A day after the deadliest police operation in Brazil’s history, authorities are still uncovering details of the raid aimed at dismantling one of Rio de Janeiro's most dangerous drug cartels. The ...

Church leaders, including the Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, Cardinal Orani Tempesta, and the heads of the Bishops’ Conference ...

Dozens of residents from several favelas gathered outside the state government headquarters on Wednesday, shouting “assassins” and waving Brazilian flags stained with red paint, a day after Rio’s dead ...

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

State police said the raids targeting a major drug gang had been planned exhaustively for more than two months, and were designed to drive suspects into a forested hillside where a special operations ...

After what is being criticized as Brazil’s latest example of the excessive use of force, at least 50 bodies of mostly topless ...

Residents of a Rio de Janeiro community lined up their dead in the street Wednesday after Brazil's bloodiest police raid ...

Police raids in Brazil have killed more than 100 people, including four officers, making it the deadliest police operation in ...

The police operation was one of the most violent in Brazil’s recent history, with human rights organisations calling for ...

PARIS (AP) — Two suspects in the Louvre jewel heist have “partially” admitted their participation and are believed to be the ...

The head, its hair dyed red, was severed from the body and found in dense vegetation near a Rio favela, some 24 hours after ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A police raid and ensuing clashes with a drug gang in Rio de Janeiro left at least 119 people dead, ...