Sri Lanka's Marxist-leaning Dissanayake takes early lead in presidential race
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Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the presidential candidate from National People's Power, shows his ink-marked finger after casting his vote at a polling station, on the day of the presidential election, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sept. 21, 2024.
Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake leads early official results in Sri Lanka's presidential election, according to tallies released on Sunday by the Election Commission, but he is still short of the 50% needed for victory.
In this handout photo from the Royal Thai Army taken and released on Nov. 1, 2021, Myanmar migrants are pictured after being apprehended by Thai military personnel in Kanchanaburi province, bordering Myanmar. A migrant girl looks on at a village near the Thai-Myanmar border in Mae Sot, Thailand, Jan. 7, 2022.