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Tintin in hot water over Congo book

A 75-year-old Tintin book has landed its publisher Egmont in hot water in the UK and US amid claims of racism. Tintin in the Congo, originally published in French in 1931, only become available in English translation in 2005. After recent complaints from a racism watchdog in the UK, some booksellers considered removing the book from...

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