Rio de Janeiro will drastically increase surveillance and lean on federal and state police forces ahead of next year’s Group of 20 nations summit, as it seeks to use the major global gathering to help ...

Brazilian authorities arrested five police officers accused of trying to resell a rifle seized during a raid that left 122 ...

It was the fourth such massacre carried out under Governor Cláudio Castro – but it was by far the most barbaric. Many of the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Military police launched a major anti-crime operation in northern Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, arresting dozens of men and confiscating automatic rifles in a sweep that led gang members ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Rio de Janeiro authorities said on Friday they had identified most of those killed in the deadliest ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro’s state law enforcement agencies launched a mega-operation with a force that includes nearly 2000 military and civil officers across ten low-income neighborhoods ...

At least 64 people, including four police officers, were killed in a large-scale security operation targeting organised crime in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday (local time), CNN reported, citing officials.

A Brazilian woman was nearly mugged on live television in Rio de Janeiro. "Good Morning America" reports it took place while a reporter was interviewing the woman ... about crime. 'A man comes up and ...

Does Brazil’s Christ shed a tear looking down over the sadness below him? It’s a question Rio de Janeiro’s residents ask as they gaze up to what has become the most dangerous wonder of the world. Last ...

Rio de Janeiro – On the sandy beaches of Ipanema and Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro, where tourists come to play and hawkers of sarongs and coconut water set up their stalls, the summer heat of December ...

Brazil will seek U.S. cooperation in fighting organized crime in its fuel sector, Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said on Thursday, after a police operation flagged money laundering by Delaware-based ...