News from April 2022
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
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...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: Mali had a constitutional democratic system that was upended in an August 2020 military coup d’etat. The country last held presidential elections in 2018, re-electing Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in elections that met minimum acceptable standards. Following the August 2020 coup, a brief period of military...
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: The Republic of Latvia is a multiparty parliamentary democracy. A unicameral parliament (Saeima) exercises legislative authority. Observers considered the elections in 2018 for the 100-seat parliament to be free and fair.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: The Republic of South Sudan is a republic operating under a transitional government formed according to the terms of peace agreements signed in August 2015 and September 2018. President Salva Kiir Mayardit, whose authority derives from his 2010 election as president of what was then the semiautonomous...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 24 months and two days in prison for his role in a scheme to file fraudulent tax returns in victims’ names in order to obtain tax refunds to which he was not entitled, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: The United Arab Emirates is a federation of seven semiautonomous emirates with a resident population of approximately 9.8 million, of whom an estimated 11 percent are citizens. The rulers of the seven emirates constitute the Federal Supreme Council, the country’s highest legislative and executive body.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: Samoa is a constitutional parliamentary democracy that incorporates traditional practices into its governmental system. Although the unicameral parliament is elected by universal suffrage, only matai (family chiefs) may be members. After a months-long political impasse following April 9 parliamentary...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - Michael McWhorter, 33, and Joe Morris, 26, both of Clarence, Illinois, were sentenced today to 190 months and 170 months in prison, respectively, for firearms violations, arson, use of a destructive device, and federal civil rights violations in connection with the 2017 bombing of Dar al-Farooq (DAF) Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minnesota.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: West Bank and Gaza. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. Israel is a multiparty parliamentary democracy. Although it has no constitution, its parliament, the unicameral 120-member Knesset, has enacted a series of “Basic Laws" that enumerate fundamental rights. Certain fundamental laws, orders, and regulations legally...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
The US Justice Department published a three page notice on April 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C--U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) released the following statement after the Consumer Price Index (CPI) release showed inflation surged 8.5 percent year over year in March, the fastest rate in more than 40 years.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: The Russian Federation has a highly centralized, authoritarian political system dominated by President Vladimir Putin. The bicameral Federal Assembly consists of a directly elected lower house (State Duma) and an appointed upper house (Federation Council), both of which lack independence from the executive.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: Canada is a constitutional monarchy with a federal parliamentary government. In a free and fair multiparty federal election held in September, the Liberal Party, led by Justin Trudeau, won a plurality of seats in the federal parliament and formed a minority government.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: Hungary is a multiparty parliamentary democracy. The unicameral National Assembly (parliament) exercises legislative authority. It elects the president (the head of state) every five years. The president appoints a prime minister from the majority party or coalition in parliament following national elections...
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: China | hong kong | Macau.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: The U.S. Department of State is announcing rewards of up to $5 million for information leading to each of the arrests and/or convictions of Irish transnational organized criminal Christopher Vincent Kinahan and his two sons, Daniel Joseph Kinahan and Christopher Kinahan, Jr., for participating in, or...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: MANASSAS, Va. Residents of the Manassas area will be able to enroll in the Transportation Security Administrations popular TSA PreCheck program at the AAA office in Manassas from April 18 to 22, where officials will host a temporary pop-up enrollment center.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - Antonio McCrary has been sentenced for a carjacking at a Chamblee, Georgia residence and an unrelated string of firearm thefts in Newnan, Georgia. Additionally, Cortez Butler, who admitted to committing the carjacking with Butler, was sentenced in September 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Alexander Michael Ryan Myers, of Hagerstown, Maryland, was sentenced today to 10 months of incarceration for his role in a firearms trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
