A Frenchman of Tunisian origin helped organise the attack on the Paris offices of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo. Boubaker al-Hakim, born in Paris in 1983, held French and Tunisian nationality. He fought in Iraq in 2003-4 and was jailed in France for trying to recruit other Europeans to join him. After the Arab Spring in 2011 he returned to Tunisia and from there went to fight in Syria.
Tunisia used to be mistaken for an oasis of secularism. In fact, Salafist radicals began to emerge within Tunisia in the 2000s, fuelled by religious programmes on newly-available satellite television channels and by the suffocation of an authoritarian state which imposed an official "tolerant"vision of Islam. Many were jailed, only to be released in 2011 in an amnesty after the fall of the Ben Ali regime.
Rather than dampening radicalism, the transition to democracy has instead propelled it. Radical Salafists took advantage of the power vacuum and widespread social and economic inequality to press ahead with recruitment.
Personal ties explain why large groups of young people have emptied particular neighbourhoods, in Ettadhamen, near Tunis, Bizerte, in the north, or Ben Gardane, near the Libyan border, in order to fight abroad.
This weeks episode of ABCs summer series, Greatest Hits, focused on the music from 1985 to 1990. Bret Michaels started off the show with his classic party hit, Nothin But A Good Time, to get the crowd in a good mood. Although, the majority of the show was dominated by some of the 80s best ballads.
Foreigner was joined onstage by Nate Ruess, the lead singer of fun, for a fun rendition of the rock bands ballad, I Want to Know What Love Is. The English/American group wasnt the only band from the 70s and 80s to perform with a contemporary artist, Chicago and Aloe Blacc crushed a couple of the Windy City bands classics together. They started off with Look Away and then brought it home with Youre the Inspiration.
There was one group that wasnt from the 80s and that was Wilson Phillips. Carnie Wilson, Wendy Wilson, and Chynna Phillips dominated 1990 with hit after hit, and the entire Greatest Hits crowd sang along with them as they belted out their greatest hit, Hold On.
Although, the show wasnt just about classic songs, it was also about the girls that danced to those songs. The shows host, Arsenio Hall, handed out the coveted Greatest Video Babe Lifetime Achievement Award to Tawny Kitaen, something every little girl dreams of achieving.
Greatest Hitsairs Thursday at 9pm on ABC.
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2015 Playmate of the Year Dani Mathers Turns it Way Up
Dani Mathers (29) la ut et bilde av en naken kvinne i enfellesdusj og uttrykte forakt. Det skulle hun ikke ha gjort.
Modellen som ble kret til Playmate of the Year, ser ut til ha gtt p en heidundrende PR-smell. 29-ringen trodde antagelig hun var kul og morsom da hun p Snapchat la ut et bilde av seg selv i en garderobe hvor ogs en annen naken kvinne befant seg. Kvinnen ble tatt bilde av uforvarende.
Kommentar: Frigjring fra kroppsskammen
Ved siden av bildet har modellen lagt ut et bilde av seg selv mens hun holder hnden forskrekket over munnen, forskrekket over se den nakne kvinnen.
Teksten hun har skrevet til er: If I cant unsee this then you cant either. Som om det verste hun noen gang har sett er en naken kvinne med en helt vanlig kropp.
Reaksjonene lot ikke vente p seg (DaniMathers, som var tagget i postene, har slettet sin Twitter-konto).
P Twitter fikk hun straks ilbakemeldinger p at hun bedrev skalt bodyshaming, kroppshets. En annen bruker p Twitter kritiserte henne for ha lagt ut et bilde av en naken kvinne, et bilde som n sirkulerer p nettet uten at hun vet om det.
I ettertid har modellen forskt seg med en unnskyldning, en offentlig beklagelse. Her sier hun at bildet hun la ut ved en feil og at hun er helt i mot kroppshets.
Grunnen til at jeg valgte yrket jeg har er at jeg elsker kvinnekroppen, og jeg vet at kroppshets er feil. Og slik er ikke jeg.
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Emma Roberts laughs it up with some friends on the beach on Wednesday afternoon (July 13) in Miami, Fla.
The 25-year-old actress wore a cute pink two piece ahead of her appearance on Despierta America at Univision Studios the next day where she chatted up her new movie, Nerve.
During a recent press day in New York City, Emma and her co-star Dave Franco pranked the reporters in one of their interviews with help from directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, and YouTuber Casey Neistat.
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Fresno police body camera video of Dylan Noble shooting
The attorney for the father of Dylan Noble has filed claims against the city on behalf of his client and the estate of Dylan Noble, saying Fresno police violated the 19-year-olds Fourth Amendment right to be free from excessive force when officers shot him four times in a gas station parking lot last month.
Attorney Warren Paboojian filed the claims Thursday. A claim is the precursor to a lawsuit and the city must now either accept or reject the claim.
The claim does not specify the amount sought for Nobles death, but Paboojian says the estate and his client, Darren Noble, are entitled to punitive damages and also asserted a survival claim for the loss or damage that Noble sustained or incurred before his death, including damages he would have been entitled to had he survived.
Paboojian says officers never tried to use anything other than lethal force when they confronted Noble during the June 25 traffic stop.
The officers never had an objectively reasonable basis to shoot Dylan Noble, Paboojian says. At no time did they use or attempt to use their K-9 unit. At no time did they use or attempt to use a TASER.
On Monday, attorney Stuart Chandler filed a similar claim against the city on behalf of Veronica Nelson, Nobles mother. Earlier this week, the City Attorneys Office said, Our policy is to refrain from discussing any pending claim or litigation.
Around 3:40 p.m. on June 25, Fresno police dispatch received a call from a woman who reported a man in a camouflage jacket walking around Clinton and Clovis avenues while carrying a rifle. Officers were in the area when they spotted Noble driving a pickup and initiated a traffic stop.
Paboojian acknowledges that after Noble pulled into the Chevron gas station, he got out of his vehicle, walked away from officers with his hands up and later turned and walked toward the officers. Paboojian also describes in the claim the succession of shots: two in rapid succession just over a minute after Noble stopped his truck, then another roughly 30 seconds later, while Noble was on the ground. Around 15 seconds later, a second officer fired a shotgun at Noble.
Paboojian notes in his claims that Noble did not resemble the man the officers were pursuing, and that Noble was not wearing any camouflage clothing.
Police Chief Jerry Dyer released the body camera footage from the shooting on Wednesday. The footage shows Noble ignoring the officers commands to show both of his hands and to stop moving his hands before he was shot.
At a news conference Wednesday evening at Paboojians northwest Fresno office, after Dyer spoke at police headquarters, Paboojian said the officers were needlessly aggressive from the outset.
I want to focus on one real important area, Paboojian said. This is a traffic stop. By no stretch of the imagination do we get (from) traffic stop to felony.
People are going to question Dylans conduct of why he did certain things, Paboojian said. The officers never gave Dylan an explanation or a chance to speak. The officers never, in those 30 commandments that Jerry Dyer indicated, did they ask him, Do you have a gun?
All they were doing was telling a young boy who may have been under the influence of some alcohol to do a bunch of commands for a routine traffic stop.
Dyer has said the two veteran officers feared for their safety when they encountered Noble. Also, Dyer said Noble did not follow officers orders and twice put a hand into his waistband, then withdrew it quickly. The officers thought he was reaching for a gun, and so they fired, the chief said.
Both officers are on paid leave while the shooting is investigated. No weapon was found on Noble.
Mega-Fight mit Ex Taylor Swift: Geht Calvin Harris jetzt zu weit?
Gotta love a bit of drama! The Internet had a field day in the wake of Calvin Harrisheated Twitter response to Taylor Swifts revelation that she wrote the lyrics to This Is What You Came For.
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After Katy Perry seemingly responded to the drama with her own array of cryptic tweets (including a hilarious GIF of Hillary Clinton and a telling retweeted message saying, Time, the ultimate truth teller), social media users jumped online to have their say about the situation.
Those on team Harris took to Swifts Instagram profile to bombard her account with snake emojis, referencing the fact that Harris accused her team of trying to make him look bad.
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Swifts die-hard fans tried to overrule the snakes with their own heart emojis, but before long the hashtag #TaylorSwiftIsOverParty was trending on Twitter. And the collection of celebs drawn into the mess (seemingly turning up at the party, thanks to social media users funny memes and GIFs) included Kanye West, Will Smith, Christina Aguilera and a host of others.
Check out some of the funniest fan reactions in the posts below.
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Nia Vardalos: I Agree With Jennifer Aniston About Body Shaming | TODAY
Both male and female stars from around the world have spoken out to support Jennifer Aniston, after the actress published a powerful letter on Tuesday to call out the tabloids that stalk her. And were not at all surprised that everyones on Jennifers side. No one ever really thought that baby shaming and body shaming were ok now, did they?
Speaking on Entertainment Tonight, actress Melissa McCarthy said that she agrees with Jennifer one hundred thousand billion percent.
Everybody needs to stop tearing down women, she said, before explaining the difference in the ways that male and female celebrities are discussed in the media. Its always about the way we look saying, Hes very interesting, Hes a good writer, Shes looking older than she was last time we saw her. Its a ridiculous thing. I just hope it gets to the point where its embarrassing for people to have such a shallow thought.
Jennifers former co-star Jason Bateman simply wrote this kicks a*s while sharing the link on Twitter, and Jennifers husband Justin Theroux, posted this candid picture on Instagram, calling her his #WomanCrushWednesday.
Writer Piers Morgan meanwhile had a different opinion to share, calling Jennifer a hypocrite for sometimes choosing to appear in, and earn from, the media interest in her. If she really wants to make a difference to this ugly process, she can start by getting a tiny bit uglier herself and letting us see what she REALLY looks like on a magazine cover, Piers wrote. Then the little girls shes so worried about can know exactly what they are aspiring to be.
Female-kind neednt worry too much about Morgans comments, however, as Chrissy Teigen was quick to weigh in and have her say. @piersmorgan saw your piece on Jennifer Aniston. Why do you ALWAYS take the road of being the piece of st ahole? wrote Chrissy on Twitter. Particularly with women and people of colors. tell me its just for click?? Please tell me you arent TRULY this vile.
Lets hope Jennifers letter at least gets tabloid chiefs talking about what theyre running and who they really think its for.
