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Cristiana Chamorro talks to the media outside the Interior Ministry, where she was notified of an investigation against her due to inconsistencies in the financial reports of the Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Foundation, in Managua, Nicaragua May 20, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Herrera
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A group representing Nicaraguan political prisoners and the mothers of those killed protesting President Daniel Ortega s authoritarian government called Thursday for a national strike after the house arrest of opposition leader Cristiana Chamorro.
Nicaraguan police stormed into Chamorro s home on Wednesday, dramatically escalating a political battle ahead of November elections in which veteran leftist Ortega is seeking to maintain his tight grip on power. read more
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will refuse to approve legislation passed by parliament on Thursday to jail officials for making false asset declarations, a statement on the presidential website said.
Passing the law was a requirement for Ukraine to obtain more foreign aid loans, but Zelenskiy said lawmakers had watered down the bill with amendments that risked undermining Ukraine s efforts to tackle corruption. This is not what Ukrainians expect, and it is not what I promised them when I submitted this bill to parliament, he said.
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A person fills a fuel container at a Shell gas station, after a cyberattack crippled the biggest fuel pipeline in the country, run by Colonial Pipeline, in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 15, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo
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The U.S. Department of Justice is elevating investigations of ransomware attacks to a similar priority as terrorism in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline hack and mounting damage caused by cyber criminals, a senior department official told Reuters.
Internal guidance sent on Thursday to U.S. attorney s offices across the country said information about ransomware investigations in the field should be centrally coordinated with a recently created task force in Washington.
Nearly five months after hundreds of Donald Trump supporters launched a deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol, prosecutors have not carried out an early threat to charge some participants with seditious conspiracy.
They may never do so, according to a law enforcement official and legal experts, because of prosecutors past difficulty in securing convictions on those charges against far-right activists.
Instead, the more than 440 people charged with joining in the Jan. 6 violence that left five people dead including a Capitol Police officer have been charged with crimes ranging from entering a restricted building to criminal conspiracy.
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These differ from a charge of seditious conspiracy alleging attempts to overthrow, put down or to destroy by force the government of the United States.
The FBI is investigating campaign fundraising activity involving a company that the head of the U.S. Postal Service formerly led, a spokesman for Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said on Thursday.