Morning Update: Mars rolls out Twix bites; Hunger-striking Al-Jazeera journalist near death; Oreo’s ‘Transformers’ deal

This is our Morning Update, rounding up international media and marketing news from while you were sleeping.

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AdWeek: Ad of the Day: Mars Rolls Out Twix Bites, a Candy Three Decades in the Making

“If you’ve been to the candy aisle of a grocery store at any point in the past couple of years, you’re probably aware that pretty much every name-brand candy bar—Snickers, Milky Way, Kit-Kat—now comes in a little chocolate-dipped, bite-sized (not fun-sized, mind you) form of condensed candy bar goodness.