Dozens of tourists were trapped Tuesday at a popular sunrise viewpoint in Rio de Janeiro as a gun battle broke out between police and drug traffickers in the neighborhood below them, the second ...

Tourists watch the sunrise from Morro Dois Irmaos above the Vidigal favela – Copyright AFP Pablo PORCIUNCULA Tourists flocked to an iconic Rio de Janeiro viewpoint ...

Some 500 soldiers, some in armored vehicles, swept into Rio de Janeiro’s Rocinha favela Tuesday to support a police raid after gun fights broke out between rival drug gangs. Officials said the ...

Four police officers in Brazil have been removed from street duty as authorities investigate their involvement in a raid in Rio de Janeiro that resulted in the deaths of seven suspected drug ...