Balanced News Blog

The Afghan capital, Kabul, has a new, international standard five-star hotel, the first to be built since the fall of the Taleban four years ago.

A Chilean judge has denied bail to ex-Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori, who is awaiting a ruling on his extradition to his home country.

A news program on Italian satellite TV, RAI News 24, has substantiated the claim that the US military has been exploiting the dual use of white phosporus. In its siege of Fallujah, the chemical was used on the civilian populace. The story is in today’s Repubblica. The Bush Adminstration and the DoD are about to be shamed before the eyes of the world.

A German Holocaust denier who has regularly lavished praise on Adolf Hitler has gone on trial in Germany.

A lawyer for one of Saddam Hussein’s co-defendants has been shot dead in the Iraqi capital Baghdad while another has been injured, police sources say.

Gunmen are said to have opened fire on a car carrying both men, killing one …

Why are elections held on Tuesdays, in the middle of the work week for most Americans?

In Jefferson City, Missouri, radio talk show host James P. Keown, who often interviewed the local prosecutor about murders and other crimes, was arrested during a commercial break on his radio show for the murder of his wife.

17 people were arrested Tuesday in Australia on charges of planning a terrorist attack.