Portal:Current events/2019 May 23
May 23, 2019 (Thursday)
Business and economy
- Panasonic suspends shipments of certain hardware components to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. to comply with U.S. restrictions on the company. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- John Walker Lindh, the first person to be convicted of a crime in the War on Terror, is released on probation from a federal prison after serving 17 years of a 20-year sentence. (CNN) (Associated Press)
- Baltimore City, Maryland has been battling a ransomware attack that has blocked government email accounts and disabled online payments to city departments. The hackers breached the city's servers on May 7 and demanded $100,000 (£79,000) worth of Bitcoin. (BBC)
- Interpol's Operation Blackwrist arrests nine people in Australia, Thailand and the United States, and rescues 50 children in connection with a 63,000-member online pedophilia ring. More arrests are expected. Investigators from nearly 60 countries participated in this operation. (ChannelNewsAsia) (CBS News)
Politics and elections
- 2019 European Parliament election
- European citizens in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands vote in the first day of 2019's European Parliament elections. (European Parliament)
- The French Senate approves the reworded autonomy statute for French Polynesia. (Radio New Zealand)
- 2019 Malawian general election
- The Malawi Electoral Commission reports, with 75% of the vote counted, President Peter Mutharika leads with 40.44% of votes, the opposition Malawi Congress Party's Lazarus Chakwera has 35.34%, and Deputy President Saulos Chilima received 18.35% of the votes cast in Tuesday's presidential election. (Reuters)