Police in Brazil say they have dismantled a criminal gang which is accused of running an arms trafficking and extortion ring in a poor neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro.

Police in Rio have arrested four Scottish tourists after the men were caught removing their clothes and making “obscene gestures” on one of the world’s most famous beaches. An intelligence official from the military police battalion...

At least 17 people were missing after a bridge collapsed due to floodwaters in southern Brazil, authorities said.

The Brazilian officials organizing the film premiere of Lula, Son of Brazil probably weren’t thinking of the biopic’s subject when they chose the music to be played before the curtain went up. But the subliminal connection with President...

Recently a major petroleum producing country located in a region recognized for anti-Americanism and fragile democracies completed negotiations on a multi-billion dollar arms deal with nuclear implications. The region is not the Middle East or Asia, but...

Some sectors of the fight against AIDS have suggested that Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa, committed genocide through his absence from the fight against the illness in his country throughout his two terms. For eight years, the South...

Small groups of Mapuche Indians have so rattled Chile by seizing forests, burning buses and attacking police to demand land and autonomy that the leftist government has turned to dictatorship-era measures to quell the violence. The government of...

The animals were packed into individual boxes and locked in two cases that had been checked as baggage, a police official said. The live cargo was discovered on Wednesday at Rio de Janeiro’s Tom Jobim International Airport as it was being X-rayed...

Brazilian-American Maria Petrúcia Ribeiro da Silva, 68, died soon after arriving in Rio de Janeiro from New York aboard TAM Airlines. Despite warnings about her sickness still in the air there was no help waiting for her when the plane landed. To boot...

Although there are different evaluations of how much impact the newly House-approved Statute of Racial Equality will have on the reality of racism in Brazil, the majority of black movements in Brazil claim the statute as a victory, at least symbolic in...