At least 18 people died on Thursday during a major police raid in a dense warren of Rio de Janeiro slums, state military police said, in the latest bloody confrontation in Brazil’s second-largest city ...

The Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro is set to host the 2022 World Boccia Championships, as announced by the Boccia International Sports Federation (BISFed) today. The news was revealed on the BISFed ...

Ipanema and Copacabana are perfect spots to grab an umbrella, snack on empadas or coalho cheese, and sip cocktails. If you ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Police in Rio de Janeiro raided the Vila Cruzeiro favela before dawn Tuesday. setting off a fierce firefight that authorities said killed more than 20 people. The operation was aimed ...

On February 3, 2022, Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered Rio de Janeiro, a state where the problem of police abuse is particularly dire, to draft a plan to curb police killings that includes concrete ...

State Health authorities in Rio de Janeiro Monday confirmed the second local death of a monkeypox patient. It was a 31-year-old man who had been hospitalized for over a month. The Health Secretariat ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, April 2 (Reuters) - Heavy rains caused mudslides that killed at least 14 people insoutherncoastal cities and the Baixada Fluminense area of Rio de Janeiro state, according to state and ...

Torrential rains and landslides have killed at least 58 people in a hilly town to the north of the city Rio de Janeiro. Authorities fear the death toll could climb ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 11 (Reuters) - At least eight people were killed on Friday during a dawn police raid in Rio de Janeiro's Vila Cruzeiro favela, local police said, adding the operation targeted a ...

Rio de Janeiro’s Tijuca National Park has become a laboratory for the reintroduction of locally extinct species. A study shows that, of the 33 species of large and medium-sized mammals that used to ...