By Brad Brooks RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Rio de Janeiro police swarmed two slums on Sunday searching for suspects in the alleged gang rape of a 16-year-old Brazilian girl who said more than 30 men ...

RIO DE JANEIRO – At least 10 times in the last two months, crackling gunfire just outside the Uere special needs school has sent students and teachers diving to the floor as heavily armed gangsters ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A third Brazilian soldier, wounded in a sweeping operation this week targeting warring drug gangs in slums across Rio de Janeiro, has died, the army said on Wednesday. At ...

Their professionalism and skill is only exceeded by their admitted corruption. <br><br>Meanwhile, the narcotics industry is alive and well in Rio's slums; estimates are that in some areas of the ...

"If I stay at home, I will die of starvation," one street seller said. RIO DE JANEIRO -- Many of the 1.5 million people living in the slums of Rio de Janeiro have been forced into making heartbreaking ...

Reporting from Rio de JaneiroReporting from Rio de Janeiro — In 2010, as Brazil prepared to host the World Cup and Olympics, armed forces invaded the sprawling Complexo do Alemão group of favelas, or ...

RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazilian police have found the bodies of five men inside a car abandoned in one of the slums of Rio de Janeiro. At least one body was decapitated. Police say in an email that they're ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian officials say more than 3,000 soldiers and military police officers have moved into four big slums in Rio de Janeiro seeking to arrest drug traffickers and hunt for the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Eric Marques walks down a steep labyrinth of dark alleyways on this hillside slum long controlled by drug gangs and off-limits to outsiders. The scrawny 13-year-old with sun-streaked ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – For as long as anyone can remember, the cracked asphalt soccer field in the Roquete Pinto slum was off-limits to children – “reserved” by gangs selling marijuana and cocaine.

The company will hold its very first public screenings this Friday inside the favela compound Complexo do Alemao in Rio de Janeiro. By Agustin Mango BUENOS AIRES – Following its official world ...