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A firefighter rides a motorcycle past a burning area next to the Transpantaneira road at the Pantanal wetlands near Pocone, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. A vast swath of the vital wetlands is burning in Brazil, sweeping across several national parks and obscuring the sun behind dense smoke. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Brazil adds some to force fighting vast wetlands blazes

By MARCELO SILVA DE SOUZA - Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro gestures during an event with young Venezuelan migrants at the Planalto Presidential Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. According to the UNHCR there are around 180,000 Venezuelan refugees and migrants in the country, many of them arrived crossing the border in the northern state of Roraima. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil fires top culture official over Nazi-linked comments

By DIANE JEANTET and MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

CORRECTS DATE - In this Oct. 7, 2019 handout photo released by the Aracaju Municipal Press Office, workers remove oil from Viral Beach, in Aracaju, Brazil. The oil that has been polluting Brazil's northeastern beaches since early September is likely coming from Venezuela, according to a report by Brazil's state oil company cited by the country's environment minister. The oil sludge has now reached 61 municipalities in nine Brazilian states, contaminating over 130 beaches, in what Brazilian officials have called an &quot;unheard of&quot; disaster. (Andre Moreira/Aracaju Municipal Press Office via AP)

Brazil sending more troops in oil spill clean-up

Associated Press

Brazil's Education Minister Abraham Weintraub attends a Senate hearing on budget cuts of public universities, in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, May 7, 2019. Federal public universities, generally the country's most competitive and highest-ranked schools, were stunned last week when the Education Ministry announced a 30% cut in their funding. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Universities hit back as Brazil slashes scholarship funds

By DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press

Judge stops construction of dam in Brazil Amazon

By STAN LEHMAN - Associated Press

Brazil Amazon deforestation drops

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Sao Paolo offers subsidized ‘morning-after’ contraceptive