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Reuters - A mayor-elect from the Mexican state of Veracruz was kidnapped and killed along with two companions on Monday, local media reported.

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AP - Slovenia elected its first black mayor on Sunday, an immigrant from Africa known as the “Obama of Piran,” the town where he lives.

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AP - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s chief of staff was named the new mayor of Moscow on Thursday, cementing the powerful Russian leader’s influence over the capital and its sizable…

AP - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s chief of staff was nominated Friday as Moscow’s next mayor, a move seen as bringing the capital’s sizable political and business interests under…

AP - A moderate leftist looked Sunday night to be headed by a narrow margin to becoming Lima’s first elected female mayor.

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AP - Russia’s president fired defiant Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov on Tuesday, ousting the man who gave the crumbling capital a glamorous facelift but was maligned for his wife’s chokehold…

AP - Russia’s president on Tuesday fired Yury Luzhkov, ending the 18-year rule of the Moscow mayor who gave the crumbling capital a glamorous facelift but was maligned for outdated…

AP - A small-town mayor and an aide were found stoned to death Monday in a drug-plagued western state, the fifth city leader to be slain in Mexico since mid-August.

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AP - Gunmen killed a town mayor near the drug-plagued industrial city of Monterrey, authorities said Friday, the fourth mayor in northern Mexico to be murdered in little more than…

AP - Authorities say gunmen have killed the mayor of a northern Mexican town — adding to a string of attacks on political figures in the drug-plagued region.

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