Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A person looks on behind a burnt car during a police operation against drug trafficking at the favela do Penha, in Rio de Janeiro, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Just after midnight on October 28, a group of police officers were startled by roughly 20 armed men on motorcycles fleeing the Alemão favela, one of the headquarters ...

(CNN) — Armored vehicles rumbling through narrow alleys. Rifle shots cracking in heavy crossfire. Helicopters and weaponized drones firing from above. Soldiers in military gear engaged in violent ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government approved a sale of sniper rifles to a deadly police unit in Brazil last year, overriding concerns from the U.S. ambassador and other diplomats that the arms could be ...

Video shows police firing into car; delivery man hit in face Police accuse Silva of shooting at them; witnesses dispute Silva's wife says he is not a gang member or gun owner RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 22 ...

Rio De Janeiro: Just after midnight on October 28, a group of police officers were startled by roughly 20 armed men on motorcycles fleeing the Alemao favela, one of the headquarters of Rio de ...