Sri Lanka presidential election: Rajapaksa claims victory as count continues
(WorldNews Asia)

Sri Lanka´s former wartime defence minister Gotabaya Rajapaksa has declared himself the winner of a tightly fought presidential election, after early results indicated he was ahead. The election took place seven months after the deadly Easter Sunday attacks, which saw self-radicalised Islamist extremists bomb hotels and churches, killing over 250 people and throwing Sri Lanka into a state of emergency. The first flurry of results showed Rajapaksa, 70, the candidate for the SLPP, the...