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Uruguay's Edinson Cavani, center, heads the ball away from Brazil's Marquinhos, left, during a 2018 World Cup qualifying soccer match in Montevideo, Uruguay, Thursday, March. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Brazil destroys Uruguay, Argentina survives in qualifiers

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Brazil's Agriculture Minister Blairo Maggi, right, accompanied by a sanitary inspection agent, collect meat products for testing, in a supermarket in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, March 22, 2017. South Africa is partially suspending imports of Brazilian meat, the latest country to do so in the wake of an inspection scandal. Brazilian investigators charge that health inspectors in the South American country were bribed to overlook the sale of expired meats and chemicals and other products were added to meat to improve its appearance and smell. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil meat exports collapse in wake of inspection scandal

By SARAH DiLORENZO - Associated Press

Brazil's Neymar smiles during a training session in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tuesday, March 21, 2017. Brazil will face Uruguay in a 2018 World Cup qualifying soccer match on March 23. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Brazil rebuilds after 7-1 debacle and aims high at World Cup

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Brazil's coach Tite smiles during a training session of the national soccer team in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday, March 20, 2017. Brazil will face Uruguay in a 2018 World Cup qualifying soccer match on March 23. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Brazil on verge of landing World Cup berth for Russia

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Brazil yellow fever cases pass 400; more than 130 dead

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Sousa, Delbonis reach quarterfinals in Brazil Open

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A reveler wears a crown that reads in Portuguese: &quot;Out Temer&quot; during a carnival street party in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Feb. 24, 2017. Merrymakers took to the streets to protest Brazil's President Michel Temer. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Brazil’s Carnival revelers channel anger against president

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

In this Feb. 18, 2017 photo, Juan David Pemberty walks out of bar Chapecoense, which he opened with his wife in honor of the Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense, in Medellin, Colombia. All but three of the players photos are in somber black and white, honoring players who died when a charter plane went down near Medellin on Nov. 28, 2016 wiping out nearly the entire Chapecoense team from Brazil. (AP Photo/Luis Benavides)

Colombian bar pays homage to soccer players killed in crash

By LUIS BENAVIDES - Associated Press

In this Sept. 29, 2014 photo, Marcelo Crivella, bishop of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, who was running for governor of Rio de Janeiro state, campaigns at Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. While campaigning last year to be Rio de Janeiro's mayor, Crivella, a Pentecostal pastor from one of Brazil's most powerful evangelical churches, repeatedly argued that his faith would not get in the way of governing the nation's most famous city. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Brazil’s sexy Carnival puts Pentecostal mayor in tight spot

By PETER PRENGAMAN - Associated Press

In this Feb. 19, 2017 photo, a couple dances during the &quot;If you don't give me....then you lend me&quot; Carnival street party on Ipanema beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The typical view of Carnival in Brazil is anything goes, with no headdress too big, no outfit too small, no song too ribald, but this year some organizers of the world's best known party are drawing the line at lyrics that are sexist, homophobic or racist. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Even at anything-goes Carnival, these lyrics raise eyebrows

By SARAH DiLORENZO - Associated Press

Manchester City's Gabriel Jesus sits on the pitch during their English Premier League soccer match against Bournemouth, at the Vitality Stadium in Bournemouth, England, Monday Feb. 13, 2017. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP)

Man City says Gabriel Jesus has broken a bone in his foot

By STEVE DOUGLAS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2012, file photo, Syracuse's Fab Melo dunks against Providence during an NCAA college basketball game in Syracuse, N.Y. Military police said that former Syracuse and Celtics center Melo died in his native Brazil. A police sergeant said an emergency call Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017 brought police and paramedics to Melo’s house, but that when the police arrived, paramedics said Melo was dead. (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli, File)

Police: Former Syracuse, Celtics center Fab Melo dead at 26

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A Civil Police officer yells &quot;get back&quot; to a crowd calling him out for shooting a minor in the leg who was attempting to loot an electronic store, in Vitoria, Espirito Santo state, Brazil, Monday, Feb 6, 2017. Protests by the friends and family of military police in Espirito Santo have led to an increase in crime and forced the shut-down of some state services, authorities said Monday. The protests calling for higher pay began this weekend outside barracks throughout the small, coastal state and have prevented vehicles from leaving. (AP Photo/Diego Herculano)

Military police families’ protest paralyzes Brazilian state

By SARAH DiLORENZO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 14, 2007 file photo, Brazil's President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva, left, walks with his wife Marisa Leticia upon arrival to a military airbase in Torrejon de Ardoz, Spain. Doctors and the former president said Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017 Brazil's former first lady no longer has brain function and they are preparing to donate her organs. The 66-year-old former first lady had been hospitalized in Sao Paulo since Jan. 24 after suffering a stroke. (AP Photo/Paul White, File)

Brazil ex-first lady no longer has brain function

By PETER PRENGAMAN - Associated Press

Brazil authorities say 3 more people die from yellow fever

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FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2008 file photo, a person is vaccinated against yellow fever at a public hospital in Brasilia, Brazil. Brazil’s Health Ministry has ordered millions of doses of yellow fever vaccines to reinforce its stockpiles amid the largest outbreak of the disease the country has seen since 2000, the ministry said Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Brazil orders 11.5 million yellow fever vaccines

By SARAH DiLORENZO - Associated Press

Special Operations Battalion Police officers enter the Alcacuz prison amid tension between rival gangs in Nisia Floresta, near Natal, Brazil, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017.Military police took control of the prison in northeastern Brazil after fighting between rival gangs left 26 inmates dead, the latest in a spate of violence in the country's penitentiaries. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Police enter Brazil prison after gang clash; control tenuous

By RENATA BRITO and SARAH DiLORENZO - Associated Press

Chapecoense soccer team fans cheer during a team's training session at the Arena Conda stadium in Chapeco, Brazil, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. Three Chapecoense players survived and 19 players perished in an air crash that killed 71 people almost two months ago in Colombia. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Chapecoense survivors lift trophy 2 months after tragedy

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Robinho in Brazil squad for Chape fundraiser versus Colombia

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

The coffin of late Greek Ambassador to Brazil Kyriakos Amiridis is carried out of a church during a funeral procession, at the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2017. Police have said they believe Amiridis, whose charred body was found in a car in Brazil, was killed by his wife's lover under her orders. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

State funeral held for Greece’s slain ambassador to Brazil

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