Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Militariy police officers patrol during "Operation Containment" in Rio de Janeiro's Complexo da Penha on October 28. - Mauro ...

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is a coastal city shaped by dramatic mountains, wide beaches, and dense urban districts set between ...

A Brazilian police operation in Rio de Janeiro favelas on Wednesday killed seven presumed drug traffickers, including a gang ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Residents recover around 70 bodies in the woods of the Penha Complex, in the northern part of Brazil's Rio de Janeiro, one day ...

“Rio de Janeiro is a city that enchants you, seduces you, and never lets you go.” — Rubem Braga The Brazilian journalist and ...

In Rio de Janeiro, family clans managing informal lotteries gain criminal influence through samba schools at the heart of ...

The Trump administration is weighing declaring Brazil’s two largest drug gangs terrorist groups, after lobbying by the sons ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro’s Sambadrome hosted a glitzy parade Sunday evening celebrating Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in a year he bids for his fourth inconsecutive term.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Thousands of revelers descended on the boardwalk in Copacabana for Rio de Janeiro’s annual Pride parade on Sunday, with many celebrating the previous day's preemptive jailing of ...

World News Behind Rio’s deadly raid: Brazil’s billion-dollar criminal networks (CNN) — Armored vehicles rumbling through narrow alleys. Rifle shots cracking in heavy crossfire. Helicopters and ...