AFP HAS GIVEN THE CHILDREN OF THE RIO FAVELA CIDADE DE DEUS (“CITY OF GOD”) A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW THEIR PASSION FOR FOOTBALL THROUGH THE CAMERA LENS. AFP has given the children of the rio ...

AFP, which ran a successful photography training project for children in Rio’s city of god in the run-up to the World Cup, is partnering with a new photography school in the favela. The School, which ...

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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Saturday is not a school day, so kids in Rio de Janeiro’s City of God favela fill the dirt roads playing soccer or pretending to be cops and robbers around dangerous alleys.

God had given me the opportunity to become a ... The emergence of the clip that purportedly showed him day-drinking in his childhood favela back in November fuelled concern that he was never ...

I mean, everybody who remembers Bob Smith, God rest his soul ... If we are born in a very poor favela type neighborhood in a big city in Latin America or in parts of Asia or elsewhere, and ...

Conservation International's Rapid Assessment Program spent three weeks traversing the rainforests of Honduras, discovering ...

Brazilcore—Gen Z’s take on Y2K aesthetics—celebrates Brazil’s cultural influence, but obfuscates the nation’s racial inequalities and police violence.

RIO DE JANEIRO, March 11 - Rio de Janeiro police demolished on Tuesday a facility they dubbed a "drug trafficking resort," ...

The City of Rahway has agreed to a $150,000 settlement in a lawsuit filed by a local man who claimed police officers assaulted him in his home during a 2014 raid, according to court records.

Avenida Brasil, one of the city's main expressways, was closed, and nearby bus and train lines were temporarily suspended as a security measure. Police agents used heavy machinery to destroy the ...