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A closed branch of the sushi restaurant chain Itsu at Holborn in the City of London, Thursday, April 1, 2021. When the coronavirus struck, nearly 540,000 workers vanished almost overnight from the business hub, known as the City of London, or simply "the City." A year on, most haven't returned.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Beyond the Pandemic: London's financial hub seeks a rebirth

By Sylvia Hui
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Yuliet Colon, center, waits to check-out at an agricultural market near her home, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, April 2, 2021. Colon is among several Cubans who, with more ingenuity than resources, help their compatriots cope with shortages exacerbated by the new coronavirus pandemic with Facebook posts of culinary creations designed around what they're actually likely to find at the market or with government rations. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cuban cooks overcome shortages with ingenuity on Facebook

By Andrea Rodriguez
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FILE - Mixed Martial Arts fighter Demetrious Johnson celebrates after defeating Japan's Yuya Wakamatsu in a flyweight world grand prix quarterfinal One Championship bout in Tokyo, in this Sunday, March 31, 2019, file photo. Demetrious Johnson and Eddie Alvarez won UFC championships before leaving their native U.S. to pursue another title overseas. Their home fans will get to see their next fights in Singapore thanks to One Championship's new series of fight cards on TNT. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

Alvarez, Mighty Mouse back on US TV with One Championship

By Greg Beacham
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran shattered its daily record for new coronavirus infections Wednesday for the second consecutive day, with recorded cases soaring to 20,954.

Manchester City's Kevin De Bruyne, center, celebrates after scoring his side's first goal during the Champions League, first leg, quarterfinal soccer match between Manchester City and Borussia Dortmund at the Etihad stadium in Manchester, Tuesday, April 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Dave Thompson)

City gives De Bruyne new deal, reveals EPL’s highest payroll

By Rob Harris 27 minutes ago

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester City now has the Premier League’s largest-ever wage bill, and it is set to keep on growing.

FILE - In this March 25, 2021, file photo, the celebration cauldron is seen lit on the first day of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic torch relay in Naraha, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan. The governor of Osaka prefecture said on Thursday that he wants to cancel the Olympic torch relay legs going through Osaka later this month. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Tokyo Olympic torch relay taken off streets of Osaka

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TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Olympic torch relay will not run through the streets of Osaka prefecture next week because of rising COVID-19 cases.

FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2019 file photo, Strasbourg chief Rabbi Harold Abraham Weill looks at vandalized tombs in the Jewish cemetery of Westhoffen, west of the city of Strasbourg, eastern France. Coronavirus lockdowns in 2020 shifted some anti-Semitic hatred online, where conspiracy theories blaming Jews for the pandemic’s medical and economic devastation abounded, Israeli researchers at Tel Aviv University's Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry in an annual report Wednesday, April 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias, File)

Report: Pandemic amped up anti-Semitism, forced it online

By Laurie Kellman 41 minutes ago

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Coronavirus lockdowns last year shifted some anti-Semitic hatred online, where conspiracy theories blaming Jews for the pandemic’s medical and economic

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