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Fernando Haddad, presumed to be former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's replacement candidate in the presidential elections, arrives to take part in an extraordinary meeting of the National Directorate of the Workers Party in downtown Curitiba this week.

Indian members and supporters of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) community celebrate the Supreme Court decision to strike down a colonial-era ban on gay sex, in Bangalore on September 6, 2018. - India's Supreme Court on September 6 struck down the ban that has been at the centre of years of legal battles. "The law had become a weapon for harassment for the LGBT community," Chief Justice Dipak Misra said as he announced the landmark verdict.

Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi arrives to deliver the 43rd Singapore Lecture titled Myanmar's Democratic Transition: Challenges and Way Forward at the Grand Hyatt on August 21, 2018 in Singapore. Aung San Suu Kyi is on a four-day working visit to Singapore.