Rio de Janeiro police battle drug gangs in the city's notorious favelas, in deadliest operation in Brazilian history.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Families lined up at a morgue on Thursday in Rio de Janeiro to identify relatives killed in ...

Dutch voters head to the polls, Lebanon’s race to disarm Hezbollah, Australia’s PM heads to Malaysia and the US government ...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- The death toll in a major police raid targeting a drug trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro has risen to at ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A massive police raid on a drug gang embedded in low-income neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro that left ...

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

Hurricane Melissa passed through Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica. Bodies lay on the street after a police raid in Rio de Janeiro. In ...

Police in Rio de Janeiro have been accused of decapitating a teenager and hanging his head from a tree during the deadliest ...

A four-year-old boy named Heitor gave diners quite the shock in Rio de Janeiro on October 22 after he climbed inside a claw ...

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

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