A police helicopter has crashed in Rio de Janeiro, killing four officers after a day of intense firefights between law enforcement and suspected criminals in the slum known as City of God.
The Federal University of Santa Maria in the State of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil is under fire this week, after the dean requested a list of Israeli students and lecturers due to peer pressure from various organizations.
Brazilian prosecutors indicted former billionaire Eike Batista and the former governor of Rio de Janeiro, Sergio Cabral, on corruption charges involving $16.5 million in bribes.
Allegations that Brazil’s president has been caught on tape endorsing bribe payments shook the country’s financial markets on Thursday, sending shares and the Brazilian currency sharply lower amid investor fears that his government could collapse.
Experts are questioning a recent pledge of allegiance to ISIS by a purported group of extremists in Brazil in what may be an attempt to rattle the international community before the Rio Olympics.
SÃO PAULO—Brazil’s Federal Police are trying to arrest Brazilian businessman Eike Batista Thursday after a local judge issued a warrant in relation to a wide-ranging corruption scandal involving government contracts.
The former billionaire Eike Batista has left the Bangu prison in Rio on house arrest. Federal Judge Gilmar Mendes met the defendant’s request over the weekend.
A drug lord who had plastic surgery to change his appearance has been captured in Brazil after three decades on the run.
Al-Qaida-influenced terrorists have issued directives to “lone wolf” attackers to carry out attacks against the Israeli Olympic delegation at the upcoming Rio Olympics, The TOT News reported Thursday.
Detroit, MI – A woman who was caught on camera opening fire on a driver at a gas station on Detroit’s west side is in custody, police said. Police had been looking for her after the shooting early Sunday morning at the Mobil station at 15510 Fenkell.
