Families of the dead decried what they described as executions by police, while the state government hailed a successful ...

The extraordinarily bloody episode shocked Rio, a city that is no stranger to scenes of gangs battling the police and each ...

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A state police operation targeting a major drug gang in Brazil has resulted in the deaths of 132 people in low-income ...

By bne intellinews Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva expressed shock at the fatalities from a massive police ...

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Believed to be Rio police's deadliest operation ever, Tuesday's raid saw 2,500 police and soldiers storm the favelas of Penha ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A massive police raid on a drug gang embedded in low-income neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro that left ...

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President Lula said he has instructed the minister of justice and the director-general of the federal police to go to Rio for a meeting with the governor.