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Polls opened in Serbia’s snap parliamentary election, with former President Aleksandar Vučić seeking a return as prime minister after standing down in September. His Serbian Progressive Party faces a broad-based student movement, which accuses him of a system based on corruption, media control and fear; Vučić and his allies deny wrongdoing. The report noted concerns about the electoral process, including a register of 6.4 million voters against a population of 6.5 million, and said the student-backed list is fielding candidates selected from public life by five universities, with monitors at polling stations.

Fires in Indonesian forests are posing a greater risk to endangered orangutans, according to the rescue NGO YIARI, which said it had rescued 55 orangutans in two months compared with about five a year normally. It described finding a baby named Irene and her mother in a burned area of forest, starving and with nothing to eat or drink, and said they were recovering at its rescue centre. The charity said about 60% of orangutan habitat in Kalimantan may have been lost, that its centre was full, and that it was building cages, releasing some animals and preparing to move 10 to a safe forest.

The broadcast reported that screen tests were due in the coming days for the next James Bond, with Callum Turner, Jack Lowden and Josh O'Connor said to be in the final stages; the process was described as testing stunts, camera presence and dialogue, and an announcement could come around Christmas. Separately, Storm Bulo was bringing strong winds and heavy rain to northern parts of the UK, with an amber Met Office wind warning, gusts of 60 mph inland and 70 to 80 mph around northern and western coasts, and warnings of dangerous travel conditions.