Both forces have tactical units, including the military police’s BOPE division, which has been involved in some of Brazil's ...

An operation by Rio de Janeiro police targeting the Comando Vermelho gang resulted in a 17-hour firefight, leaving 121 dead.

Tens of thousands of women in cities across Brazil have rallied against gender-based violence amid record numbers of female victims ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Towering talipot palms in a Rio de Janeiro park are flowering for the first and only time in their lives, decades after famed Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx ...

Ademar de Barros Moreira owns the legendary french fry stand Batata de Marcehal in Rio de Janeiro. Hes been selling his famous fries for over 30 years, taking enormous pride in selecting the best ...

Rue do Senado in Rio de Janeiro takes the top spot in Time Out’s annual list of the World’s Coolest Streets, followed by Orange Street in Osaka, Rua do Bonjardim in Porto, Fanghua Street in Chengdu ...

17-Year-Old Leal from Imperatriz, Brazil, Earns Dominant Victory in Annual Skateboarding Event 26-Year-Old Felipe Nunes from Curitiba, Brazil, Takes 1 st Place in Adaptive Street Skateboarding 18-Year ...

Robert Muggah is the co-founder of the Igarape Institute, a think and do tank in Brazil and a principal and co-founder of SecDev, a geopolitical and digital advisory group. At dawn on October 28, ...

Pop culture is filled with images of Rio de Janeiro, and while the Cidade Maravilhosa (Marvelous City) certainly lives up to its name, movies and song lyrics rarely capture the real reasons why. Yes, ...

Warning: This article contains images of dead bodies and content that some readers may find distressing. At least 120 people have died in Rio de Janeiro after thousands of Brazilian police and ...

The deadliest police operation against drug gangs in Brazil's history killed at least 121 people, authorities said on Wednesday, as Rio de Janeiro residents lined a street with dozens of corpses found ...

A massive police raid on a drug gang embedded in low-income neighbourhoods of Rio de Janeiro that left at least 119 people dead drew protests for excessive force on Wednesday and calls for the Rio’s ...