Eighteen people died during a police raid on a favela, a low-income community sometimes called a slum or shanty town, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 21. Authorities said 16 suspected criminals ...

At least 18 people died on Thursday during a major police raid in a dense warren of Rio de Janeiro slums, state military police said, in the latest bloody confrontation in Brazil’s second-largest city ...

Brazil’s tourist hot spot of Rio de Janeiro now wants to become the nation’s cryptocurrency capital, and plans to dedicate part of its reserves to digital money. In a decree published Friday, Rio ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, April 2 (Reuters) - Heavy rains caused mudslides that killed at least 14 people insoutherncoastal cities and the Baixada Fluminense area of Rio de Janeiro state, according to state and ...

At least 22 people have died in the bloody aftermath of a raid carried out by Rio de Janeiro’s military police on Tuesday. Authorities said a gunfight broke out after police were shot at while ...

Rio de Janeiro’s Tijuca National Park has become a laboratory for the reintroduction of locally extinct species. A study shows that, of the 33 species of large and medium-sized mammals that used to ...

The city of Rio de Janeiro is working with local favelas to build what organizers say will the biggest urban garden in the world, as part of a government-funded initiative known as “Hortas Cariocas” ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — A raid of Rio de Janeiro’s largest complex of shantytowns that left at least 18 people dead has sparked renewed complaints of excessive police violence and ignited debate over how to ...

The former U.S. consul in Rio de Janeiro, Scott Hamilton, speaks about his concerns about Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, and the implications for democratic institutions in the country. Brazilian ...