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 authorities launched a massive police raid against the Comando Vermelho criminal faction. The operation, named ...

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called for action against organized crime that does not endanger police or civilians, as ...

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 ...

The head, its hair dyed red, was severed from the body and found in dense vegetation near a Rio favela, some 24 hours after Brazil's deadliest-ever police operation. It belonged to 19-year-old Iago ...

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

Brazilian police and soldiers have launched a massive raid on a drug-trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro, arresting 81 ...

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 ...

PARIS (AP) — France’s Senate gave its final approval on Wednesday to a bill defining rape and other sexual assault as any non-consensual sexual act, a move that comes after the landmark drugging and ...

Brazilian police hit the Rio gang hard in a raid that left 119 dead, and which human rights groups called a "disaster." ...