Under a giant tent in the main square, an orchestra is playing classics from BB King, Nina Simone and Queen alongside hits by ...

Prince William has received shocking update from Brazil days before his visit to Rio de Janeiro, where he will present awards ...

The death toll in a major police raid targeting a drug trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro has risen to at least 121 people ...

A massive police raid on a drug gang embedded in low-income neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro that left at least 119 people ...

A state police operation targeting a major drug gang in Brazil has resulted in the deaths of 132 people in low-income ...

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Families of the dead decried what they described as executions by police, while the state government hailed a successful ...

Rocinha, in the south of Rio de Janeiro, is, according to official data, the largest of Brazil’s more than 12,000 favelas, or ...

Buenos Aires, Oct 29, (dpa/GNA) – Residents of the Penha favela in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, laid out at least 64 bodies on one of the neighbourhood’s main streets on Wednesday, after a ...

Church leaders, including the Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, Cardinal Orani Tempesta, and the heads of the Bishops’ Conference ...

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called for action against organized crime that does not endanger police or civilians, as ...