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Serbia's Vučić concedes election defeat to student-led protest movement

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The country's populist right-wing leader of 12 years says it is "clear" his Serbian Progressive Party has lost.

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Both outlets frame the story around student activism challenging Vučić, but BBC News foregrounds a neck-and-neck election and the Student List as the biggest challenge to his rule, while NPR places the Serbian development in a broader European protest context. BBC’s extract is focused on anti-corruption protests feeding into the contest, whereas NPR alone mentions student protests across Europe and says students have selected candidates for parliament.

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