President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a new law that increases penalties and expands enforcement tools intended to ...

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell 11.08% in the 12 months through July compared with the same period a year ...

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

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Coffee roasters in the United States are plowing through their stockpiles as they await the outcome of ...

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

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is "horrified" by the death toll from a massive police raid on Rio drug gangs, ...

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

A massive police raid on a drug gang embedded in low-income neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro that left at least 119 people ...

B efore dawn on October 28th, security forces advanced into dozens of slums in Rio de Janeiro. Their targets were the leaders ...

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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.