Brazilian authorities arrested five police officers accused of trying to resell a rifle seized during a raid that left 122 dead last month in Rio de Janeiro, the state's military police said on Friday ...

Five Brazilian police officers were arrested for attempting to resell a seized rifle from a raid where 122 were killed, ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Rio de Janeiro’s Civil Police confirmed on Saturday that another officer wounded in Brazil’s deadliest anti-drug operation has died, bringing the number of police fatalities to ...

Distant gunfire rang out as Douglas da Silva dropped off a food delivery on October 28 and headed home to his apartment on ...

By Ricardo Brito, Luciana Magalhaes and Fabio Teixeira RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -The governor of Rio de Janeiro has touted the deadliest police raid in Brazilian history as a success, but none of the ...

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 ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — On Tuesday, police in Rio de Janeiro launched an operation in two of the city’s favelas that left 121 dead, including four police officers, and an unknown number of people ...

A panel of Brazilian Supreme Court justices has sentenced high-ranking military officials and a federal police officer to up ...

(CNN) — At least 64 people have died in a massive police raid aimed at organized crime in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, security officials told CNN Brasil. Among the dead are four Brazilian police ...

Three soldiers and a policeman were sentenced to up to 24 years due to plans to murder the president-elect ahead of his ...