The Latest Breaking News from Rio de Janeiro

Officers raided the Alemao complex to target a criminal group that had stolen cars, robbed banks and invaded nearby neighbourhoods

A raid of Rio de Janeiro's largest complex of favelas has sparked renewed complaints of excessive police violence and ignited debate over how to handle crime ahead of state and presidential elections.

Multiple deaths have been reported during a police raid on Rio de Janeiro’s largest complex of favelas, or low-income communities

Rio de Janeiro authorities are still searching for two further men linked to the kidnapping, including one individual who was spotted in the lobby of the holiday rental in Brazil

Things could have been so different. In June 1992, the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro created the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity, launching the formal international mission to bring global warming emissions under control and reduce humanity’s negative impacts on our…

The sunnier weather in Scotland show no signs of slowing down. Temperatures in the coming days are set to exceed those in cities like in mainland Europe, South America and beyond.

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The low-income Enchanted Valley community just outside Rio de Janeiro’s Tijuca Forest National Park has managed something no other favela has done: built its own biosystem to process its waste

Meirivone shared how she wanted to be a mother, and the newlywed couple spent their honeymoon in Rio De Janeiro, where she soon discovered that she was “pregnant” with Marcelo’s baby