News from March 2017
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: The Republic of the Marshall Islands is a constitutional republic led by President Hilda C. Heine. The Nitijela, the country’s parliament, elected Heine in early 2016, following free and fair multiparty elections in late 2015.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: El Salvador is a constitutional multiparty republic. Municipal and legislative elections held in March 2015 were generally free and fair. Election results were delayed, however, due to problems with the transmission, tabulation, and public dissemination of the vote count under the management of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal. Free and fair presidential elections took place in 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: A final draft of the Roadside Fuel Break Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project Programmatic Environmental Assessment is now available for public review and comment. This project is intended to construct strategic fuel breaks across the Battle Mountain District in order to protect critical habitat, community infrastructure, life and property from wildfire.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: According to its constitution, Egypt is a republic governed by an elected president and unicameral legislature. Domestic and international observers concluded the presidential election that took place in 2014 was administered professionally and in line with the country’s laws, while also expressing serious...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Argentina is a federal constitutional republic. In November 2015 Mauricio Macri won election to the presidency in the second round of multiparty elections that the media and various nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) described as generally free and fair. The 2015 first round also included legislative elections for one-half of the Chamber of Deputies and one-third of the Senate.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Kiribati is a constitutional multiparty republic. The president exercises executive authority and is popularly elected for a four-year term. The legislative assembly nominates at least three, and no more than four, presidential candidates from among its members. Observers considered parliamentary elections...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Juan Thompson’s Campaign to Harass and Intimidate His Victim Allegedly Included Eight Threats Made to Jewish Community Organizations.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Niger is a multiparty republic. Following a February 21 first round of presidential elections, a run-off was held on March 20 in which incumbent President Issoufou Mahamadou won 92 percent of the vote; principal rival Hama Amadou received 8 percent. Observers from the African Union declared the election...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Estonia is a multiparty, constitutional democracy with a unicameral parliament, a prime minister as head of government, and a president as head of state. The prime minister and cabinet generally represent the party or coalition of parties with a majority of seats in the parliament. The most recent parliamentary...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: The 2017 Great Wright Brothers Aero Carnival.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Iraq is a constitutional parliamentary republic. The outcome of the 2014 parliamentary elections generally met international standards of free and fair elections and led to the peaceful transition of power from former prime minister Nuri al-Maliki to Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Lesotho is a constitutional monarchy with a democratic parliamentary government. Under the constitution, the king is head of state but does not actively participate in political activities. The prime minister is head of government and has executive authority. All major parties accepted the outcome of...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: In February 2014 Russian forces entered Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and occupied it militarily. In March 2014 Russia announced the peninsula had become part of the Russian Federation following a sham referendum that violated Ukraine’s constitution. On March 27, 2014, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Belarus is an authoritarian state. The country’s constitution provides for a directly elected president who is head of state, and a bicameral parliament, the national assembly. A prime minister appointed by the president is the nominal head of government, but power is concentrated in the presidency ...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is a democratic republic with a bicameral parliament. Many governmental functions are the responsibility of two entities within the state, the Federation and the Republika Srpska (RS), as well as the Brcko District, an autonomous administrative unit under BiH sovereignty.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Ghana is a constitutional democracy with a strong presidency and a unicameral 275-seat parliament. Parties and independent candidates campaigned openly and without undue restrictions in the period preceding the 2016 elections. The campaigns were largely peaceful, although there were reports of isolated...
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 Homeland Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is calling on agency heads and inspectors general at the Departments of Homeland Security, Commerce, Interior, and State to address how they’ll fully implement whistleblower protections for government contractors, subcontractors, and grantees.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Yemen is a republic with a constitution that provides for a president, a parliament, and an independent judiciary. Former president Ali Abdullah Saleh stepped down in 2012 when voters elected Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, the sole consensus candidate, as president in a vote generally considered free and fair.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Defendant Sold Multiple Guns to Person working with Law Enforcement; Had High Powered Military-Style Assault Rifle with 100 Round Magazine in Home.
