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German bike helmet ads labeled stupid and sexist German politicians have criticized a Transport Ministry advertising campaign that features scantily clad women and men wearing bike safety helmets. The posters feature the slogan: "Looks like sh*t, but saves lives." The German Transport Ministryʼs provocative marketing campaign to boost the use of helmets while riding bikes has been denounced as sexist by several female politicians. "It is embarrassing, stupid and sexist for the transport minister to be selling his policies using naked skin," said Maria Noichl, the chairperson of the Working Group of Social Democratic Women (ASF), in an interview with the Bild am Sonntag newspaper. She said the posters "must come down." The campaign, which was unveiled on Friday, features young scantily clad women and men wearing bike helmets, along with the slogan "ʼLooks like sh*t [the helmet], but saves lives."
Norway cruise ship arrives in port after airlift drama The Viking Sky cruise ship that lost power off the coast of Norway arrived at a nearby port on Sunday after three of the vesselʼs four engines were restarted. Rescuers said two tug boats aided the vessel as it navigated toward the town of Molde, more than 24 hours after an evacuation order was issued when the ship lost engine power in stormy weather. The shipʼs owner reported that 479 of the shipʼs 1,373 passengers and crew had been airlifted to shore before the ship departed Hustadvika Bay. The shipʼs crew had sent anSOS message on Saturday after running into trouble in an area off the Norwegian coastline known for its rough, treacherous waters. Footage showed furniture and other fixtures sliding around the vessel, as parts of the ceiling came down.
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Could Kazakhstan be a model for a power transfer in Russia? Will Vladimir Putin follow Nursultan Nazarbayevʼs lead? Juri Rescheto reports from Moscow
The resignation of Kazakhstanʼs president has given rise to speculation over the future transfer of power in Russia.
Coca-Cola, wine harvest cause bottleneck in Germany Coca-Cola and a good wine harvest are no doubt two completely different things. But in Germany, they merge when it comes to explaining an unparalleled shortage of glass for wine bottles. Oliver Schell owns a family winery in Germanyʼs Ahr region. He was ready to fill his first bottles with 2018 vintage wine as early as last week. Sadly, he found out that schlegelflaschen — the elegant long bottles made of white glass that he normally uses for his wine — are not available anymore. He had to settle for alternative, shorter bottles. But there isnʼt an alternative for everything. Bottling at the Schell Winery has
to be postponed. "We have the wine ready in the cellar, but we canʼt get it to our clients," says Schell. In the 10 years that he has been in the wine business, heʼs never faced that problem before. For many winemakers in Germany, now is the time to finally put the wine in bottles. But the glassmakers cannot produce enough bottles, says Andreas Köhl, spokesman of the Farmers and Winegrowersʼ Association in Rhineland-Palatinate. "Especially the green 1-liter bottles are in short supply as well as bottles for white wine and rose." In Rhineland-Palatinate alone there are 4,900 wineries that bottle wine.
Tintin and Snowy turn 90 — havenʼt aged a day He has fought organized crime, solved mysteries and even helped to bring down despotic regimes. The famous Belgian cub-reporter Tintin, with his trademark shock of strawberry-blonde hair, blue sweater and plus-four trousers, has taken his fans with him on world adventures that have been translated into more than 100 languages and dialects. Tintin made his first appearance 90 years ago, in the Catholic conservative Belgian
newspaper Le Vingtième Siècleʼs youth supplement, Le Petit Vingtième. Tintin and Snowy headed deep into Soviet territory, with Stalinʼs secret police watching them from around every corner. The story first appeared on January 10, 1929, running as a serial until May 1930; it was essentially anticommunist propaganda, neatly packaged for children. In 1930, the series was published in book form as Tintin in the Land of the Soviets.
ʼIslamic Stateʼ defeated in Syria: US-backed Syrian forces The US-allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Saturday declared victory against the "Islamic State" (IS), saying they hadflushed the jihadists from their last remaining strongholdin the eastern Syrian village of Baghouz. The announcement marks the end of the terror groupʼs self-proclaimed caliphate, which at its height in 2014 covered large swathes of Syria and Iraq. Read more: ʼIslamic Stateʼ loses significant camp in final holdout territory Baghouz Victory in Baghouz SDF spokesman Mustafa Bali announced the victory on Twitter: "Baghouz has been liberated. The military victory against Daesh has been accomplished," he said, referring to IS by its acronym in Arabic. The SDF declares "total elimination" of the so-called caliphate and "100 percent territorial defeat of ISIS." "On this unique day, we commemorate thousands of martyrs whose efforts made the victory possible."
Stop Brexit: Millions sign petition to British government A petition asking the British government to reverse its course on Brexit has received more than 4.5 million signatures in only three days. The official parliamentary petitionlaunched on Wednesday is calling for the government to revoke Article 50, the mechanism that governs Britainʼs departure from the European Union. "The government repeatedly claims exiting the EU is ʼthe will of the people.ʼ We need to put a stop to this claim by proving the strength of public support now, for remaining in the EU. A Peopleʼs Vote may not happen — so vote now," the petition states.
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