Israel has banned Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi and her family from travelling abroad, her father said, citing Palestinian authorities.

Basim Tamimi told Anadolu Agency on Friday that he and his family had planned to travel to Europe via Jordan, to participate in events and discussions on the Palestinian resistance movement and the experience of being detained in Israel.

But he said his family were informed by Palestinian authorities that Israel had banned them from travelling abroad.

There was no immediate comment from Israeli authorities on the matter.

The Tamimi family had planned to leave Friday morning, Basim said, adding that neither the Palestinian nor the Israeli authorities provided a reason for the ban.

On July 29, Israeli authorities released Ahed al-Tamimi and her mother, Nariman, after both had served eight months behind bars.

The 17-year-old was arrested in December after a video went viral showing the young woman, then 16, pushing and hitting Israeli soldiers who tried to enter her family residence in Nabi Saleh.

She was later slapped with an eight-month jail term for “attacking” an Israeli soldier.

Tamimi, who was already a prominent advocate of Palestinian independence prior to her arrest, has since become an international symbol of resistance against Israel’s occupation in the West Bank. 

The teen’s arrest drew international condemnation and again put the spotlight on Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, especially Palestinian youth.

Tamimi was indicted on 12 charges in Israel’s Ofer military court in Ramallah two weeks after her arrest.

In March, Tamimi and her mother accepted plea deals that would see them serve eight months in prison, including time served, in exchange for pleading guilty to some of the charges.

Israeli forces initiated a crackdown on Nabi Saleh after the video went viral, arresting residents and shooting dead Ahed’s 21-year-old relative Izz al-Din Tamimi during a raid on the village last month.

SOURCE: Al Jazeera and news agencies

Captain Marvel

type

Movie

release date

03/08/19

performer

Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Jude Law

director

Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck

Producers

Marvel Studios

distributor

Disney

Genre

Superhero

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If you’ve got a blockbuster that needs a villain, there’s really only one guy you turn to. Whether he’s playing an evil Imperial officer in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story or an evil CEO in Ready Player One, Ben Mendelsohn knows how to imbue a role with a certain sort of memorable menace. (Up next, he’ll be starring in Robin Hood: Origins as — you guessed it — the evil sheriff of Nottingham.)

So it’s no surprise that the Emmy winner is playing the antagonist in Captain Marvel. Brie Larson stars as the part-Kree, part-human hero Carol Danvers, who faces off against an invading army of Skrulls. Since making their debut in a 1962 Fantastic Four story, the Skrulls have been one of Marvel’s nastiest and most notorious baddies, and they’re finally coming to the big screen in Captain Marvel, led by Mendelsohn’s Talos. The pointy-eared, wrinkly-chinned aliens are shape-shifters, able to disguise themselves as just about anyone, and they’ve long been at war with their most hated enemies: the Kree.

Mendelsohn technically plays two roles — one as Talos (under prosthetics) and one as the human S.H.I.E.L.D. agent he impersonates on Earth. (As a human he uses an American accent, but as a Skrull he reverts to his native Australian.) His human version is posing as Nick Fury’s S.H.I.E.L.D. boss and secretly helping to spearhead the Skrull invasion of Earth.

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For his part, Mendelsohn is thrilled to join the pantheon of Marvel Cinematic Universe baddies. “These Marvel flicks, they keep getting better and better,” he says. “So I figure we’re at the craps table, we’re still rollin’ the dice, we got a good chance.”

As an added bonus, Captain Marvel is a reunion for Mendelsohn and directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, who previously worked together on the 2015 indie hit Mississippi Grind.

“We had such a great time with him on our last movie that we begged him to do this movie,” Fleck says. “It’s just so fun to see him really dig into that character of Talos. He’s just so charismatic and dynamic and colorful.”

As part of EW’s Captain Marvel cover story, we sat down with Mendelsohn to talk all things Talos. Below is a lightly-edited transcript of the conversation (in which the word “Skrullin’” is mentioned approximately 500 times).

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How did you get involved with Captain Marvel? Was it Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck?
BEN MENDELSOHN: Yeah, it was Anna and Ryan, who I’d done Mississippi Grind with, along with Ryan Reynolds. And they were on to do this thing. They asked me aboard the good ship, and no one blocked it.

So what was their initial pitch to you?
It involved certain machinations of what they’re doing and stuff like that. But I knew it was going to be Skrullin’. I knew I’d be Skrullin’, and that had a certain appeal.

You play both the Skrull leader Talos and the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent he impersonates. How did you approach that?
I mean, when you’re Skrullin’, it’s a bit of a different thing. It’s a got a certain flow to it that this guy [gestures to human costume] doesn’t have. Because this guy doesn’t sound like this. This guy is [adopts American accent] a lot more like, straight up, ready to do the work, very military industrial complex certain 1990-whatever. A lot more buttoned up. Skrullin’ is a bit more laid back, a bit tougher. A little bit nastier? Maybe? Maybe. You got sharper nails, stuff like that.

A Skrull can be more openly nefarious, perhaps.
The thing is, when you’re Skrullin’, there’s a kind of take-no-prisoners vibe about it, which is more relaxed. This guy’s got to follow protocol because it’s S.H.I.E.L.D. Skrullin’, you’re punching through shields. You’re taking shields off people and using them on people. So it’s kind of more fun to play.

So what can you tell me about Talos’ M.O. and his relationship with the Kree?
Look…. [long sigh] We gotta deal with the Kree. The Kree are punks. And the Skrulls, I mean, we’re just misunderstood. At the end of the day, the Skrull is really misunderstood. Look, I don’t want to curse in print or anywhere else, but if I could, I would about the Kree. Yeah. I would.

What’s the relationship like between the Skrulls and Carol?
You’ve gotta be a bit more careful of Carol than the Kree. But I think as far as we’re concerned in the Skrull world, she’s kind of like a major obstacle. I still think we can take her. If we had to — if we had to, had to, had to —  we could take Carol.

Obviously you know Anna and Ryan well. What’s different about working with them on this, and what makes them the right people to tell this story?
I’ll tell you what Marvel have done really well — and what they’ve done really well from the time they were in print. They always spoke to the issues of the day and the concerns of their audience, which was predominantly a young audience. And what’s great about Captain Marvel is it’s really beautiful. It’s actually a really beautiful, badass superhero story.

As people, Ryan and Anna are very sweet, and they’re very switched on. Their sensibilities are delicate and exacting, and I think at the heart of this story… Don’t get me started on it because I’ll get emotional. It really is a beautiful story, and it takes directors with heart and with what I think is a really good B.S. meter for weeding out notes that aren’t going to hit right and true. I think they’re an inspired choice for this.

Everyone I’ve talked to has talked about how this film is rooted in Carol’s journey and her character arc.
It’s very touching, actually. I mean, you want her to win. Now, unfortunately, not every fairytale turns out that well. Sometimes you meet a Skrull. But Carol’s resourceful. She’s going to have a few films to get over this and maybe come back from this. We’ll see. [Laughs]

So what is it you like about playing villains?
Well, it’s like the old Rod Stewart album: Blondes Have More Fun. Villains have more fun. What do I like about it? I don’t know! It leaves an imprint on people when you do it right. I think that’s nice. I think it’s nice to provide the counterweight that people have got to get over, you know? In order to get ahead in the hero’s journey. It’s a job of honor. It’s not for everyone. [Laughs] But I do take it as an honor. I do.

For you, what do you think has been your biggest challenge on this movie overall?
I think the challenge is to make you feel that Skrull. Because Skrulls are important! We’re kind of like the thrash metal component of the Marvel universe. We’re tough, we’re brash, we’re loud. People want us to have warning stickers on us, like explicit lyrics.

The Skrulls are such an iconic part of Marvel Comics’ history. Were you a comics fan going into this?
Yeah. I mean, I’ve read bits and pieces in the Marvel universe. I like Skrulls a lot more now that they’ve asked me kindly to come and represent. But I was always aware of what punks the Kree were. I mean, why would you try and start a war with the Skrulls? What sort of an idiot is gonna try to start a war with us? Ugh, please. Go get some help from Captain Marvel.

So they’re just misunderstood.
[Laughs] You know what I say. They’re just misunderstood. It ain’t easy being green.

Kermit knows!
It ain’t easy. And hopefully someday we will find it, the rainbow connection, and we can live together with the Kree and all that hoohah. But first, it’s… [slams hand on table].

So how long does it take you to do all the makeup and prosthetics to play Talos?
Couple of hours.

Have you gotten it down to a faster pace?
They have. What do I do? I sit there. No, they have. They’re awesome. It’s a couple of hours. It’s not that big a deal, you know? It’s get it on, you’re Skrullin’. And we have an alright time while we do it. We listen to music. Lots of Skrull music.

What do you listen to get in that Skrull mood?
Oh, well, you know, there are lots of tracks that lend themselves to the word Skrullin’. So you take “Jammin’” by Bob Marley. [sings] “We’re Skrullin’!” Another one that I like is there’s an album by Freddie Gibbs and Madlib called Piñata. “Thuggin’.” “Skrullin’.” Skrullin’ is just such a good term that you can transpose it easy. So we do a bit of that.

You could make a whole album.
Yeah, I could do a Skrullin’ mix tape. Easy.

I know that you do a different accent for when you’re a Skrull, as opposed to when you’re a human. What can you tell me about that?
Well, you know, Skrulls sound good. Like, a Skrull sounds tough but friendly, a little bit sexy, kind of warm, but very not-to-be-messed-with-at-all. So strangely enough, we’ve discovered that Skrulls sound a lot like Australians.

Why do Skrulls sound like Australians?
It was a very lengthy discussion that happened all up and down the echelons of this. I don’t want to paint my whole country like a Skrull, but I guess because there’s a certain je ne sais quoi. There’s a certain kind of earthy correctness to an Australian delivery. So I think that’s probably what tipped it in favor of me. And then my other guy sounds like Don Rumsfeld. Don Rumsfeld’s a good kind of read for my other guy.

Very buttoned up.
Strictly business. “S.H.I.E.L.D.! Save that earth!” And you know what? He’s doing a good job of it too, until…. Skrullin’! But I think fans of the Skrull are going to be very happy to see the final victory over all of these Kree.

They’ve got a big fan base.
And you know what? [knocks on wood] I don’t want to disappoint them. I just want to marry them with the earthy directness of the Australian and hopefully we’ve got a little Skrull gumbo going on there.

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England manager Gareth Southgate wants to improve his side’s “non-existent” record against the “very best” when they host Spain in the Nations League.

The Three Lions return to Wembley on Saturday after finishing fourth at this summer’s World Cup, and Southgate expects his players to show the home crowd “what they are capable of”.

“We want to test ourselves against the very best,” said Southgate.

“We have played Spain, Germany, Brazil and Italy in the last 18 months.”

The Three Lions have drawn all four of those games, but Southgate acknowledges their longer-term record is not as good.

“It’s been very rare to beat those teams since the 1960s and ’70s,” he said. “Our history isn’t impressive.

“Ideally over the next couple of years we’d like to go into the European Championship having beaten those teams, and to do that, we have to be spot on in every area.”

England have won one of their past five matches against Germany, one of their past six against Spain, one of their past eight against Italy, and one of their past 11 against Brazil.

But Southgate says his side are “evolving and improving”.

“Over the summer, you are looking for results,” he said. “Now it is about developing the team and looking at how we play.

“If we compare now to how we played against Spain two years ago, the detail we go to now is much more advanced.”

‘Golden boy’ Kane still looking for more

Captain Harry Kane is set to wear a personalised pair of golden boots for England’s return to Wembley, having finished the World Cup as top scorer.

The Tottenham striker’s six goals meant he won the Golden Boot in Russia – and he has a custom-made pair of boots for Saturday’s game.

But the 25-year-old insists he can improve his performances.

“To finish a World Cup as top goalscorer was something I was extremely proud of but I could’ve done better,” said Kane.

“It was a great tournament and I scored some important goals, but there were certain finishes and movements I could have done better.

“It’s all part of the learning curve, but to feel you could have done more at a World Cup after winning the Golden Boot is exciting.”

Sterling and Lallana missing for England

England have no remaining injury concerns for their first match of the new Nations League.

Manchester City forward Raheem Sterling and Liverpool midfielder Adam Lallana pulled out earlier in the week, but Southgate watched a fully-fit squad train at St George’s Park on Friday.

Saturday’s match is followed by a friendly against Switzerland at Leicester City’s King Power Stadium on Tuesday.

Spain must ‘stop being predictable’

Saturday’s match is Spain’s first under Luis Enrique, and the former Barcelona and Roma manager wants to change the side’s possession-focused style.

Spain won three major tournaments in a row – Euro 2008 and 2012 and the 2010 World Cup – but went out of this summer’s World Cup in the second round, despite having 75% of possession against Russia.

“The fact we have been a reference over the past decade means that everyone knows our national team,” said Enrique.

“The objective is to evolve and stop being predictable.”

Enrique has dropped Barcelona left-back Jordi Alba from his squad, while 102-cap defender Gerard Pique has retired from international football.

The squad features four Chelsea players – Marcos Alonso, Kepa Arrizabalaga, Cesar Azpilicueta and Alvaro Morata – along with Manchester United’s David de Gea.

TORONTO – Julia Roberts gets choked up just talking about it.

We’re a day away from the debut of her new film, “Ben Is Back,” at the Toronto International Film Festival, in which she plays Holly, the mother of a 19-year-old opioid-addicted son (Lucas Hedges) who returns from rehab unexpectedly on Christmas Eve.

“It was pretty intense when we were shooting it,” says Roberts, 50, who learned in her research that a parent like Holly struggles with standing firm on just one treatment strategy. “There’s never ‘I’m doing it right.’ Because doing things out of love and hope and belief might be right for an hour, that day or that week, but so quickly the correct thing to be doing could be saying, ‘You’re not welcome in this house.’ “

“Ben Is Back,” a film that could send Roberts back to the Oscars this year thanks to her tour de force performance, is both timely and gutting: About 2 million people in America are addicted to opioids, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Addiction is no stranger to the Roberts family; earlier this year Eric Roberts, 62, Julia’s elder brother, admitted to a decades-long history of drug abuse. But the connection ends there for Roberts and “Ben Is Back.” “The position of the mother in this film is very different from a sister, a niece,” she says. “So for me it was delving into all the mother relationships in these kinds of scenarios that I could find.”

In the film, Ben becomes addicted to prescribed drugs following a snowboarding accident. Roberts, who has twins Hazel and Phinnaeus, 13, and son, Henry, 11, with husband Danny Moder, 49, is watchful of how children are prescribed in her community.

“A lot of my friends that have older teenage kids – older teenagers than my teenagers – you get concussions and people get hurt and kids are playing soccer and things happen,” she says, wearing a pair of caramel-frame glasses, her blonde hair pulled into a mussed side braid. “And fortunately the stories that I’ve heard have very much surrounded doctors that say, ‘It’s going to be a bummer, but here’s an aspirin. Suck it up, I’m not going to prescribe anything else for this teenager.’ ”

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In the Roberts-Moder household, those often-fraught teen years are being confronted as a family unit.

“Fortunately the five of us are super close and at dinner every night, which we have just about every night the five of us together, it becomes part of the family conversation: ‘Do you know what this is?’ ‘Have you ever heard about this?’ ‘Well, have you ever done that?’” she says. “It’s about figuring it out together.”

That includes vaping, something Roberts calls “a hideous monster in culture now … Honestly, I didn’t realize what a thing it was until my oldest son had a swim test at a high school in a neighboring town and I went into the gym to get some water and there was a sign that said: ‘No skateboarding. No loud music. No vaping.’ Like, a permanent sign! And I was like, ‘What?’ “

So what does she say to her kids?

“I don’t understand it and I think as a parent I have to put my sort of personal disgust of something aside and be able to have a conversation about (it)… as opposed to ‘Why would anyone do that, it’s disgusting!’ “

This weekend Roberts is on double duty in Toronto, where she’s also debuting her first TV series, the upcoming Amazon psychological thriller “Homecoming” (streaming Nov. 2). Based on the popular podcast and directed by “Mr. Robot” creator Sam Esmail, the 10-episode series finds her as a psychologist working with veterans struggling with PTSD, unaware that darker motivations are at play.

The Oscar winner, who executive produced the series, admits she’s learning as she wades into this era of Peak TV. 

“The first day I came into the production office I said, ‘I don’t understand any of these emails I’m getting. I don’t know what anything means!’ ” laughs Roberts. “So I got a quick study in the language of television.”

 

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Ariana Grande has disabled her comments on Instagram after some fans began to blame her for ex-boyfriend Mac Miller’s death on Friday.

The “No Tears Left to Cry” singer, 25, has not spoken out about her ex’s death, but her last Instagram post was made on Thursday when she took a short video of her hotel room in the United Kingdom.

“Bye London,” she wrote in the caption.

Miller, 26, died on Friday of a suspected overdose, a source confirmed to PEOPLE. The rapper was found in his San Fernando Valley home on Friday afternoon and pronounced dead at the scene, according to TMZ.

According to a dispatch call obtained by The Blast, a call was made for an “immediate dispatch” by authorities for a patient in cardiac arrest. TMZ was the first to break the news.

The Los Angeles Corner’s Office, as well as a rep for Miller, did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

Grande and Miller, who struggled with drugs throughout his life, dated for two years before separating in May.

The split came as a shock to fans as Miller gushed about the singer on Twitter in April after she released her single “No Tears Left to Cry.”

“Very proud of this girl right here. Welcome back. We missed You. One of a kind,” he tweeted at the time. Following their break-up, Grande dedicated an Instagram Story to the rapper in which she called him “one of my best friends in the whole world and favorite people on the planet.”

“I respect and adore him endlessly and am grateful to have him in my life in any form, at all times regardless of how our relationship changes or what the universe holds for each of us!” the singer wrote.

Grande’s fans came to her defense on Twitter writing it wasn’t the singer’s fault Miller had passed away.

“Just noticed Ariana Grande disabled comments on her Instagram account after a barrage of Mac Miller-related comments,” one user tweeted. “Recognize the true problem here, rather than using someone else as a scapegoat & continuing the cycle. All so sad & nauseating.”

Another shared the same sentiment, tweeting, “The amount of tweets blaming Ariana Grande for what happened to Mac Miller is disgusting, his addiction and lack of help is what drove this to happen, don’t point the finger and blame.”

A different fan wrote, “Ariana Grande is not responsible for Mac Miller’s death. Stop hating her. She’s a person like you who also has feelings. I’m sure she’s having a hard time. I wish patience to her and his family.”

Months before his death, Miller was arrested for drunk driving on May 14.

Early that morning, the rapper was arrested for DUI and hit and run after he struck a power pole in the San Fernando Valley with his Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon and fled the scene; after law enforcement officers matched the vehicle’s license plates to Miller’s address, they arrested him at his home, a Los Angeles Police Department public information officer previously told PEOPLE.

Following his arrest, a fan blamed Miller’s crash on Grande tweeted the rapper had “dumped him for another dude after he poured his heart out on a ten song album to her called the divine feminine” and called the album “the most heartbreaking thing happening in Hollywood.”

Grande responded directly, tweeting, “how absurd that you minimize female self-respect and self-worth by saying someone should stay in a toxic relationship because he wrote an album about them, which btw isn’t the case (just Cinderella is ab me).”

Her Twitter statement continued: “I am not a babysitter or a mother and no woman should feel that they need to be. I have cared for him and tried to support his sobriety & prayed for his balance for years (and always will of course) but shaming / blaming women for a man’s inability to keep his s— together is a very major problem.”

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The rapper went on to open up about his arrest during a conversation with Zane Lowe on Beats 1 on Apple Music in July.

“I made a stupid mistake. I’m a human being,” Miller explained. “But it was the best thing that could have happened. Best thing that could have happened. I needed that. I needed to run into that light pole and literally have the whole thing stop.”

However, Miller went on to let all of his fans know that they shouldn’t worry about him, because he was doing fine.

“I have people that care about me and fans that love my music and it’s a beautiful relationship with them — people who have been with me through being a 19-year-old wide-eyed kid to being a self-destructive depressed drug user to making love music to all these different stages. Then they see something like that and they worry,” he explained. “So your first reaction is, ‘Let me tell them I’m cool.’ ”

During the interview, Miller also explained that both he and Grande had moved on since their split — and that he wished her well.

“I was in love with somebody. We were together for two years. We worked through good times, bad times, stress and everything else. And then it came to an end and we both moved on. And it’s that simple,” he said.

“It’s all positive energy,” he added. “I am happy for her and [the fact that she’s] moving forward with her life, just as I’m sure she is with me.”

Associated Press

Published 10:53 p.m. ET Sept. 7, 2018

Earlier this week it was announced that Shohei Ohtani, the Los Angeles Angels’ two-way sensation, had been advised to undergo Tommy John surgery. 

Despite the diagnosis that would take Ohtani off the mound until 2020, he has remained in the Angels’ lineup. And he keeps hitting dingers. 

Ohtani homered twice the night he was informed that surgery was recommended to correct the issue with his ulnar collateral ligament.

On Friday, he made more MLB history with his 19th home run of the season. That blast gave him the record for most home runs by a Japanese-born rookie. The Mariners’ Kenji Johjima set the previous record in 2006.

Ohtani said Friday that he hasn’t decided whether he’ll go through with the surgery, and at a minimum, he plans to play out the season as the DH. 

“Nothing’s set right now,” Ohtani said through a translator. “I have a few options out there. I’m still trying to look into every option. And I will end up making a decision hopefully sometime toward the end of the season.”

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Ohtani, who throws right-handed but bats left-handed, said, “Swinging doesn’t affect my elbow in any way.

“I feel like I’m progressing as a hitter right now. I’m getting as many experiences as I can while the games count.”

Contributing: Associated Press