A floating Christmas tree was inaugurated Sunday in Rio de Janeiro’s Botafogo Cove, adding a new highlight to the city’s holiday traditions. Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro unveiled an 80-meter floating ...

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro must begin serving his 27-year prison sentence for plotting an attempted coup, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ruled Tuesday. The former president’s ...

“The Boys From Brazil” landed a series order from Netflix nine months after initial reports of its development. The five-part historical thriller series comes from Peter Morgan of “The Crown” and will ...

Petrobras has identified high-quality oil in the Sudoeste de Tartaruga Verde block in the Campos Basin, offshore Brazil. This discovery was made in exploratory well 4-BRSA-1403D-RJS, located 108km ...

Brazilian state-oil company Petrobras has made a new discovery in its Southwest of Tartaruga Verde block in the Campos basin. "The drilling of this well has ended, with an oil-bearing interval ...

Pop culture is filled with images of Rio de Janeiro, and while the Cidade Maravilhosa (Marvelous City) certainly lives up to its name, movies and song lyrics rarely capture the real reasons why. Yes, ...

Warning: This article contains images of dead bodies and content that some readers may find distressing. At least 120 people have died in Rio de Janeiro after thousands of Brazilian police and ...

The bodies of the dead men lay in a single row, on the pavement of a square on the fringes of Rio de Janeiro. Many were stripped down to their underwear, residents said, so that relatives could more ...

RIO DE JANEIRO – The deadliest police operation in Brazil's history killed at least 132 people, public defenders said Oct. 29, as Rio de Janeiro residents lined a street with dozens of corpses found ...

A police raid that led to violent clashes with a gang in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, resulted in at least 119 deaths, public defenders said on Wednesday, a day after the government ordered the operation.

About 2,500 Brazilian police and soldiers launched a massive raid on a drug-trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, arresting 81 suspects and sparking shootouts that left at least 60 suspects ...

The operation targeted the Comando Vermelho gang for drug trafficking. At least 121 people were killed in Brazil in the deadliest police operation targeting organized crime and drug trafficking in Rio ...