RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -At least two people were killed and eight arrested on Wednesday during a police operation in the Vila Kennedy neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, the state civil police said in a ...

Research led by the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice is highlighted in two museums in Rio de ...

At least 60 people are dead after about 2,500 Brazilian police and soldiers launched a massive raid on a drug-trafficking ...

A vast operation targeting drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro has killed at least 64 people, including four police officers in what authorities described as the most lethal episode in the battle again ...

At least 25 people, including at least one police officer, were killed in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday in a shootout during a police raid targeting drug traffickers in the city's Jacarezinho ...

Thousands of revelers have gathered on the Copacabana boardwalk for Rio de Janeiro’s annual Pride parade. Many celebrated the ...

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A federal labor judge in Brazil ordered the government to add a poultry unit of meatpacker JBS to a so-called "dirty list" of ...

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 14 (Reuters) – Heavy rains that buffeted Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state this weekend have killed at least 11 people, according to the state fire service. The rains flooded streets, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 11 (Reuters) - At least eight people were killed on Friday during a dawn police raid in Rio de Janeiro's Vila Cruzeiro favela, local police said, adding the operation targeted a ...