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Cats eat from a food dispenser filled up by volunteers from Animal Heart Protectors on Furtada Island, popularly known as “Island of the Cats,” in Mangaratiba, Brazil, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020. Volunteers are working to ensure the stray and feral cats living off the coast of Brazil have enough food after fishermen saw the animals eating others' corpses, an unexpected consequence of the coronavirus pandemic after restrictions forced people to quarantine, sunk tourism, shut restaurants that dish up seafood and sharply cut down boat traffic around the island. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

On Brazil’s tropical island of cats, virus led to starvation

By DIARLEI RODRIGUES and DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

Reginalda Oliveira Costa, shows a photo of her mother, Carivaldina Oliveira da Costa, or &quot;Aunt Uia&quot; in Rasa quilombo in Buzios, Brazil, Sunday, July 12, 2020. Carivaldina was the matriarch of the Rasa quilombo on the northern coast of Rio de Janeiro state. The woman known as Tia Uia has often been described as a &quot;living library&quot; – the keeper of the community's stories and customs who could recall the days before Buzios became an elite seaside getaway, and who fought for the rights of those living in quilombos. She died of COVID-19 last month, aged 78. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Lives Lost: ‘Warrior’ fought for slave descendants in Brazil

By DAVID BILLER and LUCAS DUMPRHEYS - Associated Press

In this Feb. 10, 2020, photo, provided by Andréa de Sousa, her daughter Vitoria Gabrielle looks up while leaning against a wall, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The girl with a constant smile celebrated her first birthday in February, but after recovering from viral meningitis, Vitoria Gabrielle suffered gastrointestinal problems that sent her from her mother's barely furnished hilltop home back to the hospital several times for treatment. It was during an April hospital stay that de Sousa suspects her daughter was infected with the coronavirus that was just starting to circulate in Rio and Brazil. Vitoria Gabrielle died in June. (Courtesy of Andréa de Sousa via AP)

Lives Lost: Brazilian toddler was saying her first words

By LEO CORREA and ALAN CLENDENNING - Associated Press

A health worker give instructions to members of Da Costa family after some of them tested positive for COVID-19 at their home in Manacapuru, Amazonas state, Brazil, Wednesday, June 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

The Latest: Filipino leader says US unrest hurts virus fight

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Experts watch as Rio de Janeiro economy starts to reopen

By DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press

Pedestrians and commuters wearing face masks amid the new coronavirus pandemic crowd a sidewalk near a bus stop in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, June 1, 2020. After two and a half months of COVID-19 related quarantine, some industries are allowed to reactivate under a scheme of five days' work and 10 days rest. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

South America ignores Europe and reopens as virus peak nears

By DIANE JEANTET and DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 21, 2020, file photo, a man rides a bicycle in front of the government house during a government-ordered lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Even amid a global pandemic, there’s no sign that corruption is slowing down in Latin America. From Argentina to Panama, a number of officials have been forced to resign as reports of possibly fraudulent purchases of ventilators, masks and medical supplies proliferate. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)

Spread of coronavirus fuels corruption in Latin America

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Medical workers move new coronavirus patient Rosane Pacheco to be treated at the Dr. Ernesto Che Guevara hospital in Marica, Brazil, Thursday, May 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Virus accelerates across Latin America, India, Pakistan

By Lori Hinnant, Sheikh Saaaliq and David Biller - Associated Press

In this Thursday, April 16, 2020 photo, funeral workers in protective gear prepare a grave at the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery, for a woman who is suspected to have died of COVID-19, in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

Brazil virus despair stretches from Rio to Amazon

By ALAN CLENDENNING and DIARLEI RODRIGUES - Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro signals thumbs up to his supporters during a protest against his former Minister of Justice Sergio Moro and the Supreme Court, in front of the Planalto presidential palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, May 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro accused of meddling in Rio federal police

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

People, one wearing a mask, rest and exercise along the seafront next to Barra de Tijuca beach, as Fernando Ferreira, right, speaks during an interview as he takes a walk outside amid the new coronavirus pandemic in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, April 29, 2020. The retired dentist and lawyer recommended reading the Bible and Albert Camus’ The Plague, citing them as evidence pandemics have always happened to some degree, and said restrictions on commerce are “absurd.” (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Brazilians start defying isolation, egged on by Bolsonaro

By DAVID BILLER and MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

A motorist rides past as residents talk on an alley at a low-income neighborhood in Jakarta, Indonesia, March 23, 2020. As the virus spreads, the World Health Organization has pointed out that the future of the pandemic will be determined by what happens in some of the world’s poorest and most densely populated countries. From Mumbai to Rio de Janeiro to Johannesburg the question is: What do you do if there is no space to socially distance yourself from others in some of world’s most unequal regions? (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

From Dhaka to Gaza: How do you socially distance in a crowd?

By VICTORIA MILKO and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL - Associated Press

Performers from the Grande Rio samba school parade during Carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Rio Carnival schools make plea for end of religious abuse

By DAVID BILLER and MARCELO DE SOUSA - Associated Press

Oil workers march during a protest against layoffs at state oil company Petrobras in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020. Brazilian oil workers and oil giant Petrobras were locked in a power struggle Tuesday over the company's privatization plans, with the union saying thousands of employees are on an indefinite strike. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Brazil oil workers clash with Petrobras in 18-day strike

By DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press

In this Jan. 27, 2020 photo, Jessica Hahn-Chaplin, center, from Bristol, England, dances during a rehearsal of the Paraiso de Tuiuti samba school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Hahn-Chaplin is part of the movement of foreigners who flock to Brazil to train in the ways of the hip swiveling and hot stepping rhythms of samba. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Samba goes global as foreign dancers bring Rio Carnival home

By ANNA JEAN KAISER - Associated Press

Lithuanian tourist killed in attack at Brazilian beach

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U.S. gymnast Simone Biles won five of the six gold medals at last week's world championships and broke the all-time record of 25 medals by any gymnast, male or female. (Associated Press)

Simone Biles now face of 2020 Olympic Games on world medal haul

By James Ellingworth - Associated Press

An uncle of 8-year-old Ágatha Sales Félix shouts and cries during her burial at the cemetery in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019. Félix was hit by a stray bullet Friday amid what police said was a shootout with suspected criminals. However, residents say there was no shootout, and blame police. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Rio family buries girl killed by stray bullet; police blamed

By DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press

5 accused of obstructing murder case of Brazilian politician

By DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press

Nurses bring out medical supplies from a burning hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019. The fire forced staff to hastily evacuate patients and temporarily settle some on sheets and mattresses in the street while firefighters fought the blaze. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Fire at hospital in Brazil kills 11 people, many elderly

By ANNA JEAN KAISER and CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA - Associated Press