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

Hundreds of protesters have marched through Vila Cruzeiro favela, demanding the resignation of Rio de Janeiro state Gov.

A state police operation targeting a major drug gang in Brazil has resulted in the deaths of 132 people in low-income ...

At least 119 people were killed, including four policemen, and 113 arrested in the largest anti-drug police operation in the ...

People led large public protests and asked for the removal of Rio’s governor following the deadly and alarming massacre that ...

The Rio de Janeiro public defender's office on Wednesday said a total of 132 people died in the bloodiest police raid against drug gangs in the Brazilian city's history, as grieving residents laid out ...

Between tears and the scent of death, neighbours of a favela in the north of Rio de Janeiro lined up more than 50 bodies in a ...

By André Aram Rocinha, in the south of Rio de Janeiro, is, according to official data, the largest of Brazil’s more than ...