman Rushdie, who  has been recovering after a stabbing attack  last summer, writing on Twitter, "Roald Dahl was no angel but this is absurd censorship." Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America, a nonprofit that protects writers and

[ad_1] Coronation of King Charles III approaches What to expect at the coronation of King Charles III 04:59 London —  A large majority of younger British people — 70% between the ages of 18 and 35 — say they're "not interested" in their own country's royal family , according to a new poll commissioned by CBS News partner network BBC News. The poll, conducted by U.K. polling company YouGov for the BBC, sought to gauge attitudes toward the monarchy in Britain ahead of the coronation of King Charles III on May 6. One of the questions was: "How interested are you in the royal family?" 

[ad_1] China warned on Tuesday that Australia, Britain and the United States were treading a “path of error and danger” after they unveiled a nuclear-powered submarines deal. Australia announced on Monday it would buy up to five US nuclear-powered submarines, then build a new model with US and British technology under an ambitious plan to bulk up Western muscle across the Asia-Pacific in the face of a rising China. US President Joe Biden has stressed that Australia, which joined the alliance with Washington and London known as AUKUS 18 months ago, will not be getting nuclear weapons. However, acquiring submarines powered by nuclear reactors puts Australia in an elite club and at the forefront of US-led efforts to push back against Chinese military expansion. Wang Wenbin, China’s foreign ministry spokesman, said: “The latest joint statement from the US, UK and Australia demonstrates that the three countries, for the sake of their own geopolitical interests, completely disreg

[ad_1] LONDON: Britain is set to pump 500 million pounds ($621 million) into Tata Steel to decarbonise its Welsh site in a deal aimed at securing the future of the country's steel industry, but which puts as many as 3,000 jobs at risk. The 1.3-billion-pound funding package for Britain's biggest steel works includes a 750-million-pound investment from Tata to pay for the switch to lower-emission electric arc furnaces from the current coal-powered methods. While Britain said Friday's deal would help to safeguard 5,000 jobs, Tata Steel UK currently employs more than 8,000 people - raising the prospect of 3,000 redundancies as the lower-carbon electric furnaces are less labour intensive. Business and trade minister Kemi Badenoch said the deal was the right thing for Britain and the overall workforce. "We are saving jobs which would have been lost... without this investment, we would probably have seen the end of steelmaking certainly in this part of the country,&q