News from March 2020
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Sri Lanka is a constitutional, multiparty democratic republic with a freely elected government. Gotabaya Rajapaksa was elected president on November 16. Accredited domestic and international observers described the election as peaceful and technically well managed but noted that unregulated campaign...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Nicaragua has a highly centralized, authoritarian political system dominated by President Daniel Ortega Saavedra and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo Zambrana. Ortega’s Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) party exercises total control over the executive, legislative, judicial, and electoral...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Ukraine →. 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. The UN General Assembly’s Resolution 68/262...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is temporarily waiving minimum slot-use requirements at U.S. airports to help airlines that cancel flights due to the Coronavirus.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has a constitutional monarchy and a democratic parliamentary form of government with a popularly elected unicameral Chamber of Deputies (parliament). The prime minister is the leader of the dominant party or party coalition in parliament. In October 2018 the country held parliamentary elections that observers considered free and fair.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Christopher J. Cohn, a/k/a “Wolf," age 26, of Albany, pled guilty today to a four-count superseding indictment charging armed bank robbery, firearms, and conspiracy crimes in connection with two February 2019 armed bank robberies.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: The Czech Republic is a multiparty parliamentary democracy. Legislative authority is vested in a bicameral parliament, consisting of a Chamber of Deputies (Poslanecka snemovna) and a Senate (Senat). The president is head of state and appoints a prime minister from the majority party or coalition. Voters re-elected President Milos Zeman to a second five-year term in 2018 and held parliamentary elections in 2017. Observers considered both elections free and fair.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Point Pleasant, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for distributing approximately 300 grams of crystal methamphetamine and thousands of pills containing heroin or fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Tajikistan is an authoritarian state dominated politically by President Emomali Rahmon and his supporters. The constitution provides for a multiparty political system, but the government has historically obstructed political pluralism and continued to do so during the year. Constitutional amendments...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Liberia is a constitutional republic with a bicameral national assembly and a democratically elected government. The country held presidential and legislative elections in 2017, and legislative by-elections in 2018, which domestic and international observers deemed generally free and fair. Vacancies...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Demarcus Deon Crawford, 36, a/k/a/ "Trip," has been sentenced to 300 months in federal prison for conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Poland is a republic with a multiparty democracy. The bicameral parliament consists of an upper house (Senate) and a lower house (Sejm). The president and the Council of Ministers headed by the prime minister share executive power. In the parliamentary elections held on Oct. 13, the ruling Law and...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Sudan began the year as a republic with power concentrated in the hands of authoritarian President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and the National Congress Party (NCP). The NCP, which ruled for three decades with nearly absolute political authority, remained in power until early April. Protests that began in...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: West Bank and Gaza →. Executive Summary. Israel is a multiparty parliamentary democracy. Although it has no constitution, parliament, the unicameral 120-member Knesset, has enacted a series of “Basic Laws" that enumerate fundamental rights. Certain fundamental laws, orders, and regulations legally depend...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Morocco is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary national legislative system under which ultimate authority rests with King Mohammed VI, who presides over the Council of Ministers. The king shares executive authority with Head of Government (prime minister) Saadeddine El Othmani. According to...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - March 11, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - A Calloway County, Kentucky, man, has been sentenced to life in federal prison by United States Senior Judge Thomas B. Russell, announced U.S. Attorney Russell Coleman.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Colombia is a constitutional, multiparty republic. Presidential and legislative elections were held in 2018. In June 2018, voters elected Ivan Duque Marquez president in a second round of elections that observers considered free and fair and the most peaceful in decades.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A Warm Springs man has been charged with sexually abusing a minor victim nearly three decades ago on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - Terry Foster has been sentenced to pay a $1,000 fine for one count of violating the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (“FIFRA") by lacing deer carcasses with a restricted, highly poisonous pesticide in order to bait and kill coyotes.
