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SERBIA

Citizens vote in polls as ruling coalition leads

Polling stations are open as Serbia conducts extraordinary elections on Sunday, with citizens voting at parliamentary and local levels to decide state leadership for the next four years. A total of 18 political parties or coalitions are vying for 250 seats in the national parliament. Preelection polls indicate that the coalition aligned with the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, in power since 2012, is leading with approximately 40 percent support, while the pro-Western opposition coalition follows next with around 26 percent.

LIBYA

61 migrants feared dead as vessel sinks

At least 61 migrants were missing and presumed dead after their boat sank off Libya's coast, the International Organization for Migration said Saturday, in the latest such tragedy off North Africa. The migrants are believed to have died because of high waves that swamped their vessel after it left from Zuwara, on Libya's northwest coast, Agence France-Presse reported. Citing survivors, the IOM's Libya office said there were about 86 migrants aboard.

Xinhua - Agencies