East Timor's Ramos-Horta takes lead in presidential poll: early counts

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta, who came out on top in the first round of voting last month, has taken the lead in East Timor's presidential election run-off on Tuesday, early vote counts showed.With 15 percent of the votes counted, Ramos-Horta, backed by the opposition National Congress of the Reconstruction of East Timor party, gained 61 percent and his contender incumbent Francisco "Lu Olo" Guterres, the leader of the Fretilin party, won 38 percent, according to the election committee.In the first round of voting on March 19, Ramos-Horta garnered 46.58 percent of the vote, w…READ FULL ARTICLE