News from March 2021
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Taiwan is a democracy led by a president and parliament selected in multiparty elections. On Jan. 11, voters re-elected President Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party to another four-year term in an election considered free and fair.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Robert Corleto, 43, of Hudson, was sentenced to 276 months in federal prison on Friday for sexual exploitation of a minor, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: The Cooperative Republic of Guyana is a multiparty democracy. National and regional elections took place in March, and the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) won both the presidency and a majority of representational seats. International and local observers considered the elections free and fair.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Gulfport, Mississippi - Charles Jerrell Brown, 41, of Gulfport, Mississippi, pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola to being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren LaMarca and Brad L. Byerley, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA").
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: The Federated States of Micronesia is a constitutional republic composed of four states: Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap. Individual states enjoy significant autonomy, and their traditional leaders retain considerable influence, especially in Pohnpei and Yap. In March 2019 national elections were held...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Burkina Faso is a constitutional republic led by an elected president. On Nov. 22, the country held presidential and legislative elections despite challenges due to growing insecurity and increasing numbers of internally displaced persons. President Roch Marc Christian Kabore was re-elected to a...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney W. Anders Folk today announced a federal criminal complaint charging THOMAS WILDER MOSELEY, 29, with illegal possession of firearms and ammunition. MOSELEY will make his initial appearance on March 31, 2021, before Magistrate Judge Becky Thorson in U.S. District Court.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) blasted the World Health Organization’s report on the origins of COVID-19, emphasizing the report’s conclusions were compromised by the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts to manipulate the facts and avoid blame for the pandemic.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Ethiopia is a federal republic. The Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front, a coalition of four ethnically based parties, controlled the government until December 2019 when the coalition dissolved and was replaced by the Prosperity Party. In the 2015 general elections, the Ethiopian Peoples’...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: The Governments of the United States and Cabo Verde held their third bilateral Partnership Dialogue on March 30, 2021. With interagency participation from both countries, U.S. Acting Assistant Secretary of State Robert Godec and Cabo Verde Minister of Foreign Affairs and Communities Abroad and of Defense Rui Figueiredo Soares launched the Dialogue.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: The Philippines is a multiparty, constitutional republic with a bicameral legislature. President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, elected in May 2016, began his constitutionally limited six-year term in June 2016. Midterm elections in May 2019 for 12 (of 24 total) senators, all congressional representatives, and...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: The Republic of Korea (South Korea) is a constitutional democracy governed by a president and a unicameral legislature. Observers considered the presidential election in 2017 and the April 15 legislative elections free and fair. Moon Jae-in was elected president in an early election following the impeachment of former president Park Geun-hye.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Jack R. Dove, III (41, Lakeland) has pleaded guilty to receiving and possessing images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of children. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 5 years, and up to 20 years, in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for June 29, 2021.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Guinea is a constitutional democratic republic. In November the Constitutional Court certified President Alpha Conde’s reelection (despite disputed results) with 59.5 percent of the vote, following a controversial March referendum amending the constitution and allowing him to run for a third term. International...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Rwanda is a constitutional republic dominated by a strong presidency. The ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front led a governing coalition that included four smaller parties. In 2017 voters elected President Paul Kagame to a third seven-year term with a reported 99 percent of the vote and a reported 98 percent...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Portugal, which includes the archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira, is a constitutional semipresidential representative democracy with a president, prime minister, and parliament elected in multiparty elections. Observers considered the national legislative elections in October 2019 to be free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Qatar is a constitutional monarchy in which Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani exercises full executive power. The constitution provides for hereditary rule by men in the amir’s branch of the Al Thani family. The most recent elections were in 2019 for the Central Municipal Council, an advisory and consultative body. Observers considered these elections free and fair. All cabinet members, including the prime minister, are appointed by the amir.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Papua New Guinea is a constitutional, federal, multiparty, parliamentary democracy. Parliamentary elections took place in 2017, and the People’s National Congress party won a majority in the 111-seat unicameral parliament, led by former prime minister Peter O’Neill. In May 2019 O’Neill resigned, and...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Indonesia is a multiparty democracy. In April 2019, Joko Widodo (popularly known as Jokowi) won a second five-year term as president. Voters also elected new members of the House of Representatives and the Regional Representative Council, as well as provincial and local legislatures. Domestic and international...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. - To help stimulate, promote, and support industrial research and development mutually beneficial to the United States and Israel, the Israel - U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Homeland Security (HLS) program is seeking proposals for collaborative projects to...
