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Pistol shooter Palak bags 20th quota place
Armenia’s Elmira Karapetyan won gold, while Thai teenager Kamonlak Saencha clinched the silver and the second available quota place.
Flamengo beat Gremio to rise to third in Brazil’s top flight
Everton Soares opened the scoring in the 24th minute at the Maracana stadium when he received Wesley Lima's pass and fired a low shot past goalkeeper...
25 killed in Rio de Janeiro police operation
The operation by the Federal Police, the Federal Highway Police and the Military Police took place in Vila Cruzeiro in an attempt to capture leaders...
Brazil's Olympic President Carlos Arthur Nuzman sentenced to 30 years...
Former Rio 2016 and Brazilian Olympic Committee President Carlos Arthur Nuzman has been sentenced to 30 years and 11 months in jail for buying votes...
Rio de Janeiro drug shootout death toll rises to 28
The death toll from a police raid on a drug gang in a poor Rio de Janeiro neighborhood on Thursday has risen to 28, civil police said on Friday, the...
23 killed in Rio de Janeiro favela gun battle
At least 23 people were killed and four others injured following an intense shootout between police and suspected drug traffickers in a favela in...
A picture and its story: The despair of a Rio widow, in a city...
The incident culminating in the photographs began when a man who police later identified as a drug trafficker took a family of three hostage in an...
Violent 24 hours in Rio de Janeiro, as shootouts plague city
A family held hostage by drug traffickers. A violent police shootout on a busy street. A mother killed while shielding her three-year-old daughter...
