In Rio, where rainforest meets surf and glass balconies overlook stacked mosaics of tin and prayer, I learned that the state, ...

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

In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, one of Brazil’s largest cities, police operations are carried out in areas with a strong ...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Families of the scores of people killed in a deadly gang raid by Rio de Janeiro police began burying the ...

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

RIO DE JANEIRO – An Italian tourist was killed Thursday in a shantytown near the center of Rio de Janeiro in an area fought over by rival drug trafficking gangs, police said. Authorities identified ...

Rio de Janeiro has been gripped by some of its fiercest urban violence in years after large-scale police operations against ...

Brazilian Church organisations criticised the huge police operation carried out in Rio de Janeiro on 28 October which ...

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For the past three years, while preparing for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, Rio de Janeiro has been implementing an innovative safety program focused on so-called “UPP,” or Pacification ...