Holding firmly at a cue-stick on his right hand, the young man bends over a table strewn with tiny but differently coloured and numbered. With undivided attention, he points the cue-stick at a white ...

Rio de Janeiro has named its first female police chief after a purge of the city’s civil force revealed widespread corruption, as the struggle continues to pacify the favelas before the World Cup in ...

A shootout between military police and gangs in an emblematic Rio de Janeiro slum saw a helicopter crash and at least 11 people killed last weekend, while violence rises city-wide thanks to weakened ...

A scooter accident injuring a nine-year-old girl in Ghaziabad triggered mob violence, with over a dozen people vandalising a ...

The governor of Rio de Janeiro state announced plans for massive investments aimed at revitalizing two long crime-infested slum districts. This file photo from January 19, 2022, shows members of ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The rapid growth of slums in the world's towns and cities is increasing urban poverty and creating a breeding ground for terrorism, fanaticism, pollution and disease, the United ...

RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazilian officials say an anti-crime operation by police resulted in eight people being killed in Rio de Janeiro's Mare shantytown. The civil police say there is no information yet ...

Kibera is the largest slum in Nairobi, housing more than 250,000 of the 2.5 million slum dwellers in the city of 4 million. This story is the third in a five-part series about displacement and the ...