Eighteen people died during a police raid on a favela, a low-income community sometimes called a slum or shanty town, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 21. Authorities said 16 suspected criminals ...

At least 18 people died on Thursday during a major police raid in a dense warren of Rio de Janeiro slums, state military police said, in the latest bloody confrontation in Brazil’s second-largest city ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — A raid of Rio de Janeiro’s largest complex of shantytowns that left at least 18 people dead has sparked renewed complaints of excessive police violence and ignited debate over how to ...

Brazil’s tourist hot spot of Rio de Janeiro now wants to become the nation’s cryptocurrency capital, and plans to dedicate part of its reserves to digital money. In a decree published Friday, Rio ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — The world-famous Carnival festivities in Rio de Janeiro will be held in late April rather than the final weekend of February, as the number of coronavirus cases in Brazil spikes and ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 11 (Reuters) - At least eight people were killed on Friday during a dawn police raid in Rio de Janeiro's Vila Cruzeiro favela, local police said, adding the operation targeted a ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Some 1,200 police officers were deployed to Rio de Janeiro’s working-class Jacarezinho neighborhood and its surroundings early Wednesday, marking the start of a state effort seeking ...

At least 22 people have died in the bloody aftermath of a raid carried out by Rio de Janeiro’s military police on Tuesday. Authorities said a gunfight broke out after police were shot at while ...

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Rio de Janeiro’s Tijuca National Park has become a laboratory for the reintroduction of locally extinct species. A study shows that, of the 33 species of large and medium-sized mammals that used to ...

Shortly before his departure from the museum, Fábio Szwarcwald had publicly stated that it lacked fire insurance between 2006 ...