Dozens of drug traffickers opened fire Tuesday on soldiers who were patrolling the favela in an attempt to regain control of the slum, officials stated. Hundreds of soldiers were sent into the ...

Canada Real, a shanty town in Spain's Madrid Region, is a sprawling informal housing area that stretches along an 8.9-mile road connecting La Rioja and Ciudad Real. These makeshift homes ...

Both Paris and local authorities would work to "forbid and prevent the reconstruction of shanty towns," Bayrou said as ... and a secondary school in a slum that had been looted after the cyclone.