Fire consumes land recently deforested by cattle farmers near Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil on August 23. (Image: AP Photo/Andre Penner)
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A soccer club fan of Newell's Old Boys holds a flare during a caravan in hopes of luring Leonel Messi back to his hometown of Rosario, Argentina on August 27. (Image: AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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A girl wades through flood water, a day after the passing of Tropical Storm Laura in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on August 24. (Image: AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)
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A doctor takes a blood sample for a COVID-19 test from a handcuffed inmate at a centre attending coronavirus patients in Caracas, Venezuela on August 27. (Image: AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Cemetery workers carry the coffin that contains the remains of Wilson Gil, who died of COVID-19 related complications, to a burial site at the Martires 19 de Julio cemetery on the outskirts of Lima, Peru on August 26. (Image: AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
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Vendor Mercedes Lescano balances a basket of fish on her head as she walks around the Abasto general market in search of buyers in Asuncion, Paraguay on August 27. (Image: AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
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Police officers stand guard near two bodies outside a disco in Lima, Peru on August 23, following a fatal stampede. (Image: AP Photo/Diego Vertiz)
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Lucha libre wrestlers, "Ciclonico", or Cyclonic (left), and Mister Jerry, ride a boat to their training site in Xochimilco, Mexico City, on August 20, amid the COVID-19 pandemic that has closed wrestling halls. (Image: AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)