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People wait at a blocked access of the bridge connecting the city of Niteroi to Rio de Janeiro , Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019 during a hostage standoff. An armed man holding dozens of people hostage on a public bus and threatening to set the vehicle on fire was seized by police after a four-hour long standoff, Brazilian police said. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

The Latest: Police fatally shoot Rio bus hostage-taker

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Brazilian businessman Eike Batista, center, is escorted to a police station in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019. Brazil's federal police say that Batista was arrested on suspicion of market manipulation and money laundering. (AP Photo/Bruno Rocha)

Brazilian federal police arrest businessman Eike Batista

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Relatives pay their last respects to Brazilian cultural icon João Gilberto during his wake at the Municipal Theater in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, July 8, 2019. Joao Gilberto, one of the fathers of bossa nova music who gained worldwide popularity in the 1960s, passed away in his home in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday. He was 88. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Saying goodbye to the voice of Bossa Nova

By Reuben F. Johnson

Relatives pay their last respects to Brazilian cultural icon João Gilberto during his wake at the Municipal Theater in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, July 8, 2019. Joao Gilberto, one of the fathers of bossa nova music who gained worldwide popularity in the 1960s, passed away in his home in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday. He was 88. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Fans mourn João Gilberto at Rio de Janeiro funeral

By ANNA JEAN KAISER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2019 file photo, Rio de Janeiro Gov. Wilson Witzel attends the swearing-in ceremony for the new president of state-run oil company Petrobras, Roberto Castello Branco, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A human rights official and community activists are criticizing Witzel for saying on Friday, June 14, that a missile could be sent to “blow up” drug traffickers in a local slum. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

Activists blast Rio gov comment about slum missile strike

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In this May 13, 2019 photo, transgender Caua Fraga, 23, shows the tattoo on his chest that reads in Portuguese &quot;Resistance&quot;, before a training session with the Bigtboys transgender men's football team in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. For the two dozen Bigtboys players, the training pitch is also one of the few places where they feel at ease and can talk about their experiences, good and bad, without fear. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Brazil transgender soccer team fights prejudice

By DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press

In this April 11, 2019, photo, Paul Fernando Schreiner, right, sits next to Segisfredo Silva Vanderlai, a pastor who has been lodging Schreiner since a few weeks after his arrival, in Niteroi, Brazil. After being adopted by an American family and living in the U.S. for more than 30 years, Schreiner was deported to Brazil. His removal illustrates the increasingly hard line the Trump administration is taking with legal immigrants that are deportable because of criminal records. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

‘I’m an American’: Deported adoptee struggles in Brazil

By PETER PRENGAMAN - Associated Press

Brazil's Neymar puts on his cleats during a practice session of the national soccer team at the Granja Comary training center ahead the Copa America tournament in Teresopolis, Brazil, Tuesday, June 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Lawyers say ‘aggression’ was initial charge against Neymar

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Brazil's national soccer team coach Tite kicks the ball during a practice session at the Granja Comary training center ahead the Copa America tournament in Teresopolis, Brazil, Sunday, June 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Rio police wants Neymar testimony linked to rape accusation

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro poses for photos with a statue of Our Lady of Fatima,during a Catholic ceremony at which he dedicated his nation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary at Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, May 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Backers of embattled Bolsonaro take to streets in Brazil

By ANNA JEAN KAISER - Associated Press

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Belem City bar attack a ‘massacre,’ Brazil official says

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Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro speaks during a ceremony where he signed a second decree that eases gun restrictions, during the signing ceremony at Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, May 7, 2019. The decree opens Brazil’s market to guns and ammunition made outside of Brazil according to a summary of the decree. Gun owners can now buy between 1,000 -5,000 rounds of ammunition per year depending on their license, up from 50 rounds. Lower-ranking military members can now carry guns after 10 years of service. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil’s president blasts media, prosecutors over probe

By PETER PRENGAMAN and MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Demonstrators shout slogans against Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, during nation-wide education strike, in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, May 15, 2019. Federal education officials this month announced budget cuts of $1.85 billion for public education, part of a wider government effort to slash spending. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Crowds protest cuts in federal funding for Brazil schools

By DIANE JEANTET and MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA - Associated Press

In this photo released by Leonardo Alves, students run from their school, during a shootout between police and suspected drug traffickers in the Mare shantytown of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, May 6, 2019. Brazilian officials say an anti-crime operation by police resulted in eight people being killed during the shootout. (AP Photo/Leonardo Alves)

8 killed during police anti-crime operation in Rio slum

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FILE - This Feb. 13, 2009 file photo shows novelist Nora Roberts posing for a portrait in Boonsboro, Md. Roberts is suing a Brazilian writer for copyright infringement, alleging that Cristiane Serruya has committed “multi-plagiarism.” In papers filed Wednesday, April 24, 2019, in Rio de Janeiro, Roberts alleged that Serruya’s books showed an extraordinary level of verbatim lifting and close paraphrasing. Roberts would donate any damages from the suit to a non-profit literacy program in Brazil. (AP Photo/Rob Carr, File)

Nora Roberts sues Brazilian author, cites ‘multi-plagiarism’

By HILLEL ITALIE - Associated Press

A man holds up a Brazilian national flag defaced with red ink to symbolize blood in protest against the shooting death of Evaldo dos Santos Rosa, the driver of a family car who was killed by armed forces, in the Guadalupe neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Authorities say soldiers mistook the car driven by Santos Rosa on Sunday for that of criminals and was hit by 80 shots fired by members of the armed forces. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Red-stained Brazil flags at burial of man shot by military

By MARIO LOBAO and PETER PRENGAMAN - Associated Press

Rio police arrest suspects in gang rape during Carnival

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FILE - In this June 1, 2018 file photo, Brazil's President Michel Temer pauses during a speech at the Planalto Presidential Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil. A judge in Rio de Janeiro issued an arrest warrant Thursday, March 21, 2019, for the former president, who is being investigated in several corruption cases. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Ex-President Temer arrested in Brazil on corruption charges

By PETER PRENGAMAN and MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

A man wearing a Flamengo soccer kit, prays during a memorial Mass for the victims of a fire at a Brazilian soccer academy, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Feb. 8, 2019. A fire early Friday swept through the sleeping quarters of an academy for Brazil's popular professional soccer club Flamengo, killing 10 people and injuring three, most likely teenage players, authorities said. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Questions, criticism of Brazil soccer club where 10 killed

By MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA and MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

In this Jan. 10, 2019, photo, Rildo Anjos, owner of the Calibre 12 gun club, fires his pistol during a practice session at the club in Sao Goncalo, Brazil. President Jair Bolsonaro's plan to loosen gun laws in Brazil has been met with both fear and enthusiasm in a nation that is the world's leader in annual homicides. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Fear and zeal over more guns in violence-plagued Brazil

By Peter Prengaman - Associated Press