Wordpress Pagination does not work

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I am trying to create a wordpress theme, but I am not able to make the pagination work on the live version. On the localhost it's working just as expected, but on the live version it gives a 404 page each time. I know that there is a lot of answers about this topic, but I was not able to fix my problem. I've already tryed the following topics, among so many others but none of them helped me:
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions...-custom-post-type-query?noredirect=1&amp;lq=1">How to include pagination in a Wordpress Custom Post Type Query</a>
</li>
<li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41397510/wp-paginate-links-and-query-vars-not-working-wordpress">wp paginate_links and query vars not working Wordpress</a>
</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
I would like to know if you guys can help me to figure out what I am missing here. I am trying to show my navigation panel at index file(my blog page).

get_header(); ?>

<div id="primary" class="container">
    <main id="main" class="col-xs-12">
        <h3 class="title text-center">Notícias:</h3>

        <?php 
            global $wp_query;
            query_posts(
                array_merge( array(
                    'post_type' => 'news',
                    'orderby' => 'date',
                    'order' => 'DESC',
                    'posts_per_page' => 3
                ),$wp_query->query)
            );

            while($wp_query->have_posts()) :
            $wp_query->the_post();

            get_template_part('template-parts/content', 'news');

            endwhile; 
        ?>
        <div class="text-center paginate">
            <?php 
                if(function_exists('wp_paginate')):
                    wp_paginate();  
                endif;
             ?>
        </div> <!-- .tect-center / Paginate-->
        <?php  wp_reset_postdata();  ?>
    </main><!-- #main -->
</div><!-- #primary -->
<?php
get_footer();

Right now I am using

Wp-paginate

plugin, but using

paginate_links()

functions gives me the same error, but both of them work on localhost. For the paginate link I've used the example from docs:
<blockquote>
<a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/paginate_links" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/paginate_links</a>.
</blockquote>
Can somenon help me on that, please?