Residents of a Rio de Janeiro favela spent all night collecting bodies from inside the urban community, bringing them down in trucks and lining them up next to one another on a central square. By ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- The mere idea that U.S. soldiers on leave from Iraq see Rio's carnival as a free-floating sex party has Brazilians outraged. A report in Britain's The Guardian newspaper that ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian security forces launched a massive daylong operation on drug gangs in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas on Tuesday, setting off fierce gun battles that left more than 100 dead ...

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

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — After a massive police raid on a notorious drug gang, residents of a Rio de Janeiro favela spent all night collecting bodies in trucks from inside and around their urban ...