Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani turns into New York Metropolis’s first Muslim mayor after defeating former governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa.
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Zohran Mamdani has received New York’s mayoral election after defeating former governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, making historical past as town’s first Muslim mayor and its youngest in additional than a century. The 34 yr outdated surged to victory with guarantees to tax millionaires to pay for expanded social programmes. In the meantime, Democrats are projected to win governor races in Virginia and New Jersey. Additionally: a cargo airplane has crashed at Louisville airport in Kentucky, sparking an enormous hearth and killing no less than seven folks; the UN says new restrictions by the Taliban have compelled it to droop operations at an important border crossing between Afghanistan and Iran; Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has stated his authorities will search an unbiased investigation right into a police raid in Rio de Janeiro that left greater than 120 folks useless; the American man who faked his personal demise and fled to Scotland after being accused of rape; and Paris residents are provided an opportunity to be buried alongside the wealthy and well-known.
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