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Why did Serbian TV apologize for "years of one-sided reporting" on the show?

Serbia's public broadcaster apologized live after Vucic lost the election, admitting to years of biased reporting and turning a blind eye. Dissatisfaction has accumulated within the newsroom for ten years. Editors and senior executives resigned, and opposition voices began to emerge. However, analysts pointed out that the symbolic significance of this move was greater than structural reform.

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Sports

Chess: Magnus Carlsen returns for Budapest battle before Sindarov targets classical crown

The Norwegian, 35, has set up a training camp in Spain to prepare for the Budapest Total Chess pilot November will be an important month for global chess, with the Total World Championship pilot, combining fast classical, rapid and blitz segments due in Budapest from 10-20 November. This will be followed by the Gukesh Dommaraju v Javokhir Sindarov Fide World Championship match in Geneva between 24 November and 12 December, featuring 14 games of classical chess ­followed, if needed, by rapid and blitz tie-breaks. The traditional London Classic at the Novotel West in Hammersmith will also start

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Entertainment

‘Too many stories exist only to make you think you’re on the right side’: Cristian Mungiu on Fjord, the Cannes winner that divided Europe

The Romanian auteur’s new film could have been the kind of homogenous ‘Europudding’ he’s railed against for years. Instead, it’s a culture-clash skewering of conservative and liberal values worthy of its Palme d’Or ‘Pffff!” Cristian Mungiu lets out an exasperated sigh. We are sitting in the basement of a London hotel, at the end of a long morning of back-to-back interviews for the Romanian film-maker, and his press handler has just snuck into the room to remind him of his next appointment across town. But Mungiu blanks him and leans on to his table, because he wants to tell one more story. In

The Guardian
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