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Incoming small town Mexico mayor kidnapped, killed (Reuters)

November 9th, 2010

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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Slovenia elects its 1st black mayor (AP)

October 24th, 2010

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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Putin’s chief of staff named new mayor of Moscow (AP)

October 21st, 2010

In this photo taken June 13, 2006, then Presidential Chief of Staff Sergei Sobyanin, right, visits an exhibition in St. Petersburg, Russia. President Dmitry Medvedev has nominated Vladimir Putin's chief of staff as the next mayor of Moscow. Kremlin spokeswoman Yevgeniya Styopochkina confirmed to The Associated Press that the candidacy of Sergei Sobyanin had been put forward Friday Oct. 15, 2010. (AP Photo)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…

Putin’s right-hand man nominated Moscow mayor (AP)

October 15th, 2010

In this file photo, May 12, 2008, vice-Prime Minister Sergei Sobyanin is seen at a Cabinet meeting in Moscow, Russia. Sergei Sobyanin  is one the four candidates for the Moscow mayor position nominated by the pro-Kremlin United Russia party.  (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)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…

Lima to have first female mayor ever (AP)

October 4th, 2010

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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Kremlin fires defiant Moscow mayor after 18 years (AP)

September 28th, 2010

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov reacts during the Unesco's early childhood care conference in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, Sept. 27, 2010. Yuri Luzhkov, who has been Moscow's mayor for the last 18 years, is back from his vacation and said he wouldn't resign despite a widely reported public power struggle with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)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…

Kremlin fires iconic Moscow mayor after 18 years (AP)

September 28th, 2010

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov reacts during the Unesco's early childhood care conference in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, Sept. 27, 2010. Yuri Luzhkov, who has been Moscow's mayor for the last 18 years, is back from his vacation and said he wouldn't resign despite a widely reported public power struggle with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)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…

Small-town mayor stoned to death in western Mexico (AP)

September 27th, 2010

Unidentified alleged gunmen stand next to seized guns and drugs during a presentation to the media in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010. According to the army, the suspects were arrested during an operation with the police in which guns, marijuana and cars were seized. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)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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Mexican mayor slain in drug-plagued northern state (AP)

September 24th, 2010

Soldiers guard the crime scene where Prisciliano Rodriguez, mayor of the Doctor Gonzalez municipality, was shot dead by gunmen at his ranch 50 kilometers, some 31 miles, east of Monterrey, northern Mexico, Thursday Sept. 23, 2010. Rodriguez is the fourth mayor in northern Mexico to be murdered in little more than a month. (AP Photo/Carlos Jasso)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…

Mexican mayor slain in drug-plagued state (AP)

September 24th, 2010

Army soldiers walk by the body of a man lying in the street in Acapulco, Mexico, Thursday Sept. 23, 2010.  Authorities say seven people were killed in a shootout between rival drug gangs. (AP Photo/Bernandino Hernandez)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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