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Brazil's tropical storms bring death every summer as torrential rains unleash floods and mudslides that can bury whole communities in minutes. A single storm killed nearly 1,000 people last year.
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner toured a Rio de Janeiro shantytown that police recently seized from drug traffickers as he kicked off a trade-boosting trip to Latin America on Monday.
Manuela D'Avila hopes she and women like her will change the face of government in Brazil, a country where the female presence in politics has lagged behind neighbors despite the election of Dilma Rousseff as the nation's first female president.
Rosa Cardoso has practiced the Afro-Brazilian religion of Umbanda almost all of her 89 years, yet she hasn't stopped hiding her faith from the rest of the world.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff wasted little time firing her top aide in May when the country's biggest newspaper reported that he had received $4 million in unexplained income.
An explosion likely caused by a gas leak ripped through a restaurant in downtown Rio de Janeiro on Thursday, killing at least three people and injuring 13, officials said.
Carmaker Renault-Nissan announced a combined investment of $1.8 billion in Brazil, where the companies plan to introduce 23 new models in an aggressive bid to increase their share of Brazil's booming car market, the company's president and chief executive Carlos Ghosn said Thursday.
The head of Rio de Janeiro state's police has resigned, saying he was responsible for nominating the police chief who was arrested this week along with seven other officers in the killing of a judge.
Brazil is getting ready for the return of Rock in Rio, an extravaganza headlined by Elton John, Katy Perry and Shakira that is billed as the world's biggest music festival.
Judge Patricia Acioli was known for wielding a "heavy hammer," especially against rogue police who have formed illegal vigilante gangs. She had put more than 60 officers behind bars, most of them for murder.
Oceanographer Vinicius Palermo reaches into Guanabara Bay with a hand-held net, scooping another soggy load of candy wrappers, soda bottles and shredded plastic bags.
Khaled Hussein Ali lives in Sao Paulo and allegedly works for al-Qaida. But this does not mean he is a terrorist.
When the avalanche of mud swept through Vanessa Silva's neighborhood, it punched out the front wall of her house and poured right into her kitchen and bathroom.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter has asked for time to clear up corruption allegations involving soccer's scandal-ridden governing body.
The last time Juan Moraes' mother saw him alive, she asked the 11-year-old and his brother to run an errand. On their way back, her two boys ran into police gunfire.
In the dark before dawn, social workers advance slowly down a narrow road dividing two vast slums, entering a landscape of littered streets and broken-down shacks, where an open-air crack cocaine market does business among piles of rubble.
The Brazilian government confirmed this week the existence of an uncontacted tribe in a southwestern area of the Amazon rain forest.
IOC officials left Rio de Janeiro impressed by preparations for the 2016 Olympics, saying the city had made great strides on its infrastructure projects.
Cris touches up her lipstick in the bar's dingy mirror, getting ready to work the rush hour in Vila Mimosa, Rio's bustling working-class prostitution zone.
The deafening chants roared from the packed bleachers each time the volleyball player stood and focused on his serve: "Bicha! Bicha!"
The head of the human rights group Amnesty International met with slum residents in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday and commended them for resisting what they say is forcible removal from their homes.
Heavy rains have caused floods, blackouts, landslides and at least one death in Rio de Janeiro.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is urging Brazil's government to halt work on a massive hydroelectric dam in the heart of the Amazon rain forest until it deals with concerns of the region's residents.
The Brazilian minister for human rights has called for 'rigorous punishment' of the police officers caught on tape shoving around and shooting an unarmed 14-year-old boy.
President Barack Obama didn't just take in Rio's famous tourist sites during his visit Sunday, instead making his first stop a notorious slum where police recently wrested control from a violent drug gang.
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