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The residents of Rio de Janeiro's Santo Amaro favela celebrated the inauguration of a new skate park on Saturday (March 22).

A police raid on a crime gang in Brazil dramatically escalated when a cop was shot in the head while co-piloting a helicopter over a Rio de Janeiro favela on ... Aliança, a slum on the west ...

A fire that hit a poor Roma settlement in eastern Slovakia killed five people, four of them children, officials said on Thursday. The town hall in Velky Saris said the blaze destroyed eight houses ...

The United Arab Emirates wants to invest more in Brazil. The focus is not only on raw materials but also on infrastructure projects, including in favelas. But what is in it for the UAE?

Ever dreamed of living the Dune experience? TravelTok is obsessed with this 400-mile desert train ride, but influencer behaviour has sparked concern that it may be a form of 'poverty tourism' ...

Thousands of Brazilian army troops raided Rio de Janeiro slums in a pre-dawn crackdown ... of the opening of the Olympic Games. Five favelas were targeted by around 1,300 police and 3,600 troops ...

The Supreme Court recently observed that once a slum area is declared as 'censused slum' i.e., the slums located on land belonging to government or municipal undertaking, than such slums are ...

Featuring an artificial lake, swimming pool, gym, barbecue area, and leisure space, the property was located inside a group of Rio favelas known as the Israel Complex. It had been built by Alvaro ...

New Delhi: Delhi High Court has said a survey may be needed of residents of a slum in the Okhla area facing demolition action by DDA. Refusing to stay the demolition process, HC on Friday ...

In the Vanzara Vas slum in the Narol area of the city, which has more than 2,000 dwellings, most of them airless, one-room homes, residents that are part of the project, such as Nehal Vijaybhai ...