Brazil
His fishing boat submerged, Romualdo Macedo Rodrigues climbed into the onboard freezer and spent more than a week adrift -- trying to ignore the sharks.
Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro has called for mass protests on Sept. 7, a month ahead of an election he's desperately sought to undermine.
The so-called “Man of the Hole” is believed to have been the sole survivor of fatal attacks on his tribe by colonists and ranchers dating back to the '70s.
The U.N. health agency said it's discussing renaming the virus.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Twenty-three lawmakers are calling on the State Department to demand that Brazil conduct an "impartial, exhaustive investigation" into the two deaths.
Far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said he would pick retired general Walter Braga Netto as his running mate in October's election.
On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, friends and relatives paid their final respects to Dom Phillips, killed while researching for a book about saving the Amazon rainforest.
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The journalist and Indigenous expert were the antithesis of the far-right leader's vision for Brazil. They died in an Amazon grown more dangerous in his regime.
Phillips, a British journalist, and Pereira, a Brazilian Indigenous affairs expert, have been missing since June 5. A fisherman has confessed to involvement in their killings.