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BELGRADE - Aleksandar Vucic has won 71.6 pct - or 2,468 votes - in Tuesday's repeat presidential elections, the president of Serbia's national election commission (RIK) Vladimir Dimitrijevic announced on Wednesday.

The repeat elections were held at eight polling stations, with 9,851 eligible voters.

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BELGRADE - German FM Sigmar Gabriel arrived on a visit to Serbia Wednesday afternoon to speak with PM Aleksandar Vucic.

He was welcomed at Belgrade's Nikola Tesla Airport by Serbian FM Ivica Dacic and German Ambassador Axel Dittmann and then received by Vucic at the Mir residence.

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BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic and German FM Sigmar Gabriel agreed in Belgrade on Wednesday the relations between Serbia and Germany were very good and that an intensive, high-level dialogue and successful cooperation in all areas were contributing to this.

BELGRADE - Serbia has the clearest stability of all countries in the region and it wants to have a stabilising effect on other Western Balkan states, Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic said after meeting with German Vice Chancellor and FM Sigmar Gabriel on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - Red Star Belgrade are a step away from defending their title in the regional basketball ABA league after beating Cedevita Zagreb 84-73 (29-18, 28-16, 15-16, 12-23) at home late Tuesday to take a 2-0 lead in the play-off final series.

The reigning champions had a 23-point lead at one point in the game.

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The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday denied the Croatian media claims about the alleged shipments of arms, including an S-300, during the 1990s.

BELGRADE - Speaker Maja Gojkovic has called the second sitting of the first regular session of the Serbian parliament for Friday, April 21, the parliament announced in a statement on Tuesday.

On the agenda will be bills on biomedically assisted insemination and transfusion medicine, both of which have been tabled by the Serbian government.

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BELGRADE - Vojvodina Novi Sad were on Tuesday drawn to face title holders Partizan Belgrade in the semi-finals of the Serbian football cup, with Cukaricki to take on Red Star Belgrade.

Vojvodina and Cukaricki will host the first legs on April 26, with the return legs slated for May 10.

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BELGRADE - Red Star Belgrade beat Cedevita Zagreb 81-66 (16-27, 29-17, 21-10, 15-12) at home in Monday's opening game of the play-off final series of the basketball ABA league.

In a confident display at a packed Aleksandar Nikolic Hall, the reigning champions overcame a 15-point deficit to win the first victory in their bid to defend the title.

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BELGRADE - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic has reiterated US Senator John McCain had not requested that Serbia recognise Kosovo or impose sanctions on Russia.

In an interview with Happy TV late Monday, Vucic said McCain - who visited Belgrade earlier in the day - was a very influential person and a good friend of many important people in the US.

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