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FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2018 file photo, Rio de Janeiro Councilwoman Marielle Franco smiles for a photo in Cinelandia square. Brazil’s federal police arrested on Sunday, March 24, 2024 the men suspected of ordering Franco's killing in 2018, a long-awaited step after years of society clamoring for justice. (AP Photo/Ellis Rua, File)

A Rio councilwoman’s killing was a mystery. An arrest gave a peek at corruption keeping it unsolved

By Diane Jeantet, David Biller and Gabriela Sá Pessoa - Associated Press

A gun owner holds a weapon as a police officer registers his firearms with the Federal Police on the deadline given by Brazil's government for gun registration with the National Weapons System of the Federal Police, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, April 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

Lula’s gun control push starts with counting Brazil’s guns

By Lais Martins - Associated Press

This photo provided by Brazil’s Federal Revenue Department shows jewelry seized by customs authorities at Guarulhos International Airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the week of March 24, 2023. The jewelry is part of an investigation into gifts received by former Brazilian President Jail Bolsonaro during his presidency. (Brazil's Federal Revenue Department via AP)

Bolsonaro’s legal woes deepen with undeclared diamond gifts

By Eleonore Hughes and Mauricio Savarese - Associated Press

Monhire Menkragnotire, of the Kayapo indigenous community, center, surveys an area where illegal loggers opened a road to enter Menkragnotire indigenous lands, on the border with the Biological Reserve Serra do Cachimbo, top, where logging is also illegal, in Altamira, Para state, Brazil on Aug. 31, 2019. Environmental criminals in the Brazilian Amazon destroyed public forests equal the size of El Salvador over the past six years, yet the Federal Police carried out only seven operations aimed at this massive loss, according to a new study released Wednesday, July 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

Report: Brazil authorities pay no mind to deforestation

By Fabiano Maisonnave - Associated Press

People line up to get their temperatures checked before entering a store in a downtown shopping district of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, June 10, 2020. Retail shops reopened on Wednesday in Brazil's biggest city after a two-month coronavirus pandemic shutdown that aimed to contain the spread of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

2 Brazil governors under fire in probes of COVID spending

By MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA - Associated Press

A man wearing a mask sits next the coffin of his mother as he's transported by a cemetery worker in a full protection suit to her burial site at the Nossa Senhora das Gracas cemetery in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, April 27, 2020. The woman's body was previously being held in a refrigerator for confirmed and suspected victims of of COVID-19, according to the administration of the cemetery. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Bolsonaro’s latest crisis threatens Brazil’s virus response

By DAVID BILLER and MARCELO DE SOUSA - Associated Press

Uniformed federal police block the highway between Mexico City and Pachuca in both directions, in Ecatepec, Mexico, Wednesday, July 3, 2019. Hundreds of Mexican federal police were in open revolt Wednesday against plans to absorb them into the newly formed National Guard.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mexican officials blame federal police strike on opposition

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

Ex-Mexican officer-turned-cartel mole sentenced in Chicago

By MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press

Mexico has turned to Federal Police Mariachis told sway public perception in high-crime areas. Corruption scandals linked to the nation's drug war has damaged the law enforcement community's reputation. (Image: El Universal screenshot)

Mexico turns to mariachi-loving cops to sway public opinion in deadly drug war

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

An Iraqi Special Forces vehicle displays a Shiite flag bearing the likeness of Imam Hussein and Imam Ali with Arabic words reading "At your service Hussein" in Mosul, Iraq. State-sanctioned Shiite militias are positioning themselves to control areas liberated from Islamic State militants in northern Iraq, opening the door to fresh domestic and regional conflict and raising concerns among religious and ethnic minorities. (Associated Press/File)

Mosul draws Iran-backed Shiite militias

By Seth J. Frantzman

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

A civilian kisses a federal police officer after escaping Islamic State territory in the town of Abu Saif, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017. Iraqi forces advanced into the southern outskirts of Mosul in a push to drive Islamic State militants from the city's western half, as the visiting U.S. defense secretary met with officials to discuss the fight against the extremists.(AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

Iraqi forces on Mosul hilltop gird for fierce fight ahead

By SUSANNAH GEORGE and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press