Holding firmly at a cue-stick on his right hand, the young man bends over a table strewn with tiny but differently coloured and numbered. With undivided attention, he points the cue-stick at a white ...

Rio de Janeiro has named its first female police chief after a purge of the city’s civil force revealed widespread corruption, as the struggle continues to pacify the favelas before the World Cup in ...

A shootout between military police and gangs in an emblematic Rio de Janeiro slum saw a helicopter crash and at least 11 people killed last weekend, while violence rises city-wide thanks to weakened ...

The governor of Rio de Janeiro state announced plans for massive investments aimed at revitalizing two long crime-infested slum districts. This file photo from January 19, 2022, shows members of ...