At least 52 inmates in a Brazilian prison were killed during a prison riot in northern Brazil on Monday. The incident was reminiscent of riots in May when 55 in...
SAO PAULO - Armed men stole $40 million of gold and other precious metals Thursday from a Sao Paulo cargo terminal at South America's busiest airport, taking tw...
SEOUL A South Korean cargo ship was boarded and attacked by pirates outside the Singapore Strait on Monday, government officials said. Armed with guns and other weapons, the pirates assaulted the crew of the CK Bluebell at around 4:25 am about 100 ...
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Police in Rio de Janeiro arrested 43 people on Thursday for allegedly taking part in a murderous gang that extorted companies providi...
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Remember Zika? With measles and Ebola grabbing headlines, it is easy to forget the health panic of 2016, when Zika was linked to severe birt...
The Dominican Republic's reputation for Instagrammable beaches and bargain all-inclusive resorts is being eclipsed by reports of tourist deaths. At least eight Americans have died on the Caribbean island this year, including one just this week....
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Shooting from helicopters, armored personnel carriers or at close range, police officers in Rio de Janeiro have gunned down 558 people during t...
The attackers on Sunday arrived in cars and a motorbike before shooting dead six women and five men in the bar in a poor neighbourhood in the capital of Para st...
BRASILIA Politicians, truckers and even journalists will be able to carry guns in Brazil under an executive order published Wednesday in the Official Daily, a decree that expands the list of people eligible to bear arms....
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Paraguay declared a state of emergency on Wednesday in a province along the border with Argentina as torrential rains continued to swell rivers and cause floods...
Avianca Brasil canceled more than 1,045 domestic flights this week because it has to return 18 aircraft to leasing agencies. Brazil's National Aviation Agency s...
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Torrential rains doused Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, killing at least three people and sowing chaos in Brazil’s second largest city, which declared a state of emergency after a storm the mayor described as “absolutely abnorma...
Ten Brazilian soldiers have been arrested after firing more than 80 bullets into a car carrying a family, killing one man and wounding two other people....
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Witnesses said two small cars fell into the water after the ship crashed into one of the pillars. It is unclear however how many people have been hurt and scuba...
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Police in Sao Paulo state shot and killed 10 assailants who were preparing to simultaneously blow up automated bank teller machines at two branches early on Thursday, authorities said....
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The idea of deploying snipers had been perceived as merely a campaign promise, despite an outcry by human rights activists, but Rio de Janeiro Governor Wilson W...
Tropical Storm Iba formed off the southeastern coast of Brazil on Sunday afternoon, becoming the first tropical system to be identified in the area since 2010. ...
Gunmen have attacked a convoy of trucks carrying uranium fuel to a nuclear power plant near the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, police say. The convoy came under attack as it drove past a community controlled by drug traffickers in Angra dos Reis, ...
Women journalists are "twice as likely to be victims of violence" in the Americas for exercising their right to freedom of expression and for reasons of gender....
Three months ago, eight people disappeared on a flight deep in the Amazon. Small planes are often the only way to get around - but because most landing strips a...
RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil, with more than 60,000 homicides per year, has one of the highest levels of impunity in the world, as only 8 percent of murders lead to criminal convictions, anti-violence NGO Rio de Paz said Wednesday. Ninety-eight percent o...
(Reuters) - British authorities were the latest to ban or ground the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft on Tuesday in the aftermath of the fatal crash of a plane of the ...
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