UPDATE 1-Brazil’s Temer boosts infrastructure spending as graft scandal deepens

FILE PHOTO: Brazilian President Michel Temer looks on during a credentials presentation ceremony for several new top diplomats at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil June 26, 2017. Federal Deputy Sergio Zveiter, who was chosen to be the rapporteur for the denunciation of the public prosecutor against President Michel Temer in the chamber of deputies, reacts after a meeting of the commission of constitution and justice, in Brasilia, Brazil July 4, 2017.

Brazilian President Michel Temer charged with corruption

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Experts hope mosquito-borne bacteria can beat the Zika virus new

Researchers are trying to infect mosquitoes in Brazil and Colombia with a type of bacteria that could prevent them from spreading the Zika virus and other dangerous diseases. British and American governments are teaming up with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.K.-based Wellcome Trust to expand field tests in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and the city of Bello in northwest Colombia, philanthropist Bill Gates told a conference Wednesday.

Experts hope mosquito-borne bacteria can beat the Zika virus

In this Monday, Feb. 22, 2016 file photo, Bill and Melinda Gates talk to reporters about the 2016 annual letter from their foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in New York. Researchers are trying to infect mosquitoes in Brazil and Colombia with a type of bacteria that could prevent them from spreading Zika virus and other dangerous diseases.

Michel Temer inherits the presidency of a shaken, divided Brazil

The permanent ouster of deeply unpopular President Dilma Rousseff by Brazil's Senate means that a man who is arguably just as unpopular is now faced with trying to ease the wounds of a divided nation mired in recession. Long known as an uncharismatic backroom wheeler-dealer, Michel Temer inherits a shrinking economy, a Zika virus outbreak that has ravaged poor northeastern states and political instability fed by a sprawling corruption probe that has tarred much of the country's political and business elite-himself included.

A runner passes the reflecting pool on the National Mall in…

DOG DAYS OF SUMMER: A runner passes the reflecting pool on the National Mall in Washington as the sun rises on what is expected to be a hot day in the Nation's Capital Friday, August 12. An excessive heat watch has been issued for the area. Fireworks explode over Maracana Stadium during the opening ceremony at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 5, 2016.

Senate Democrats seek new deal on Zika funding fight

A 4-month-old baby born with microcephaly is held by his mother in front of their house in Olinda, near Recife, Brazil, February 11, 2016. U.S. Senate Democrats on Tuesday called on Republicans to hold new bipartisan talks in the funding fight over Zika, saying a Republican agreement was "extreme and insufficient" to combat the virus and was full of "ideological poison pill riders."