RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - More than 1,400 police officers and Brazilian Marines rolled into a massive complex of slums near Rio de Janeiro's international airport before dawn Sunday in the latest security ...

Brazil will send more officers back into a Rio de Janeiro slum amid public outcry over a 10-year-old boy killed during a police shootout, officials said Sunday. Police say Eduardo de Jesus Ferreira ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva pledged to Rio de Janeiro slum residents on Thursday that new social and security projects would mark the end of years of state ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – A police officer was shot and killed in a Rio de Janeiro hillside shantytown that’s become a symbol of the Olympic city’s showcase slum pacification program, the state’s public ...

RIO DE JANEIRO - A police officer is recovering after he and two others sent to Rio de Janeiro for the Olympics were shot after getting lost near a slum. The officers from Brazil's national security ...

Chile plans to expropriate a settlement founded by a German cult leader where torture took place during former dictator Augusto Pinochet's military regime as the government takes another step to shine ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Top officials from Rio de Janeiro said Friday they want elite federal police and possibly army troops sent to the city to help quell a wave of violence in so-called "pacified" ...

RIO DE JANEIRO - More than 2,000 Brazilian soldiers stormed into a Rio de Janeiro slum complex Saturday with armored personnel carriers and helicopters in a bid to improve security two months before ...

Brazil recently passed new gun laws, seeking to impose new stringent age and other restrictions, but we all know how well that will work. <br><br>Walling off and/or occupying the slums with the ...

Brazilian security forces have occupied a Rio de Janeiro favela in a bid to remove drug gangs from the city ahead of the World Cup this summer. In a dawn raid on Sunday, police swarmed the Mare slum, ...

Eds: Rewrites second paragraph to clarify. With AP Photos. RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - More than 1,400 police officers and Brazilian Marines rolled into a massive complex of slums near Rio de Janeiro's ...