The top photos of the day by AP's photojournalists

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Los Angeles Lakers center Jaxson Hayes, left, San Antonio Spurs forward Keldon Johnson, second from left, forward Victor Wembanyama, second from right, and forward Dalton Knecht wait for a rebound during the second half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Manchester City's Josko Gvardiol, foreground, and Dortmund's Karim Adeyemi challenge for the ball during the Champions League opening phase soccer match between Manchester City and Borussia Dortmund in Manchester, England, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Ian Hodgson)

Bolivia's former President Jeanine Anez walks free from the Miraflores jail after the Supreme Court annulled her 10-year prison sentence in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Children play flag football on a mini flag football field, set up in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025, during an event promoting the NFL ahead of the upcoming game between the Indianapolis Colts and the Atlanta Falcons. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the village of Teir Debba, southern Lebanon, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zaatari)

Migrants walk in the water to board a small boat in an attempt to reach Britain, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025 in Gravelines, northern France. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

Volunteers help load vehicles during a food distribution at the San Antonio Food Bank for SNAP recipients and other households affected by the federal shutdown, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, from left, President Donald Trump, Heidi Overton, White House domestic policy council, David Moore, president of Novo Nordisk Inc., Novo Nordisk President and CEO Mike Doustdar and Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, look on after a person collapsed during an event about drug prices, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Prince Harry meets Villa Shah, 91, as he meets with some of Canada's oldest veterans, joining them in a creative arts program at Sunnybrook Hospital's veterans center in Toronto, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. (Nathan Denette /The Canadian Press via AP)

A hippo calf, born in September, explores the large water basin for the first time in public together with its mother Nala at the Zoo in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

A traveler using TSA Pre-Check waits in a security line at a San Francisco International Airport terminal in San Francisco, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

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Los Angeles Lakers center Jaxson Hayes, left, San Antonio Spurs forward Keldon Johnson, second from left, forward Victor Wembanyama, second from right, and forward Dalton Knecht wait for a rebound during the second half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Manchester City's Josko Gvardiol, foreground, and Dortmund's Karim Adeyemi challenge for the ball during the Champions League opening phase soccer match between Manchester City and Borussia Dortmund in Manchester, England, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Ian Hodgson)

Bolivia's former President Jeanine Anez walks free from the Miraflores jail after the Supreme Court annulled her 10-year prison sentence in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Children play flag football on a mini flag football field, set up in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025, during an event promoting the NFL ahead of the upcoming game between the Indianapolis Colts and the Atlanta Falcons. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the village of Teir Debba, southern Lebanon, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zaatari)

Migrants walk in the water to board a small boat in an attempt to reach Britain, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025 in Gravelines, northern France. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

Volunteers help load vehicles during a food distribution at the San Antonio Food Bank for SNAP recipients and other households affected by the federal shutdown, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, from left, President Donald Trump, Heidi Overton, White House domestic policy council, David Moore, president of Novo Nordisk Inc., Novo Nordisk President and CEO Mike Doustdar and Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, look on after a person collapsed during an event about drug prices, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Prince Harry meets Villa Shah, 91, as he meets with some of Canada's oldest veterans, joining them in a creative arts program at Sunnybrook Hospital's veterans center in Toronto, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. (Nathan Denette /The Canadian Press via AP)

A hippo calf, born in September, explores the large water basin for the first time in public together with its mother Nala at the Zoo in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

A traveler using TSA Pre-Check waits in a security line at a San Francisco International Airport terminal in San Francisco, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Brooklyn Rivera, a renowned Indigenous leader from Nicaragua who spent years fighting for the rights of his community and was imprisoned by the government in September 2023, has died.

The Nicaraguan government issued a statement Sunday alleging that Rivera died after a bacteria stemming from the COVID-19 virus led to his physical and neurological deterioration.

Human rights activists and groups worldwide denounced his death and a statement that the government released Saturday in which they referred to Rivera as “Brother” and said they were praying for him.

“They took him alive, and after refusing to tell his family, his lawyer, the world anything about his fate, then they call him brother,” said Reed Brody, an American human rights lawyer and member of a group of U.N. experts on Nicaragua. “Unconscionable cynicism on the part of the government to make it seem like they were trying to help him.”

Rivera led the Miskito people, who live along Nicaragua’s northeast coast and have long fought to retain their lands.

For decades, he fought the ruling Sandinista government and helped establish the area along the northeast coast as an autonomous region. It is rich in gold, silver and other resources, and it is considered a key area for the administration of co-Presidents Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo to attract foreign investment.

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