The 2025 United Nations Climate Conference, known as COP30, opens tomorrow in Belem, Brazil. Ahead of the official meetings, community members from Rio's favelas, its lowest-income neighborhoods, have ...

As Brazil prepares to host COP30, residents of Rio de Janeiro's favelas are mobilizing to make sure the voices of the world's informal settlements aren't left out of global climate talks. KUOW is ...

Family and neighbors dispute the Rio police account of how a small business owner was shot in the face during a deadly raid ...

Few outsiders have seen what happens inside Brazil’s favelas neighborhoods where crime, poverty, and fear collide. This report follows a military police unit as they patrol the slums of São Paulo, ...

A priest blesses the bodies of people killed the day before during a police raid targeting the Comando Vermelho gang in the Complexo da Penha favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025 ...

Police violence is a daily reality in Brazil, especially in marginalized areas such as Maré, one of the largest favela ...

The operation's stated objectives were capturing leaders and limiting the territorial expansion of the Red Command gang, which has increased its control over favelas in recent years. Families of the ...

RABAT — Brazil ended Canada's run at the FIFA Women's U-17 World Cup on Saturday, winning their quarterfinal via penalty shootout. Gabi Pusch, Gi Iseppe, Kaylane, Pepe and Andreyna converted their ...

Horrific images are reaching every corner of the world: police violence, chaos, and ever-growing rows of bodies. This is the situation in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which is currently ...

Last Tuesday (October 28, 2025), before the sun had risen over Rio de Janeiro’s low hills, two favelas (shantytowns) on the city’s northern fringe were surrounded by heavily-armed troops as their ...