Charlie Hebdo editor says Mohammed cartoons 'defend the freedom of religion'

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He said the magazine's newest cover image, published in the wake of the January 7 terrorist attack at its Paris office, "is not just a little figure, a little Mohammed drawn by Luz. It's a symbol."

"It's the symbol of freedom of speech, of freedom of religion, of democracy, and secularism," Biard said.

Biard spoke on NBC's "Meet the Press" in an interview that was taped on Saturday and televised on Sunday. He spoke in French through a translator.

"Meet the Press" moderator Chuck Todd asked Biard about the decision by many news outlets, including NBC and CNN, not to republish the cover image. CNN has cited safety concerns and the fact that some Muslims are highly offended by depictions of the prophet.

Biard said he sympathized with newspapers "in totalitarian regimes" that choose not to show the cartoon, but "on the other hand, I am quite critical of newspapers which are published in democratic countries."

When those news outlets "refuse to publish this cartoon, when they blur it out, when they decline to publish it, they blur out democracy, secularism, freedom of religion, and they insult the citizenship," Biard said.

Furthermore, Biard said "we must stop declaring that those who write and draw are 'provocateurs,' and are throwing gas on the fire. We must not place thinkers and artists in the same category as murderers."

A co-founder of the magazine, Henri Roussel, recently said that he thought the magazine went too far by publishing Mohammed cartoons even after the Paris office was firebombed in 2011. Biard did not respond directly, but indicated that he disagreed.

Biard did not say anything about plans for future issues of the magazine. Editors and distributors of other French publication have promised to support the once-obscure satirical magazine for months and years to come, if needed.

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Freedom Riders message comes at new time of unrest

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Fifty-four years ago, a 19-year-old white Central State University student ended up in jail after going to the deep South to help end segregation.

David Fankhauser said his decision to become a Freedom Rider combined idealism with the recklessness of youth.

Thank God for young folk, said Fankhauser, the keynote speaker at tonights MLK Celebration Banquet hosted by MLK-Dayton Inc.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is expected to take on greater significance today for many.

The holiday comes 10 days after the release of the movie Selma, which chronicles Kings campaign for equal voting rights in 1965 and the historic march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.

MLK Day also comes in the wake of protests across America regarding the deaths of young black men by law enforcement officers. Those include two in Ohio: the Aug. 5 shooting of John Crawford III by a Beavercreek officer inside a Walmart as he held an air rifle and talked on a cell phone, and the Nov. 22 shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice by a Cleveland officer while Rice was carrying an air-powered replica handgun in a park.

I think non-violent civil disobedience is the way and the only way to make positive social change, Fankhauser said.

Like the black people who rode the buses with him at that time, Fankhauser put his life in danger.

Now 73 and a biology and chemistry professor at the University of Cincinnati Clermont College, he looks back on that experience and remembers being scared.

People say, Oh you were really brave. No, I was scared (expletive). I could hardly breathe, I was so afraid. Because Ive never seen such virulent anger as in the white folks that were surrounding these bus stations. They literally wanted to kill us, said Fankhauser.

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Freedom riders recall civil rights battle

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Rev. Martin Luther King, at Atlanta Univ. Photo: Howard Sochurek, The LIFE Picture Collection/Gett

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American Civil Rights Leader Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968) (center, in striped necktie) and others greet Freedom Riders about to board a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, May 1961. The Freedom Riders rode buses throughout the southern United States in the months following the Boynton v. Virginia Supreme Court case, which essentially outlawed racial segregation on public transportation, in order to test and call attention to still existing local policies that ran contrary to national laws. Photo: Paul Schutzer, The LIFE Picture Collection/Gett

American Civil Rights Leader Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. (1929...

Joan C. Browning at 18, as an Albany Freedom Rider. from "Joan C. Browning Papers," Emory University Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library. Browning, Dion Diamond, and Reginald Green will talk about their experiences as Freedom Riders at the Holiday Inn in Bridgeport, Conn. on January 21, 2015. Photo: Contributed Photo

Joan C. Browning at 18, as an Albany Freedom Rider. from "Joan C....

Joan C. Browning, Dion Diamond, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, and Reginald Green, Freedom Riders at the premiere of documentary Freedom Riders, in Congressional theater sponsored by Congressional Black Caucus, 2011. Browing, Diamond and Green will talk about their experiences at the Holiday Inn in Bridgeport, Conn. on January 21, 2015. Photo: Contributed Photo, Courtesy Of Autumn Shelton

Joan C. Browning, Dion Diamond, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, and...

Joan C. Browning, center, with two sitting members of U. S. Congress who were Freedom Riders, The Hons. John Lewis and Bob Filner. Browning will talk about her experiences as Freedom Riders at the Holiday Inn in Bridgeport, Conn. on January 21, 2015. Photo: Contributed Photo, Courtesy Of Autumn Shelton

Joan C. Browning, center, with two sitting members of U. S....

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Rev. Martin Luther King, at Atlanta Univ.

American Civil Rights Leader Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968) (center, in striped necktie) and others greet Freedom Riders about to board a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, May 1961. The Freedom Riders rode buses throughout the southern United States in the months following the Boynton v. Virginia Supreme Court case, which essentially outlawed racial segregation on public transportation, in order to test and call attention to still existing local policies that ran contrary to national laws. Photo: Paul Schutzer, The LIFE Picture Collection/Gett

American Civil Rights Leader Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. (1929...

Joan C. Browning at 18, as an Albany Freedom Rider. from "Joan C. Browning Papers," Emory University Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library. Browning, Dion Diamond, and Reginald Green will talk about their experiences as Freedom Riders at the Holiday Inn in Bridgeport, Conn. on January 21, 2015. Photo: Contributed Photo

Joan C. Browning at 18, as an Albany Freedom Rider. from "Joan C....

Joan C. Browning, Dion Diamond, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, and Reginald Green, Freedom Riders at the premiere of documentary Freedom Riders, in Congressional theater sponsored by Congressional Black Caucus, 2011. Browing, Diamond and Green will talk about their experiences at the Holiday Inn in Bridgeport, Conn. on January 21, 2015. Photo: Contributed Photo, Courtesy Of Autumn Shelton

Joan C. Browning, Dion Diamond, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, and...

Joan C. Browning, center, with two sitting members of U. S. Congress who were Freedom Riders, The Hons. John Lewis and Bob Filner. Browning will talk about her experiences as Freedom Riders at the Holiday Inn in Bridgeport, Conn. on January 21, 2015. Photo: Contributed Photo, Courtesy Of Autumn Shelton

Joan C. Browning, center, with two sitting members of U. S....

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Freedom, money and responsibility

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Teenagers are highly motivated by any opportunity to expand their freedom. More freedom is, in fact, the most powerful of all motivators for teens. I wouldn't have put it in capitals if it wasn't.

More than anything, parents of teenagers want their kids to act responsibly. They want them to do their best in school, stay out of trouble, not engage in risk-taking behavior like drinking and pot smoking, and be gracious and grateful family members.

In many parent-teen relationships, the teen's desire for freedom and the parent's desire for responsible behavior are in a state of tension. The tension is the result of the parent being unwilling to give the teen sufficient freedom and the teen wanting more freedom than he can responsibly handle. This tension results in conflict between parent and child, conflict that causes even more tension, and more conflict, and so on. Where this ends is anyone's best guess.

Actually, there is a way of ending it, even preventing it from happening in the first place, and that is for the parent to give the teen the freedom the parent wants him to learn to handle, along with the means of handling it. Let's apply this to money, something teens want because without it, freedom is pretty meaningless.

A personal anecdote: When my kids, each in turn, became teenagers, my wife and I began them on a fiscal program that included a $100-a-month allowance. This was the early- to mid-1980s, mind you, but please don't think we were nuts until you read on. The full program:

1. Each child had a checking account with no overdraft protection into which we deposited one hundred dollars on the first of every month.

2. Said child was responsible for purchasing non-essential clothing and any recreation that did not include at least one other family member.

3. We continued to fund essential clothing, such as replacing clothing that no longer fit.

4. We made it clear that we would never advance money against the next month's allowance.

5. In the event of a "bounced" check, said child would repay the merchant, pay the merchant's fine, pay the bank's fine, and pay a fine to us of the sum of those figures. Those monies would come off the top of the next month's allowance.

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Battle for Donetsk International Airport: Ukraine’s ‘cyborg’ defenders earn iconic status – Video

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The Donetsk airport has frequently being compared the Red Army #39;s resistance to the Nazi invasion of WWII. The Donetsk airport has become a symbol of courage ...

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Newcastle beaches could reopen

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Newcastle beaches could reopen after being closed for nine straight days due to shark sightings.

The great white shark may have disappeared but wild weather and big surf have rolled in to keep most of Newcastle's beaches closed.

The city's beaches officially reopened on Monday after a record nine days of closures due to repeated shark sightings.

A five-metre great white shark, nicknamed Bruce by locals, and another three-and-a-half metre shark had been spotted in the breaks offshore.

The large great white was first spotted off Merewether Beach on January 10, before it was seen swimming up and down the nearby coastline throughout the week.

"It's a great relief for everybody but we're still going to maintain a higher rate of surveillance than we normally would," said Nobbys Beach inspector Paul Bernard.

City Council spokeswoman Dana Fischetti said Novocastrians hadn't been too perturbed by the shark threat.

"Really most people have just taken it in their stride," Ms Fischetti told AAP.

"We haven't had anyone call up about doing something about the shark.

"People are pretty accepting that it's their habitat, so when one comes along we just wait for it to go away."

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South Coast beaches closed after dead whale washes ashore

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The dead whale that washed up on South Broulee Beach at the weekend. Photo: Emily Barton

Two Eurobodalla beaches were closed for 24 hours over the weekend after a Humpback whale washed up on South Broulee Beach.

The dead whale was first spotted 300 metres out to sea off North Head Beach, forcing lifeguards to close the beach for swimmers' safety.

Around noon on Saturday the whale was found washed ashore on South Broulee Beach, which was then also closed.

Police taped off a 100-metre exclusion zone around the whale to keep onlookers away.

Police tapedoffa100-metre exclusion zone around it to keep onlookers away.

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The whale looked as though it might have been dead for some time and had large chunks missing from its body.

ORRCA and council gave conflicting information on whether it was the same whale which was attacked by sharks at Broulee Beach on January 7.

A council spokeswoman told The Bay Postit was not the same whale that was towed out to sea by a fisherman earlier in the month.

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Newcastle beaches reopen after nine days

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Qld police have said remains found in central Queensland in 1974 are of missing teenager Marilyn Wallman.

Adelaide-born London bombings survivor Gill Hicks says she wants to continue promoting sustainable peace.

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Newcastle beaches remain closed

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Newcastle beaches could reopen after being closed for nine straight days due to shark sightings.

The great white shark may have disappeared but wild weather and big surf have rolled in to keep most of Newcastle's beaches closed.

The city's beaches officially reopened on Monday after a record nine days of closures due to repeated shark sightings.

A five-metre great white shark, nicknamed Bruce by locals, and another three-and-a-half metre shark had been spotted in the breaks offshore.

The large great white was first spotted off Merewether Beach on January 10, before it was seen swimming up and down the nearby coastline throughout the week.

"It's a great relief for everybody but we're still going to maintain a higher rate of surveillance than we normally would," said Nobbys Beach inspector Paul Bernard.

City Council spokeswoman Dana Fischetti said Novocastrians hadn't been too perturbed by the shark threat.

"Really most people have just taken it in their stride," Ms Fischetti told AAP.

"We haven't had anyone call up about doing something about the shark.

"People are pretty accepting that it's their habitat, so when one comes along we just wait for it to go away."

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