News from December 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Jefferson City, Missouri, man has been convicted by a federal jury of illegally possessing the firearm he used to shoot another person during an argument.
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
Release: Tajikistan. Overview: The Tajik government faced constraints in its efforts to improve the capacity of law enforcement agencies to combat terrorism, enhance border security, and detect terrorist financing owing to the outbreak of COVID-19. The government continued to assert that northern Afghanistan...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
Release: The Government of Mexico has asked USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to authorize the importation of Blackberry (Rubus allegheniensis Porter) and Raspberry (Rubus idaeus L.) tissue culture plants for planting into the United States and Territories. APHIS has drafted a pest risk ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
News Release: SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO - The former mayor of Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, Luis Arroyo- Chiqués, pleaded guilty today in Puerto Rico to engaging in a bribery scheme in which he received cash payments in exchange for awarding a 10-year municipal contract for waste collection services.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
News Release: BILLINGS - A Fairview man who was convicted by a jury of being a felon in possession of firearms after law enforcement found 47 firearms at his residence was sentenced on Dec. 15 to 30 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said today.
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
Release: On behalf of the Government of the United States and the American people, I congratulate His Majesty King Hamad and the people of the Kingdom of Bahrain on the occasion of the country’s National Day.
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
News Release: Cuba. Overview: Cuba was designated as a State Sponsor of Terrorism in 1982 because of its long history of providing advice, safe haven, communications, training, and financial support to guerrilla groups and individual terrorists. This designation was rescinded in 2015 after a policy review found Cuba...
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
Release: Australia. Overview: In 2020, Australia introduced legislation to strengthen CT laws, investigated and disrupted suspected terrorist plots, and maintained high levels of cooperation with the United States and other international partners. Australia continued to play an active role in the Global Coalition...
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
Release: Democratic Republic of the Congo. Overview: ISIS’s branch in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), ISIS-DRC, also known as ADF and MTM, has claimed responsibility for more than 80 incidents - 52 of them in 2020. ISIS-DRC has operated in Beni, North Kivu province, for years. While the majority...
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
News Release: Mali. Overview: A coup d’état on August 18 resulted in the overthrow of the democratically elected government headed by President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta. A military junta assumed control of the government until a transition government was inaugurated on September 25 for an 18-month term. Despite the...
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
Release: We welcome the news that the remaining 12 individuals, including 11 U.S. citizens, kidnapped on October 16 are free today. We are tremendously relieved for them and their families, with whom they will soon be reunited.
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
Release: Kyrgyz Republic. Overview: The Kyrgyz Republic’s counterterrorism efforts continue to concentrate on rooting out “extremists," CVE, limiting the flow of Kyrgyz FTFs, and preventing those returning from conflicts abroad from engaging in terrorist activities, by bolstering reintegration and rehabilitation...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - Annual winter closures went into effect Dec. 1 on public land managed by the Bureau of Land Management in the Montrose area to reduce stress on wintering wildlife and prevent road damage. These seasonal closures remain in place to protect wildlife during times of the year when they are most vulnerable to disturbance.
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - China Task Force Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) along with other members of the China Task Force, Reps. Andy Barr (R-KY), Liz Cheney (R-WY), Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Michael Waltz (R-FL), Darin LaHood (R-IL), Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA), Robert J. Wittman (R-VA), Neal Dunn (R-FL), Mark...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
News Release: Salt Flat, Texas - Beginning January 2022, the Pine Springs Visitor Center at Guadalupe Mountains National Park will be closed 5 days annually. The visitor center will be closed for these specific holidays: Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Washington’s Birthday. In previous years, the visitor center has been closed only on Christmas Day.
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
Release: Sri Lanka. Overview: In the wake of the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide attacks by ISIS-inspired terrorists, Sri Lanka continued efforts to enhance its CT capacities and architecture and improve border security, including through engagement with the United States and other international partners, though progress...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Poplar man accused of stabbing two individuals at a Wolf Point residence on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation admitted to assault charges on Dec. 15, U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
News Release: Yorktown, Virginia - The National Park Service (NPS) announced yesterday new regulations governing the launching and landing of private vessels at Colonial National Historical Park that will go into effect on Jan. 14, 2022.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.), Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) and Representatives Ann Kuster (D-N.H.), and David Trone (D-Md.) today led over 100 Democrats in the Senate and House in reintroducing the Comprehensive Addiction...
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2021
Release: Albania. Overview: Albania continued its strong support of international counterterrorism efforts in 2020 and contributed to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS. The terrorism threat in Albania includes FTFs returning from Iraq and Syria and ISIS sympathizers’ attempts to radicalize Albanian youth to ...
