Major championship boxing officially comes back to the District on Saturday night, when unified super lightweight champion Amir Khan faces homegrown challenger Lamont Peterson at Walter E. Washington Convention Center. For fight enthusiasts in this city that has produced one champion after another, the wait has been far too long. Read full article > >

See more here:
Amir Khan-Lamont Peterson is D.C.’s first major championship fight in more than 18 years

This post has been updated. Hundreds of Occupy D.C. protesters blocked streets Friday night around the Walter E. Washington Convention Center where a conservative group was holding a dinner. Three people were injured after apparently being struck by cars, authorities said. Lt. Christopher Micciche of the D.C. police told the Associated Press that the driver was not cited because he had a green light when his vehicle struck three people. Read full article > >

Visit link:
Occupy D.C. protesters block streets near convention center

Southeast Washington resident Nikki Peele says seeing police walk around her neighborhood makes her feel safe. So she likes D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier’s All Hands on Deck program, which floods the streets with police during select weekends each year. Across the Anacostia River in Northwest, Martin Moulton says his neighborhood near the Walter E. Washington Convention Center struggles with public urination, loitering and other quality-of-life issues. Seeing police around is fine, Moulton says, but he doesn’t think it impresses or intimidates criminals. Read full article > >

View post:
All Hands on Deck police effort gets mixed reviews

Twelve republican activists have been arrested on their way to a concert being held for the Queen at the convention centre in Dublin.

Read the original post:
Twelve arrested near Queen event

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum (R) speaks at the Spartanburg County GOP Convention in South Carolina on Saturday. (AP Photo/Spartanburg Herald-Journal, Alex Hicks Jr.)They say there are no second acts in politics, but Rick Santorum doesn’t have much regard for ‘them.’

Here is the original post:
The case for Rick Santorum

Cherif Bassiouni, a law professor at DePaul University in Chicago, was one of the key authors of the Convention Against Torture and is one of the world’s preeminent experts in international criminal law, particularly from the prosecutor’s perspective. He has just published The Institutionalization of Torture by the Bush Administration: Is Anyone Responsible?, a scholarly work that documents the development of torture policy in the Bush Administration and presents a roadmap for the use of future prosecutors. I put six questions to Professor Bassiouni about his book: . . .

Read the rest here:
SCOTT HORTON—The Institutionalization of Torture—Six Questions for Cherif Bassiouni

President Obama will have Carolina in his mind headed into the 2012 presidential race: Charlotte beat out St. Louis, Cleveland, and Minneapolis to host the Democratic National Convention in September 2012, it was announced Tuesday. The move is seen as…

See the original post here:
Charlotte Will Host Democratic Convention

Mayor Vincent C. Gray warned District residents to brace for “some very painful choices in the weeks and months ahead” during a 10-minute speech after he was sworn in Sunday before 3,500 people at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

Read the rest here:
Tax hike possible, Gray says

According to UN data, Iraq has the most disappeared persons in the world. Editor’s Note: The following is an adaptation of a presentation Dirk Adriaensens gave at the 6th International Conference Against Disappearances, held in London December 9-12, 2010. Forced disappearances and missing persons A forced disappearance (or enforced disappearance) is defined in Article 2 of the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance read more

See the article here:
Always Someone’s Mother or Father, Always Someone’s Child: The Missing Persons of Iraq

Negotiations in the first week of the UN’s Convention on Biological Diversity in Japan has been fraught with politicking, reports the BBC’s Richard Black.

View original post here:
Biodiversity talks hit problems