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...General strikes in Greece and Spain complicated the situation for travelers. The air-traffic controllers objected to the E.U.'s Single-Skies plan, which would replace national airspaces with zones of control based on international air corridors. French air-traffic controllers said they fear the plans could compromise safety. LUXEMBOURG Axis of Trade E.U. foreign ministers gave the green light to launch formal trade negotiations with Iran, despite heavy pressure from Israel and the U.S., which sees Iran as part of an "axis of evil." The E.U. agreement could give European companies an edge over their U.S. competitors once...
...Antonio Ingroia explains the pattern. A die-hard mafioso contacts a "mafioso businessman," who is the conduit to a "legitimate" businessman, who provides the ultimate cover to launder money through real enterprises all the way up to the stock market. The network stretches from Palermo to Milan to Switzerland, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein. "It's a chain," Ingroia says. "In our opinion, they are guilty of crimes at all levels." The man thought to be responsible for smartening up the Mafia quit school at age 10. Bernardo Provenzano, now 69, became the capo dei capi of Cosa Nostra after his boyhood...
...Europe should be shopping for drones that can carry out many of the tasks of unmanned aircraft at a fraction of the cost. Europe also needs to get its organizational act together. Every six months the E.U. has a new President who can come from the likes of tiny Luxembourg or neutral Ireland. Henry Kissinger once famously asked for Europe's telephone number. It's still unlisted. If Europe wants Washington to call, it must develop common and coherent foreign and defense policies backed by military power...
...screen, and a ghostly white fish swims in and out of the frame. As Hsaio-kang watches Truffaut, the TV set is, again, placed at bottom right. Chen and Cecilia Yip's heads line up diagonally on a pillow before they kiss. Even the chairs in Paris' Luxembourg Gardens have armrests that rise at 45 degrees from the slumping seats. Throughout, Tsai makes the eye follow as if looking at a painting, seldom giving the viewer the luxury of a single focal point...
...final seven minutes are master-class. In the Luxembourg Gardens, Shiang-chyi's face fills the screen, as ghostly as that fish. A string of snot runs from her nose; there's a tear smear or two on her cheeks. The camera retreats, showing children playing to her left, interrupted when a suitcase on wheels is dragged between them by two adults. Then we're looking behind her sleeping head, at a pond: the suitcase drifts, unexplained, from left to right and out of shot. Back again, and now the frame is filled by a Chinese man who fishes...