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New York has followed London in choosing hope over fear in electing Democrat Zohran Mamdani as the city’s new mayor, according to his London counterpart Sir Sadiq Khan .

Mr Mamdani, 34, defeated former governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa to become the city’s first Muslim mayor and the first of South Asian heritage.

Sir Sadiq congratulated Mr Mamdani, who will become New York’s youngest mayor in more than a century when he takes office on January 1, on what he called a “historic campaign”.

He wrote on X: “New Yorkers faced a clear choice – between hop

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