News from March 2021
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Today at the fifth Brussels Conference on “Supporting the Future of Syria and the Region," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield announced more than $596 million in new humanitarian assistance to respond to the Syrian crisis. This funding brings the total U.S. government humanitarian...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: It is alleged that loaded.38 caliber revolver, 43 rounds of ammunition, 10 steel tipped arrows, hunting bow, narcotics, BB gun and body armor vest were recovered during a search of defendant's vehicle.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
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 party exercises total control over the executive, legislative, judicial, and electoral...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Sarah R. Gates Engaged in and Recoded the Sexual Exploitation of a Child Under Five.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Brazil is a constitutional, multiparty republic governed by a democratically elected government. In 2018 voters chose the president, the vice president, and the bicameral national legislature in elections that international observers reported were free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Ireland is a multiparty parliamentary democracy with a directly elected president, an executive branch headed by a prime minister, and a bicameral parliament. The country held free and fair parliamentary elections in February and a presidential election in 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Andrew Johnson National Historic Site (NHS). Beginning Saturday, April 3, free daily guided tours of the historic Andrew Johnson Homestead will resume at 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m., and 2:30 p.m. For visitor safety, the guided tours are limited to 10 participants.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Georgia’s constitution provides for an executive branch that reports to the prime minister, a unicameral parliament, and a separate judiciary. The government is accountable to parliament. The president is the head of state and commander in chief. Under the constitution that came into force after December ...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: The Gambia’s constitution enumerates a full range of provisions and assurances for a multiparty democratic republic. In 2016 Adama Barrow, the consensus candidate of a coalition of seven opposition political parties, defeated incumbent president Yahya Jammeh in what international observers deemed a peaceful...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Zambia is a constitutional republic governed by a democratically elected president and a unicameral national assembly. In 2016 the country held elections under an amended constitution for president, national assembly seats, and local government, as well as a referendum on an enhanced bill of rights.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: The Kyrgyz Republic has a parliamentary form of government designed to limit presidential power and enhance the role of parliament and the prime minister. October 2 parliamentary elections were marred by accusations of vote buying and voter intimidation; opposition parties protested the results. After...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: The Kingdom of Sweden is a constitutional monarchy with a freely elected multiparty parliamentary form of government. Legislative authority rests in the unicameral parliament (Riksdag). Observers considered the general elections in 2018 to be free and fair. In January 2019 a center-left coalition led ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON - A 26-year-old Houston man has been ordered to prison following his convictions of sex trafficking of a minor and conspiracy to do so, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: The Dominican Republic is a representative constitutional democracy. In July, Luis Abinader of the Modern Revolutionary Party was elected president for a four-year term. Impartial outside observers assessed the election as generally free, fair, and orderly.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China. The 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration and the Basic Law of the special administrative region specified that except in matters of defense and foreign affairs, Hong Kong would have a high degree of autonomy under the “one...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: The Union of the Comoros is a constitutional, multiparty republic. The country consists of three islands-Grande Comore (also called Ngazidja), Anjouan (Ndzuani), and Moheli (Mwali)-and claims a fourth, Mayotte (Maore), that France administers. The March 2019 presidential elections were not free and fair,...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Shelly Anne Leipham, of Las Vegas, Nevada, is facing fraud charges, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Solomon Islands is a constitutional multiparty parliamentary democracy. Observers considered the April 2019 parliamentary election generally free and fair, although there were incidents of vote buying. Parliament elected Manasseh Sogavare prime minister after the election, and he formed a coalition government.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) is an authoritarian state led by the Kim family since 1949. Shortly after Kim Jong Il’s death in 2011, his son Kim Jong Un was named marshal of the country and supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army. His titles also include chairman...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Singapore is a parliamentary republic where the People’s Action Party, in power since 1959, dominates the political scene. The Elections Department declared Halimah Yacob president in 2017; she was the only candidate who qualified for the ballot, which was reserved that year for an ethnic Malay. Observers...
