Japanese Reporter Freed From Syria Describes the ‘Endless Fear’ of His al-Qaida Captivity

(TOKYO) — A Japanese journalist freed from captivity in Syria said he is happy to be going home after living in “hell” for more than three years, but is worried about how he will catch up with a changed world.

Kidnapped in 2015 by al-Qaida’s branch in Syria, Jumpei Yasuda was expected to return home Thursday after he was released and taken to Turkey this week.

“I’m so happy to be free,” he told Japan’s NHK television on a flight from Antakya in southern Turkey to Istanbul. “But I’m a bit worried about what will happen to me or what I should do from now on.”

Yasuda said he felt as if he’d fallen behind the rest of the world and was uncertain how to catch up.

Yasuda described his 40 months in captivity as “hell” both physically and mentally. He was kept in a tiny cell and tortured. There was a time when he was not allowed to bathe for eight months.

“Day after day, I thought ‘Oh I couldn’t go home again,’ and the thought takes over my head and gradually made it difficult for me to co..

U.K. Watchdog Fines Facebook $644,000 Over Cambridge Analytica Data Breach

(LONDON) — Britain’s Information Commissioner has slapped Facebook with a fine of 500,000 pounds ($644,000) — the maximum possible — for its behavior in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

The ICO’s investigation found that between 2007 to 2014, Facebook processed the personal information of users unfairly by giving app developers access to their information without informed consent.

The fine was the maximum allowed under the law at the time the breach occurred. Had the scandal taken place after new EU data protection rules went into effect, the amount would have been far higher.

Social media companies have come under pressure globally following allegations that political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica used data from tens of millions of Facebook accounts to profile voters and help U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign .

Russian Soyuz Rocket Lifts Off for First Time Since Failure

(MOSCOW) — A Russian Soyuz rocket has put a military satellite in orbit, its first successful launch since a similar rocket recently failed to deliver a crew to the International Space Station.

The Russian military said a Soyuz-2 booster rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk launch facility in northern Russia Thursday.A Soyuz-FG rocket carrying NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos’ Alexei Ovchinin failed two minutes into the flight on Oct. 11, sending their emergency capsule into a sharp fall back to Earth. The crew landed safely, but Russia had suspended all Soyuz launches pending a probe.Investigators have linked the failure to an element jettisoning one of its four side boosters from the main stage that apparently had been damaged during the rocket’s final assembly on the cosmodrome.

Tommy Robinson vzkazuje přes PL do České republiky: Nedopusťte, aby se u vás stalo to co v Británii. Potřebujeme míň islámu

ROZHOVOR Fotoreportér serveru ParlamentníListy.cz Vít Hassan odchytil na demonstraci hnutí Pegida v německých Drážďanech kontroverzního britského aktivistu Tommyho Robinsona. Robinson je znám svými ostře kritickými postoji vůči islámu. Britská média jej označují jako radikála či extremistu, případně krajního pravičáka. Robinson kromě toho krátce pobyl i ve vězení za to, že si navzdory uvalenému informačnímu embargu dovolil mediálně informovat o případu procesu s gangem pedofilů s muslimským kulturním pozadím. „Nedopusťte, aby se s vaší zemí stalo to, co liberálové udělali s Británií. Zastavte islám a zastavte ho hned,“ vzkázal Robinson v rozhovoru pro ParlamentníListy.cz do České republiky.

Ženy se v ČR mají dobře! Daniela Kovářová vystoupila proti Istanbulské úmluvě. Feministky hrůzou neusnou

Dokument Rady Evropy, který v českém mediálním prostoru vešel ve známost pod názvem Instanbulská úmluva, budí řadu kontroverzí. Veřejnou debatu o jeho smyslu nastartoval monsignor Petr Piťha, jehož plamenný projev během svatováclavského kázání varoval před tím, že svět by jejím přijetím učinil z homosexuálů „nadřazenou třídu“ a přišel by o své dlouho platné pojetí tradiční rodiny. O Instanbulské smlouvě se pro ParlamentníListy.cz vyjádřila někdejší ministryně spravedlnosti JUDr. Daniela Kovářová, dnes advokátka a prezidentka Unie rodinných advokátů. Podle ní je dokument pro Česko nejen nadbytečný, ale zároveň i nebezpečný.