RIO DE JANEIRO - At least 20 people, including two police officers, were killed in a large-scale operation against organized ...

At least 20 people have been killed in Rio de Janeiro in a police operation against the Comando Vermelho, or Red Command, ...

It was a sunny September morning in Rio de Janeiro's Parque Arará favela and volunteers were preparing plants to be placed on Reginaldo Gomes da Silva's roof. Students from both the neighborhood ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Dozens of Brazilian yoga aficionados saluted the sun in unison in a Rio de Janeiro favela for the inaugural class of a free course allowing residents of the low-income community ...

Correction appended: July 22, 2013, 4:19 a.m. E.T. If Pope Francis is going to fashion himself the Pope of the poor, he could find few places in the world better to start than Varginha. Located within ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -At least 22 people, including four police officers, were killed in a large-scale operation against ...