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FILE - In this Monday, Dec, 10, 2012 file photo, lyricist Herbert Kretzmer and his wife Sybil Sever attend the premiere for &quot;Les Miserables&quot; at the Ziegfeld Theatre, in New York. Kretzmer, the journalist and lyricist best known for his English-language adaptation of the musical Les Misérables, has died. He was 95. His family confirmed Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020 that Kretzmer had died of advanced effects of Parkinson’s disease at his home in London with his Sybil by his side. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Herbert Kretzmer, lyricist of Les Miserables, dead at 95

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In this Dec. 20, 2017 photo provided by Joel Friedman, Rabbi Avrohom Pinter makes a speech at Canvey Island,in Essex, southeast England. Pinter gave his life to save his neighbors. When the British government ordered a lockdown to slow the spread of coronavirus, Pinter went door-to-door to deliver the public health warning to the ultra-Orthodox Jews in northeast London. Within days, the 71-year-old rabbi had caught the disease and died. (Joel Friedman via AP)

Lives Lost: London rabbi worked to end community’s isolation

By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

List 2/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic

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List of sports events affected by the coronavirus pandemic

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Molinari returns some 8 months later and with American base

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Protesters take part in a &quot;Resist and Act for Freedom&quot; protest against a mandatory coronavirus vaccine, wearing masks, social distancing and a second lockdown, in Trafalgar Square, London, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020. (Yui Mok/PA via AP)

Police, protesters clash as London eyes tighter virus rules

By SYLVIA HUI - Associated Press

In this June 18, 2015, file photo, Van Morrison performs at the 46th annual Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Gala in New York. Van Morrison is to release three new songs over the coming weeks that take a swipe at the lockdown restrictions imposed by the British government. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Van Morrison targets virus restrictions in 3 new songs

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Fashion designer Gareth Pugh poses for a photograph in front of his creations, exhibited ahead of his London Fashion Week show in London, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

End of the runway? Fashion world mulls post-COVID future

By SYLVIA HUI - Associated Press

Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange take part in a protest outside the Central Criminal Court, the Old Bailey, in London, Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. The London court hearing on Assange's extradition from Britain to the United States resumed Monday after a COVID-19 test on one of the participating lawyers came back negative, WikiLeaks said Friday. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Lawyer says Assange charged under broad, contentious US law

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012 file photo, British designer and museum founder Sir Terence Conran poses for photographs during a media event to unveil plans for the new British Design Museum in London. Terence Conran, the pioneering British designer, retailer and restaurateur, has died at age 88. His family said in a statement that Conran died peacefully at his home on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, file)

Pioneering British designer Terence Conran dies at 88

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Julian Assange supporters protest outside the Old Bailey in London, Monday, Sept. 7, 2020. Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the U.S. government were squaring off in a London court on Monday at a high-stakes extradition case delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. American prosecutors have indicted the 49-year-old Australian on 18 espionage and computer misuse charges over the WikiLeaks publication of secret U.S. military documents a decade ago. The charges carry a maximum sentence of 175 years in prison. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Assange extradition hearing paused over COVID-19 risk

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In this Nov. 8, 1967, file photo, British actress Diana Rigg poses for photographers during a press conference at the Hilton Hotel, London. Actress Diana Rigg, who became a 1960s style icon as secret agent Emma Peel in TV series The Avengers, has died at age 82. Riggs agent Simon Beresford says she died Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020, at home with her family. (AP Photo/Bob Dear, File)

James Bond, ‘Avengers’ star Diana Rigg dies at 82

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Demonstrators wearing protective face masks as precaution against the conoravirus stage a protest in Paris, Monday, Sept. 7, 2020. Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the U.S. government were squaring off in a London court on Monday at a high-stakes extradition case delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. Opera in the background. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Supporters gather for Assange court extradition showdown

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FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020 file photo, demonstrators supporting Julian Assange hold banners outside Westminster Magistrates Court in London. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is set to fight for his freedom in a British after a decade of legal drama, as he challenges American authorities’ attempt to extradite him on spying charges over the site’s publication of secret U.S. military documents. Lawyers for Assange and the U.S. government will face off in London Monday, Sept. 7, 2020 at an extradition hearing that was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

WikiLeaks’ Assange to fight US extradition bid in UK court

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

Human rights lawyer Geoffrey Nice stands in front of a picture collage that a friend has done of him at his home in Adisham, England, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020. The prominent British human rights lawyer is convening an independent tribunal in London with public hearings next year, to look into the Chinese government's alleged rights abuses against the Uighur Muslim minority in the far western province of Xinjiang.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

UK public tribunal to probe Uighur ‘genocide’ claims

By Sylvia Hui - Associated Press

Christopher Steele leaves the High Court in London following a hearing in the libel case brought against him. (Associated Press)

Christopher Steele libel trial ends in London

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Demonstrators hold posters and flags during an Extinction Rebellion climate change protest in London, Tuesday, Sept 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

London police arrest 65 people during climate demonstration

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Pakistan warns ex-PM Sharif must return to face graft case

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Christopher Steele is a former British spy who wrote a dossier about alleged links between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. (Associated Press/File)

Christopher Steele says FBI didn’t pay for his dossier work

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Anucska Case assists Carolyn Roberts-Griffith, left, with her costume for a prepping event ahead of this years Notting Hill Carnival which will be held virtually, in London, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. London's Notting Hill Carnival traces its roots to the emancipation of Black slaves and race riots in the city during the late 1950s. Organizers say the event is more important than ever amid the worldwide campaign for justice following the death of George Floyd in police custody. But their message of resistance and reconciliation will be delivered online worldwide this weekend after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the party to reinvent itself as a virtual event. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

London carnival show goes on _ with more import than ever

By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press