Belgrade in rapture as Serbian students topple Vucic in historic election

Straits Times25 October 2026, 23:00 UTCSerbia

BELGRADE, Oct 25 - Trams and traffic halted by crowds. Tens of thousands of people choking the city's main boulevards; the air thick with smoke; a man on a car waving a flare.

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