Air France crash memorial in Rio amid criticism (AP)
Brazil's Lula meets queen on investment-seeking visit (AFP)
INTERVIEW - Italy's Lavazza bets on India, Brazil for growth (Reuters)
Israeli president to visit Brazil just before Iranian leader (AFP)
New delay in search for crashed Rio-Paris plane (AP) AP - Families of victims of crashed Rio-Paris Flight 447 said Thursday a new search for wreckage has been delayed, and they accused French investigators of dragging their feet. Evangelical march in Brazil draws 1.5 million (AP)
Brazil report: Pilot error likely in 2007 crash (AP) AP - A military investigation into Brazil's deadliest air disaster reached no conclusion on blame, but officials said Saturday that pilot error rather than mechanical failure was the more likely cause. At least nine survivors in Amazon plane crash (AFP)
Missing Amazon plane makes river landing, 9 alive (AP) AP - A plane that went missing over the Amazon made an emergency river landing in a remote part of the rain forest and nine of the 11 people aboard survived, the Brazilian air force said Friday. You can save this news page by submitting it to your favorite sites:
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AP - Scores of relatives of the 228 people killed in the June 1 Air France jet crash dedicated a memorial in an upscale beach neighborhood Saturday amid strong criticism that the airline has failed to provide them with the answers or compensation they were promised.
AFP - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva met Queen Elizabeth II Thursday on the last day of his trip to Britain, where he sought to drum up investment and signed an Olympic cooperation deal.
Reuters - Italy's leading coffee roaster Lavazza plans to make India and Brazil its hubs for expansion in the Asia Pacific region and Latin America where demand is growing, unlike its saturated domestic market, its chief executive said.
AFP - Israeli President Shimon Peres is to visit Brazil next week, just days before his country's archfoe, Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to also arrive, according to officials.
AP - About 1.5 million evangelical Christians joined Brazil's annual "March for Jesus" on Monday, an event sponsored by a church whose leaders recently returned after being imprisoned in the U.S. for money smuggling.
AFP - Indigenous tribesmen deep in the world's largest rainforest have found at least nine survivors after a Brazilian military transport plane crash-landed in a river in the Amazon, the air force said.
