In a Rio de Janeiro favela, a little boy wore a T-shirt stained with red paint mimicking the blood spilled this week in Brazil’s deadliest-ever police operation. He held up a sign reading: “Children ...

UN experts on Friday called for a swift and effective investigation into the deadliest police operation in Brazil's history after a raid in a Rio de Janeiro favela last week killed at least 120 ...

The raids targeted the Comando Vermelho, or Red Command, one of the country's oldest and most powerful criminal organizations, which dominates the drug trade in several cities ...

In a Rio de Janeiro favela, a little boy wore a T-shirt stained with red paint mimicking the blood spilled this week in Brazil's deadliest-ever police operation.

At least 120 people were killed during a large-scale operation targeting Brazil’s largest criminal organization in Rio de Janeiro, amid growing protests condemning the security authorities’ “excessive ...

Protesters marched in Vila Cruzeiro, where days earlier residents laid out dozens of bodies of people killed by police.

RIO DE JANEIRO - Rio de Janeiro authorities said on Friday (Oct 31) they had identified most of those killed in the deadliest police operation in Brazil's history, as protesters denounced the high ...