A Brazilian police operation in Rio de Janeiro favelas on Wednesday killed seven presumed drug traffickers, including a gang ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The death toll in a massive police raid on a notorious drug gang in Rio de Janeiro rose Wednesday to 119 killed, including four policemen, Brazilian police said. The previous ...

Authorities say that four Brazilian police officers have been removed from street duty in an investigation into their ...

The Rio de Janeiro laboratory responsible for processing all athletes' drug test samples at the Summer Olympics has been suspended by the World Anti-Doping Agency just weeks before Games begin, it was ...

FILE PHOTO: Rakhel Rios, mother of 19-year-old Ravel Rios, one of those killed during a deadly police operation against drug trafficking, reacts during his funeral, at a cemetery in Rio de Janeiro, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A police raid and clashes with a drug gang embedded in low-income neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro left at least 119 people dead, officials said Wednesday, a day after the massive ...