Attacked the website that gathers signatures to free Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei

The Change web platform. org, which museums around the world have gathered over 90,000 signatures calling for the release of Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, announced today that it has been attacked by hackers from China. The platform reported on its website that are suffering from Monday intermittent periods of inactivity due to a page denial of service attack DDoS from China.

The attack comes as the campaign has surpassed the 92,000 signatures from 175 countries calling for the release of the famous dissident, detained without charge by the authorities in Beijing on April 3. Ai's creator and activist, known for having participated in the design of the Beijing Olympic Stadium by Sunflower recent exhibition at the London gallery Tate, radicalized his stance against Chinese rule since the 2008 Sichuan earthquake killed thousands of children by the collapse of schools.

The new PidUE

On March 30, 2011 submitted with Sonia Alfano and colleagues ALDA, a parliamentary question to the European Commission and the Council of Ministers on the revision of the constitution presented to parliament by the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. In particular, we asked the two bodies if they consider the text of the paper should be regarded as having a decided contrast to the Treaty on European Union.

Raul Castro succeeded his brother as head of the Cuban Communist Party

Cuban President Raul Castro, was appointed first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), succeeding his brother Fidel, who led the party since its founding in 1965, announced Tuesday, April 19, a party official during the closing ceremony of the congress. In a special message issued Tuesday by the press, Fidel Castro has confirmed that, as he had announced in March he gave up his post as first secretary in favor of his brother, which he relinquished power in 2006 for health reasons.

U.S., near collision between the jet Michelle Obama

The failure of an air traffic controller has almost caused a disaster, a White House jet carrying Michelle Obama was forced to pull up at the last minute as he was landing at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland. The plane of first lady she had to "hang" as the jargon, it was coming down the runway on which there was a 200-ton military cargo plane.

The cargo had not released the track on time, "explained an official of the base. Who also confirmed the presence of the first lady on the airplane. Michelle Obama was returning after participating in a television program and a few other meetings with Vice President Joe Biden in New York.

Death Arrigoni, Hamas raid against the Jordanian Salafi Suicide, killing another sought

 Two people died of the budget today conducted raids against Hamas last three Salafists are wanted for the murder of Vittorio Arrigoni. Medical sources said from Gaza, adding that two of the Salafists were wounded in the operation: either he died because of injuries. The other victim is the Jordanian Abu Abdel Rahman Bereitz that he would commit suicide to avoid capture making exploded.

Chernobyl: the international community releases 550 million euros

Twenty-five years after the Chernobyl disaster, the international community has made, Tuesday, April 19, at the head of Ukraine to help finance a long-term answer for the worst civilian nuclear accident in history. The leaders of the G8 and the European Union gathered in Kiev for a donor conference recalling the quarter century of disaster back in the news with the episode of the Japanese central Fukushima.

Syria protests continue, the government denounced the "sabotage"

The protest movement regime in Syria has grown with new events, Monday, April 18, after the death of eleven demonstrators killed by security forces in the region of Homs, according to activists of human rights . The authorities, meanwhile, blamed the violence of recent days to "criminal elements" guilty of "sabotage".

Thousands of people attended the funerals of at least seven people killed Sunday in Homs in central Syria, while demonstrations were held in Dera in the south, the epicenter of unprecedented challenge launched March 15, and nearly Idleb (northwest). The opposition has found insufficient the promise of President Bashar al-Assad to repeal in the coming days the emergency law in force for five decades, calling for a multiparty system and also the release of political prisoners.