President Donald Trump's campaign is making a solemn vow to supporters that he will never allow the destruction of iconic statues located in foreign countries. The Daily Beast reports that the Trump campaign over the weekend sent out a new ad featuring a photo of the Cristo Redentor in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro and informed supporters that "WE WILL PROTECT THIS."

"I am certain that we will punish those responsible for Marielle (Franco's) death,” said Brazil's Minister of Public Security Raul Jungmann. Brazil's Minister of Public Security, Raul Jungmann, said that there is a degree of “complexity” in solving the assassination of Black activist and Rio de Janeiro councilwoman, Marielle Franco, because the case “involves state agents.”

Marielle Franco had made plenty of enemies on the right with her prominent accusations of police brutality in the favelas. By Sebastian Smith.

Brazil’s President Michel Temer justified putting an Army general in charge of Rio de Janeiro’s security forces to contain a rising tide of violence by saying that the circumstances required extreme measures. In a televised address on Friday evening, Temer explained the decree he had signed earlier in the day which puts the state’s police forces under military control. The intervention, which requires congressional approval, will last until the end of the year, according to the decree.

A drained pool filled with mud, crumbled roads and overgrown plots of grass. These eerie images aren't from a post-apocalyptic movie, they are photographs of several Olympic venues in Rio - just seven months after the games finished. Despite promises from the organisers that the billion-dollar site would be used to benefit Brazil's citizens, it remains deserted and dilapidated.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Revelers across Brazil began Carnival celebrations on Friday, taking to the streets to dance, drink beer and spirits, and blow off steam at a time of economic angst and fury with politicians over…

Rio de Janeiro pulled off last year's Olympics, keeping crime at bay and fending off dire forecasts of corruption, environmental degradation, and cost overruns. Six months after South America's first games, the floodgates have burst. Rio organizers still owe creditors about $40 million. Four of the new arenas in the main Olympic Park have failed to find private-sector management, and ownership has passed to the federal government.

A Rio de Janeiro policeman confessed to murdering Greece's ambassador to Brazil in what investigators on Friday called a "cowardly act" carried out at the direction of the diplomat's Brazilian wife with whom the officer was romantically involved. Ambassador Kyriakos Amiridis, 59, was missing since Monday night. Françoise, his Brazilian wife and the mother of their 10-year-old daughter, reported him missing to police on Wednesday.

From the front steps of Rio de Janeiro's Municipal Theater, the ballet company danced, and opera singers belted out the strident "Carmina Burana." It was last month, and the show was an artistic public protest. The performers, all state employees, haven’t been paid for weeks and won’t be getting paychecks until Dec. 5. The same day, outside a state-run hospital in Rio’s Tijuca neighborhood, a doctor shrugged when asked about the long lines of people waiting to be treated. “It’s total chaos in there,” he says.

An evangelical mega-church bishop who once branded Catholics demons was elected mayor of Rio de Janeiro, in nationwide municipal elections confirming Brazil's shift to the right. This was the second round of balloting for city halls in Latin America's biggest country and confirmed the trend seen in October 2 polls which ended in humiliation for the former governing Workers' Party. In the first round, the Workers' Party lost about two thirds of the mayor's posts it had won in 2012 elections, including Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo.

Vincent Catala Represents the City Beyond Clichés. Breaking News: Rio de Janeiro is not all sun, parties and samba.

Incredulous was the word as Algeria’s Abdellatif Baka won the men's 1500m T13 sprint event in a world record-breaking time of three minutes and 48.29 seconds at the Rio Paralympics on Sunday. What made the spectacle special was that the top four athletes clocked times that would have won them the gold at the Rio Olympics 2016, had they participated in the 1500m run there.

An Olympic champion is thanking a 7-year-old Atlanta girl who found his gold medal in a pile of trash weeks after it got stolen, the AP reports. Joe Jacobi won the medal in men's canoe double slalom at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. Jacobi says it was stolen when somebody broke into his car in June. Weeks later, Chloe Smith was walking with her father when she spotted the gold medal discarded in a pile of garbage.

President Robert Mugabe has reportedly ordered the arrest of the entire Zimbabwean Olympic team for failing to win a medal at the just concluded 2016 Rio Olympics. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter President Mugabe According to the NTA, Mugabe met with the commissioner general of Zimbabwe police republic, Augustine Chihuri and asked him to arrest and detain the whole Zimbabwean Olympic Team members immediately they arrive the Harare International Airport.

Brazilian police charged American swimmer Ryan Lochte on Thursday with filing a false robbery report over an incident during the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Three Olympic Council of Ireland officials, including one from Northern Ireland, have had their passports, phones and laptops seized by Brazilian police. It is part of the investigation into alleged illegal ticket sales. RTÉ and the Irish Times say the officials include OCI chief executive Stephen Martin from Bangor. The OCI has appointed a crisis management committee to lead its response to Brazil.

Gold medals and drama are all very well, but what about the strange little details that marked out the Rio Olympics?

Rio 2016 organisers say just 12% of available tickets for next month's Paralympic Games have been sold so far. However, they remain confident the Games, which start on 7 September, will go ahead as planned. Rio 2016 spokesman Mario Andrada said he hoped a new advertising push would help with ticket sales. Rio chiefs also remain in talks with the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) over unpaid travel grants to national Paralympic bodies.

Brazilian police have kept two more U.S. swimmers from leaving the country after the Rio de Janeiro Olympics over the investigation of a robbery complaint by teammate Ryan Lochte.

The head of the Irish and European Olympic committees, Patrick Hickey, is arrested in Rio over illegal ticket sales, Brazil media report.