Brazil’s deadliest police raid left 132 dead in Rio de Janeiro as officers clashed with gangs using drones and explosives in ...

The violent raids have sparked intense gun battles, with gangs deploying drones against cops in retaliation. At least four ...

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a new law that increases penalties and expands enforcement tools intended to ...

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

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

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

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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 ...