TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY FRANCOISE KADRI The mayor of Riace, a village in the southern Italian region of Calabria, Domenico Lucano, awarded the "third best world's mayor", poses in his office in Riace on June 22, 2011. The village of 1800 inhabitants greeted a few years ago some 200 refugees and some 130 more will arrive in the next days with the mayor creating a special scheme for them and helping saving the village from a mass exodus. AFP PHOTO / MARIO LAPORTA (Photo credit should read MARIO LAPORTA/AFP/Getty Images)
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