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International
3/25/2023 4:22:53 PM
Powerful tornadoes tore through the Deep South on Friday night, killing at least 23 people in Mississippi, obliterating dozens of buildings and leaving an especially devastating mark in a rural town whose mayor declared, “My city is gone.”
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International
2/28/2023 3:51:38 PM
Around a dozen demonstrators stormed a stage where Taipei's new mayor was speaking on Tuesday, calling him a murderer and demanding he apologies for the bloodshed during a 1947 massacre in Taiwan.
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World
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International
2/18/2023 11:58:31 AM
A visit by a Chinese official at the invitation of the Taiwanese capital's newly elected China-friendly mayor has drawn protests on the self-ruled island.
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Sports
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Omni sports
2/7/2023 8:30:46 PM
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo changed her stance on Russian competitors at the 2024 Olympics on Tuesday saying they should be banned "while the war continues" in Ukraine, her office said.
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Sports
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World
1/15/2023 12:54:24 PM
Paris Saint-Germain was surprised and disappointed after city Mayor Anne Hidalgo said the club's Parc des Princes home was not for sale.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
1/3/2023 9:44:07 PM
The sentencing of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu to over two years in prison is being seen by observers as a politically motivated move, writes Karam Said
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World
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Region
12/17/2022 5:41:57 PM
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday he had "nothing to do" with the jailing of Istanbul's popular opposition mayor -- an outcome set to prevent the latter from standing in next June's presidential election.
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World
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Region
12/14/2022 5:44:42 PM
A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced Istanbul's popular opposition mayor to nearly three years jail in a politically charged trial that effectively bars him from standing in next year's presidential election.
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World
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War in Ukraine
11/25/2022 11:44:50 AM
Nearly half of Kyiv residents were still without electricity Friday, the Ukrainian capital's mayor said, two days after Russian strikes battered the country's already struggling energy grid.
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World
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War in Ukraine
10/16/2022 12:56:11 PM
The mayor's office in a key eastern Ukrainian city controlled by pro-Kremlin separatists was struck by rockets Sunday morning, Russian state agencies reported. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
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World
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Region
9/21/2022 12:39:16 PM
A Turkish court on Wednesday delayed until November a highly controversial trial that could see Istanbul's popular mayor banned from politics over a remark he made after beating President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ally in 2019 polls.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
9/4/2022 2:39:32 PM
Russian shelling hit the southern Ukraine port city of Mykolaiv during the night, damaging a medical treatment facility, the city's mayor said Sunday.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
8/14/2022 8:05:14 PM
The risk of disaster at Europe's largest nuclear plant is "increasing every day", the mayor of the city where it is located told AFP on Sunday, after Ukraine and Russia exchanged blame for fresh shelling around the facility.
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World
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International
8/9/2022 12:29:57 PM
Nagasaki paid tribute to the victims of the U.S. atomic bombing 77 years ago on Aug. 9, with the mayor saying Russia's war on Ukraine showed the world that another nuclear attack is not just a worry but ``a tangible and present crisis.''
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World
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International
7/17/2022 7:58:27 PM
More than 1,000 Italian mayors signed a petition Sunday urging Prime Minister Mario Draghi to rethink his resignation and steer the country through the choppy waters of rampant inflation, EU reforms and war.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
7/17/2022 11:41:43 AM
On the morning of Day 142 of the war in Ukraine, the mayor of a community slipping closer to the front line stands in sneakers and blazer near the newest soldier's grave.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
7/5/2022 5:12:54 PM
A day after Russian President Vladimir Putin declared victory in seizing an eastern Ukraine province essential to his wartime aims, a city in the path of Moscow's offensive came under sustained bombardment, its mayor said Tuesday.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
7/3/2022 5:31:04 PM
Shelling from multiple rocket launchers killed six people, including a child, on Sunday in Ukraine's eastern city of Sloviansk, which has come under attack from advancing Russian troops, its mayor said.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
6/25/2022 6:16:26 PM
Ukraine's Severodonetsk was "fully occupied" by the Russian army, its mayor said on Saturday, after weeks of fighting over the key eastern city.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
6/25/2022 5:38:37 PM
The mayor of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv warned Saturday that an imposter is posing as him and communicating with other officials, including three European mayors who were duped into believing they were having a video call with the real Vitali Klitschko.
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