Brazilian police say the death toll in a massive raid on a notorious drug gang in Rio de Janeiro has risen to 119 killed, including four policemen.

As Brazil prepares to host COP30, residents of Rio de Janeiro's favelas are mobilizing to make sure the voices of the world's informal settlements aren't left out of global climate talks.

BRAZILIAN police have been accused of decapitating a teenage gangster and hanging his head from a tree like a trophy in a ...

Families in Rio de Janeiro have begun burying victims of the city’s deadliest gang raid. Residents in the Vila Cruzeiro ...

The demonstrators accused Rio Governor Claudio Castro of leading “a bloodbath in the police operation” that left more than ...

On October 28, Rio de Janeiro’s police besieged the Penha favela for 15 hours, killing at least 121 people in the city’s ...

By André Aram Rocinha, in the south of Rio de Janeiro, is, according to official data, the largest of Brazil’s more than 12,000 favelas, or inner-city communities. It has a population of just over 72, ...

A research showed that residents of favelas more exposed to shootings are more than twice as likely to develop depression and ...

The operation's stated objectives were capturing leaders and limiting the territorial expansion of the Red Command gang, ...

The governor of Rio said the official death toll from Tuesday's anti-drug operation, the deadliest in history, remained at ...

An Argentine-built FAL rifle was found in the Comando Vermelho (CV) arsenal seized in two Rio de Janeiro favelas after this ...