Sri Lanka: Initial Results Show President Leads (ap)

Supporters of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapksa cheer at the end of the presidential elections in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010. Sri Lankans crowded polling stations Tuesday throughout Colombo in a hard-fought election to decide whether the incumbent president or his former army chief should lead the nation's recovery from a brutal civil war both men helped win. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)AP – Early returns Wednesday showed Sri Lanka’s incumbent president ahead of his estranged former army chief in their bitter race to win the country’s first presidential election after its quarter-century war against Tamil Tiger rebels.

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