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Vucic concedes defeat in Serbia's parliamentary election

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The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, conceded defeat on Sunday in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government .

It was a seismic political shift in the Balkan country where Vucic, who had been endorsed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and who denounced the student movement as a foreign-led attempt to unseat him, led with virtually absolute power for 14 years.

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British Columbia's new premier lucks into the job in unexpected political turn

A relative outsider has been elected the new leader of the Canadian province of British Columbia after the provincial Conservatives swept to power in a snap election. Lorne Doerkson, who took the helm of the party just weeks ago, will be British Columbia's new premier after the Conservatives won a majority of seats in the legislative assembly. It's the first time the party has won in the province in nearly a century. Outgoing Premier David Eby, of the New Democratic Party (NDP), called the snap election last month - two years early - in an attempt to shore up power for his party.

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