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...into chaos as air-traffic controllers went on strike to protest an E.U. plan to put the Continent's airspace under international controls. Almost all French short-haul flights were affected by the one-day walkout, which also hit Greece, Hungary, Italy and Portugal. 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...
...retired colonels and such, who shop for books and fine tailoring and stay at select gentlemen's clubs, sipping old whisky with like-minded right-wingers. In 1999, Pinochet made one trip too many and found himself under house arrest for 16 months, facing the threat of extradition to Spain to face torture charges over the treatment of Spaniards and others in Chile. Before Beckett, a writer for the left-leaning Guardian and other newspapers, takes readers along on Pinochet's British visits - mostly in his final chapters - he conducts an entertaining historical tour of British-Chilean relations, beginning...
...risk"; some visa holders already living here will also be questioned and printed. In a matter of seconds, the prints will be matched against an FBI database stocked with thousands of fingerprints lifted from locales as varied as al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and motels in Italy and Spain frequented by Osama bin Laden sympathizers. Once cleared, the visitors will be kept on a short leash, required to check in with the INS every time they change address and before they leave the country...
...that great because there's not much Portugal is better at than us, other than making sweet wine and salted cod. This is a country that has been in decline since 1494, when in the saddest, most grandiose moment of self-delusion in history, it actually sat down with Spain and divided up the world. Not even Brad Grey and Mike Ovitz ever did that, at least not publicly...
...Eriksson and German great Franz Beckenbauer, among others, suggested that the dull performances by hotly favored teams were down to Europe-based players being just plain knackered from a long season of club football. But the teams that excelled in the first two weeks of the World Cup?Brazil, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Sweden?were full of Europe-based players. Nobody clocked more hours in the pro season than Spain's Real Madrid contingent: in addition to the closely contested domestic league, their club went the full distance in the Spanish King's Cup and the European Champions League...