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Carlos and Jemima Guimaraes stand outside the Bob Casey Federal courthouse in Houston after they were sentenced to federal prison on Wednesday, Dec 12, 2018. The wealthy Brazilian couple were sentenced to minimal U.S. prison terms for helping their daughter keep her son in Brazil for the past five years in violation of the terms of her divorce to the boy's American father. (Gabrielle Banks/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Brazilian couple get light sentences in grandson’s abduction

By JUAN A. LOZANO - Associated Press

People walk outside the Metropolitan Cathedral after a fatal shooting in Campinas, Brazil, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. A man opened fire in the cathedral in southern Brazil after Mass on Tuesday, killing four and leaving four others injured before taking a bullet in the ribs in a firefight with police and then shooting himself in the head, authorities said. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Memorial for cathedral victims, death toll rises to 5

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New Brazil government to pull out of UN migration accord

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Women accuse Brazilian spiritual healer of sexual abuse

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Forensic officers load the body of a victim killed in an attempted bank robbery, at an entrance of a municipal hospital in Milagres, in Brazil's state of Ceara, Friday, Dec. 7, 2018. Brazilian authorities say that at least 12 people have been killed in two attempted bank robberies in Milagres downtown area. (Antonio Rodrigues/Diario do Nordeste via AP)

Death toll rises to 14 after bank robbery attempts in Brazil

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FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2018 file photo, Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, right, and his Vice President Gen. Hamilton Mourao attend a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of Brazil's constitution at Congress in Brasilia, Brazil. Mourao, a retired general, has made several polemical statements, such as defending torture during Brazil’s dictatorship. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Brazil future unclear amid opposing ideologies of ministers

By DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press

In this Nov. 20, 2018 photo, Ethiopian paralympic athletes Megersa Bati, left, and Tamiru Kefeyalew Demisse, holding the silver medal he won in the 1,500 meters race at the 2016 Paralympics, pose for a photo in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Ethiopia’s top Paralympian now living as refugee in Brazil

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and ELIAS MESERET - Associated Press

Spanish Police Commissioner Marcos Frias Barbens speaks during a news conference regarding the arrest of Carlos Garcia Julia, at Federal Police headquarters in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Friday, Dec. 7, 2018. Garcia Julia, convicted for the 1977 killing of five people in a Madrid trade union office, was arrested Thursday as he was walked down a street in a Sao Paulo middle-class neighborhood. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Spaniard convicted for 5 killings arrested in Brazil

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American botanist Roy Funch sits on top of a giant termite mound near Palmeiras, Brazil, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018. After years of failing to garner wider interest on the mounds, Funch's chance meeting with an English expert on social insects lead to remarkable discoveries: There are over 200 million mounds built by termites that stretch across about the size of Great Britain. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

In Brazil backlands, termites built millions of dirt mounds

By VICTOR CAIVANO and PETER PRENGAMAN - Associated Press

U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton, in the car on left, arrives for a meeting with Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro in his residence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018. Bolton will travel to Buenos Aires for the two-day Group of 20 summit. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Trump invites Brazil President-elect Bolsonaro to visit US

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Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro leaves the office of transition, in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018. Bolsonaro will be sworn in as Brazil's next president on Jan. 1. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil withdraws offer to host UN climate change conference

By DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press

This May 8, 2018 photo released by the Brazilian Environmental and Renewable Natural Resources Institute (Ibama) shows an illegally deforested area on Pirititi indigenous lands as Ibama agents inspect Roraima state in Brazil's Amazon basin. Scientists warn that Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro could push the Amazon rainforest past its tipping point by loosening environmental protections, with severe consequences for global climate and rainfall. (Felipe Werneck/Ibama via AP)

Scientists warn new Brazil president may smother rainforest

By CHRISTINA LARSON AND MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Indiana family seeks resolution in 30-year-old homicide

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Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro talks with the press after meeting with the Attorney General at the Public Ministry, in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018. Bolsonaro will be sworn in as Brazil's next president on Jan. 1. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil president-elect to meet with Bolton

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Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro salutes Attorney General Raquel Dodge, left, during a visit to the Public Ministry, in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018. Bolsonaro will be sworn in as Brazil's next president on Jan. 1. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Jair Bolsonaro Brazil win signals power shift in South America

By Frederic Puglie — Special to The Washington Times

Brazil's manager Tite changes out Brazil's Neymar during the International friendly soccer match between Brazil and Cameroon at MK Stadium in Milton Keynes, England, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018 . (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Neymar picks up apparent groin injury during Brazil friendly

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Brazil’s Petrobras to be led by privatization advocate

By DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press

Brazil team pose before the international friendly soccer match between Brazil and Uruguay at the Emirates Stadium, London, Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Designer of Brazil soccer team kit dies at age 83

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Brazil's Neymar scores a penalty during the international friendly soccer match between Brazil and Uruguay at the Emirates Stadium, London, Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Neymar scores from spot as Brazil beats Uruguay 1-0

By PAN PYLAS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2013 file photo, Cuban doctors observe a dental procedure during a a training session at a health clinic in Brasilia, Brazil. Cuba said Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018, it is ending a program that sent government doctors to remote regions of Brazil in exchange for millions in badly needed dollars. The end of the &quot;Mas Medicos,&quot; or &quot;More Doctors,&quot; program signals a sharp deterioration in relations between communist Cuba and Brazil, which just elected far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Brazil ex-minister: Loss of Cuban doctors will hurt millions

By PETER PRENGAMAN - Associated Press