News from March 2017
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: France is a multiparty constitutional democracy. The president of the republic is elected by popular vote for a five-year term. Voters elected Francois Hollande to that position in 2012. The upper house (Senate) of the bicameral parliament is elected indirectly through an electoral college, while the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Unlicensed Medical Professional Convicted for Role in $1.3 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: The Azerbaijani constitution provides for a republic with a presidential form of government. Legislative authority is vested in the Milli Mejlis. The president dominated the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government. On Sept. 26, constitutional amendments were approved that, inter ...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Malta is a constitutional republic and parliamentary democracy. The president is the head of state, appointed by a resolution of the unicameral parliament (House of Representatives. Parliament appointed a new president in 2014. The president names as prime minister the leader of the party winning a majority of seats in parliamentary elections. The 2013 general elections were deemed free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Indonesia is a multiparty democracy. In 2014 voters elected Joko Widodo (commonly known as Jokowi) as president. Domestic and international observers judged the 2014 legislative and presidential elections free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Afghanistan is an Islamic Republic with a directly elected president, a bicameral legislative branch, and a judicial branch. Based on the electoral calendar specified in the constitution, parliamentary elections should have taken place in 2015; however, they did not take place in either 2015 or 2016.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Kenya is a republic with three branches of government: an executive branch, led by a directly elected president; a bicameral parliament consisting of the Senate and the National Assembly; and the judiciary. The country continued to transfer significant elements of fiscal and administrative authority...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Peru is a constitutional, multiparty republic. Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, leader of the Peruanos Por el Kambio (Peruvians for Change) Party, won the June national elections in a vote widely considered free and fair.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Bank Robbery of TCF Bank on March 1, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jordan Roybal, 25, an enrolled member of the San Ildefonso Pueblo who resides in San Felipe Pueblo, N.M., made his initial appearance today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., on a criminal complaint charging him with assaulting a federal officer.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Malaysia is a federal constitutional monarchy. It has a parliamentary system of government selected through regular, multiparty elections and is headed by a prime minister. The king is the head of state and serves a largely ceremonial role; he serves a five-year term, and the kingship rotates among the...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: India is a multiparty, federal, parliamentary democracy with a bicameral parliament. The president, elected by an electoral college, is the head of state, and the prime minister is the head of the government. Under the constitution, the 29 states and seven union territories have a high degree of autonomy...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Fadi Yassine, age 42, a Lebanese citizen, has been charged in a one-count Indictment filed in the Northern District of Iowa with conspiring to violate the Arms Export Control Act and to ship, transport, and deal firearms without a license.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Honduras is a constitutional, multiparty republic. The country held national and local elections in November 2013. Voters elected Juan Orlando Hernandez of the National Party as president for a four-year term that began in January 2014. International observers generally recognized the elections as transparent, credible, and reflecting the will of the electorate. The National Congress elected a new 15-member Supreme Court for a seven-year term in February.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Malawi is a multiparty democracy. Constitutional power is shared between the president and the 193 National Assembly members. The 2014 elections for president, parliament, and local councils were characterized by international observers as free, transparent, and credible.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Germany is a constitutional democracy. Citizens choose their representatives periodically in free and fair multiparty elections. The lower chamber of the federal parliament (Bundestag) elects the head of the federal government, the chancellor. The second legislative chamber, the Federal Council (Bundesrat) ...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: BEAUFORT, SC - The National Park Service and local partners will this month host a community celebration in Beaufort County marking the recent establishment of Reconstruction Era National Monument.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Canada is a constitutional monarchy with a federal parliamentary government. In a free and fair multiparty federal election held in October 2015, the Liberal Party, led by Justin Trudeau, won a majority of seats in the federal parliament and formed a government.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Cambodia is a constitutional monarchy with an elected parliamentary form of government. In the most recent national election in 2013, the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) won by its narrowest margin since 1993, capturing 68 seats, while the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) won 55 seats.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Libya is a parliamentary democracy with a temporary Constitutional Declaration, which allows for the exercise of a full range of political, civil, and judicial rights. Citizens elected the Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HoR) in free and fair elections in June 2014. The Libyan Political Agreement,...
