Rio de Janeiro's famous favelas, the hillside slums that have been home to its poorest residents since the 19th century, are changing. The Brazilian state had given them up to the rule of brutal ...

As the Rio Olympics approach, a major issue has been security in a city where violence has long plagued hundreds of slums. The bloody reality was all-too-familiar to AP’s Rio staff: stories of ...

The Brazilian government will spend 1.7 billion dollars to bring running water and other basic services to Rio de Janeiro slums to counter drug gangs that control many of the poor areas ...

At least three people were killed and 12 others arrested Wednesday in a police operation targeting a criminal ring in a slum in northern Rio de Janei ...

A large-scale deployment by the Police in various Rio de Janeiro favelas (slums) has left at least seven people dead after gunfights between law enforcement officers and suspected criminals ...

Brother Fabio preaches at a church in Santa Marta, one of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. What he means is that the citizenry of Santa Marta is part of a plan to clean up the hillside slums for the ...

Mario Azevedo, Chief of Police, 21st Police Precinct, Rio de Janeiro “Police institutions ... residents of one of Rio’s infamous hillside slums, or favelas, were killed. We also document ...

A man went into cardiac arrest and died while waiting in an urgent care center in Rio de Janeiro, health authorities said. José Silva visited the medical facility in the Cidade de Deus slum on ...

The Brazilian government has appointed an army general to oversee security in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in response to growing gang violence. President Michel Temer compared the violence to "a ...

City of God's rise from total obscurity to a burgeoning hit is nearly as convoluted as its narrative of underworld crime in a Rio de Janeiro slum. Brazilian filmmakers decided not to enter the film as ...