The Prince of Wales, 43, is travelling to the Brazilian capital to present his environmental Earthshot prize, an award that hands £1 million out for environmental innovations.

The raids targeted the Comando Vermelho, or Red Command, one of the country's oldest and most powerful criminal organizations, which dominates the drug trade in several cities ...

Protesters marched in Vila Cruzeiro, where days earlier residents laid out dozens of bodies of people killed by police.

Residents of a Rio de Janeiro community lined up their dead in harrowing scenes Wednesday after Brazil's bloodiest police ...

In a Rio de Janeiro favela, a little boy wore a T-shirt stained with red paint mimicking the blood spilled this week in Brazil's deadliest-ever police operation.

Rio de Janeiro police have failed to take crucial investigative steps to determine the circumstances of the killing of at least 121 people, including four police officers, during a raid in low-income, ...

Hundreds of protesters have marched through Vila Cruzeiro favela, demanding the resignation of Rio de Janeiro state Gov.

The deadliest police operation in Brazil's history left at least 121 people dead this week in Rio de Janeiro. The raids targeted the Comando Vermelho, or Red Command, one of the country's oldest and ...

Rio de Janeiro authorities said on Friday they had identified most of those killed in the deadliest police operation in ...

Paraguayan President Santiago Peña has designated Brazil's criminal groups Comando Vermelho and Primeiro Comando da Capital, ...

This week, we hold the line on more military strikes in the Caribbean and the Pacific, mull the conviction of a Bolivian drug ...

In Brazil, protests erupted after a massive police raid on a drug gang in favelas in Rio de Janeiro left 119 people dead. The ...