- NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani said he would urge King Charles III to return the Kohinoor diamond to India if they had a private conversation, according to Politico.
- Mamdani made this comment on Wednesday before attending a 9/11 Memorial ceremony in downtown Manhattan, where King Charles was attending with Queen Camilla.
- The Kohinoor diamond is a royal crown jewel currently displayed in the Tower of London and is a source of dispute between England and India.
- The mayor's democratic socialist beliefs and his early exposure to his academic father’s thinking on the effects of British colonial rule influence his stance on the diamond.
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