Campaigners Oppose Trend to Put Politics Above the Law New York Times (blog) Mr. Garzón, 56, who was deeply involved in investigating alleged political corruption, won international notoriety in 1998 when Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator, was arrested in a London hospital on a warrant he issued.
Egypt's angry soccer fans are deep into politics Boston.com Known as Ultras and long viewed as hooligans, they have grown increasingly political, starting with last year's uprising, and were pushed over the edge by the deadly riots at a soccer match last week. It's a sign of how the military's rocky handling of ...