News from April 2022
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: South Africa is a multiparty parliamentary democracy in which constitutional power is shared among the executive, judiciary, and parliamentary branches. In 2019 the country held a credible national election in which the ruling African National Congress won 58 percent of the vote and 230 of 400 seats in the National Assembly. In 2019 African National Congress president Cyril Ramaphosa was sworn in for his first full term as president of the republic.
By Bob Pepalis | Apr 12, 2022
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., introduced legislation to work against genocide in China, which gained support from the Uyghur Human Rights Project in light of China's reported history of human rights abuses against its own people.
By Press release submission | Apr 12, 2022
Multiple Criminal Migrants and Gang Members Arrested
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: Burkina Faso is a constitutional republic led by an elected president. In November 2020 the country held presidential and legislative elections. President Roch Marc Christian Kabore was re-elected to a second five-year term with 57.74 percent of the popular vote, and his party - the People’s Movement...
By Press release submission | Apr 12, 2022
National Memorial to Complete Ten Year Reforestation Project
By Press release submission | Apr 12, 2022
RGV Apprehends 754 Migrants in Four Large Groups
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Former Puerto Rico police officer Carlos Boyrie-Laboy was sentenced today to 48 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release by District Judge Francisco A. Besosa for his role in a robbery and extortion conspiracy.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
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 | Apr 12, 2022
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 2019 President Mokgweetsi Masisi won his first full five-year term in an election that outside observers deemed free and fair.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: Belize is a constitutional parliamentary democracy. In the most recent national election, held in November 2020, the People’s United Party won 26 of 31 seats in the National Assembly and selected John Briceno as prime minister. Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state and is represented by a governor general. On May 27, Froyla T’zalam assumed the post of governor general following the forced retirement of Sir Colville Young, who held the role for 27 years.
By Press release submission | Apr 12, 2022
Laredo Field Office Ports of Entry Prepare, Implement Facilitation Measures in Light of Increased Holiday Traffic
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on April 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - EM Senior Advisor William “Ike" White recently visited the DOE Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site, where he surveyed progress on major cleanup projects, attended a celebration to mark the completion of buried waste exhumation at a Cold War-era landfill and met with members of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: Mauritania is an Islamic Republic with a president as head of state and a constitution grounded in French civil law and sharia. The National Assembly exercises legislative functions but was weak relative to the executive. Voters elect the president, deputies to the National Assembly, municipal mayors...
By Press release submission | Apr 12, 2022
Border Patrol Personnel Rescue Family from House Fire
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
News Release: A man who possessed stolen mail was sentenced on April 5, 2022, in federal court in Sioux City.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
News Release: April IPM Webinars - Spongy Moths and Non-Leaded AmmunitionThe NPS Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Program regularly hosts webinars on a variety of IPM and invasive species related topics which are open to anyone. On Thursday, April 14th at 12:00pm MT, the NPS IPM Program will be hosting a webinar on...
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
News Release: The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and India on the occasion of the Fourth Annual U.S.-India 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue in 2022.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: The Principality of Monaco is a constitutional monarchy in which the sovereign prince plays the leading governmental role. The prince appoints the government, which consists of a minister of state and five ministers. The prince shares the country’s legislative power with the popularly elected National Council, which is elected every five years. Multiparty elections for the National Council in 2018 were considered free and fair.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $7.3 million grant to the North Slope Borough, Alaska, for transportation infrastructure.
