Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 13 (BNA): The Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro will reopen key tourist attractions, such as the Sugarloaf mountain and the Corcovado mountain with its statue of Christ, news ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Tourists usually try to run from Rio’s notorious slums. Now officials are inviting them to come visit instead. RIO DE JANEIRO — Tourists usually try to run from Rio’s notorious slums.

MOST OF the massive hillside slums that rise up around Rio’s posh Ipanema beach district are places where middle-class Brazilians would never go. But a growing number of tourists are shunning the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO – An Italian tourist was killed Thursday in a shantytown near the center of Rio de Janeiro in an area fought over by rival drug trafficking gangs, police said. Authorities identified ...