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Sadiq Khan apologizes after accusing UK chief rabbi after Gaza row

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has apologized to UK Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis after he implied the rabbi was islamophobic following a disagreement on calls for a Gaza ceasefire, the Jewish Chronicle reported on Friday. Khan claimed that the chief rabbi was motivated by islamophobia when the rabbi criticized the mayor’s call for an immediate […]

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Brussels mayor gives Europe’s hard-right a free hit before EU election – POLITICO

Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli, from the hard-right governing Likud party, compared what he described as the tyrannical woke agenda as another kind of totalitarianism, sitting alongside jihadist terror. “They are hiding behind so-called liberal values but the nature of this movement is anti-liberal,” he told POLITICO. Captive audience Over two days, the […]

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What London’s mayor learned when he took on the cars – POLITICO

It looked like group therapy. One late summer day, Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, sat with a group of faith leaders and clean-air campaigners in a small circle in the near-empty hall of a suburban church. The moment was meant to be one of celebration, for Khan and for London. He was marking the […]

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London Mayor Sadiq Khan defies Labour line with call for Gaza cease-fire – POLITICO

LONDON — Mayor of London Sadiq Khan on Friday urged a cease-fire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas — putting him directly at odds with his party’s leader, Keir Starmer. As the directly elected mayor of London, Khan is one of the opposition party’s most prominent figures, and his comments come amid mounting pressure […]

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ULEZ Is ‘Best Two-For-One Offer’ Ever, Says London Mayor Sadiq Khan

London’s low-emissions zone is the “best two-for-one offer” ever according to the city’s mayor Sadiq Khan, who has pushed ahead with the policy despite fierce opposition from drivers and political dissent in his own party. Khan said air pollution was “an invisible killer,” during a session at the Concordia Annual Summit in New York, arguing […]

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Birmingham City Council: How an equal pay claim took down Britain’s second-biggest city | #citycouncil

London CNN — Birmingham — the biggest British city after London — is in dire financial straits. The city’s council is one of a growing number of local government authorities in the United Kingdom making, or considering, painful spending cuts as a result of insufficient funds. Birmingham’s effective bankruptcy is uniquely tied to hefty compensation […]

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Village of Liverpool and North Syracuse hold elections for mayor and board of trustees Tuesday

Onondaga County, NY — Two local villlage elections are taking place Tuesday. The Village of Liverpool and Village of North Syracuse will be voting to fill both the mayor’s position and two spots on the board of trustees. Voting for both villages will be from 12 p.m.- 8 p.m. Liverpool’s voting will take place at […]

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London Lord Mayor for 2023 Hits Back at Pension Bosses’ Criticism Of Growth Fund

Nicholas Lyons, the Lord Mayor of London and a veteran financier, has hit back against industry criticism of his plan for a £50 billion ($62 billion) fund to boost investment in UK growth companies. The opposition is “from people with a vested interest in trying to prevent modernization of our pension schemes,” Lyons said in […]