News from March 2020
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Cote d’Ivoire is a democratic republic governed by a president freely elected in 2015. Parliamentary elections held in 2016 were peaceful and considered inclusive and transparent, as were the country’s first-ever senatorial elections in March. Municipal and regional elections in October 2018, however,...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Taiwan is a democracy governed by a president and parliament selected in multiparty elections. In 2016 voters elected President Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to a four-year term in an election considered free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Mauritania is an Islamic Republic with a president as head of state and a constitution grounded in French civil law and sharia (Islamic law). The National Assembly exercises legislative functions but was weak relative to the executive. Voters elect deputies to the National Assembly, municipal mayors...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Djibouti is a republic with a strong elected president and a weak legislature. In 2016 President Ismail Omar Guelleh was re-elected for a fourth term. International observers from the African Union (AU), Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), and Arab League characterized the election as...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
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 DOE Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: House Democrats today introduced the Families First Coronavirus Response Act to bolster the federal government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak and address the severe impacts of the coronavirus on Americans’ personal safety and financial security.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: The Italian Republic is a multiparty parliamentary democracy with a bicameral parliament consisting of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. The constitution vests executive authority in the Council of Ministers, headed by a prime minister whose official title is president of the Council of Ministers.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration today announced the results of Project Python, a DEA-led multilateral interagency operation encompassing all global investigations and related disruption activities targeting the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG).
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Bhutan is a democratic, constitutional monarchy. King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck is the head of state, with executive power vested in the cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Lotay Tshering. In 2018 the country held its third general elections, in which approximately 71 percent of eligible voters cast their ballots. International election witnesses reported the elections were generally free and fair.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: “Compound King" Convicted in $21 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Belarus is an authoritarian state. The 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, both in fact...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: France is a multiparty constitutional democracy. Voters directly elect the president of the republic to a five-year term. They elected Emmanuel Macron to that position in 2017. An electoral college elects members of the bicameral parliament’s upper house (Senate), and voters directly elect members of the lower house (National Assembly). Observers considered the 2017 presidential and separate parliamentary (Senate and National Assembly) elections to have been free and fair.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - A Columbus, Ohio man pled guilty to a drug crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Darrell Gossett, age 34, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
Release: Thailand is a constitutional monarchy, with King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun (Rama X) as head of state. On March 24, Thailand held the first national election after five years of rule by a junta-led National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO). The NCPO-backed Phalang Pracharath Party...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Togo is a republic governed by President Faure Gnassingbe, whom voters re-elected in 2015 in a process that international observers characterized as generally free and fair. In December 2018 parliamentary elections took place under peaceful conditions. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Armenia’s constitution provides for a parliamentary republic with a unicameral legislature, the National Assembly (parliament). The prime minister elected by the parliament heads the government; the president, also elected by the parliament, largely performs a ceremonial role. During December 2018 parliamentary...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), a member of the HELP Committee, sent a letter to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
By State Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Bolivia is a constitutional, multiparty republic with an elected president and a bicameral legislature. Following October 20 presidential and legislative elections marred by fraud and manipulation, the Electoral Tribunal declared Evo Morales, leader of the Movement Toward Socialism Party (MAS), the winner...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTHONY PENA, 26, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 71 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a loaded firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2020
News Release: Boston - A Dominican national residing in Boston was sentenced to 15 months in prison in federal court in Boston today after being convicted of false representation of a Social Security number.
