RIO DE JANEIRO — On Tuesday, police in Rio de Janeiro launched an operation in two of the city’s favelas that left 121 dead, including four police officers, and an unknown number of people wounded.

RIO DE JANEIRO – Families of the scores of people killed in a deadly gang raid by Rio de Janeiro police began burying the dead on Thursday, with residents left reeling by the scenes of carnage and ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Just after midnight on October 28, a group of police officers were startled by roughly 20 armed men on motorcycles fleeing the Alemão favela, one of the headquarters ...

Michael Jackson's politically intense video shoot in Brazil's Santa Marta favela came close to never happening — until gangs supposedly intervened to make it a reality. Jackson and his production team ...

Brazilian soldiers were deployed to Rio de Janeiros crime-plagued Rocinha favela for the second consecutive day Wednesday to support police after shootouts between rival crime gangs. Heavily-armed ...