In 2023, Brazil recorded 45,747 intentional violent deaths — among the highest rates in the world. Like many democracies, the ...

Hunger plummeted in the 2000s as a commodity boom lifted economic growth, allowing left-wing leaders to splurge on social ...

If the police come, we'll only fight them if there's no other choice—the exchange of gunfire is to cover our escape." Sagat ...

A group of Brazilian mothers whose sons were killed by police are demanding a nationwide policy to support relatives of ...

Brazil is the largest gaming market in Latin America and, by most estimates, holds the fifth-largest online player base in the world: roughly 103 million people who log in, grind, raid, and ...

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Summer heat hits hard in densely packed neighborhoods. Cement buildings absorb the sun all day long and trap high temperatures inside homes. Families struggle to stay cool when air conditioning ...

In the last months, weeks, and days of his life, “I will not go to the emergency room” became my husband’s mantra. Andrej had esophageal cancer that had spread throughout his body (but not to his ever ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Brazilian police operation in Rio de Janeiro favelas on Wednesday killed seven presumed drug traffickers, including a gang chief, as well as a local resident caught in the ...