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Pity the shy, retiring girl whose sibling marries above her station. Yesterday a judge in Toledo, Spain ruled that, like it or not, Telma Ortiz, sister to Princess Letizia - and hence sister-in-law to the heir to the Spanish throne - is a public figure. According to the court, she is not entitled, therefore, to keep the paparazzi away...
That train has left the station. The speed and ease with which Nasrallah's fighters took over Beirut--and the military's reluctance to stop them--suggest that Hizballah has free rein of the country. Unlike Hamas, which is confined to poverty-stricken Gaza, Hizballah has at its disposal an entire country, complete with a sophisticated banking system, an international airport and a friendly neighbor in Syria. Never has a terrorist organization had that kind of infrastructure. Saab notes that Hizballah's leaders can now have their cake and eat it too: "They're in control in Lebanon without having...
...cartel there. (Over the weekend, the grown son of the Sinaloa Cartel's chief, Juan "Chapo" Guzman, was gunned down by narco rivals in a Culiacan mall.) Perhaps in response, 40 men dressed in black, riding in 10 pickup trucks and armed with automatic rifles, attacked the state police station in Guamuchil, Sinaloa, reportedly leaving a civilian dead and a police officer seriously wounded. Mexico's violence may defy understanding, but there is one thing Washington may now begin to appreciate: just when you think it can't get any worse, it does...
...President Vladimir Putin successfully spearheaded Russia's effort to win the 2014 Games. The country has not hosted the Olympics since the 1980 Moscow Games, which the U.S. boycotted to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. So the win for Sochi, proclaimed a reporter on Russia's state television station, was "perhaps the greatest success in Russia's modern history...
...Nizhneimeretinskaya Bukhta community's protest, says residents have been desperate to draw the attention of the International Olympic Committee to their plight. But when the IOC inspectors finally did come on April 23, he says, police beat up protestors. Police deny any cruelty, and the Voice of Russia radio station quoted French ski star Jean-Claude Killy, the head of the IOC's delegation, as saying that he was impressed with the speed of preparations...