News from March 2021
By DOE Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - To protect a treasured ecological species of northern New Mexico, EM ’s Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) and primary contractor N3B on March 1 began their annual task of modifying legacy waste cleanup activities at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) ahead of the Mexican spotted owl breeding season.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
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 State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Madagascar is a semipresidential democratic republic with a popularly elected president, a bicameral legislature (Senate and National Assembly), prime minister, and cabinet. A presidential election was held in November 2018, with a two-candidate run-off in December 2018. The winner, Andry Rajoelina,...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to conspiracy to distribute more than 40 grams of fentanyl and misusing a Social Security number.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
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 30, 2021
News Release: Malaysia is a federal constitutional monarchy. It has a parliamentary system of government selected through regular, multiparty elections and is headed by a prime minister. The king is the head of state, serves a largely ceremonial role, and has a five-year term. The kingship rotates among the sultans...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Fiji is a constitutional republic. In 2018 the country held general elections, which international observers deemed free, transparent, and credible. Josaia Voreqe (Frank) Bainimarama’s Fiji First party won 27 of 51 seats in parliament, and he began a second four-year term as prime minister.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Area Administered by Turkish Cypriots. Since 1974 the southern part of Cyprus has been under the control of the government of the Republic of Cyprus. The northern part of Cyprus, administered by Turkish Cypriots, proclaimed itself the “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" in 1983. The United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Mortuary Technicians Allegedly Stole Credit and Debit Cards of Decedents and Made Thousands of Dollars of Unauthorized Purchases.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Kiribati is a constitutional multiparty republic. The president exercises executive authority. Following legislative elections, the House of Assembly nominates three or four presidential candidates from among its members, and the public then elects the president for a four-year term. Two-stage parliamentary...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A former Princeton resident was arrested today and charged with engaging in multiple fraudulent schemes intended to steal millions of dollars from individual and institutional victims, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: The Central African Republic is a presidential republic. Professor Faustin-Archange Touadera was elected in the second round of presidential elections in 2016 for a five-year term. In February 2019 the government and 14 armed groups signed the Political Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation. President...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Panama is a multiparty constitutional democracy. In May 2019 voters chose Laurentino Cortizo Cohen as president in national elections that international and domestic observers considered generally free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: On March 30, the United States and Cabo Verde participated in the third bilateral United States-Cabo Verde Partnership Dialogue, underscoring our joint commitment to strengthening commercial and economic ties, expanding educational partnerships, and further enhancing strategic defense and security cooperation between our two countries.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: Equatorial Guinea is nominally a multiparty constitutional republic. Since a military coup in 1979, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has dominated all branches of government in collaboration with his clan and political party, the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea, which he founded in 1991.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is a constitutional monarchy ruled by King Abdullah II bin Hussein. The constitution grants the king ultimate executive and legislative authority. The multiparty parliament consists of a 130-member popularly elected House of Representatives (Majlis al-Nuwwab) and a Senate...
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Botswana is a constitutional, multiparty, republican democracy. Its constitution provides for the indirect election of a president and the popular election of a National Assembly. The Botswana Democratic Party has held a majority in the National Assembly since the nation’s founding in 1966. In October 2019 President Mokgweetsi Masisi won his first full five-year term in an election that was considered free and fair by outside observers.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
Release: El Salvador is a constitutional multiparty republic with a democratically elected government. In February 2019 voters elected Nayib Bukele as president for a five-year term. The election was generally free and fair, according to international observers. Free and fair municipal and legislative elections took place in 2018.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Palau is a constitutional republic with a national government consisting of executive, legislative, and judicial branches that are independent of each other. Voters elect the president, vice president, and members of the legislature for four-year terms. On Nov. 3, voters elected Surangel Whipps Jr. president in a generally free and fair election.
By State Newswire | Mar 30, 2021
News Release: Crimea. Note: Except where otherwise noted, references in this report do not include areas controlled by Russia-led forces in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine or Russian-occupied Crimea. At the end of this report is a section listing abuses in Russian-occupied Crimea. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. Ukraine...
