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The Latest: Popular Serbian singer dies of coronavirus

| February 25, 2021 5:15 AM

BELGRADE, Serbia — Djordje Balasevic, a Serbian singer who remained widely popular throughout the former Yugoslavia after the wars of the 1990s, has died after contracting the new coronavirus, state television reported Friday. He was 67.

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