Sadiq Khan Elected in London, Becoming Its First Muslim Mayor

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LONDON - In a Europe struggling with a rise in Islamophobia, riven by debates about the flood of Syrian migrants and on edge over religious, ethnic and cultural disputes, London has elected its first Muslim mayor.

Sadiq Khan - a Labour Party leader, a former human rights lawyer and a son of a bus driver from Pakistan - was declared the winner after

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"Mr. Khan defended his work as a human rights lawyer, and has said he hoped Donald J. Trump - the presumptive Republican presidential candidate who has called for barring Muslims from entering the United States - 'loses badly.'"