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LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Tuesday that he is merging the British government's international development department into its foreign ministry to create a “super department” in charge of both diplomacy and aid.

The World Trade Organization has ruled Saudi Arabia failed to stop a broadcasting operation pirating sports coverage and blocked moves to shut it down in a proxy of the Gulf economic and diplomatic dispute with Qatar.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The first nationally distributed children’s series to feature an Alaska Native as the lead character has been awarded a prestigious Peabody Award.

WASHINGTON — American industry rebounded last month as factories began to reopen for the first time since being shut down by the coronavirus in Aprll.

NEW YORK — Oprah Winfrey has chosen James McBride's “Deacon King Kong” for her book club. McBride's novel is set in a Brooklyn housing project in 1969 and centres on the shooting of a drug dealer by an aging and tipsy church deacon.

LONDON — Nothing has kept Queen Elizabeth II away from the Royal Ascot horse racing meeting during her 68-year reign as U.K. monarch — not pregnancy, a speech to Parliament or even an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.

LONDON — Next year’s British Academy Film Awards have been postponed by two months, organizers said Tuesday. The move follows a decision by Hollywood’s film academy to shift the 2021 Oscars from February to April because of the coronavirus pandemic.

NEW YORK — Padma Lakshmi's next book is designed for the children's table. The “Top Chef” host and bestselling author is working on her first picture book, “Tomatoes for Neela.

BEIJING — China on Tuesday accused Indian forces along their Himalayan border of carrying out “provocative attacks” on its troops, leading to “serious physical conflicts” between the sides.

NEW YORK — Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says there might be no major league games this year after a breakdown in talks between teams and the players' union on how to split up money in a season delayed by the coronavirus pandemic.