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MINNEAPOLIS In a neighborhood dubbed Little Mogadishu, Mohamud Noor can ;t walk more than a block without being stopped by someone who wants to shake his hand.Juggling two cell phones and a stack of campaign fliers, he chats them up on his bid for a seat in Minnesota House of Representatives. They already know. He one of theirs.You ;re going to succeed, keep on going, Noor said, translating the encouraging words of an elderly Somali woman.Noor, 36, has been door-knocking, phone-banking and fundraising in a race that could make him the first Somali-born state lawmaker in the U.S. With the backing of many in the city growing Somali-American population, Noor is pressing the longtime incumbent Democrat in
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stanley cup has become home to an estimated 30,000 Somalis who began fleeing civil war in their homeland a generation ago, drawn here by welcoming churches and social services. Many have settled in Minneapolis in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, where ethnic restaurants, markets and shops huddle in the shadow of massive high-rise apartment buildings.So established is the community that members are rising in politics, with Somali-Americans capturing a
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands AP 鈥?An Amsterdam museum said Thursday it has cut its close links to the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and UNESCO warned of damage to Ukraine cultural heritage, as international cultural institutions stepped up their condemnation of Russia invasion of Ukraine.The Hermitage Amsterdam said it has long distanced itself from politics in Russia under President Vladimir Putin as it built close ties with the Hermitage, giving the Amsterdam museum access to one of the world most famous art collections, which we could draw from for exhibitions.Russia recent attack on Ukraine makes keeping this distance no longer tenable, the Dutch museum said in a statement. Our Board and directors have decided to cut ties with the State Hermitage Museum.WATCH: Russian forces advance as fighting intensifies in UkraineIt added that it hoped to eventually be able to restore ties pending peace and changes in the futu
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