At least 119 people, including four police officers, were killed in a Rio drug raid, prompting UN criticism over police ...

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

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A massive police raid targeting a drug-trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro left at least 121 people dead ...

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

Fly above Corcovado Hill in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for an aerial view of Christ the Redeemer—one of the New Seven Wonders of ...

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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 ...

Police raids in Brazil have killed more than 100 people, including four officers, making it the deadliest police operation in ...