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Supermarket’s Christmas ad about lonely grandpa has Germans crying
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Russian top military officials speak to the media in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday in front of aerial images they say are oil trucks near Turkey’s border with Syria. They accused the Turkish president of profiting from the oil trade with Islamic State militants.
Russia says Turkish president benefits from IS oil trade MOSCOW (AP) — Sharply raising the stakes in Moscow’s spat with Ankara, Russia’s top military brass on Wednesday accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his family of personally profiting from oil trade with Islamic State militants. The bluntly worded accusations follow Turkey’s downing of a Russian warplane at the Syrian border last week, the first time a NATO member shot down a Russian aircraft in more than half a century. The fierce personal attack on Erdogan reflects the Kremlin’s anger and signals that Russia-Turkey tensions will likely continue to escalate. The Russian Defense Ministry invited dozens of for-
eign military attaches and hundreds of journalists to produce what they said were satellite and aerial images of thousands of oil trucks streaming from the IS-controlled deposits in Syria and Iraq into Turkish sea ports and refineries. “The main customer for this oil stolen from Syria and Iraq is Turkey,” said Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov. “The top political leadership of the country, President Erdogan and his family, is involved in this criminal business.” The Turkish leader has denied Russian President Vladimir Putin’s earlier claims of Turkey’s involvement in oil trade with the IS and has pledged to step down if Moscow proves its accusations.
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about the topic being used to promote a supermarket. “On the one hand I’m happy that anyone is addressing the issue, especially in a way that gets people’s attention,” she said. “On the other hand, it’s a bit grotesque.” A spokesman for EDEKA didn’t respond to emails asking whether the chain would support projects against loneliness among the elderly. The ad’s twist won’t be entirely unexpected for fans of the series “Little House on the Prairie,” where a similar plot featured in the 1974 episode “If I Should Wake Before I Die.” The ad is similar to one by British department store John Lewis — both deal with the issue of loneliness among the elderly. Set to a cover of the Oasis song “Half The World Away,” the John Lewis ad features Lily, a little girl on Earth who looks through her telescope and sees an elderly man emerging from a shack on the moon. With determination, she figures out a way to connect with him. The spot ends with the tag line “Show someone they’re loved this Christmas,” then fades to the John Lewis logo.
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BERLIN (AP) — A German supermarket chain’s TV ad has prompted floods of tears with its grim holiday story about an old man whose children never visit, not even at Christmas. His guilt-ridden children only return home after being told of grandpa’s death and discover that — spoiler alert — he’s not dead after all. By Wednesday, the video from EDEKA supermarket had racked up more than 20 million views online in five days, with “can’t stop crying” among the typical comments. The clip addresses a sensitive topic in Germany, where an estimated 8 million people over 60 say they suffer from occasional or permanent loneliness, campaigners say. “There’s a lot of stigma attached to loneliness in Germany, because the feeling is that people have only themselves to blame if they don’t tend to their social contacts,” said Elke Schilling, a retiree who campaigns for senior citizens’ rights. Schilling, who is launching a hotline for lonely older Germans based on a similar project in Britain, said she felt ambivalent
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War correspondent Joseph Galloway did four stints in Vietnam, including a 16-month tour in which he covered the pivotal Battle 1965, during of Ia Drang Valley. Galloway, the co-author of the acclaimed Vietnam War book “We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young,” which was the basis for the movie “We Were Soldiers,” shares with us his unique perspective from the ground at Landing Zone X-Ray and a lifelong brotherhood forged under fire. Page 4
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