Under Philippine election law, the candidate with the most votes wins even without a clear majority ...local time, Duterte had won 38% of the vote, ahead of his closest rival by about 15 percentage points ... Turnout for the election was a whopping 81%, illustrating the polarizing power of the frontrunner Duterte, who campaigned on a law-and-order ticket ......
Russian PresidentVladimir Putin is apparently well admired in his country, but a poll shows he is also respected beyond the boundaries of his own nation, Newsweek reports.Although the Kremlin’s violent foreign policy is noteworthy, Putin ranks as the sixth most-admired man in the world in an annual survey by pollster YouGov – that’s five places higher compared to his 2015 result ... Globally, U.S ... Former U.S ... U.S....
In the Western popular imagination -- particularly the American one -- World War II is a conflict we won. It was fought on the beaches of Normandy and Iwo Jima, through the rubble of recaptured French towns and capped by sepia-toned scenes of joy and young love in New York. It was a victory shaped by the steeliness of Gen.Dwight D ...It's a grand moment, but few of the world's major leaders will be in attendance ... Copyright....
Pakistani Police have arrested 13 people suspected of burning a girl alive. The arrest was made on Thursday last week. The people arrested belonged to a tribal council in Pakistan... Replug ... It predates modern-day written or fixed-laws and is conducted to settle disputes among thePashtun people but to a lesser extent among other nearby groups that have been influenced by Pashtuns (historically known as Afghans) ... Pakistan Honor Killing....
Article by WN.com Correspondent DallasDarling. Believe it or not, our brains are hard-wired to take ideas such as momentum and trajectory and apply them to political and social events that have nothing to do with physical movement ... Likewise, and on the heels of winning a resounding majority of the last 15 state primaries, Democratic candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders won Indiana, unexpectedly surprising former U.S ...Meanwhile, from Feb ... 40.....
D.C. leaders renewed Monday their annual call for Congress to refrain from attaching riders to the federal budget that would specifically target locallaws. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton said this year is especially important because the city is exercising its budget autonomy is sending to Congress for approval only the ... ....
The authors say the aspirations and aims for decentralisation - such as local growth and public service reform - can be more likely achieved with better aligned, co-ordinated and simplified methods ... 'Unsurprisingly, this is leading to dissent in some local areas, with the subjects of the new governance arrangements feeling disengaged from the process....
Newly-elected politicians would be schooled in ethics rules under proposed law...The bill (S84) mandates elected officials take the training within six months of their first term ... ... The training would be developed by the Division of LocalGovernment Services in the Department of Community Affairs. It would educate officials on the state's local government ethics law, as well as county and local anti-corruption rules. S.P ... ....
Commons committee says UK needs to underline importance of international law, even amid criticism surrounding UK support for Saudi Arabia’s role in Yemen... As well as addressing violations of law, it also needs to do more to help shape the debate on building resilience and to ensure the global humanitarian system does not squeeze out local groups....
— A potentially epic clash over transgender rights took shape Monday when North Carolina and the federal government sued each other over the state's new bathroom law... The law, which took effect in March, also excludes lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from state anti-discrimination protection and bars local governments from adopting their own anti-bias measures....
Justice Department sued North Carolina over the state's bathroom law after the governor refused to back down ... "This law provides no benefit to society, and all it does is harm innocent Americans." ... The newlaw also excludes lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from state anti-discrimination protection and bars local governments from adopting their own anti-bias measures....
JOINTLAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELEASE - TUFTS UNIVERSITY INVESTIGATION ... today university and local police, local firefighters, and State Police assigned to the StateFire Marshal's Office responded to Tufts University following an arson of a motor vehicle and the discovery of a nearby written threat ... Original documenthttp.//www.mspnews.org/2016/05/joint-law-enforcement-agency-release-tufts-university-investigation/....
Soon after a television report was broadcast Friday on VOA's KurdishService programming, local officials reached out to VOA for help in locating the woman, a Kurdish official told VOA. "We didn't know about her until we watched your video report," Omar Gulpi, a local official at the department of social services, told VOA ... Welfare laws in the ......
SACRAMENTO >> California lawmakers passed a proposal Monday that would require all single-person public restrooms to be gender neutral, hours after North Carolina’s governor sued the federal government to defend that state’s law requiring transgender people to use the restroom matching the sex on their birth certificate....
(AP) — California lawmakers passed a proposal Monday that would require all single-person public restrooms to be gender neutral, hours after North Carolina's governor sued the federal government to defend that state's law requiring transgender people to use the restroom matching the sex on their birth certificate....
"We are working with other local and federal law enforcement agencies, increasing our staffing and presence on all of our campuses, and sharing this information with (the community) out of an abundance of caution ......