News from April 2018
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
Release: The Principality of Liechtenstein is a multiparty constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary government. The unicameral parliament (Landtag) nominates, and the monarch appoints, members of the government. Five ministers, three from the Progressive Citizens’ Party and two from the Patriotic Union, formed a coalition government following free and fair parliamentary elections on February 5.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
Release: Senegal is a republic dominated by a strong executive branch. In 2012 voters elected Macky Sall as president for a seven-year term, in elections considered to be free and fair by local and international observers. On July 30, Sall’s coalition won the majority of seats in the National Assembly. Local and international observers viewed the legislative election as largely free and fair despite significant irregularities.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Mauritius is a multiparty democracy governed by the prime minister, the Council of Ministers, and the National Assembly. International and local observers judged elections for both the prime minister and legislators in 2014 to be generally free and fair.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Armenia’s constitution provides for a republic with an elected head of state and a unicameral legislature, the National Assembly. According to a constitutional referendum conducted in 2015, the country is on track to transition to a parliamentary republic by the end of the existing presidential term...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: HOHENWALD, TN - The Meriwether Lewis Visitor Information Center on the Natchez Trace Parkway will operate on summer hours starting Sunday, May 6, 2018. Summer hours of operation will be Wednesdays through Fridays from noon to 4:30 pm, and Saturdays and Sundays from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm. The visitor information center will be closed Mondays and Tuesdays. The burial monument, restrooms, campground, and hiking trails are open seven days a week.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is an authoritarian state in which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the paramount authority. CCP members hold almost all top government and security apparatus positions. Ultimate authority rests with the CCP Central Committee’s 25-member Political Bureau (Politburo)...
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Eritrea is a highly centralized, authoritarian regime under the control of President Isaias Afwerki. The People’s Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), headed by the president, is the sole political party. There have been no national-level elections since the country’s independence from Ethiopia in 1993.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Guinea-Bissau is a multiparty republic. It was ruled by the democratically elected President Jose Mario Vaz of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cabo Verde (PAIGC) and his appointed prime minister, Umaro Sissoco Embalo. Vaz took office in 2014 after a general election that included...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: WINNEMUCCA, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Humboldt River Field Office, invites you to the grand opening of the Porter Springs Recreation Area from 10:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. on Saturday April 28. This new recreation area is located approximately 1 hour (31 miles) northwest of Lovelock, Nevada in Pershing County.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
Release: Hong Kong is a special administrative region (SAR) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong and the SAR’s charter, the Basic Law of the SAR (also known as the Basic Law), specify that the SAR enjoys a high degree of autonomy under the...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Incidents Took Place in Southeast Washington in February and March 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Seneca Falls, NY -. “In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression…. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way…. The third is freedom from want…secure to...
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: The Principality of Andorra is a constitutional, parliamentary democracy. Two co-princes-the president of France and the Spanish bishop of Urgell-serve with joint authority as heads of state. In 2015 the country held free and fair multiparty elections for the 28 seats in parliament (the General Council of the Valleys), which selects the head of government. Having won a majority in parliament, the Democrats for Andorra re-elected Antoni Marti Petit head of government.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: For Sex Trafficking Minors and an Adult Female by Fraud and Coercion.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
Release: Costa Rica is a constitutional republic governed by a president and a unicameral legislative assembly directly elected in multiparty elections every four years. In 2014 voters elected Luis Guillermo Solis of the Citizen Action Party (PAC) during a second round of elections. In simultaneous legislative...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Oregon Non-Profit Safety Compass Presented with FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Robert Khuzami, the Attorney for the United States, Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the arrest of RAYMOND TRAPANI, a/k/a “Ray," a co-founder...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: PRESS RELEASE. New Albany - United States Attorney Josh Minkler announced today Adrian Grisanti, 46, of Louisville, Kentucky, was convicted on Thursday, April 19, 2018, on twenty counts related to child pornography and one count of destroying evidence after a four-day jury trial before U.S. District...
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
Release: Venezuela is formally a multiparty, constitutional republic, but for more than a decade, political power has been concentrated in a single party with an increasingly authoritarian executive exercising significant control over the legislative, judicial, citizens’, and electoral branches of government.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
Release: The Republic of Serbia is a constitutional, multiparty, parliamentary democracy. The country held extraordinary parliamentary elections in 2016 and presidential elections in 2017. International observers stated that the elections were mostly free but that both campaign periods were tilted to benefit progovernment candidates. In April Aleksandar Vucic, chairman of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), was elected president, winning approximately 55 percent of the vote.
