B efore dawn on October 28th, security forces advanced into dozens of slums in Rio de Janeiro. Their targets were the leaders ...

At least 121 people were killed in Brazil in the deadliest police operation targeting organized crime and drug trafficking in ...

Brazil’s deadliest police raid left 132 dead in Rio de Janeiro as officers clashed with gangs using drones and explosives in ...

The deadliest police operation against drug gangs in Brazil's history killed at least 121 people, authorities said, as Rio de ...

After what is being criticized as Brazil’s latest example of the excessive use of force, at least 50 bodies of mostly topless ...

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 police said they planned the raids for months and expected a high death toll. The city will host global leaders next week ...

The deadliest police operation in Brazil’s history killed at least 119 people, authorities said yesterday, as Rio de Janeiro ...

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has fallen for the fourth straight year, the government said Thursday, a boost ...

Lionel Messi is widely considered the greatest football player in the history of the sport, but for a long stretch of his ...

The extraordinarily bloody episode shocked Rio, a city that is no stranger to scenes of gangs battling the police and each ...

What happened here was not a simple operation. What happened here was a mass murder of young people with a future, lives cut ...