SAO PAULO – SAO PAULO (AP) — A fire has raged through a Brazilian slum, destroying more than 300 homes. Residents of the Real Parque neighborhood in Sao Paulo were frantically using buckets of water ...

SAO PAULOSAO PAULO — Hundreds of people in Sao Paulo’s Paraisopolis slums have taken to the streets to protest against local police three days after nine young people died in a stampede during a ...

SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Police contribute to violence in Brazil’s slums, barely keeping a presence except for raids that endanger innocent lives, Amnesty International said in a report released Friday.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Emerson Barata draws a circular map of Sao Paulo's largest slum, Paraisopolis, and begins to mark confirmed coronavirus cases in blue ink. At the center of the favela of around ...

HELIOPOLIS, Brazil (Reuters) - Hundreds of houses painted in a kaleidoscope of vibrant colours line the main streets of Sao Paulo's largest slum -- turning what was once a grim, grey landscape into a ...

Sao Paulo - A big fire took hold in a Sao Paulo slum on Tuesday, consuming several modest houses and sending smoke above Brazil's biggest city, live television images showed. Firemen and residents ...

The murder rate in the world’s third-biggest metropolis — a caldron of vice and poverty — is dropping sharply and mirroring a trend witnessed in New York City in the 1990s. It has plunged 54 percent ...

Residents of the Paraisopolis slum take part in a demonstration asking for peace, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. Police officers pursuing fleeing suspects clashed with people at a ...

Emerson Barata draws a circular map of Sao Paulo's largest slum, Paraisopolis, and begins to mark confirmed coronavirus cases in blue ink. At the center of the favela of around 120,000 people, which ...

Sign up for our Metro US email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox! SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Emerson Barata draws a ...