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Banks may have misled investors Bank chiefs admit staff may have wrongly pushed ¤1.4b in securities By Anthony Jackson

OP BANKERS conceded yesterday that bank staff may have committed mistakes and omissions in their effort to push high-yield securities on ordinary investors who have since seen the value plummet as a result of the Greek debt haircut. The admission came during an extraordinary session of the House institutions committee convened to examine whether the €1.4 billion worth of securities sold by banks was misrepresented to their investors. Depositors are claiming they were deceived by banks which had encouraged them to invest their deposits without having an authorised professional properly explain the risks involved. Popular Group CEO Christos Stylianides and Yiannis Kypri, Group CEO of Bank of Cyprus, both admitted that bank staff may have made mistakes in their effort to push the schemes. Meanwhile in a separate press conference Attorneygeneral Petros Clerides said the blame went beyond the banks. “We ought to have taken a closer look at the de-

cree, the House, the attorney general and the supervisors,” he said. Clerides called on parliament and the responsible state agencies to do their utmost and “find a way to help these people”. As a result of the Greek Sovereign Debt write-down, Cypriot banks including Popular Bank and the Bank of Cyprus have been hit with severe losses requiring €1.8 billion and €500 million respectively to recapitalise in accordance with regulatory requirements. This forced them to suspend interest payments on these high return investment products, causing their value to plummet leaving people with only a fraction of their initial investments. Andreas Trokkos, director of finance at the finance ministry, told MPs however that the decree approved last year by both the cabinet and parliament for the recapitalisation of the banks provided a forewarning to MPs that interest payments would cease since the European Central Bank doesn’t allow any payments on securities issued by a bank currently undergoing recapitalisation.

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Cross-border criminals make $870 billon a year, says UN TURNOVER of cross-border organised crime is about $870 billion a year, more than six times the total of ofﬁcial development aid, and stopping this “threat to peace” is one of the greatest global challenges, a UN agency said yesterday. The most lucrative busi-

nesses for criminals are drug-trafﬁcking and counterfeiting, the UN Ofﬁce on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said, launching an awareness-raising campaign about the size and cost of cross-border criminal networks. “Millions of victims are af-

fected each year as a result of the activities of organised crime groups, with human trafﬁcking victims alone numbering 2.4 million at any one time,” UNODC said in a statement. The total estimated ﬁgure of $870 billion is equivalent to 1.5 per cent of the

world’s gross domestic product, it said, warning that crime groups can destabilise entire regions. “Stopping this transnational threat represents one of the international community’s greatest global challenges,” UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov said.

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TWO FORMER ministers and four fire officers yesterday pleaded not guilty to charges in relation to the deaths of 13 sailors and fire fighters in the Mari naval base blast last year. All six have been charged with causing death by want of precaution, and homicide by gross negligence in relation to events leading to an explosion of nearly 100 containers of munitions. The containers had been stacked for over two years – without a cover – at Evangelos Florakis naval base near

Mari village in Larnaca. Charges were read out at Larnaca criminal court during a 30-minute-long hearing in the presence of relatives of both the victims and the accused, and several police ofﬁcers. The prosecution claims that all six knew of the danger and failed to take adequate measures, although the details of each indictment vary. Larnaca Criminal court is due meet again on August 27. Six people face charges: former foreign minister Marcos Kyprianou; former defence minister Costas Papacostas; and former national guard deputy chief Savvas Argyrou ﬁre serv-

ice chief Andreas Nicolaou; deputy ﬁre chief Charalambos Charalambous; and Andreas Loizides, the commander of the disaster response squad EMAK. Prosecution against two others has been dropped. Former national guard chief Petros Tsalikidis has instead been charged in his home country of Greece after authorities refused to execute a European arrest warrant on him. The prosecution dropped charges against Colonel Giorgos Georgiades after deciding in June he was not actually responsible for the safety of those present adding he might be a prosecution witness instead.

Suspended sentences for doctors in clinic’s baby deaths case Legionnaires’ deaths caused by maintenance test failure By Natalie Hami FOUR doctors implicated in the deaths of three newborn babies from Legionnaires’ disease at the Hippocration private hospital in Nicosia in 2008 were yesterday sentenced by Nicosia District Court to three months’ imprisonment suspended for three years. They were also issued ﬁnes: €8000 for Constantinos Kastanos, former general manager of the hospital and €1800 for three maternity ward doctors of the hospital implicated in the case; Odysseas Athanatos, Vasilios Makris and Christos Riris. The charges related to the hospitalisation of 11 infants and the death of three, all born at the clinic in December 2008. They had pleaded guilty to failing to follow maintenance regulations, leading to the water distribution system

becoming infected with the deadly bacteria. The judge’s decision took into account that from 2006 when the clinic was renovated, tests to detect the possible spread of the bacteria in the water system had not been carried out. However Judge Natalie TalaridouKontopoulou stressed that ‘the accused and no one…. could have foreseen the particular chain of events that led to the death of three newborns.’ Eleven infants born between December 18 and 22, 2008, were admitted to the intensive care unit of Makarios state hospital in Nicosia a few days following their release from the Hippocration. They were diagnosed with pneumonia, caused by Legionnaires’ disease. Three died and one was put on a respirator due to severe pneumonia although the baby recovered and was later released from hospital. It was

reported that the parents of one of the three babies who died had been trying to conceive for 15 years, eventually celebrating the birth of their long-anticipated baby after numerous IVF attempts. The deaths provoked public outrage, after it emerged that the killer bacteria were found in a humidiﬁer as well as parts of the Hippocration’s water distribution system – all because the appropriate maintenance measures had not been taken. “There was no witness testimony that the accused knew that the water system had been infected in this way,” said Talaridou-Kontopoulou. Talaridou-Kontopoulou clariﬁed that they are guilty of the charges that they had admitted to because they were obligated to know about the problem and to avoid it. “If they had taken all the necessary measures then the patients of the clinic would be

treated in a safe and healthy environment,” she said. She added that their neglect was not due to carelessness or indifference but to poor risk assessment, adding that the accused did not ignore recommendations on the issue of Legionnaires since such inspections did not take place regularly by the state. With reference to the sentence imposed on them, Talaridou-Kontopoulou said that the seriousness of the offences along with other mitigating factors such as the characters of the accused were taken into consideration. They received a suspended prison sentence because of their ages, 52, 65, 74 and 71 respectively, according to the judge, who added that they did not have to be imprisoned immediately to realise the seriousness of their behaviour, despite the level of neglect.

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Banks may have misled investors over ¤1.4b Investors let down by banks, House and legal system (Continued from front page) He also mentioned that the so-called troika that is overseeing Cyprus’ request for an EU bailout had told the ministry of finance not to take any action related to the securities without consulting it first. House committee chairman Demetris Syllouris however hit back saying that he hadn’t been notified any such action was to take place and that MPs had not “realised” at the time that the decree provided for a suspension of interest payments on the securities. Suggesting that deputies may have been “tricked” into approving the decree, Syllouris said a distinction should be made. It was one thing, he said, to look at how the banks operated - issuing investor profile questionnaires which were not really investor profiles at all but rather an encouragement to convert depositors into investors. Quite another was how procedures were deliberately set in motion so that Popular Bank would raise €1.8 billion. Regardless, Syllouris added, right now it is the investors’ real capital that is more at risk and not just the interest payments, as a result of Cyprus seeking an EU bailout for its banks. Famagusta MP Zacharias Koulias, known for his catchy sound bytes, cited Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, remarking: “The one thing we built in this country was deposits. There is unaccountability in bank credit, an utter contempt for the laws of the state, and it’s ‘grab it while you can’.”

Meanwhile, Central Bank representative Michael Stylianou stated that €600 million worth of securities were issued by Bank of Cyprus and €800 million by Popular Bank with interest rates ranging between 7 per cent and 8.75 per cent. One case which shocked MPs was that of a relative of a Helios crash victim who invested the compensation she had received into a security and as a result lost it and is now unable to continue her mortgage payments. MP Nikos Nikolaides described it as a massive fraud perpetrated against thousands of citizens comparable to that of the stock exchange in 1999. He also said that responsibility lies with the politicians, the supervisors and the banks. “We are talking about substantive irregularity, which may be verging on illegality,” he said. The committee decided to establish an informal body which would negotiate with the troika on the fate of depositors’ holdings. The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) declared last week that the prospectuses distributed by the banks marketing these securities were 100 per cent compliant with EU laws and regulations in terms of stating the risks. At the House committee yesterday, however, CySEC chairwoman Demetra Kalogirou said that they had since received complaints supported by evidence and are preparing to conduct thorough investigations into possible law violations.

A rush for water to swim in and water to drink as temperatures hit 43C in Nicosia yesterday

Temperature at a seasonal high By Andria Kades TEMPERATURES hit an alltime high for the year yesterday, reaching 43 degrees Celsius in Nicosia, seven degrees higher than the average. Electricity consumption also reached a year’s maximum, registering 983MW by lunchtime, exceeding predictions that demand would reach 940MW. The Labour inspection department yesterday issued

a yellow warning level, the ﬁrst of three levels designated for extreme high temperatures, before orange and red and denoting “potential danger”. The department warned employers not to expose staff to direct sunlight between 12pm and 4pm, noting that any outdoor work should be done in shaded areas with adequate water supply while wearing light clothing. Although the warning was issued mainly for Limassol,

Larnaca and Paphos, Cleanthis Nicolaides of the Meteorological Service advised that precautions should be taken island-wide. Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) spokesman Costas Gavrielides yesterday reassured the public that enough capacity existed to provide uninterrupted supply for the summer. However, transmissions system operator director

Christos Christodoulou called on the public to be careful with consumption. While there is availability, Cyprus is at a critical stage, he said, reminding that the Vassilikos power plant is still undergoing repairs following last year’s Mari naval base blast. Temperatures are expected to remain high until Thursday, after which they should drop slightly.

Heat fails to deter fitness lovers By Bejay Browne NOT EVERYONE visiting the beach on Sunday afternoon was doing so to escape the heat which has now reached a seasonal high. Over the weekend hundreds descended on Atlantida Beach in Yeroskipou for the third annual beach aerobic and ﬁtness marathon, ‘Active Paphos’, in which participants took part in demonstrations and classes. The free event, which aimed to encourage the Paphos community to participate in physical activities, also raised funds for charity. During the event participants in the ﬁtness drive were sprayed with water hoses to help keep them cool as temperatures soared. “It’s really hot but we are all enjoying

ourselves, drinking lots of ﬂuids, taking regular ‘breather’ breaks and it feels great being hosed down by the water sprays,” said Paphos resident and ﬁtness follower, John Maxwell. Natalia Andreaou had come to watch the ‘Active Paphos ‘event with her three children but decided not to participate. “It’s so hot at the moment and we can’t afford to have the air conditioning on all day so we come to the beach most afternoons to cool down. I cover the kids in cream, they wear hats and love going in the sea,” she said. Meanwhile, Dr Marios Phillipou, the head of Paphos hospital emergency department warned that special care and measures must be taken to prevent heatstroke and dehydration. “The hotel and municipal beaches have facilities which can help people to

stay cool,” he said. “I would advise people to stay out of the sun around midday until about 3pm and use air conditioning. It’s important that people stay cool and don’t overheat.” The emergency department chief said that so far only a few people had been admitted to the emergency department of Paphos General Hospital over the past few days because of the heat wave. “So far we have had a few elderly women who have needed to be rehydrated and I hope that we don’t see any cases of heatstroke,” he said. “Stay away from drinking alcohol as it can be very dangerous in the heat and drink plenty of water.” He warned that elderly people in particular don’t seem to like water, so families must ensure that elderly relatives drink enough liquids.

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BoC’s Russian shareholder seeking to increase stake Media reports suggest Russian loan hinges on bigger BoC role By Elias Hazou RUSSIAN billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev is interested in increasing his already sizeable stake in the Bank of Cyprus (BoC), reports in the local press have said. The Russian businessman, former owner of fertiliser maker OAO Uralkali, has discussed increasing his stake in the island’s largest lender with the Cypriot government, daily Alithia reported yesterday without identifying its sources. The move could take Rybolovlev’s holding above 9.9 per cent, requiring permission from the Central Bank. Rybolovlev’s Odella Resources Ltd. currently owns 5.01 percent of Bank of Cyprus, according to the lender’s website. Rybolovlev is behind Odella, a British Virgin Islands-registered company. On September 21 2010, Bank of Cyprus announced that Odella Resources had raised its stake in the bank to 9.7 per cent, by acquiring shares from the bank’s employee pension funds and on the market. In 2010 Rybolovlev ranked no 79 in Forbes’ billionaires list, no 93 in 2011 and no 100 in 2012.

In March of this year, Rybolovlev did not exercise his rights during a share issue by the BoC - a bid by the bank to cover its re-capitalisation requirements. It’s said his decision was linked to the bank’s refusal to grant him a seat on the board of directors. Not having exercised his rights for a shares purchase, Rybolovlev’s stake since dropped from 9.7 per cent to 5.01 percent. But even with this he remains the largest single shareholder in the bank. Raising his stake to anything over 9.9 per cent would give Rybolovlev almost absolute control of the BoC, although such a development would be subject to permission from the banking regulator. But either way it’s not clear whether the Russian would be putting up the money required for the bank’s re-capitalisation. Having failed to ﬁnd a buyer, the bank recently told shareholders at an AGM that the lender was short by €200 million. Less than a week later the BoC issued an announcement saying that it needed half a billion for its recapitalisation. And according to Alithia, Russian ofﬁcials have informed their Cypriot

Billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev counterparts that their government is ready to grant a €5 billion loan if Russian shareholders are allowed to increase their stakes in the BoC. The paper said the Russians have asked that any such investment be backed up by government guarantees, which may involve state assistance, whereby undisposed shares would be given by the government to interested investors.

The island’s two main banks, Bank of Cyprus and Popular Bank, suffered record 2011 losses as a result of a write-down in their portfolios of Greek sovereign debt, an impairment agreed by European leaders to make Greece’s debt more sustainable. Bank stocks have taken a nosedive in the past couple of years. BoC shares traded at €3.40 back in 2010, €0.26 today. Last week, Russia’s permanent representative to the EU Vladimir Chizhov said any loan from his country to Cyprus would be intended for the recapitalisation of its banks and not as ﬁnancial help towards the EU. Chizhov was quoted in the Russian media as saying that the aim was to help the island’s banks. If talks ended with an agreement, he added, it would be a bilateral agreement, bearing no relation with the country support programme implemented by the so-called troika (European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund). Likewise, the Chinese have reportedly told Cyprus that any investment they might make would be in the Popular Bank alone.

Russian warships at Limassol port RUSSIAN NAVY warships docked at Limassol port over the weekend for the ﬁrst time in at least ten years. The Russian frigate Smetlivy docked at Limassol port on Sunday at 9.30am to re-supply with food and water and rest its crew before heading off in the afternoon at 5.30pm. Yesterday, a Russian tug boat Shakhter also docked at Limassol port at 7.56am and is due to leave today. Both ships are part of the Black Sea Fleet and according to reports, are on their way to Syria. Russia has a naval base at the Syrian port of Tartus, the only naval facility outside of the former Soviet Union. Since the uprising in Syria, a number of countries have increased their navies’ presence in the eastern Mediterranean, including the US, UK, France and Germany. It is believed Russia is seeking to counter their intensiﬁed presence with its own warships. According to sources, records at Limassol port reveal that no Russian warship has docked at the port for at least the last ten years.

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Funerals for a family’s three missing since 1974 THE REMAINS of two men and a teenager, who had been missing since the Turkish invasion in 1974 were buried yesterday at Apostle Luke church in Limassol. Brothers Andreas and Alexandros Germanos from Kyrenia and their brother-in-law Emilios Miltiades from Limassol, went missing on August 2 1974 in Kyrenia when Turkish soldiers arrested them for questioning. They were killed along with six others and their remains were exhumed and identiﬁed through DNA testing through the work of the Committee on Missing Persons. Miltiades was 26 years old and had three children, 21year-old Alexandros had one child and Andreas was only 16 years old when he was killed.

Engomi protest against boy racers Relatives of those killed in the coup of 1974 at a memorial service on Sunday, the anniversary of the coup which was also marked by a special plenary session of the House of Representatives (PIO)

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OVER 100 Engomi residents demonstrated along Griva Dhigenis avenue yesterday evening to protest against the crowds of boy racers who cause noise pollution in the area. The demonstrators, along with Engomi mayor Zacharias Kyriakou, gathered outside the Hilton Park for an hour and a half waving banners and handing out leaﬂets to passersby, informing them on the problem. “This problem has been going on for many years now and the state has a responsibility to do something,” said Kyriakou, adding that they want a solution and if the state will not solve it they will. Kyriakou has previously told the Cyprus Mail that they asked the Department of Public Works to put in wide speed bumps but they refused saying it will hold up trafﬁc during the daytime.

Money returned to Greek banks THE Finance Ministry yesterday returned €133 million to three Greek banks, who had government bonds that they did not want to renew, the state broadcaster said. Several semi-government organisations have already agreed to lend money to the cash-strapped state to cover its needs over the next few months. CyTA has agreed to lend €100 million, the Human Resources Development Authority €24 million and the Ports Authority will also lend €50 million through the purchase of three-month treasury bills.

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Online casinos ponder suing state over gambling ban law EU policy is to try and avoid an outright ban and favour regulation, lawyers argue By Stefanos Evripidou THE NEW gambling law is discriminatory, disproportionate and in violation of EU laws, according to one company that has had to close down 16 shops providing online casino and slot machine services. A lawyer for the Cyprusregistered AA Crown Bet Ltd which represents the interests of a number of big gaming companies in Ireland and Malta said the company is considering suing the Cyprus Republic, reporting it to the European Commission and appealing to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over the new law recently implemented. Speaking to the Cyprus Mail yesterday, Yiannos Georgiades from the Nicosia law ďŹ rm Georgiades & Mylonas argued that the new gambling bill violated provisions on the free movement of goods and services and freedom of establishment in the EU Treaty. According to Georgiades, AA Crown has 16 shops, mostly in Limassol offering online casino and slot machine services, provided through agreement with companies operating in Ireland, England and Malta. However, sections 78 and 79 of the much-debated gambling law passed unanimously by parliament on July 6, speciďŹ cally prohibit these services, meaning that all 16 shops no longer operate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The government could regulate and tax these services like other countries do, for example, the UK, Ireland, Malta and Spain,â&#x20AC;? said Georgiades. He argued that the European Commissionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s policy on the matter is to try to avoid a complete prohibition In a recent Green Paper (a discussion document intended to stimulate debate and launch consultation), the Commission tried to encourage regulation rather than restriction of online gambling, said the lawyer.

The government encourages participation in the state lotteries but has banned shops providing online gambling services â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Commission tries to remove obstacles to restrictions on gambling,â&#x20AC;? said Georgiades. Arguing his point, he noted that when Greece tried to justify prohibition using the argument of ďŹ ghting crime, the Commission referred to the ECJ position that any restrictions which seek to protect general interest objectives such as the protection of consumers must be â&#x20AC;&#x153;consistent and systematicâ&#x20AC;? in how they seek to limit gambling activities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A member state cannot invoke the need to restrict its citizensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; access to gambling services if at the same time it incites and encourages them to participate in state lotteries, games of chance or betting which beneďŹ ts the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ nances,â&#x20AC;? said the ECJ. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The gist here is that you cannot restrict provision of services from one company established in one member state to another because it

contravenes EU law,â&#x20AC;? said Georgiades. He argued that in certain circumstances it is justiďŹ able if the restriction aims to protect consumers, prevent crime and money laundering. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But it has to be done according to the principles of proportionality and nondiscrimination. In the case of Cyprus, it is not justiďŹ ed,â&#x20AC;? he said. Georgiades pointed to the Greek state-owned betting agency OPAP, which was established in Cyprus based on a bilateral agreement between the two countries. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They allow OPAP to operate providing similar services while speciďŹ cally prohibiting online casinos and slot machines. They offer random number games, games of chance which are very similar,â&#x20AC;? he said. Apart from the argument of unfair advantage to existing players in the market, the lawyer also pointed to

EU seeks tougher tests on cars to reduce number of road deaths CYPRUS may be asked to introduce tests for motorcycles and scooters and start testing older cars every year, if a new EU law proposal on vehicle testing passes through the European parliament. According to the European Commission, more than ďŹ ve people die in EU roads every day in accidents linked to technical failure. Laws on vehicle tests have been mostly unchanged in three decades. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cars, driver behaviour and technology have developed a lot since then,â&#x20AC;? a European Commission announcement said referring to UK- and German-based studies showing that up to 10 per cent of cars would at any point fail road safety checks.

Technical defects translate to 2,000 fatalities, the announcement said. The commission hopes that by upping roadworthiness tests for older vehicles, they can anticipate deterioration in cars which cause technical failure. For Cyprus, this would mean that a car that has been in circulation for six years since its ďŹ rst inspection will start getting MOT checks on an annual basis on year seven. Motorbikes and scooters will also be checked as they are considered â&#x20AC;&#x153;the highest risk group of road users,â&#x20AC;? the Commission said. The EU will set the minimum standards and member states will be allowed to apply stricter tests where they see ďŹ t.

the impact on unemployment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of people are losing their jobs, not just my clients,â&#x20AC;? said Georgiades. Based on government estimates, around 1,000 online gambling shops were

operating around the island before the law came into effect. Given that each shop needs an average of ďŹ ve to ten staff members, the lawyer argued that ďŹ ve to ten thousand workers were about to be added to the

unemployment list. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Also, these companies have lost their investments,â&#x20AC;? he said, noting that companies set up here after the Attorney-general issued a legal opinion a few years back saying you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop people that have agreements with service providers from other EU member states, like Malta for example. AA Crown is currently examining the possibility of a lawsuit against Cyprus, ďŹ ling a complaint to the European Commission, and going to the ECJ. In the meantime, Georgiades explained that any shop that is prosecuted by the state for continuing to operate will have the opportunity to refer the matter to the ECJ for a ruling. Police issued a warning last Friday that the new law will be implemented without delay. The new law makes possession and/or operation of devices for the purposes of running an online casino illegal, while also prohibiting the advertising of illegal gambling. Police highlighted that many provisions in the new legislation provide for penalties of up to ďŹ ve years in jail and/or a â&#x201A;Ź300,000 ďŹ ne. Criminal responsibility now lies not only with those owning or running gambling joints but also the gamblers, said the police.

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Israeli PM: held suspect planned tourist attack Police found details on Israeli tour companies and flight schedules THE FOREIGN national arrested here on suspicion of planning possible terrorist attacks against Israeli targets had arrived via England, the Cyprus Mail has learned. Authorities here are declining to give any details about the case, calling it “a delicate political issue”. But government sources yesterday did offer that the 24year-old entered the Republic on a ﬂight from London’s Heathrow Airport. On Sunday, Israel explicitly accused Lebanon’s Hezbollah guerrillas and Iran of plotting to attack its citizens in Cyprus after police took the man into custody. In a statement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the incident “the

attempted terrorist attack by Hezbollah against an Israeli target in Cyprus”. He accused the Shi’ite guerrilla group’s sponsor, Iran, of overall responsibility. “This terror is conducted under Iran’s auspices. It is part of the Iranian plan,” Netanyahu said in the statement. In Beirut, Hezbollah had no immediate comment on Israel’s allegation on Sunday. What has been conﬁrmed so far is that the man, believed to be of Lebanese descent, arrived here on a Swedish passport. He was reportedly detained after tracking the movement of Israeli tourists on the island, but has not been charged with any crime. Earlier, police spokesman Andreas Angelides had con-

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: ‘part of the Iranian plan’ ﬁrmed the 24-year-old was arrested on July 7 during a raid on his hotel in the tourist resort of Limassol. He also said that the man, whose name

has not been released, was arrested “on possible charges pertaining to terrorism laws” soon after entering Cyprus using a Swedish passport. Angelides said the foreigner was in custody “for specific, serious offences”. He did not elaborate. The suspect was initially remanded in custody for five days; the remand order was renewed last Friday for another week. Police confirmed the arrest on Saturday. Reports said the Swedishpassport holder has been co-operating with his interrogators, telling them that he travelled to Cyprus with the intent of launching an armed attack at the embassy of Israel in Nicosia. He allegedly changed his mind after observing the heavy security measures in place at the embassy, and opted instead for a plan to blow up a commercial airplane belonging to El Al, Israel’s national air carrier. He also allegedly considered attacking a number of buses belonging to Israeli tour companies operating in Israel. Reports said Cypriot police searched the man’s hotel room, finding information on Israeli bus tour companies on the island, detailed flight

schedules of Israeli airline operators, as well as digital photographs of popular destinations among Israeli tourists holidaying in Cyprus. It is unclear at this point whether the alleged Hezbollah member had any accomplices, or whether he was acting alone. An Israeli official told Reuters that Israel’s Mossad spy service was involved in the investigation. Asked if a Mossad tip-off had prompted the arrest, the official declined comment. Justice Minister Loucas Louca said the arrest took place following information from foreign intelligence agencies. Unconfirmed reports over the weekend suggested that Mossad officers have been dispatched to Cyprus to aid local counterterrorist officials involved in the investigation. Hezbollah operatives with Swedish passports have attempted to carry out attacks against Israeli targets abroad in the past. Hezbollah member Hussein Idris, who was arrested in Thailand in January 2012 on suspicion that he intended to target Israelis with a car bomb, was also a Swedish citizen.

Remand in one of two knife attacks TWO MEN were victims of knife crime in Paphos in separate cases over the weekend. According to Paphos police spokesman Nicos Tsappis a 38-year-old Egyptian national informed police that he had been attacked in Polis Chrysochous by two of his countrymen in a dispute over work. The victim’s assailants allegedly stabbed the man in the stomach and he is currently in hospital where his condition is stable. “We are currently searching for two suspects in connection with this case,” Tsappis said In the meantime, a 23-year-old Georgian man was remanded for eight days by Paphos district court on Sunday, in connection with the stabbing of a 38-year-old Ukrainian man in the Potima Bay area of Paphos. The incident took place at around midnight on Friday. The victim was on the beach with a Russian woman when he was attacked after he requested that the suspect and his friend turn down the music from their car radio. The victim was taken to Paphos hospital where his condition remains serious but stable. A second man is being sought by police in connection with the attack.

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Remanded for wedding rape case A 21-YEAR-OLD Cypriot was remanded for three days on Sunday by Larnaca District Court on suspicion of raping a 22-year-old woman on Sunday. According to police, the woman was allegedly raped at a wedding during the early hours of Sunday. The suspect was then arrested at 7am on the same day. Police also conﬁrmed that the woman was examined by pathologist Eleni Antoniou who conﬁrmed that she had been recently raped. Reports from Larnaca press stated that the woman was at the suspect’s house for his sister’s wedding. She tried to get away from him, police said, but the suspect forced her into his bedroom and raped her.

Hit by car after escaping attackers A 14-YEAR-OLD boy from Romania was hit by a car as he ran to escape from two attackers in a park in Nicosia on Sunday. The teenager who was in a small park near Makarios hospital with a friend, was attacked by two people aged 22 and 25 at around 3.30pm on Sunday. In his attempt to escape, the 14-year-old ran towards the road and was hit by a car driven by a 39year-old. He was rushed to the emergency department of the Nicosia general hospital for treatment of multiple injuries sustained to his hands, legs and head. According to police, the 14-year-old is out of danger but has been kept in hospital as a precautionary measure.

Inflation falls CYPRUS’ annual inflation recorded a significant decrease in June 2012, while euro area annual inflation remained unchanged and EU inflation increased slightly, according to Eurostat data. The lowest inflation rate in the euro area was recorded in Greece (1 per cent), and outside the euro area in Sweden(0.9 per cent). In Cyprus, the rate dropped to 2.9 per cent in June 2012, from 3.7 per cent in May 2012. Euro area annual inflation was 2.4 per cent in June 2012.

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Members of the Italian Olympic squad arriving at Heathrow yesterday when the airport had its busiest day ever

The Olympic flood of visitors begins

ARCHBISHOP Desmond Tutu has called on the British government to show “magnanimity and compassion” towards elderly Kenyans ﬁghting for damages over alleged colonial atrocities during the Mau Mau uprising. In a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron he accuses the government of continuing to refuse to deal with “these elderly torture victims with the dignity they deserve”. He adds: “It is high time that the British government showed some magnanimity and compassion.” Two letters sent by Tutu to the government in February and this month were released by lawyers for the three Kenyans at the centre of the case as the latest round of their legal battle was about to begin. A year ago they won a “historic” ruling which took them one step nearer to achieving their goal when Justice McCombe said they had “arguable cases in law”. The fresh hearing at London’s High Court will focus on the government’s argument that the claims cannot proceed because they have been brought outside the legal time limit - but lawyers for the Kenyans will argue that it is an exceptional case in which the judge should exercise his discretion in their favour. In the February letter to Cameron, Archbishop Tutu accuses the government of “relying on legal technicalities in response to allegations of torture of the worst kind”. During the two-week hearing, the court will consider evidence about events in detention camps during the 1950s from Jane Muthoni Mara, Paulo Muoka Nzili and Wambuga Wa Nyingi. The court has heard that Nzili was castrated, Nyingi beaten unconscious in an incident in which 11 men were clubbed to death, and Mrs Mara was subjected to appalling sexual abuse.

Security fiasco and transport worries cast shadow By Peter Grifﬁths and

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THE first wave of Olympic athletes and visitors began pouring into Britain yesterday and officials played down fears that a packed London would buckle under the pressure of its biggest peacetime security and transport operation. An embarrassing shortage of security guards, fears over airport queues and questions about the capital’s creaking transport system have overshadowed preparations for the Games. Extra soldiers were drafted in to help police the Games after private security firm G4S said it had run out of time to train all its newly recruited staff. The company’s share price fell sharply yesterday. Less than two weeks before the opening ceremony on July 27, Prime Minister David Cameron said the G4S shambles would not compromise Britain’s largest peacetime policing exercise. “We had contingency plans, we are using those contingency plans and we will do whatever it takes to deliver a safe and secure Games,” Cameron told a news conference. The security fiasco dominated the head-

lines over the weekend and raised fears that Britain would struggle to cope with the Games. A cartoon in the Daily Telegraph newspaper showed a red-faced, overweight runner wearing a G4S vest, complaining: “I didn’t realise I had to run all the way to the end”. Some 12,500 police will be on Olympics duty each day, backed up by soldiers, fighter jets and missile batteries on the top of apartment blocks near the Olympics site in east London. Security chiefs said they had prepared for threats on the scale of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Four British Islamist suicide bombers killed 52 people on three trains and a bus in London on the day after the city was awarded the Games in July 2005. London’s main Heathrow Airport had its busiest day on record, while the Olympic village opened its doors to the first athletes. The first arrivals at an airport notorious for queues at security checks and passport control said everything had gone smoothly. “I was expecting a three-hour queue like everyone said. It took not even five minutes. It was flawless - good job Lon-

don,” said John Retsios, 36, who had flown from New York with the US Modern Pentathlon team. Airport operator BAA Plc, owned by Spain’s Ferrovial, said it expected a record 237,000 passengers to use Heathrow yesterday, including 335 athletes. The busiest day for arriving athletes is expected to be July 24. The first section of road reserved for Olympic athletes and officials began operating yesterday, when one lane of the motorway linking Heathrow with the western edge of the capital was closed to all non-Olympic traffic. It will form part of a 48km network of road lanes designed to whisk 82,000 athletes and officials through London’s notoriously congested streets. Critics have nicknamed them “Zil lanes” after the roads reserved for the limousines of senior officials in the old Soviet Union. London mayor Boris Johnson said the city was ready for the Games, the transport system would cope and visitors would be safe. “When the opening ceremony begins, then a lot of these issues that we are currently discussing will melt away,” Johnson told BBC television.

Queen Victoria’s private beach is opened to public By Ben Mitchell QUEEN Victoria’s private beach where she ﬁrst took a swim in the sea is to be opened to the public for the ﬁrst time this summer. The stretch of seafront at Osborne, the monarch’s seaside home on the Isle of Wight, has never been accessible to the general public. But now English Heritage has restored Victoria’s original bathing machine to the site prior to its opening on July 27. Osborne House, near East Cowes, was a popular retreat for Victoria who enjoyed family holidays at the seaside mansion. She wrote in 1845: “We have quite a charming beach to ourselves.”

As well as being the first place that she swam in the sea, it was where her children learned to swim. Writing of her first bathing experience, she said: “I thought it delightful till I put my head under water, when I thought I should be stifled.” Simon Thurley, chief executive of English Heritage, said: “Queen Victoria is fixed in many people’s minds as the grandmother of Europe, a queen who spent most of her reign in mourning for her husband. “Opening her beach at Osborne lets us show another side to her - this was a Queen who collected sea shells with her children, who sketched the changing sea, and who swam sometimes twice a day. “Osborne was her seaside

The beach at Osbourne where Victoria took her ﬁrst dip retreat from the formalities of Buckingham Palace - now people can visit that seaside.” The beach was a deciding factor behind the decision by Victoria and Prince Albert to buy Osborne House as their private home. Albert likened the bay to

Naples in Italy and Victoria wrote: “It is impossible to imagine a prettier spot.” The original wooden bathing machine, which ran down a ramp into the sea and from which Victoria would emerge in her swimming suit, her modesty preserved, has been returned to the beach.

Upgrade will accommodate an extra 140,000 daily trips

Nearly £9.5b for rail upgrade BRITAIN is to invest 9.4 billion pounds upgrading the country’s rail network, including 4.2 billion on new schemes such as reopening a line that will provide better access between northern Britain and ports on the south coast. Other new projects include electrification of lines in the Welsh valleys and the London-Sheffield service, and a 500 million pound link that will better join London’s Heathrow airport to the national rail network. Building work on the projects, which the government predicts will deliver capacity for an extra 140,000 daily commutes, will not start before 2014 - the announcement covers the period 2014-19. “This investment will mean faster journeys, more seats, better access to stations, greater freight links and a truly world-class rail network,” Prime Minister David Cameron said at a news conference in Birmingham. The plan includes 5.2 billion pounds for the completion of current schemes, such as the all-new Crossrail that will cross London east-west, and an upgrade of Thameslink, which runs north-south through the capital. The government said the plans would be funded, in part, from previously announced fare rises and from efficiency savings electrification will have on operating costs. The Federation of Small Businesses said the investment was long overdue and would help small businesses better connect with customers and suppliers. “We have long been calling for better road and rail links to be put in place so this will be welcomed by the business community,” FSB chairman for infrastructure Neil Hoose.

Population up by 7 per cent in 10 years THE population of England and Wales increased by 7 per cent between the last two census surveys, the largest growth in numbers seen in any period since records began, the Ofﬁce for National Statistics said yesterday. There were 56.1 million people living in England and Wales on the day of Census 2011, an increase of 3.7 million since 2001, when there were 52.4 million people. Figures also showed that one in six people in England and Wales in 2011 was aged 65 and over.

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World WORLD TODAY Games official kidnapped THE head of Libya’s Olympic committee has been abducted by gunmen in the capital Tripoli. Ahmed Nabil al-Taher al-Alam was snatched on Sunday near the committee’s offices in the city centre, according to his brother, Salah al-Alam. He says there has been no contact with the official since. Salah al-Alam said he learned of the kidnapping from his brother’s friend, who was there when the abduction took place. The gunmen bundled al-Alam into a car before speeding off. Security officials said they are investigating the incident. The committee chief was friends with ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi’s son, Mohammed, and also served as the head of Libyan Football Association before Gaddafi’s capture and killing in last year’s civil war.

Jail visits allowed ISRAEL allowed 40 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to visit relatives held in Israeli jails on Monday, the first such visits in five years, implementing a deal reached in May that ended a prisoners’ hunger strike, families and officials said. “Forty people - families of 24 prisoners - arrived a short while ago at the Ramon prison,” a Prisons Service spokeswoman said, adding that visits from prisoners’ relatives in Gaza would now be held on a weekly basis. Israel banned family visits to prisoners from Gaza in 2007, a few months after Palestinian militants abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, holding him captive until they exchanged him for 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in an Egyptian-mediated deal in 2011.

US vessel fires on boat, 1 dead AN American vessel has fired on a boat off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, killing one person and injuring three, according to the US Consulate in Dubai. The official gave no further details, but it appears the boat could have been mistaken as a threat in Gulf waters not far from Iran’s maritime boundaries. An Emirati rescue official confirmed the casualty toll. The US Navy’s 5th Fleet, which is based in Bahrain, said it is investigating the incident. The US Embassy in Abu Dhabi had no immediate comment.

Over 100,000 march against nuke power MORE than 100,000 anti-nuclear protesters marched through central Tokyo yesterday to voice their opposition to atomic power, racheting up the pressure on under ﬁre Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda. On the hottest day of the year, protesters forsook their air-conditioned homes to say the country does not need nuclear energy after last year’s Fukushima disaster raised concerns about the safety of atomic power. It was the biggest demonstration since Noda said last month Japan needed to restart reactors shut down for safety checks to avoid electricity shortages that might hit the economy. “Today temperatures reached record high levels,” Noda told Japanese television, as the city sweltered in 36.6degree Celsius.

“We must ask ourselves whether we can really make do without nuclear power.” Noda has come under increasing pressure amid growing public distrust of nuclear power, and his Democratic Party of Japan party was hit last month by mass defections after he pushed through an unpopular sales tax increase. Noda’s Democrats still control a majority in the lower house of parliament, but are outnumbered by the opposition in the upper house. Many analysts say mid-term elections could be called. Protest organisers said 170,000 people turned out, closing one of Tokyo’s main streets. Police estimated their number at up to 75,000, local media reported. Most demonstrators were middle aged -- the constituency that has been the bedrock of support for the

governments that ruled Japan during the growth years of the post-war era, powered by nuclear energy that many thought was cheap and safe. “Japan is going to destroy itself by building nuclear plants in such an earthquake-prone country,” said one protester, who gave only his surname, Saegusa. All of the country’s 50 nuclear reactors were taken off line after last year’s earthquake and tsunami triggered the world’s worst atomic accident since Chernobyl in 1986. Nuclear power had previously supplied nearly 30 per cent of Japan’s electricity. The ﬁrst of two reactors operated by Kansai Electric Power Co that passed widely criticised safety checks started earlier this month and another one is due to be ﬁred up later this month.

North Korea ditches top military official Move seen as possible purge by Kim Jong-un By Jack Kim NORTH Korea’s ruling party has removed a top military official close to the centre of power, suggesting new leader Kim Jong-un and his closest advisers may be purging the ruling elite to strengthen their grip on the secretive state. It is the latest surprise by the young Kim who last week stunned observers by jazzing up the ruling family dynasty’s normally dour image when he appeared on state television in the company of a mystery young woman, cheerfully applauding scantily dressed female pop singers. Vice Marshal Ri Yong-ho, who was seen as close to Kim’s dictator father, was relieved of his posts in the Workers’ Party of Korea at a politburo meeting on Sunday including the powerful role of vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, the state KCNA news agency said yesterday. Illness was given as the reason for the move on Ri, who is 70 years old according to South Korean government database. Health is often used as the reason when senior officials are sacked. “This is a sudden move, one that you could call a purge,” said Cho Min of South Korea’s Institute for National Unification who studies the North’s leadership and its tactics.

Kim’s (C) regime is under pressure to establish its political legitimacy and also to ease public discontent (AFP) Ri showed no sign of illhealth when he was seen in public a week ago with Kim Jong-un and senior military ofﬁcials visiting a memorial in the capital Pyongyang honouring the founder of the state Kim Il-sung, and the current ruler’s grandfather, on the anniversary of his death in 1994. It was not clear from the brief report whether Ri, a career ofﬁcer who rapidly rose through to top ranks of the army in recent years culminating in the appointment as Chief of General Staff, was also relieved of

his military posts. “The reason would be all speculation, but you might say Ri may have tried to ﬁrm up his own position which may have been to the dislike of Jang Song-thaek and Choe Ryong-hae,” said Cho. Jang is the young leader’s uncle, married to Kim Jongil’s sister, and believed to be the real power behind the throne in the impoverished state as chief adviser to his nephew who is in his late 20s. Choe is a senior party ofﬁcial who has taken on an increasingly powerful role

within the political apparatus of the military in a state ruled by “military first policy,” or Songun, preached by Kim’s father Kim Jong-il. Kim Jong-un took power after his father died last December. Experts say there is heavy pressure on the new leadership to not only establish its political legitimacy but also ease discontent among an impoverished public. The rule of Kim’s father saw the economy dragged deeper into poverty from mismanagement and increasingly tough international sanctions over his efforts to develop a more lethal armoury, including nuclear weapons. By the time he died, the country could not feed itself even during good harvests and had become heavily dependent on help from neighbouring China to feed a population of 24 million. Ri had been a member of an eight-man procession which walked with the hearse carrying Kim Jong-il in a state funeral in December, and was subsequently seen at the new leader’s side. “‘Due to illness’ has to be an excuse, I think,” said Kim Yong-hyun who teaches North Korea studies at Dongguk University in Seoul. “It is more likely the result of a power struggle that is shaping up in the Kim Jong-un regime.” Cho of the Korea Institute for National Unification said he believed the plan to oust Ri had been in the making for several months. “This is likely the conclusion, rather than the beginning, of a series of moves to reshuffle the military. I believe 200 mid-level officers in the military have already been removed as part of Jang and Choe’s reorganisation of the country.”

Protesters march at an antinuclear rally in Tokyo yesterday (AFP)

109 dead, 400,000 homeless in India floods INDIA’S annual monsoon has claimed 109 lives since rains started in June and left at least 400,000 people homeless in the northeastern state of Assam, in a tragedy experts say was made worse by corruption and poor management of the Brahmaputra River. A senior member of the Assam Human Rights Commission, a government body, told Reuters it suspects millions of dollars meant for flood control have been siphoned off by state water department officials in the last five years. The commission has demanded a high-level investigation by the government. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who represents Assam in the upper house of parliament, called the floods the worst in recent times and promised $1,800 to each victim’s family in compensation. Critics say that much of the money will evaporate. “Corruption is rampant before and after a flood,” said Arup Misra, a prominent environmental activist in the state and a professor at Assam Engineering College. “Some officials eagerly wait for floods as they could make money on repairing of embankments and relief distribution.” Over the past 60 years successive governments have built levees along most of the length of the volatile Brahmaputra, which is Assam’s main river and is fed by Himalayan snow melt and some of the world’s heaviest rainfall. Experts say these embankments are both criminally under-maintained and a discredited form of flood management. Assam is famed as a teagrowing region and rich in oil and timber. It is also home to the Kaziranga National Park that hosts two-thirds of the world’s Great One-horned Rhinoceroses.

South Africa elects first female African Union Commission chief SOUTH African Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma was elected on Sunday to become the ﬁrst female head of the African Union (AU) Commission, ending a bruising leadership battle that had threatened to divide and weaken the organisation.

Cheers broke out at the AU’s soaring, Chinese-built steel and glass headquarters in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa as supporters of the ex-wife of South African President Jacob Zuma celebrated her victory over incumbent Jean Ping of Gabon.

“We made it!” a grinning Zimbabwean delegate shouted, reﬂecting the strong support Dlamini-Zuma’s candidacy had received from fellow members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Ping, who had served in the AU post since 2008, was largely supported by

French-speaking African states. The appointment of South Africa’s 63-year-old home affairs minister, who previously served as minister of health and foreign affairs, will add to the global diplomatic clout of an African state which is already the continent’s largest economy.

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Syrian forces surround rebels hiding in capital Lavrov signals no change in Russia stance By Mariam Karouny and Erika Solomon SYRIAN government forces encircled rebel fighters in Damascus yesterday, waging a second day of fighting that residents described as the worst to hit the capital since the 17-month-old revolt against President Bashar alAssad began. Armoured vehicles rolled into the southern district of Midan and were reinforced by security forces surrounding the area in the late afternoon. Residents said they saw snipers deployed on rooftops. “There are troops everywhere, I can hear ambulances,” said a resident near Midan. “It feels like a war in Damascus.” The spread of fighting in the capital came as United Nations envoy Kofi Annan started a two-day visit to Moscow to try to promote a peace

plan for Syria. He was to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has resisted Western calls to increase pressure on Assad. A video uploaded by opposition activists aired on al-Jazeera network showed men in jeans hiding behind sandbagged Damascus alleyways, firing rocket-propelled grenades and machineguns. Fighting raged on and off in Midan and Tadamon yesterday after unprecedented battles on Sunday. A fighter told Reuters rebels could not retreat after a few hours of fighting, as they had in previous incursions into the capital, because they were surrounded by security forces and checkpoints. “They want to leave. If they were able to leave they would have left,” he said. “The whole area is surrounded.” The government has said little about the unrest in the capital. State television re-

ported on Monday that security forces were chasing “terrorist groups” that had ﬂed to some neighbourhoods in Damascus. Anti-government activists said clashes so close to the seat of government showed that rebels were chipping away at state power in a capital once seen as Assad’s impenetrable stronghold. “When you turn your guns against the heart of Damascus, on Midan, you have lost the city. The rebels in the street have the support of families across Damascus,” said Damascus-based activist Imad Moaz. Activist accounts are hard to verify because the government restricts access to international media. The West wants Moscow to drop its support for Assad, which has seen Russia veto action against him at the UN Security Council. But before talks with Annan, Foreign

Damaged buildings are seen in Karm Chmchm near the Syrian city of Homs on July 12, 2012 Minister Sergei Lavrov signalled no change in Moscow’s position. Lavrov said Western efforts to pass a Security Council resolution - which would extend a UN monitoring mission in Syria and also include a threat of sanctions - contained “elements of black-

mail”. He called for support of Moscow’s rival text instead, which does not call for sanctions. “If our partners decide to block our resolution no matter what, then the UN mission will not have a mandate and will have to leave Syria. That would be a pity,” he said.

Mubarak heads back to jail US-Israeli talks cover Syria and Iran EGYPT’S public prosecutor ordered former president Hosni Mubarak be moved back to prison yesterday, saying an improvement in his health meant he no longer needed to stay in a military hospital. Mubarak, sentenced to life in prison over the killing of protesters in the uprising that ended his rule, was moved from the medical wing of Tora prison to a hospital last month following reports of a deterioration in his health. At the time, senior ofﬁcers and military sources gave various accounts of the 84year-old’s condition, including that he was in a coma and on life support. Adel al-Saeed, the assistant prosecutor and spokesman for the prosecutor’s ofﬁce, said a medical committee formed to review Mubarak’s condition had decided his health was stable enough that he did not need ad-

Ex Egypt leader Mubarak vanced hospital care. Sentenced on June 2 for his failure to protect demonstrators, Mubarak has been portrayed as being in poor health by officials for the past year. He was wheeled in to court during his trial on a hospital stretcher. Many Egyptians have been sceptical. Others suspect fellow officers, who pushed him aside to appease the protesters, of conniving to give him a more comfortable confinement.

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US SECRETARY of State Hillary Clinton and Israeli president Shimon Peres have discussed the need to halt Syrian violence as well as blocking Iran’s potential production of nuclear weapons during talks in Jerusalem. The meeting underlines US support for an ally in a difﬁcult neighbourhood. Clinton met president Peres for about an hour as part of what is perhaps her ﬁnal visit to Israel as secretary of state, bringing a message of solidarity to the Jewish state after three-and-a-half years of only stunted progress toward a Palestinian peace deal. After their visit, they each issued a statement to reporters without taking questions. Peres spoke about the importance of maintaining Israel’s three-decade peace with Egypt, and decried the violence in neighbouring Syria. He also voiced support for the US administration’s pressure on Iran to halt its nuclear activities - which has sometimes been a point of contention between a cautious US keen to give negotiations and sanctions time to work and an Israeli government that has threatened military action. Clinton said she spoke with Peres about “Egypt and Syria, peace efforts, Iran and other regional and global issues”. She said she would comment in greater detail after later meetings with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian

prime minister Salam Fayyad. She was set to return to Washington today, ending a 12-day, nine-country trip that included stops in Europe and Asia. Her visit to Israel follows a weekend visit by US president Barack Obama’s national security adviser Tom Donilon. Defence secretary Leon Panetta is also expected to visit Israel soon. Although yesterday’s agenda was designed to cover the breadth of US-Israeli relations, the lack of action on peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians was to be the main focus. Negotiations have almost been non-existent for the duration of Obama’s term in ofﬁce. They resumed brieﬂy two years ago before stumbling over the same set of problems, namely Palestinian demands for a freeze on Jewish settlements in lands they seek for their future state and an Israeli insistence on no preconditions for talks. Asked in an interview on Sunday with WJLA-TV, a Washington DC station, what he believed he failed at, president Obama cited Arab-Israeli peace efforts. “I have not been able to move the peace process forward in the Middle East the way I wanted,” he said. “It’s something we focused on very early. But the truth of the matter is that the parties, they’ve got to want it as well.”

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FORMER Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi has suggested in an interview that he will attempt a return to power - using the old party name that brought him into politics two decades ago. In an interview in Germany’s Bild newspaper, Mr Berlusconi said he is asked “often and emphatically” to step back into the political ring. “I can only say I won’t let my old People of Freedom Party down. We will soon return to the old party name, by the way: ‘Forza Italia (Go Italy)’.” Berlusconi rose to power in 1994 using the catchy football chant as his motto, and he dominated Italy’s political scene until he was forced to resign in November with the country in a ﬁnancial shambles and his personal legacy tarnished by sex and corruption scandals. Berlusconi told Bild he saw his resignation as a way to allow premier Mario Monti to use his broad support to bring about necessary changes. Monti, an economist and former European Commissioner, has raised taxes and pushed through painful reforms to the pension and labour market systems. “I wanted to make reforms possible,” Berlusconi said. Monti has ruled out running for ofﬁce when his term ends in 2013. In recent days, members of Berlusconi’s inner circle have said openly that the media mogul would run in elections next spring.

Retirement law ‘unconstitutional’ HUNGARY’S top court ruled yesterday that legislation mandating a lower retirement age for judges was unconstitutional as it threatened the independence of the judiciary, echoing criticism by the EU. The Budapest government had been at loggerheads with Brussels over a series of new laws passed last year that critics said cemented the ruling conservative Fidesz party’s hold over independent institutions in the central European state.

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IMF cuts global growth forecast, urges forceful eurozone action Growth drops to 3.9 per cent in mid-year global health check By Lesley Wroughton THE International Monetary Fund yesterday cut its global growth forecast and warned that the outlook could dim further if policymakers in Europe do not act with enough force and speed to quell their region's debt crisis. In a mid-year health check of the work economy, the IMF also cautioned the productive capacity in a number of emerging market economies, such as China, India and Brazil, may be lower than previously believed and future growth could disappoint. The IMF shaved its 2013 forecast for global economic growth to 3.9 per cent from the 4.1 per cent it projected in April, trimming projections for most advanced and emerging economies. It left its 2012 forecast unchanged at 3.5 per cent. "Downside risks to this weaker global outlook continue to loom large," the IMF said in an update of its World Economic Outlook. "The most immediate risk is still that delayed or insufﬁcient policy action will further escalate the euro area crisis." The global lender said advanced economies would only grow 1.4 per cent this year and 1.9 per cent in 2013. It chopped its forecast for growth in emerging economies this year and next, projecting they will expand 5.9

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per cent in 2013 and 5.6 per cent in 2012. Both figures are 0.1 percentage point lower than in April. The IMF cut its growth forecast for the crisis-hit euro zone to 0.7 per cent in 2013, while maintaining its projection of a 0.3 per cent contraction this year. It said it now believes Spain's economy will shrink both this year and next. The IMF sharply revised down its growth projections for the United Kingdom to 0.2 per cent this year and to 1.4 per cent in 2013. In April, the fund said the UK economy would expand 0.8 per cent in 2012 and 2.0 per cent next year. The fund praised measures adopted by European leaders at a summit in June as "steps in the right direction" but called for more fiscal and banking integration. It urged the creation of a panEuropean deposit insurance guarantee programme and a mechanism to resolve failing banks. "The utmost priority is to resolve the crisis in the eurozone," the IMF said. It urged the ECB to provide ample liquidity to support banks under "sufficiently lenient conditions" and nudged the central bank to further ease monetary policy. It made clear, however, that Europe was not the only risk to the outlook. The IMF, which trimmed its US forecasts slightly, said concerns were rising

Civil servants hold placards as they blocked Cibeles square during a protest over government austerity measures in central Madrid. Placards read 'This is a hold up'. The IMF praised measures by eurozone leaders in June over a political battle brewing in Washington over how to avoid painful automatic spending cuts and tax increases at the start of next year. The United States faces what economists are calling a "ﬁscal cliff" with the scheduled expiration of Bush-era tax cuts and $1.2 trillion in automatic spending reductions - enough ﬁscal tightening to knock the still-weak US economy back into recession. The nation is also expect-

ed to run into the statutory $16.4 trillion cap on its debt before the end of the year, raising the prospect of a default absent congressional action to raise it. While financial markets believe Congress and the White House will find a way to avoid a fiscal train wreck, the IMF warned of the "potential for a significant adverse market reaction" if that consensus view began to falter. Concerns about weaker growth have now also moved to emerging economies. The

IMF said they are facing "extraordinary uncertainty" as global growth slows and investors shun riskier assets. Earlier this year, policymakers in emerging economies were worried about largescale capital inﬂows and excessive appreciation of their currencies. Those fears have given way to concerns over rapid depreciation and increased volatility in exchange rates. Currencies like the Brazilian real and Indian rupee have depreciated by between 15 and 25 per cent

in less than a quarter, the IMF noted. "In emerging economies, policymakers should be ready to cope with trade declines and the high volatility of capital ﬂows," it said. The IMF cut its 2012 growth forecast for China to 8.0 per cent, down from 8.2 per cent, and said it now expected growth of 8.5 per cent next year, down from 8.8 per cent. It also sharply revised down its growth projections for India to 6.1 per cent this year from 6.9 per cent.

Barclays executive says he was GlaxoSmithKline acquires acting on orders on Libor rates Human Genome Sciences By Steve Slater A BARCLAYS executive said he ordered staff to manipulate interest rates in line with instructions from his then boss, Bob Diamond, following a conversation the British bank's former chief executive had with the Bank of England. Jerry del Missier, who quit as chief operating officer two weeks ago, came under intense cross-examination yesterday from a parliamentary committee over whether he knew artificially lowering Barclays' rates was illegal. Barclays was fined a record $450 million last month by US and British authorities for manipulating the London Interbank Offered Rate, or Libor, the interest rate that underpins financial transactions worth trillions of dollars worldwide, between 2005 and 2009. Barclays had said earlier that del Missier had given the order to understate the submissions Barclays made towards calculating the daily rate as a result of a misunderstanding. The deputy governor of the Bank of Eng-

land, Paul Tucker, in testimony to the committee last week, said he had been concerned that Barclays was submitting rates that were high, but he had not intended that as an instruction to submit artiﬁcially low rates. In his testimony, del Missier said he had acted on instructions from his boss and he did not see anything wrong with what he was doing. "I passed the instruction on to the head of the money market desk. I relayed the content of the conversation I had with Mr Diamond and fully expected the Bank of England views would be fully incorporated in the Libor submission. I expected that they would take those views into account," del Missier said. "At the time it did not seem an inappropriate action given that this was coming from the Bank of England," he told the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee. The London interbank offered rate (Libor) which is compiled from estimates by big banks of how much they believe they have to pay to borrow from each other is used for $550 trillion of interest rate derivatives contracts and inﬂuences rates on mortgages, student loans and credit cards.

GLAXOSMITHKLINE Plc is to acquire its long-time partner Human Genome Sciences Inc for a sweetened offer of about $3 billion, ending on friendly terms a three-month hostile pursuit of the US biotech company. The purchase price excludes Human Genome's cash and debt. Including cash and debt, the deal values Human Genome at about $3.6 billion. The deal comes after weekend talks in which Britain's biggest drugmaker agreed to raise its cash bid to $14.25 a share from a previous $13, which Human Genome had rejected as inadequate. "We had expected the offer would be increased modestly to save face on both sides," said Nicholas Bishop, an analyst at Cowen and Company. The acquisition will secure

GSK full rights to a recently launched drug for lupus, Benlysta, and other new medicines. Biotechnology companies are in increasing demand as big pharmaceuticals companies seek new products to replace older medicines that are going off patent in the biggest wave of drug patent expiries in history. In addition to gaining 100 per cent of Benlysta to treat lupus, a disease affecting the immune system, GSK also gets full ownership of experimental medicines for diabetes and heart disease that are in late-stage development. Despite bumping its offer 10 per cent and paying a 99 per cent premium to the share price before its interest was made public, industry analysts said GSK had got a good deal.

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Opinion

Political gripes over trivialities are a luxury we cannot afford MEMBERS of the government and the AKEL leadership expressed outrage on Sunday because Archbishop Chrysostomos held a brief memorial service at the gravesides of 20 National Guard commandos who were killed participating in the 1974 military coup. ‘Shame’ read yesterday’s front-page banner headline in government mouthpiece Haravghi, which wrote that the service, on the anniversary of the coup, was an affront to all those who fell defending democracy and freedom. It was an outrage that the Archbishop, EVROKO and DISY honoured those who fought to destroy the Republic, it said. AKEL chief Andros Kyprianou used the event to have a go at DISY leader Nicos Anastasiades, asking people how they could back him in the presidential elections, “when he and his party bow to the destroyers of Cyprus, carrying on honouring, protecting and defending those who led our country to the brink of catastrophe”. AKEL may be justified in taking offence, but it has magnified a trivial matter that should not be troubling us at a time when our country is on the brink of catastrophe. Politicians should be focusing on the present, on the catastrophe staring us in the face and leave what happened 38 years ago to the historians. This is no time to be bickering about the coup of 38 years ago or about the presidential elections of next February. DIKO also expressed outrage on Saturday because presidential candidate Giorgos’ Lillikas’ campaign team had allegedly accessed its membership roll and was canvassing its supporters. We really cannot afford to be dealing with trivialities now. The country is in deep recession, the state has run out of money, the banks need billions for re-capitalisation, government bonds have junk status, the European Commission, European Central Bank and IMF are preparing bailout terms while our politicians are bickering over memorial services for the coup and elections. During the weekend, former President George Vassiliou urged the political parties to put their bickering and politicking aside for three months and focus on how to bring the country back from the brink of catastrophe. A united political front that will work with the Troika officials, in a constructive way, to put together a workable bailout is what the country needs right now. Unfortunately, the politicians, including members of the government, are too busy engaging in blame-games and fighting petty battles over inconsequential matters to have time to think about the bailout. They do not realise that the bailout terms will have a much bigger effect on people’s lives than memorial services for those who fell during the coup and next year’s presidential vote.

Banks behave badly: is it killing confidence? I

T WASN'T supposed to be like this. After the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression almost took the global economy over a cliff, tough new regulations and stronger internal controls at the world's major banks were meant to help restore confidence in the financial system. But recent headlines have some top investors and strategists questioning whether there has been any progress at all. The horror stories include the deepening scandal that big banks rigged Libor, the benchmark international lending rate; JPMorgan Chase's mounting losses from disastrous credit bets and a possible cover-up attempt; and the disappearance of customer funds from Iowa futures broker PFG Best, discovered after its founder tried to commit suicide and left a note outlining a 20-year fraud. Add in the problems surrounding the botched trading debut by Facebook as well as the insider trading scandal that led to the conviction of hedge fund managers and big name businessmen such as former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta - and the picture isn't pretty. The signs of a falloff in investor confidence are not hard to spot. US Treasuries, the traditional safe-haven for risk-averse investors, are drawing big demand even though they offer only the slimmest of returns, while US equity mutual funds have racked up big outflows. And even though some of that investment trend may reflect the fragility of the US economic recovery, the real problem lies elsewhere, said Larry Jeddeloh, founder and chief investment officer of the TIS Group, an institutional research firm that also manages client money. "The bigger problem, which I think investors are focusing on, is confidence in the financial system is eroding," he said. "There have been a litany of failures and confidence-reducing events recently which should cause anyone with a stock certificate and a heartbeat to think hard about what to do with their stocks," he said. For many small and even some big investors, the recent headline events create a perception that the system can be gamed - and that they could lose money because those who are able

Analysis Jennifer Ablan

The speed at which Occupy Wall Street moved was seen as a sign of mistrust in banks to manipulate a rate or a stock price or have inside information wield a big advantage, investors and strategists say. At worst, in cases like the failed brokerages MF Global and PFGBest - with the echoes of the Bernie Madoff and Allen Stanford Ponzi scams also ringing in investors' ears - it means that someone could simply raid their account and take their money. It all feeds into a wider political backdrop. The speed with which the Occupy Wall Street movement gathered pace last year was seen by some economists and major investors as a growing symbol of the distrust of banks and the inability or unwillingness of the authorities to crack down on corporate malfeasance and greed. Almost all of the scandals lead to allegations that regulators are asleep at the wheel or simply lack the firepower to keep up with the misbehaviour. In the scandal over the rigging of Libor - the London interbank offered rate that influences interest rates around the world - documents released last week showed that regulators on both sides of the Atlantic knew years ago that there was something very wrong with the system but they have done very little to try to fix it. Jeffrey Lacker, president of the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank, said the Libor scandal is fuelling public anger toward the

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25 years ago Friday July 17, 1987

Manhattan Project: the Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico.

The Socialist EDEK party leader Dr Vassos Lyssarides yesterday publicly called for the formation of a militia that would strengthen the island’s defences and act as a deterrent to further Turkish aggression and advance in the country. Dr Lyssarides had made the same suggestion as House President in his speech in the House on Wednesday.

1965 The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.

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35 years ago Sunday July 17, 1977

The Apollo 11 space rocket takes off from Cape Kennedy at the start of the ﬁrst attempt to land a man on the Moon.

Almost all the prosecution witnesses who testiﬁed against Lefteris Papadopoulos, alleged EOKA B deputy leader, accused of warlike operations against the government have lied, he told the Nicosia Assize court yesterday. He said that almost all the witnesses against him were either policemen or members of the EDEK socialist party of Dr Lyssarides.

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banks. "The revelations broadly are another episode that is damaging to people's confidence in the financial services industry, and that's a shame," he said. In the case of PFG Best, its founder and sole owner, Russell Wasendorf Sr., confessed in a signed statement that he duped the National Futures Association, which had first-line responsibility for overseeing nonclearing brokers such as PFG Best, for up to two decades by forging bank documents. The FBI arrested Wasendorf on Friday and accused him of stealing more than $100 million from clients. Even so, investors sometimes still shake off fears and plunge back into risky assets. On Friday, after JPMorgan revealed its trading losses could be as high as $7.5 billion and Reuters reported that federal criminal investigators are investigating whether JPMorgan employees in London hid the problem, its shares rose 6 per cent and the US stock market rallied. Among the reasons given by traders and investors: the worst of the scandal may be behind the bank. The lack of confidence may not always be apparent in dayto-day trading but it is showing up in financial markets in a number of other ways. Investors are mostly shying away from assets that carry high or even modest levels of risk and parking their money in US Treasuries and other places that pay very low interest rates. Cash balances at major companies remain at very high levels. Those trends are occurring even though the world's major central banks, led by the Fed, have found innovative ways to create easy monetary policies in an attempt to get companies and consumers to spend. According to Jeff Tjornehoj, head of Lipper Americas Research, US equity mutual funds have had net inflows just once in the past five years, in 2010. Investors have pulled a net $305 billion from such funds since the end of 2007. Taxable bond funds, on the other hand, last had annual net outflows in 2000 and since the end of 2007 have taken in a total

of $834 billion, Tjornehoj said. On the corporate side, a number of initial public offerings have been pulled or delayed in the wake of Facebook's fumbled IPO. While Facebook's $16 billion offering made the second quarter the strongest period on record for dollars raised, the number of deals fell by 50 per cent to 11 in the quarter versus the same period last year. Major technical problems on the Nasdaq exchange that messed up the first day of Facebook trading were not the only issue to sting investor confidence. Analysts at Morgan Stanley and other underwriters cut their earnings and revenue forecasts on Facebook only days before the IPO - but they only told select clients, inflaming concerns that retail investors are saddled with a big handicap. The Libor scandal may be the most insidious. More than a dozen banks are under investigation by authorities in Europe, Japan and the United States over suspected rigging of Libor, which is used to set many lending and borrowing rates on hundreds of trillions of contracts globally, influencing rates on everything from home mortgages to student loans and credit cards. British bank Barclays has agreed to pay fines of $453 million and its top three executives have quit after the release of emails showing traders at the bank brazenly seeking to manipulate Libor rates. Many other major banks are expected to reach settlements with the authorities or face prosecution, and some individuals could also face criminal charges. Litigation from those who claim they suffered losses because of the manipulation is expected to embroil the banks in legal hell for some years and could potentially cost them trillions of dollars. In the current scandal-ridden climate, Wall Street should not be surprised by how weak sentiment and expectations are, said Doug Kass, president of hedge fund Seabreeze Partners Management Inc. There are many reasons, he recently said, that "underscore to many investors that the system is rigged" including Libor, Madoff, Stanford, MF Global and PFG Best. "Why should an investor be optimistic and feel safe under these circumstances?" he asked.

Watergate Scandal: former White House aide Alexander P. Butterﬁeld informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.

1999 John F. Kennedy, Jr., piloting a Piper Saratoga aircraft, dies when his plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard. His wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are also killed.

45 years ago Monday July 17, 1967 UN observers were today picking out sites for watch posts along the Suez Canal, calm after two days of ﬁerce air and ground clashes between Egyptian and Israeli forces. A UN spokesman said four observers who reached Ismalia, were surveying the area for observation posts.

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Showbiz Adele’s dad is ‘begging’ her to forgive him so he can meet grandchild MARK EVANS is desperate to make peace with his 24-year-old daughter – who is expecting her ﬁrst child with boyfriend Simon Konecki – after he left her and mother Penny when she was just three years old, because he fears he won’t ever get to see his grandchild. He said: “Mum rang and said, ‘Mark, I’ve got some important news for you. Adele is expecting a child’.

“My ﬁrst reaction was a surge of happiness for her. But as we chatted about how Adele had told her in person, it dawned on me that my daughter hadn’t wanted to tell me herself. “My happiness for her turned to gloom because I realised I really was out of the picture as far as she is concerned. “I would have loved so much to have been able to hold her in my arms and tell her how happy I was

for her. “I want more than anything to be part of her life again and to be a big part in my little grandson or granddaughter’s life. I’m having to face up to the fact that I may never get to know my grandchildren and it is breaking my heart.” “Sure, I’ve done wrong and I should have been there for her throughout her childhood but I am desperate to make amends now. “I am begging her to give me an-

other chance.” While he is pleased for the ‘Rolling in the Deep’ hitmaker, Mark wishes her and Simon had been together longer before expecting their ﬁrst child, but he admits the brunette singing sensation has “always wanted four kids”. He added: “Despite the rift between us, I am genuinely happy for her because she’s told mum she’s head over heels in love with Simon. “She told mum she’s hoping for a

boy ﬁrst to keep an eye on the other three kids she wants after that. “I wish Adele and Simon had been together longer. I was the same when I was, coincidentally, pretty much the same age as her. No one could tell me anything because I thought I knew it all. “We’re from the same mould, Adele and me. “I just wish that I could be a bigger part of Adele’s life – and my grandchild’s.”

Four small meals a day

Tough talk: 80s action heroes including Sylvester Stallone and Chuck Norris (below) have once again teamed up for The Expendables 2

JENNIFER Lopez eats four small meals a day to maintain her stunning ﬁgure. The American Idol judge is famed for her curvy-yettoned body and insiders say she’s careful with her diet as she wants to be in the best possible shape. A source close to the mother-of-two said: “Jen drinks ice-cold water to speed up her metabolism, bans carbs after 4pm and sticks to four small meals a day, which are packed with protein.” As well as being sensible with her diet, Jennifer, 42, also works out regularly and trains with her 25-year-old dancer boyfriend Casper Smart. The source added: “Jen is up at 6am every morning for an hour’s exercise. She hates doing the same workout twice and likes to switch it up with corestrengthening routines, yoga or runs or the beach. “She takes a skipping rope with her when she travels and, when she gets a spare moment, will drop to the ﬂoor to do around four minutes of sit-ups. Jen likes to work out with Casper as they really egg each other on.”

than just Stallone, Schwarzenegger More good looks in fighting form new film

Upcoming Expendables 2 hopes to echo success of its forerunner By Piya Sinha-Roy SYLVESTER Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and their fellow aging action heroes are back in fighting form for new movie The Expendables 2, thrilling crowds at the giant ComicCon pop culture event with footage from the upcoming film. The new movie, a sequel to 2010’s surprise hit about a group of rebel mercenaries out to kill a brutal military leader, appeared similar to the first one in film clips shown with an emphasis on old-school shoutouts over sci-fi fantasy. Rambo and Rocky actor Stallone, 66, whose actor and film-maker son sage was found dead last Friday, introduced Schwarzenegger, 64, the former governor of California and star of the Terminator movies, to the Comic-Con crowd

last week as “one of my fellow brothers in the hard art business... a true oneof-a-kind movie star, the likes of whom we’ll never see again.” The Expendables hit theatres in August 2010 with a tale of aging mercenaries on a new assignment and was positioned as a return to classic 1980s action and adventure versus the Spider-Man and Batman film franchises that rule box offices today. The film was loaded with older actions stars such as Bruce Willis, and the formula worked well as the movie blasted its way to nearly $275 million at worldwide box offices. For the sequel, in theatres on August 17, Stallone and Schwarzenegger reunite with Willis, Chuck Norris, Jet-Li, Jason Statham and others. “The first one was more searching for what was go-

ing to work. Is it more ore dramatic, comedic? But on the second one, you ou find out what works from om the first one, and you try to amplify it,” Stallone ne told the Comic-Con crowd. wd. “You have the same me playbook... if you have e it all together, the second nd one can surpass the firstt one, and I think we achieved eved that.” For the second d film, Hollywood’s s old action heroes set out on anotherr dangerous assignnment where Stallone ne said the Expendables les were pushed to the he extreme. Film clips ps showed them in explosive situations, slick fight scenes and trading tough-guy comments ts with each other. Stallone said recent nt Hollywood heroes were e “a different kind of action on star, more futuristic, scientifi ientific,

technical. (They) don’t spend their life have to sp iron.” pumping iro He added tthat the newer heroes were still valid for group, as “each their age gr generation has to create their own ow heroes and generation redefines each genera the heroes they like to adore.” Much of the audience was filled with fans who grown up idolising have grow heroes the old-school old including Stallone includi and Schwarzenegand the actors ger, a thanked them for thank their loyalty and dedication. dedic “The action genre “T is like a religion, you get your beyo liefs from these li movies, you get m your right and yo wrong from these wro movies, you get your inspiration,” said another of the Terry Crews. film’s stars, T

CHERYL Cole thinks she can “see people from the inside.” The Call My Name singer doesn’t get excited when she tops polls for being beautiful or sexy, as she isn’t interested in people’s looks, and feels she has a special sense for what people are really like inside. Saying she ﬁnds the idea of being voted sexy “cringey,” she added: “I just don’t see myself like that. You know those FHM [magazine’s] Sexy Women or whatever. I don’t jump out of bed and frame them. “I view people differently anyway. It’s almost as if I can see people from the inside and that’s far more special to me.” The former X Factor judge - who turned 29 last month - is rumoured to be writing her autobiography, but is unsure as to whether she is ready to tell her story. She added: “I’m torn, the past 10 years have been incredible - the whole of my twenties. That would be amazing to put into words, and go into my 30s with a clean slate.”

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Environment

Texas drought, British heat linked to climate change 2011 was among the 15 warmest years globally with Greenhouse gas levels in atmosphere reaching new highs By Deborah Zabarenko CLIMATE change increased the odds for the kind of extreme weather that prevailed in 2011, a year that saw severe drought in Texas, unusual heat in England and was one of the 15 warmest years on record, scientists have reported. Overall, 2011 was a year of extreme events - from historic droughts in East Africa, northern Mexico and the southern United States to an above-average cyclone season in the North Atlantic and the end of Australia’s wettest two-year period ever, scientists from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the United Kingdom’s Met Ofﬁce said. In the 22nd annual “State of the Climate” report, experts also found the Arctic was warming about twice as fast as the rest of the planet, on average, with Arctic sea ice shrinking to its secondsmallest recorded size. Heat-trapping greenhouse gas concentrations – carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide among others - continued to rise last year, and the global average atmospheric concentration for carbon dioxide went over 390 parts per million for the ﬁrst time, an increase of 2.1 ppm in 2010. “Every weather event that happens now takes place in the context of a changing global environment,” Deputy NOAA Administrator Kathryn Sullivan said in a statement. “This annual report provides scientists and citizens alike with an analysis of what has happened so we can all prepare for what is to come.” Beyond measuring what happened in 2011, the international team of scientists aimed to start answering a

Unused clothing worth £30bn UK households have 1.7 billion items of clothing worth £30 billion that have been hanging unused in wardrobes for at least a year, a report has revealed. Making more use of unwanted clothes could cut waste and the use of resources and unlock ﬁnancial gains, the study on the impacts of clothing by waste reduction body Wrap found. A third of all clothes bought end up in landﬁll, but if they were given to charities or other organisations for reuse and recycling, they could be worth £140 million. And increasing the time that clothes are used by nine months could reduce the water, carbon and waste impacts of clothing by 20 to 30 per cent and save £5 billion in resources, Wrap chief executive Liz Goodwin said. The average household has £4,000 worth of clothes in the wardrobe, but almost a third goes unworn for more than a year.

Forest loss makes lemurs most at risk

Hundreds of people gathered on Sunday in Legoland, Windsor for a sing-a-long of ‘Rain, Rain, Go Away!’ question weather-watchers have been asking for years: can climate change be shown to be responsible for speciﬁc weather events? The climate experts acknowledged that event attribution science, as it is called, is in its early stages. “Currently, attribution of single extreme events to anthropogenic climate change remains challenging,” Peterson, Stott and other scientists wrote in a study published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. Attribution is possible, they said, as long as it is framed in

terms of probability, rather than certainty. So instead of saying climate change caused a heat wave, researchers could gauge how much more or less likely the heat wave was in a world where the climate is changing. For example, both Texas and England felt the warming effects of the La Nina weather-making pattern but climate change pushed these inﬂuences to extremes, Stott said. La Nina, a recurring patch of cool water in the equatorial Paciﬁc that alternates with the warm-water phenomenon El Nino, would

typically bring heat to Texas, the researchers said in an online brieﬁng. Adding climate change to La Nina makes a Texas heat wave 20 times more likely than it would have been 50 years ago, said Peter Stott of the Met Ofﬁce. By some measures, 2011 was the warmest, driest growing season in the Texas record, Stott said. In Britain, November 2011 was the second-warmest in the central England temperature record dating back to 1659, and climate change made that extreme high temperature average

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60 times more likely than it would have been in 1960, the researchers found. By contrast, deadly floods in Thailand last year cannot be blamed on climate change, the scientific team said. The report came one day after NOAA announced statistics for the continental United States, showing that the past 12 months were the hottest such period on record and the first six months of 2012 were the hottest such period on record, with more than 170 all-time heat records matched or broken.

Bad weather in Britain sees wildlife struggle By Emily Beament THIS year’s bad weather has proved “almost apocalyptic” for much of the UK’s wildlife, the National Trust warned yesterday. Many birds, bats, butterflies, bees, amphibians and wildflowers have been struggling in the cold wet conditions and the Trust warns that the outlook for some species next year is bleak. There have been some wildlife winners from the wettest April to June on record and the second dullest June ever recorded, but they are hardly Britain’s most-loved species, with slugs and snails thriving in gardens. Gardeners have also been battling to keep their fast-growing lawns mown, while bracken, nettles and brambles are all doing well in the countryside. But the National Trust’s conservation adviser Matthew Oates said the list of losers was much longer, and warned of local extinctions of species of rare and isolated insects such as butterflies.

Wet weather has hit the breeding attempts of a wide array of wildlife, with puffins drowned in their burrows, sea birds being blown off cliffs by gales and garden birds struggling to find enough food for their young. At Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland, adult terns have been struggling to keep eggs and chicks warm and dry through the relentless wet weather and it could be a year when no common, Arctic or Sandwich terns fledge from the site. The cool conditions have also affected bats, in particular lesser and greater horseshoe bats whose pregnancies will have slowed down. Pups will be born underweight and will not get enough nutrition from their mothers to grow enough to go into hibernation, Oates warned. Butterflies, bees, bumblebees, hoverflies and moths are all scarce in the wet conditions. The dry start to the year dried up pools for amphibians to breed in, and when the rain arrived in April it filled up ponds with water too cool for frogs, newts and toads. Small delicate annual flowers are struggling, al-

though there have been some great displays of poppies in fields where agricultural spraying has failed due to the weather. Oates said: “This is turning out to be an almost apocalyptic summer for most of our much-loved wildlife - birds, butterflies, bees. “So much so that the prospects for many of these in 2013 are bleak. “Our wildlife desperately needs some sustained sunshine, particularly beneficial insects.” But he suggested that the weather might improve in the coming weeks: “Surely the Olympic three weeks will generate a wonderful heatwave - because we will all be glued to our TV sets?” It is crucial that the jet stream, which is bringing the wet weather over the UK, shifts back to its more usual northerly position as the country was overdue a good August, he said. A good summer next year would also allow species such as insects which have been in decline after two bad years to begin to rebuild populations and repopulate areas from where they have been lost.

THE lemurs of Madagascar - known for their haunting cries and reﬂective eyes are the most endangered primate group on Earth, because they are losing their forest habitat, the International Union for Conservation of Nature has said. Conservationists meeting in Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo last week said 91 per cent of the world’s 103 lemur species are now listed as critically endangered, endangered or vulnerable on the global Red List of Threatened Species, a sharp increase from a previous assessment in 2005. “Lemurs are in danger of becoming extinct by destruction of their tropical forest habitat on their native island of Madagascar, off Africa’s Indian Ocean coast, where political uncertainty has increased poverty and accelerated illegal logging,” the conservation group said.

Challenges to EU clean air standard DESERT sand, sea salt, volcanic ash and other forms of natural pollution are adding to rising levels of man-made dirt sullying the air and making it harder, especially for Mediterranean countries, to meet EU environmental regulations. A report released from EU body the European Environment Agency (EEA) found the highest levels of natural pollutants were in Spain, which frequently experiences forest ﬁres. Of 42 instances where levels in Spain were reported above legal limits, 18 were caused by natural pollution, said the report, which is the ﬁrst European study of its kind. The Observatory of Sustainability, an independent organisation in Spain, said proximity to the Sahara made the Iberian peninsula especially vulnerable. Ten other countries - including Cyprus, Greece and Italy - also reported air pollution above legal limits because of natural particles.

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NICOSIA Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in 3D, in Greek) at 5.45 and 8pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in 3D, in English) at 5.45, 8 and 10.25pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in 2D, in Greek) at 5.45pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) (in 3D, in Greek) at 5.45 and 8pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.40pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) (in 3D, in English) at 5.45, 8 and 10.25pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.40pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) (in 2D, in Greek) at 5.45pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.40pm. Tel: 7777-8383

The Amazing Spider-Man (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.15, 7.55 and 10.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) at 5.15, 7.55 and 10.30pm, weekends also at 11.30am and 2.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Haywire (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.35, 8 and 10.25pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) at 5.35, 8 and 10.25pm, weekends also at 11.25am, 1.25pm and 3.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Five-Year Engagement (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 5.25, 7.55 and 10.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 7.55 and 10.30pm. Tel: 77778383 Snow White and Huntsman (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 7.50 and 10.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Times are subject to change, so check first with cinemas before you head out

CINEMA WEBSITES: K-Cineplex: http://kcineplex.com, Friends of the Cinema Society: http://www.ofk.org.cy

What to Expect When You’re Expecting (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 10.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) at 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383

LIMASSOL The Amazing Spider-Man (12) Rio 2 at 5.30, 8 and 10.30pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.15, 7.55 and 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) Rio 1 (in 2D, in Greek) at 6.30, 8.20 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 4.45pm. Rio 3 (in 3D, in Greek) at 6.30 and 8.20pm, weekends also at 4.45pm, and (in 3D, in English) at 10.10pm only. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in 3D, in English) at 5.45, 8 and 10.25pm. KCineplex (Screen 33) (in 3D, in Greek) at 5.45 and 8pm. K-C K-Cineplex (Screen 5) ((in 2D, in Gree Greek) at 5.45pm. Tel: 7777-83 7777-8383 Haywir Haywire (15)

Rio 4 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends also at 5.30pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.35, 8 and 10.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Five-Year Engagement (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 7.55 and 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 What to Expect When You’re Expecting (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Snow White and the Huntsman (12) Rio 5 at 7.45 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 5.20pm. Tel: 25-871410 Dark Shadows (15) Rio 6 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends also at 5.30pm. Tel: 25-871410

LARNACA Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in 3D, in Greek) at 5.45 and 8pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in 3D, in English) at 5.45, 8 and 10.25pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 5)

(in 2D, in Greek) at 5.45pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Amazing Spider-Man (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.15, 7.55 and 10.30pm. Tel: 77778383 Haywire (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.35, 8 and 10.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Five-Year Engagement (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 5.25, 7.55 and 10.30pm. Tel: 77778383 What to Expect When You’re Expecting (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Snow White and the Huntsman (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 7.50 and 10.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383

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Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) Rio 3 (in 2D, in Greek) and Rio 6 (in 3D, in English) and Rio 7 (in 3D, in Greek) at 6, 8 and 10pm, weekends at 4.30, 6.20, 8.10 and 10pm. Tel: 26-207000 Haywire (15) Rio 5 at 6, 8 and 10pm, weekends at 4.30, 6.20, 8.10 and 10pm. Tel: 26-207000 Rock of Ages (12) Rio 2 at 10pm, weekends at 10.30pm. Tel: 26-207000 What to Expect When You’re Expecting (K) Rio 2 at 6 and 8pm, weekends at 4.30, 6.30 and 8.30pm. Tel: 26-207000 Snow White and the Huntsman (12) Rio 4 at 5.45, 8 and 10.15pm, weekends at 5, 7.30 and 9.45pm. Tel: 26-207000

The Amazing Spider-Man (12) Rio 1 at 5.30, 8 and 10.30pm. Tel: 26-207000

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listings Today Exhibition At the Straits of Lembeh A unique underwater photo exhibition by award-winning Cypriot photographer Louis Tsiakkiros. Opens July 17, 8pm until July 24. Panos Solomonides Municipal Cultural Centre in Limassol. Monday-Friday: 9am-1pm and 5pm-8pm. Weekends: 5pm-8pm. Tel: 99-558696

Music Napa Live Music Festival Music festival featuring international acts Example and DJ Wire. July 17. Makronissos Beach, Ayia Napa. 7pm. €50. www.napalivefestival.com Nebadrud Quartet Four upcoming and promising musicians present a fusion of world music soundscapes. July 17. Cultural Centre of the University of Cyprus, Manor House on Axiotheas Street, Old Nicosia. 8.30pm. €5/10. Tel: 22-894531/22-894532 The Elvis & Elton Show & Dance with Michael Bublé Two of the top tribute acts in Cyprus combine in one amazing performance to celebrate American and British music at it’s best starring Chris King as Elvis Presley, Andrew Oliver as Elton John. Plus special guest Ben Mills as Michael Bublé. Every Tuesday until July 31. Pentaras Hall, Coral Bay Road, Paphos. 8.30pm. €10. Show reservations essential - Tel: 99-832538 or book online at www. xcitepromo.com. Meals available in the restaurant - Tel: 26-271130

Stelios Pissis – At my Hometown A summer concert, tribute to Limassol, with songs by the Cypriot composer. July 17. Municipal Gardens Theatre, Limassol. 8.30pm. €15. Tel: 70007705. www.soldout-tickets.com.cy

Theatre Miss Julie XMAS Production presents the classic work by August Strindberg as adapted by Patrick Marber. July 17-18. Skala Theatre, Larnaca. 9pm. In Greek. €20/45. Presale tickets available at selected So Easy Kiosks in all cities. Tel: 70-003313 Backgammon Buzz Productions Theatre Company presents a comedy in the Cypriot dialect, based on the play by Dimitris Kechaidis. July 17-20. House of Arts and Literature, 41-43 Athinas Street, Paphos. 9pm. €10. Tel: 26-818560

Other Events Video Dance Night Open-air video dance screening by award-winning choreographers (Sutra). July 17. Dancehouse Lemesos, Heroes Square. 9pm. Free. Tel: 77-777798

Tomorrow Exhibition Marina Karatsioli + Kids Showcasing work by Marina’s art school. Opens July 18, until July 20. Opus 39 Gallery, 21 Kimonos Street, Nicosia. Monday: 5pm-8pm. Tuesday-Friday: 10.30am-12.30pm and 5pm-8pm. Tel: 22-424983

Theatre My Friend, Lefterakis Theatro Skala presents the Greek theatrical comedy by Alekos Sakellarios. July 18. Pattichion Municipal Amphitheatre, Larnaca. 9pm. In Greek. €7/12. Tel: 24-652800 Electra and Orestes, the Trial A play within a play produced by THOC within the framework of the International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama. July 18-19. Curium Ancient Theatre, Episkopi. 9pm. €10/17. With English and Greek subtitles. Tel: 77-772717/25-324015/26947037. www.tickethour.com Electra Drama by Sophocles performed by the Morphes Ekphrasis Theatre, Greece, within the framework of the International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama. July 18. Paphos Ancient Odeon. 9pm. €10/17. With English and Greek subtitles. Tel: 77-772717/25-324015/26-947037. www.tickethour.com

Other Events Cyprus Services Rambling Club Come and join a beautiful walk: Troodos Atalanta Trail. 81/2 Miles, Grade 2 (with a 6 mile option) Circular Walk – No buses. July 22, book by midday Wednesday July 18. Starting at 8am from the Main Troodos Square Car Park. Tel: 99-292092 or email csrc.bookings@gmail.com www.csrc.ws

Ongoing Music Seventh Ethnic Music Festival A festival with an ethnic and Mediterranean flavour organised by the Rialto Theatre. July 4-29. Heroes Square, Limassol. 8.30pm. Free. Tel: 77- 777745. www.rialto.com.cy. The performances will also be held in Nicosia within the framework of Summer Nights

Theatre Miss Pepsi Anemona Theatre presents classic comedy by French author Pierrette Bruno. Until July 29. Anemona Theatre, 7 Archagelou Street, Latsia, Nicosia. Every Friday through Sunday at 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 22-573031 Yialloura Satiriko Theatre presents Cypriot play by Michalis Pashiardis, based on the poem by Dimitris Lipertis. Until July 29. Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, 11-15 Vladimiros Kafkarides Street, Aglantzia. Every Saturday and Sunday at 8.30pm. In Greek. €12/7. Tel: 22-312940/22-421609

Exhibitions Golden Roots Solo painting exhibition by Andreas C. Chrysafis. Until July 20. Gallery Technis Dromena, 53 Arch. Kyprianou, Nicosia. Monday-Friday: 10am-1pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 5pm-8pm. Tel: 22-496398

Armenian-Cypriot Painters and Photographers Group exhibition. Until July 31. Casteliotissa Hall, old Nicosia. MondayFriday: 10am-1pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday-Sunday: 6pm-9pm. Tel: 22-800970

Diaspora Exhibition by visual artist Nkos Kourossis. Until September 2. The Leventis Municipal Museum, 15-17 Hippocrates Street, Laiki Yitonia, Nicosia. Open: 3.30pm -5.30pm. Tel: 22-661475

Maniera Cypria: Lemesos, Fabula, Historia, Memoria Exhibition dedicated to ancient findings. Until August 12. Evagoras Lanitis Centre, Lanitis Carob Mill, Limassol. 5pm-9pm daily except Mondays. Tel: 25-342123

The Area is Sacred Solo art exhibition by Panagiotis Mina. Until September 13. 50-1 Gallery, Limassol. Monday-Friday: 11am-1pm and 4pm-8pm. Saturday: 11am-1pm. Tel: 99-522977

Dimitris Mihlis Solo painting exhibition. Until August 30. Gallery Kypriaki Gonia, 45 Stadiou Street, Larnaca. Monday-Saturday: 10am-1pm & 4.30pm-8pm. Sunday:11am-2pm & 4pm-7pm. Tel: 24-621109 Twice a Stranger Multimedia exhibition about forced migration and population exchange. Until September 2. The Leventis Municipal Museum, Temporary Exhibitions Hall, 15-17 Hippocrates Street, Laiki Yitonia, Nicosia. Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday: 10am-4.30pm. Tel: 22-661475/ 22-671997 I Will follow you to the end of the World - Immigrating for Love Exhibition by visual artist Lia Lapithi influenced by the story of Queen Caterina Cornaro. Until September 2. The Leventis Municipal Museum, 1517 Hippocrates Street, Laiki Yitonia, Nicosia. Open: 3.30pm -5.30pm. Tel: 22-661475

For a full guide to the week’s events and regular meetings, make sure you get a copy of the Sunday Mail

Summer 2012 Group exhibition of paintings and sculptures. Until September 30. Morfi Gallery, 84 Agkyras St, Limassol. Monday-Saturday: 10am-1pm. Tuesday-Friday: 5pm-8pm.Tel: 25378733. www.morfi.org Nicosia: Topographies of Memory: From Ermou Street to the Buffer Zone Exhibition by Anita Bakshi reconstructing Ermou marketplace – using maps that were created from memories and narratives provided by shopkeepers who once worked or lived in the area. Until September 30. Home for Co-operation, 28 Markou Drakou, opposite Ledra Palace Hotel in the UN Buffer Zone, Nicosia. Open Monday-Sunday: 10am-6pm. Tel: +90 542 8506681/22-445740 www.home4cooperation.info/www. ahdr.info Our Lady of Nicosia Exhibition about the church of Phaneromeni and it relics. Until September 30. Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, 96-90 Phaneromenis Street, old Nicosia. Monday-Sunday: 10am-7pm. Tel: 80-000800

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Review Theatre Electra and Orestes, The Trial, performed by The Cyprus Theatre Organisation (THOC) as part of the July 2012 Festival of Ancient Greek Drama at the Paphos Odeon Saturday July 14 THOC dramatically bring past and present together to show that nothing in this world has changed. As part of the 2012 Festival of Ancient Greek Drama, the Cyprus Theatre Organisation (THOC) presented their summer production of Electra and Orestes – The Trial based on the writings of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides in a translation by Vayos Liapis and adaptation by the Israeli director Hanan Snir. Because this company is such a central focus of drama in Cyprus we sometimes take their productions for granted, always expecting the perfection they present and never looking beyond the anticipated theatrical skills. This amalgam of ancient Greek plays coupled with the forceful and determined adaptation incorporating a contemporary refugee camp brought once again to light the similarities of past historical with present today. The story of avenging their e father’s death, the matricide g by Orestes, plus the goading he madness of Electra reflect the conflicts within the present n, global disease in Afghanistan, here Chechnya, Syria and Iraq where ught such horrendous crimes brought about by intrigue go unpunive ished and the perpetrators live to fight another day. en A brilliant chorus of 14 women ewith their co-ordinated moveterment, extreme physical dexterded ity and harmonic singing added much to the atmosphere of this ch production that, without such ted strong acting from the talented e cast, could have eclipsed the night. However, the Electra of h Lea Maleni set the pace with an impassioned interpretation of near insanity that s never really diminished in its

intensity even with the return and recognition of her brother Orestes. This Orestes was a well conceived performance by Nektarios Theodorou flying naked from his murderous slaughter of Aegisthus (Meoklis Neokleous) and bringing home his inner conflicts of such deeds that were seen and judged to be both right and wrong. The other shining star in this company is Annita Santorineou in the smaller but nonetheless demanding role of Clytemnestra. This veteran performer was required to enact her murder, be dragged in as the corpse and return to witness the trial – all accomplished with regality that only this hypnotic actor can produce. As she sat ghost-like in the court room a single tear ran down her cheek for the sorrow of Orestes’ act. The court scenes were well conceived by Snir and controlled by the Apollo of Giorgos Mouaimis and Athena of Stela Firogeni. The incidental music of Demetris Zavros and the five musicians gave poignancy to this involved plot and the dramatic sounds of modern warfare added to the drama. The setting and costume designs of Melita Couta and Harris Kafkarides plus the choreography of Fotis Nicolaou and lighting by Giorgos Koukoumas all added to a memorable theatrical evening. Electra and Orestes, the Trial A play within a play produced by THOC within the framework of the International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama. July 18-19. Curium Ancient Theatre, Episkopi. 9pm. €10/17. With English and Greek subtitles. Tel: 77-772717/25324015/26947037. www. tickethour.com By Chris EkinWood

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WHAT WITH animated films such as Ice Age 4 doing great at the box-office, it’s impossible to ignore the medium, and furthering the cause is the Countryside Animafest Cyprus, which opens this Thursday. Now in its eleventh edition, having dropped its previous two-pronged emphasis on documentary and animation – it focuses solely on animation – the four-day festival brings together movie fans from across the island, to the remote village of Prasteio Avdimou where all sorts of animated films become the order of the day. Animation in film has come a long way since Disney’s black and white classic Steamboat Willie dazzled audiences nearly a century ago. For decades, film-goers and critics have regarded animated films as merely for children, with their wonderful stories, original music and beautiful artwork. Recently however, animation has taken some major leaps forward. Whether executed by pen or by software, in 2D or 3D, the world of animated films remains an ever-expanding aly g ternate universe for storytelling. es the filmAnimation releases estrictive namaker from the restrictive n and takes the ture of live action orld that could audience to a world d of. The Counonly be dreamed tryside Animafestt Cyprus aims e to raise audience o awareness and to promote cultural,, financial and social developmentt main the field of animation in the hopes this inspired medium will prus grow roots in Cyprus once and for all. To this end, the festival has nterestablished an Interition national Competition

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Section encompassing talent from all over the globe. At the same time, it is initiating international collaborations with well-established counterparts that will take viewers on a journey around the world. Selections from Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (Trickfilm Festival, Germany) and CutOut Fest (International Animation Film Festival, Querétaro, Mexico) will be screened from Friday to Sunday. Established in 1982, the Trickfilm Festival has developed into an essential event for animation film in Germany and is one of the most important festivals for animated film around the world, while Cutout Fest is Mexico’s largest ani animation festival, pres presenting the best new animation works from around the world with special folm produced in cus on films an Latin America. Mexico and festiv will present Both festivals audie local audiences with bestprogram of programmes especially fo Countryside designed for C Animafest Cyprus, forging bond with Cyprus strong bonds su as its major summer showcase id redefines its identity. n direction will The festival’s new r be reinforced by Fly Mill esta established mem-

bers of the international film community, who will pick out two winners (first and second place) for best film in the International Competition Section, accompanied by €2,000 and €1,000 respectively. This year’s jury will consist of Lucie Kalmar, Arril Johnson, Yannis Yapanis, the producer of Zagreb Animafest Vjera Matkovic and Igor Prassel, Festival Programme Director of ANIMATEKA. This year’s programme features everything from claymation and traditional cut-out techniques to state-of-the-art CGI. The following is just a snippet of what’s to come: in Flamingo Pride crowds can follow the story of the only homosexual flamingo on earth in his is desperate attempt to find love, while in Fly Mill a miller raises ducklings hoping to set them free, but when a nearby field is suddenly overrun by hunters they have very different plans for the ducks. 11th Countryside Animafest Cyprus A film festival with varied animation screenings and competition sections in a village setting. July 19-22. Prastio Avdimou village, Limassol. 8.30pm. Free for all screenings. www.cafcy.org By Ledha Socratous

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Katie Holmes may have spared Suri a Scientology education - but what of the British teens at a private school just an hour from London shipped off to Sea Org? Joshi Herrmann reports from Greenfields

WENTY minutes into my visit to Saint Hill Manor last week, a Georgian house on the edge of East Grinstead and about an hour on the train from Victoria, a uniformed man with a dog approached me, and he wanted to check a few things. “You are a Scientologist?” he asked, with a Polish intonation. “No, I’m just having a look around.” “So you are a guest,” he said. “We like to know who is here.” The staff at Scientology’s UK headquarters are alert to the danger posed by outsiders, their movement the subject of criticism from former members (“defectors”), children’s campaigners and courts around the world since its birth in the 1950s. Scientology’s beliefs about a dictator alien called Xenu who blew up his people 75 million years ago by exploding volcanos with H-bombs have attracted ridicule since they were published against the church’s will, and advocates have long denied accusations that their movement is a cult or a front for a money-making operation.

The announcement that Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise had agreed divorce terms rounded off another period of intense scrutiny of the church. Speculation that Holmes was motivated by

insider told celebrity news site Radar: “Suri isn’t permitted to be exposed to anything Scientology-related and this includes going to any Scientology churches, parties, etc. Katie made sure this was

Greenﬁelds school near the church’s UK HQ

concerns about her daughter, Suri, being educated by Scientologists and initiated into a secretive group called Sea Org were given credence by the couple’s joint statement, in which they sought to “express our respect for each other’s commitment to each of our respective beliefs”. An

ironclad.” Since the divorce, journalists have been queuing up outside Saint Hill, where Scientology’s founder L Ron Hubbard lived between 1959 and 1966. But the story of Scientology’s relationship with children is better told if you make a 10-

minute car journey to Greenfields, a small independent school perched on the corner of the Ashdown Forest, where some of the future leaders of Scientology are being educated. The sign outside describes it simply as an “Independent day and boarding school from 2 to 18 years old”, and the students mill about in ordinary green and brown school uniforms. But the locals in Forest Row have long known that Greenfields is the school of choice for the staff at Saint Hill. In a landmark High Court case in 1985, Justice Latey said that “the church exercises a strong influence [at Greenfields], if not indeed control.” Greenfields now describes itself as “completely non-denominational” welcoming “children of all faiths” although it is thought that many of the teachers are Scientologists. Set back from the road along a private drive, the school is housed in a Victorian mansion. It uses the Study Technology learning method devised by Hubbard, which involves allowing students to learn at their own pace and using clay to work out

Needing no scientology education: Katie Holmes and her daughter Suri how to visualise challenging questions, and is licensed to Applied Scholastics International, an organisation which promotes the use of Hubbard’s teaching methods all over the world. Hubbard is described as an “Educator and Humanitarian” in the school magazine. Justice Latey called him a “charlatan and worse”. A report from the Independent Schools Inspectorate last

year said the school achieved “good” academic and pastoral standards, but that just eight of its 101 students are in the sixth form. What it didn’t say is that, almost every year, a few students leave Greenﬁelds and never come back to complete their studies. The students who go are not transferring to local sixth form colleges but travelling to America to enrol at Sea Org - the secretive arm of Sci-

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entology which has been the subject of the most frightening allegations made about the church. Former students have said that Greenfields students sometimes leave the school before age 16. The children seem to vanish – cut off from their non-Scientologist friends when they are at Sea Org, where Facebook and all social networking are banned. Most shockingly of all, within two years of their teenage classmates going to Sea Org, news reaches Greenfields that some of their former peers have married fellow Scientologists. Sea Org is described as “the church’s equivalent of a religious order” and has about 6,000 members, who maintain the naval-style customs, uniforms and discipline developed when the elite group was based on a fleet of yachts at sea. Nowadays just one boat – Freewinds - remains and Sea Org members operate mainly on land, at a complex in Clearwater, Florida and Scientology’s highly guarded Gold Base in the California. A number of women over the years have alleged that they were put under pressure to abort their babies by officials at Sea Org as a result of the no-children policy claims the church has always denied. Gary Morehead, a

Greenfields now describes itself as ‘completely nondenominational’ welcoming ‘children of all faiths’ although it is thought that many of the teachers are Scientologists

former head of security at the Gold Base, has said he developed a “blow drill” to track down Sea Org members who tried to escape, which sometimes involved using physical force. He says that in 13 years, his team caught upwards of a hundred members but the church says that blow drills do not exist. It is well known that members of Sea Org are required to sign contracts for up to a billion years of service, and that those trying to leave can be presented with a “freeloader tab”, charging them retrospectively for thousands of pounds of counselling they have received as a member. Fred, 20, who left Greenfields four years ago, said that about 10 pupils left for Sea Org in the two years he was there. “Most of them left once they had done their GCSEs,” he says, although he remembers two or three who left before finishing their GCSE courses. “One of them left before she was 16 but apparently she kept up her education on the boat. “When they get back to England [for holidays] they reconnect to Facebook and start updating their profiles but when they are over there at Sea Org they can’t update their profiles at all.”

On returning to the school for a play, a year after going to Florida, Fred says a few of the Sea Org students were “very different”. “A few of them visited for a few days, and as they were my friends I hung out with them quite a lot, and they were really different, unpleasantly so. They were much quieter, they talked in a different way, in a slightly unpleasant way. They were less ‘there’. It was a very unpleasant experience meeting them again.” How had they changed? “They were more like their parents. They were less open with me and less willing to discuss things with me, and this is what I heard from a lot of people.” Alarmingly, many of the teenagers returning from Sea Org come back with husbands and wives. “Almost all of those who came back from Sea Org had got married there or in the intervening period,” says Fred. “Some of them updated their Facebook with photos of their weddings. One of their mothers told me about how their daughter had been married.” Fred was “very surprised” to see his teenage friends getting married so young. James, 17, a current student at the school whose parents are Scientologists but who calls himself an agnostic, says that on average three students leave for Sea Org each year. “A couple of my friends got married out of the blue. But you know, once they left school I didn’t really stay in contact.” He says both weddings happened within a year of their departure. One friend

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married a girl he was already in a relationship with at Greenﬁelds. He didn’t recognise the other friend’s bride when he saw the photos. “I’ve heard,” says James “and these are just rumours, that having relationships [at Sea Org] was strictly forbidden unless it was serious. I think that might have led some of the couples to getting married, so they can continue their serious relationship. I’ve heard it from a few people”. When fellow pupils ﬁnd out which of their peers has been

chosen to go to Sea Org, it affects how they are treated in the classroom, according to another ex-pupil, Zach: “They are excited before they go, they are completely thrilled. And they get treated differently at school.” They are “very tight-lipped about it”, he recalls, and “even quieter” around nonScientologists. “If you asked, they would just walk away,” he said, “Even the regular Scientologists are kept in the dark about it.” All of the ex-students who

spoke said that Greenﬁelds is welcoming to non-Scientologists. Katie Holmes may have shepherded her six-year-old away from a future with Scientology’s elite but a clutch of British families in the Sussex countryside seem less concerned about Sea Org, and the young marriage, behavioural change and alleged abuses that it apparently visits upon its teenage initiates. Some names and details have been changed.

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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES ***************************** FAMILY OF MRS MARIA GEORGIOU, Limassol, request a Domestic Assistant for the house and to take care of 3 children, 6, 4 and 3 Years old. Salary €326. A & G Employment Services Ltd. Tel: 25003547. *****************************

JOB WANTED PHILIPPINES girl is looking for a job. Living in or out. Please call 96514258-96521426. ***************************** A VERY RELIABLE and experienced Hungarian woman is looking for an au pair job in Nicosia for 9 months. Speaks little English,but learning.Has driving licence. Tel 97822490 *****************************

MISCELLANEOUS ***************************** CASTLE AUCTIONS – Auction & Sale Rooms in Kolossi, Limassol. Next auction: SAT 28TH JULY at 5pm and includes; New furniture, power tools & wood lathe, beds, sofas, fridges, washing machines, gym equipment, collectables and much more. Tel: 7000 78 89, ﬁnd us on Facebook or www.castleauctions.com ***************************** TO ALL OF YOU WHO ARE GREEK ORTHODOX: The European Union Parliament is pressuring the Turkish Government to restore Saint Sophia Cathedral from a museum into a Greek Orthodox Church. However the Parliament has set a requirement of 1,000,000 signatures on a petition before it makes this conversation a prerequisite for Turkey’s admission into the European Union. You are requested to cast your vote by logging on to a link at www. hagiasophiablog.com. This is an opportunity for each of you to have an impact on world events. Get as many Greek Orthodox, other Orthodox and Christian friends of yours to sign the petition and make history. ***************************** ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS CYPRUS Is drink costing you more than just money? AA could be the answer. Meeting at the following locations/days. Call to speak to an AA member. Ayia Napa Monday 97798043

Larnaca Tuesday (Polish spk) 96616589 Thursday 24645523 / 99259264 Limassol Tuesday / Wednesday / Friday / Saturday 25368265 / 99559322 Nicosia Wednesday/Sunday 99013596 Paphos Tuesday / Thursday / Saturday 99916331 / 99399240 Details of meetings are available on www.aa-europe.net ***************************** DOES SOMEONE ELSE’S DRINKING CAUSE YOU A PROBLEM? Al - Anon is for family and friends of those with a drinking problem. Call Nicosia 99 877205 for more information and details of meetings. *****************************

HEALTH & FITNESS ***************************** FULL BODY MASSAGE + AROMATHERAPY in classy surroundings in Kato Paphos – privacy & discretion. We offer you professional mausseurs, appointments necessary 1 Hour for 35 euro, call 96637039 - honest people ***************************** EIGHTSMILEYS OFFERS SUP (STAND UP PADDLE) LESSONS, RENTALS & SALES. A great way to release tension and stress at the same time exercise your body, made for all ages and genders. Find out more information on www. sup.com.cy facebook: Eightsmileys Kitesurfsup or call on 99355191 ***************************** CLINICAL PILATES. Personalised Clinical Pilates by Physiotherapists in Nicosia. Individual assessment and supervision of exercises. “Clinical pilates” is a modiﬁed form of therapeutic exercise used by physiotherapists to assist in the rehabilitation and prevention of musculoskeletal injury especially lower back pain, sacro-iliac pain and neck pain. More info on 22446988. *****************************

PETS ***************************** DOGS currently held in municipality pounds and facing euthanasia are looking for loving homes. Various breeds and sizes. Will only be given to responsible dog-lovers. Adoption contract and medical package obligatory. Nicosia area. For info 99548264, 99846033, 99987222. ***************************** MAX VERY LOVING and gentle 7 year old lively pedigree miniature German Schnauzer

Nicosia - tel: 22 818583 fax: 22 676385 needs loving family to ADOPT him ( owner leaving island ) Great with kids Tel 96832275 / 22355790 *****************************

LESSONS ***************************** GREEK LESSONS for children and adults: reading; writing; speaking. Information: 99905862 (Larnaca) ***************************** PRIVATE TUITION - Experienced, UK-qualiﬁed teacher and tutor offers full / part time private home tuition in Maths, English, Science, Geography, History, Business Studies and Economics, from KS3 to iGCSE, AS and A2 levels. Telephone 26642781 or 99318796. *****************************

SERVICES ***************************** BRITISH TIME SERVED CARPENTER covering all aspects of woodwork, home improvements, restoration, maintenance, no job too small. Work done to a high standard. For a quality job professionally done at sensible prices. Phone: 96618169 for a free quote – Paphos area ***************************** PROFESSIONAL UPHOLSTERY CLEANING, also carpets, rugs and mattresses. Special offers now available. For a quote call Rickys Cleaning Services on 99131044 (all areas) rickyscleaningservices@gmail.com ***************************** UPHOLSTERY, RUG, BLINDS + CURTAIN CLEANING Rugs from 20€ - Carpets from 38€ Fabric Suites form 85€ - Leather Suites from 95€ - Mattresses from 25€. Curtains, Roman blinds, Vertical Blinds need to be surveyed. Collection Service available. For a free quotation call Mark on 70006766 All areas ***************************** DO YOU WANT A SHINY LOOKING FLOOR? Full repair & restoration of chipped, scratched, dull and stained, Marble, Terrazzo, Stone & Ceramic tiled ﬂoors and surfaces. Professional cleaning, repair & sealing of internal/external ceramic tiles & grout lines. For a free professional consultation & demonstration contact Mark at Premier on 70006766 or 96333961 All areas ***************************** SWIFT SERVICE AND REPAIRS air-cons, commercial and domestic fridges and freezers, ice machines, cool rooms, supply and ﬁt air-cons

Limassol - tel: 25 761117 fax: 25 761141

VRV S. Call Nik on 99579602 Limassol ***************************** K.D.FLYSCREENS LTD We manufacture top quality sliding screens, opening doors and roller systems. We also do repairs. For a FREE QUOTE please contact Phone: 99119582 Website: www.kdflyscreens.com ***************************** KEEP YOUR HOME COOLER THIS SUMMER by having Windowfilm professionaly fitted. Stops up to 86% of heat from entering your home! Windowfilm increases privacy, blocks harmful uv-rays which cause fading, reduces glare and saves energy costs on air-con. Also keeps your home warmer in winter. Call Ian on 99979671 ***************************** K.D.FLYSCREENS LTD We manufacture top quality sliding screens, opening doors and roller systems. We also do repairs. For a FREE QUOTE please contact Phone: 99119582 Website: www.kdflyscreens.com ***************************** WE UNDERTAKE REFURBISHING of houses or holiday homes, construction of pergolas, undertaking of plumbing, house painting, garden work. For information call JIMMYS: 96587137, MELIS: 96547879 ***************************** JURIDICAL SERVICES Contracts, sales agreements, conveyancing, wills, administration of estates, general litigation, power of attorney, land registry matters, companies, translations, immigration etc... And all legal matters. Call: Natalia Michealidou – jurist, Paphos Tel: 26 933159 – 99523231 (office hours) *****************************

Paphos - tel: 26 911383 fax: 26221049

reasonable offer accepted. Buyer Collects. Tel 24632691 or 96512257. ***************************** CLOTHES STOCKS AND SHOP FITTINGS FOR SALE. Excellent women’s brands for sale including Italian, Spanish and French clothes and shoes. Also women’s dummies and modern wall ﬁttings (clothes rails.) Selling at very low prices for clearance. Tel: 99-168943 *****************************

FOR SALE BUSINESS/ PROPERTY/LAND ***************************** RESTAURANT FOR SALE Licensed restaurant in Yermasoyia tourist area in Limassol, due to the owner’s departure. Bargain price. Call: 99306674 PLOT IN GEROSKIPOU, just 5 minutes from the Paphos centre, with magnificent sea views of the whole of Paphos, 640 square metres, attached to a green area, premium piece of land, €210.000, Tel 99403261 (owners) ***************************** FOR SALE OR RENT - Kato Paphos – full moon bar, fully furnished and equipped, large flat screen TV’s + projector, fits 120 people comfortably, incredible opportunity for ready business! Please call: 99493579 ***************************** FOR SALE factory with showroom, 1050m2, in private land, in Kokkinotrimithia industrial zone. Tel. 99849195. *****************************

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***************************** BOOKSHOP language school closing down sale: books, desks, sofas, tables, chairs, bookshelves for sale. Nicosia centre. For info 99821634. GLASS TOP dining table extendable 4 leather chairs €225 Beige 6 ft sofa matching easy chair €200 Black stereo/TV cabinet coffee table side tables €80 ﬂat screen TV’s lamps rugs Photos emma8511@gmail. com ENGOMI Tel 22355790 FURNITURE HOUSEHOLD ITEMS: Childs cot / mattress €50 play table and stools €50 Bunk Bed set with ladder/ mattress €100 child’s bike €40 Child’s easy chairs €30 Easel €20 gas BBQ 80 vacuum cleaner Miele €80 Abstract canvasses from €10 ENGOMI 22355790 ***************************** FOR SALE 2.4 metre Satellite Dish for sale. Good condition.

***************************** VOLKSWAGEN POLO 1.4, model 1998, manual, 5 door, dark blue, valid MOT, a/c, great stereo system, good condition. €2500. Nicosia. For info 99548265 ****************************

Larnaca - tel: 24 652243 fax: 24 659982

classified contents Employment Opportunities pg 18 Employment Miscellaneous 18 Pets 18 Lessons 18 Health & Fitness 18 Personal 18 Services 18 For Sale Miscellaneous 18 For Sale Land/ Property Business 18 For Sale Motor vehicles 18 Wanted 19 To Let Nicosia 19 To Let Limassol 22 To Let Larnaca 22 To Let Paphos 23 To Let Protaras, Ayia Napa, Paralimni -To Let Athens -Land For Sale Bulgaria -For Sale Limassol 24 For Sale Nicosia 24 For Sale Larnaca 24 For Sale Paphos 24 For Sale Ayia Napa -For Sale Famagusta Protaras -For Sale Athens -Property& Home Services display ads 25

abbreviations bdrm c/h a/c s/pool f/f apt pm pw sw nw st rd p/s c/l swb r/cass e/w

bedroom central heating air conditioning swimming pool fully furnished apartment per month per week south west north west street road power steering central locking short wheel base radio cassette electric windows

Please note tel nos. that begin with: MAZDA RX8 2004 Black,(high power 247) electric locks, a/c ,fog lights, MD player, CD changer, TV/DVD, navigator, factory adjustable suspension soft/hard-up/down. 6+1 speed, body kit, MOT. The condition of the car is excellent. CALL 96871551

22 = Nicosia 23 = Paralimni/Protaras 24 = Larnaca 25 = Limassol 26 = Paphos

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bdrm., wooden floors modern design €750, Acropolis 3 bdrm f/f., modern furniture, luxury €1000, Hilton 2 bdrm., wooden floors, modern building €850, Mak/ssa whole floor flat with/ without furniture €1200, villas Mak/ssa-Strovolos with pool and garden. Costas Markides Tel: 22378898/99464764, Reg. No. 487, E16. ***************************** FLATS/HOUSES FOR RENT studio Strovolos €250, Lykavitos €380 1bdrm Ag. Andreas €490, Makarios Av. €500 2 bdrm Acropolis new €700, Lykavitos furnish €600, Acropolis €530 3bdrm Parissinos house semidetached €550 Acropolis back house €300, Ag. Dometios independent house+garden €800, Acropolis €650, 4bdrm Ag. Andreas penthouse €800. POSPORIDES ESTATES 99474839 99646822 Reg.338 ***************************** ONE BEDROOM APARTMENT, in small quiet building, new, very spacious, fully furnished and air conditioned. Very good location between Strovolos and Engomi, close to The Eu-

ropean University (Cyprus College) and all amenities. Covered parking. Rent €495/m. Please call 99695382 TO LET 3 bdrm flat Kaimakli area near Frederic. Tel. 99606665. ****************************** LUXURY HOUSES: 1. 5 bedrs detached house, 550sq.m, built in 2 big plots of land, big garden with grass, big swimming pool with extra fence for children and big covered patio with bbq area, big reception areas with marble floor, fire place and bar, big kitchen with all electrical appliances and sitting room with fire place, maid’s room, floor heating, full a/c, blinds on the windows, master bedroom with en suite bathroom and shower, big bathroom for the other 3 bedrooms and extra shower in the 5th bedroom. Available end of July - Strovolos €2500 (H5ST10001-R), (photos in the website). 2. 3 bedrs luxury ground floor renovated semi detached house,210sq.m, with central heating, air conditions, solid parquet floor, fire place, big

kitchen with all the electric appliances, 2 wc curtains, big veranda, big patio on the back with bbq area, 2 covered parkings in a quiet neighborhood close to the Embassies –Engomi €1000 (H3ENG0002-R), (photos in the website) 3. 3 bedrs luxury terracedhouse, 210sq.m, central heating, full a/c, marble floor in the sitting areas and solid parquet floor the stairs and bedrooms,4wc,3 bathrooms the 2 en suite ,big verandas, electrical appliances in the kitchen,3 covered parking, roof garden access, in a quiet neighborhood on Mon Parnas Hill. Engomi €1000 (H3ENG0004-R), (photos in the website). 4. 3 bedr luxry detached house with 1 bedr flat in the basement, floor heating with gass a/c units, big kitchen with electrical appliances, 4 wc, 3 bathrooms, big garden with small pebbles, 2 covered parking, in a quiet area in a dead end. Can be rented furnished or not. AVAILABLE in August – Makedonitissa €1700 (H4MAK0027-R), (photos in the website).

5. 4 bedr+ attic room with shower and wc luxury detached house with separate maid’s room, central heating, a/c, separate office room, sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with dining room and big family room opening to the big garden with grass and bbq area, 2 covered parking, behind General flooring shop – Makedonitissa €3000 (H4MAK0025-R), (Photos on the website). 6. 3 bedr + big attic room which can be used as a bedroom/office, detached house, central heating, full a/c,3wc, 2 bathrooms, big sitting and dining room, separate kitchen with all the electrical appliances, small garden and patio with bbq area, covered parking, near Apollonion hospital. Available end of July – Makedonitissa €1200 (H4MAK0016-R), (photos in the website) 7. 4 bedrs and sitting room upstairs luxury detached house, 380sq.m,room for the maid, central heating, full a/c, marble and parquet floor, big sitting and din-

ing areas, office space, big verandas around the house, covered parking,3 bathrooms,4wc in a quiet area off Eleonon street, near Pizza Hut. AVAILABLE middle of July – Strovolos €1700 (H4ST10041-R), (photos in the website). 8. 4 bedr luxury detached house, 350sq.m, central heating, full a/c, office space, separate maid’s room, big storage room, solid parquet floor in the bedrooms, 2 covered parking, swimming pool, garden with trees, veranda with bbq area, big kitchen with all the electrical appliances, big sitting and dining areas, very near to English School, off Athalassas Avenue €2300 (H4ST10036-R), (photos on the website). 9. 4 bedr detached house with central heating, a/c units, separate big kitchen with el. appliances, small garden at the back, covered parking, 3wc,2 bathrooms, near the French ambassador residence – Strovolos €1000 (H4ST10038-R), (Photos on the website).

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FOR SALE BMW 320i CONVERTIBLE, 2008, colour platinum bronze, 18’’ alloys, being leather, cruise control, front and rear parking sesonrs, lights-rain sensors, wind deﬂector, 45000 km, excellent condition, €30,900. For information call 99405122. *****************************

WANTED TO RENT FLAT OR HOUSE TO RENT, 2-3 bedrooms, veranda/terrace or garden, prefer furnished, SW of Nicosia (in approx area Lakadamia to Kapedes and Kalo Chorio) alan.tye@birdlifecyprus.org.cy, 22455072, 99089083.

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10. 4 bedr new luxury finished top quality detached house, 290sq.m, central heating, full a/c, master bedroom with ensuite shower/jacuzzi, guest bedroom with shower, main bathroom with jacuzzi, 4wc, fully expensive furnished with 3 LCD televisions, kitchen with very expensive electrical appliances and family room, garden with grass, big covered patio with bbq area,2 covered parking’s, alarm system, pressure system, - Strovolos €3000 (H4STI0039-R), (Photos on the website). 11. 3 bedr + big attic room with shower and wc luxury new house,210sq.m, central heating, full a/c, 4wc, blinds on all windows, cooker and oven in the kitchen, small garden, covered parking near Alpha Mega supermarket - Strovolos €1400 (H4ST1007-R), (photos in the website). 12. 5 bedr new luxury finished detached house with separate maid’s room, one of the bedrooms with shower and wc and can be used as guest room,4 wc, solid parquet floor all the house, separate family room with fire place, big sitting

room, separate dining room, big kitchen with breakfast area, big outside patio with tiles and bbq area,2 covered parking, electrical appliances in the kitchen, in a very quiet neighborhood close to CYBC station. Can be rented furnished or not. – Platy Aglantzias €3000 (H5PAG0001-R), (Photos on the website). 13. 4 bedr+ separate maid’s room luxury finished semi detached house with central heating, full a/c, big sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with family room, full expensive electrical appliances in the kitchen(Miele), 4wc, blinds on windows, big back yard with tiled and bbq area, covered parking in a quiet neighborhood with easy access to the French school – Aglantzia €1400 (H4AGZ0008-R), (photos in the website). 14. 3 bedr luxury house, nicely modern furnished with big sitting and dining areas with bar, central heating, full a/c, big fitted kitchen with TV room, office space, patio area with bbq, covered parking, 3wc, solid parquet floor in bedrooms and granite in the sitting areas, near

the MEGA TV station – Archangelos €1300 (H3AR0002-R), (photos in the website). 15. 4 bedr house built in 2 plots,3 bedrs upstairs and one down, big garden with grass, bbq area with kiosk, Central Heating ,full AC,240sq.m,parquet floor,2 showers,3wc,electrical appliances in the kitchen, in a very quiet neighbourhood. Available in aprox. one month from signing contracts. CAN BE RENTED ALSO FURNISHED OR PARTIALLY FURNISHED – Agios Andreas €2000 (H4AAD0006-R), (photos in the website). 16. 3 bedr + office space +separate maid’s room detached luxury house, 450sq.m, recently renovated, with central heating, full a/c, big sitting and dining area with parquet floor, TV room with fire place, big kitchen with breakfast area and fitted cooker and oven, 4 wc, roller blinds on all windows, very big verandas and yard, covered parking, in a very quiet neighborhood in the centre of Makedonitissa opposite a playground. AVAILABLE MID JULY - €1400 (H4MAK0003-R), (photos in the website). 17. 3 bedr+ attic room which can be used for bedroom or office, luxury semi detached house, with central heating, full a/c, big separate kitchen with cooker and oven, blinds, big patio with tiles and trees on the back and covered veranda on thr front, parking, in a quiet area off 28th October street in the centre of Makedonitissa €1200 (H4MAK0026-R), (photos in the website)

18. New luxury 4 bedr + very big 40sq.m attic room with shower and wc semi detached house, 300 sq.m, central heating, full air condition, big sitting and dining areas, 4 wc, 2 showers,1 bathroom, solar heater, pressure system, covered parking, big back yard with tiles, blinds, cooker, oven and, refrigerator in the kitchen, in a very quiet neighborhood and area – Agios Dometios €1500 (H4ADO0004-R). 19. 3 bedr new modern luxury detached house,180sq.m,central heating, full a/c, 3wc, 2 bathrooms, cooker and oven in the kitchen, blinds on all windows, off Tseriou Avenue. THE house is unfurnished. Lakatamia €775 (H3LAK0001-R), (photos in the website). 20. 3 bedr+ separate maid’s room semi detached house, 250sq.m, central heating, full a/c, big sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with family room, 4wc, 2 bathrooms, 1 shower, 2 covered parking, big verandas and big covered patio with bbq, big covered veranda for the winter on the back, fully furnished and equipped, in a quiet neighborhood very close to all amenities and Apha Mega supermarket - Acropolis €1100 (H4ACS0001-R), (photos in the website). 21. 3 bedr detached house partially renovated 240sq.m with central heating, full a/c, separate tv room with ﬁre place, big sitting and dining room, separate kitchen with small family room, 3wc, big verandas and patio with deck and bbq area, covered parking in

a quiet neighborhood behind Areteion hospital close to Falcon school - Dasoupoli €1950 (H3DAS0006-R), (photos in the website). 22. 4 bedrs new luxury detached house, 330sq.m, central heating, full a/c, 2 covered parking’s, big kitchen with sitting room and all the electrical appliances, blinds on the windows, 2 bedrs with en suite shower, bathroom with jacuzzi, swimming pool with patio and nice covered bbq area, opposite a green area in a very quiet area - Available end of JUNE – Strovolos €3000 (photos in the website). 23. 4 bedr luxury detached house, separate maid’s room, 600 sq.m, central heating, full a/c, 6 wc, 4 bathrooms, big sitting and dining areas opening on to the garden, big kitchen with electrical appliances, built in 2 big plots of land with huge garden with grass, swimming pool, 2 covered parking, in a quiet neighbourhood close to Alpha Mega supermarket Engomi - €3700 (H4PA20005-R), (photos on the website). 24. 4 bedr luxury detached house with expensive finishes, office space, separate maid’s room, 3 of the bedrooms with en suite shower/bathroom, floor heating, full air condition, white marble floor all the house, fire place, lighting fixtures, big kitchen with all the electrical appliances, swimming pool with bbq area, small garden,2 covered parking’s in a nice neighbourhood with expensive houses near KEMA building – Platy Aglantzias €3500 (H4PAG0004-R), (photos in the website). For many more properties with photos visit our website at www.landtouristestates.com which is updated daily. LANDTOURIST ESTATES LTD 22422225/96-422225/96422226, www.landtouristestates.com ***************************** LUXURY FLATS: 1. 2 bedr luxury fully renovated

apartment, storage heaters, 3 a/c, separate big kitchen, big sitting dining room, fully modern furnished and equipped with solid parquet floor off Prodromou street – Engomi €600 (A2ENG0010-R), (photos in the website). 2. 2 bedr new luxury modern, 2 storey apartment with solid parquet floor, floor heating independent, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, 2 wc, expensive fitted electrical appliances, blinds, covered veranda with very nice view, in a quiet neighbourhood on a modern design building. AVAILABLE 1st of August – Aglantzia €750 (A2AGZ0021-R), (photos on the website). 3. 1 bedr luxury spacious apartment with big sitting room, separate kitchen with electrical appliances, central heating independent with diesel,2 a/c, aluminum shutters in the bedrooms, covered veranda, covered parking, storage room, on a small quiet building in a quiet neighborhood – Agios Dometios €450 (A1ADO0004-R), (photos in the website). 4. 3 bedr luxury PENTHOUSE apartment with storage heaters, full a/c, office space, very big veranda 100sq.m with nice view and bbq area with bar, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, 2 bathrooms, 2 storage rooms, covered parking, in a small building near Hilton park and Ippokration hospital – Engomi €1000 (A3ENG0023-R), (photos in the website). 6. 3 bedr luxury apartment with storage heaters, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, electrical appliances in the kitchen, big covered veranda, covered parking, near Ippokration hospital – Engomi €700 (A3ENG0024-R), (photos in the website). 7. 2 bedr brand new luxury finished apartment on a small modern design building with 2 bathrooms, a/c for hot and cold (Mitsubishi), storage heaters can be installed if needed, electrical shutters in the bedrooms, pressure system, water

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION On May 21st, 2012 in accordance with Section 14.81.1 C of the Liberian Business Corporation ActDogonLtd (“Company”) with registration number C-37274 doing business at 9 Marikas Kotopouli Street, 3030 Limassol the shareholders have agreed to dissolve the Company. 1. All claims against the assets of the Company must be made in writing and include the claim amount, basis and origination date. 2. The deadline for submitting claims is 23rd November 2012 3. Any claims that are not received by the company prior to the date set forth above will not be recognized. 5. All claims and payments must be sent to P. O Box 53766, 3317 Limassol, Cyprus Dated: March 22nd, 2012. Camilla Strømstad Liquidation board

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serculation system, solar, electrical appliances in the kitchen, blinds, covered veranda, 2 COVERED PARKING, storage room, near the centre and near trafﬁc lights of Honda showroom. – Agioi Omologites €700 (A2AOM0007-R) 8. 3 bedr new luxury spacious apartment, 150sq.m+big covered veranda, big sitting and dining room, nicely furnished big separate kitchen with cooker and oven, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms, big bedrooms, a/c for hot and cold in all the rooms, electrical heating if needed,

covered parking and big room on the ground floor with window which can be used for a maid or office, in a very quite neighbourhood in a small building – Agios Dometios €750 (A3ADO0006-R), (photos in the website) 9. 3 bedr new luxury penthouse apartment on the last floor of a 3 storey building, CH ind, full a/c, pressure system, cooker and oven in the kitchen, blinds in the living room, 2 bathrooms, 130sq.m, big veranda with view, covered parking, 200m opposite Akropolis park. AVAIL-

ABLE 1st of August – Acropolis €850(A3ACS0039-R), (photos on the website). 10. 2 bedr new luxury ﬁnished apartment with a/c for hot and cold, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, big covered veranda,2 bathrooms,2wc,covered parking, storage room, secured entrance building in a very quiet neighborhood – Aglantzia €650 (A2AGZ0022-R), (photos in the website) 11. 1 bedr apartment, 55sq.m, separate kitchen, fully furnished and equipped with television in

good condition,2 AC for hot and cold on Makarios Avenue near Debenhams. Available for short and long term – Nicosia Centre €450 (A1NIC0002-R), (photos in the website). 12. 1 bedr apartment with storage heaters, 2 a/c, big bathroom, NICELY FUNRISHED, covered parking, covered veranda with nice view, in a quiet area near Ippokration hospital – Engomi €500 (A1ENG0009-R), (photos in the website). 13. New luxury 2 bedr apartment with nice view, 100sq.m, big sitting & dining area, big separate

kitchen with cooker and oven, big covered verandah, 2 wc, storage heaters, 2 a/c, electric shutters in the bedrooms, covered parking and storage room on the 11th ﬂoor of a small building with 6 ﬂats only 200 meters for Akropolis park and opposite a small neighborhood park – Dasoupolis €570 (A2DAS0001-R), (photos in the website). 14. New luxury modern 3 bedr apartment,145sq.m big covered veranda with nice view, a/c in all the rooms, electrical heating, cooker and oven in

the kitchen, big sitting and dining room,2 bathrooms, laundry room, covered parking and storage room off Kennedy Avenue behind KPMG ofﬁces – Acropolis €900(A3ACS0038-R), (photos on the website). 15. 2 bedr brand new luxury ﬁnished apartment in a modern luxury building with independent central heating, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, 2 wc, aluminum shutters in the bedrooms, cooker, oven, fridge and washing machine in the kitchen, big veranda, electric parking entrance, covered parking and

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colour intercom. Price includes cable net service with 10mb and TV satellite channels – Acropolis €700 (A2ACS0004-R), (photos in the website). 16. New luxury 2 bedr apartment with central heating independent, full ac, fully modern nicely furnished and equipped, big covered verandah, 2 wc, covered parking opposite Hilton, off Makarios Avenue close to the centre – Lykavitos €650 (A2LYK0003-R), (photos in the website) 17. Fully renovated luxury 1 bed apartment,60 sq.m, fully furnished and equipped with internet, LCD 32 ‘ TV, in the centre of Nicosia near Debenhams, with 2 a/c for hot and cold. – Nicosia Centre €550 (A1NIC0003-R), (photos in the website). 18. 4 bedr luxury floor apartment,250sq.m, office, maid’s room, central heating ind, full a/c,2 showers, 1 bathroom, 3wc, parquet floor, big kitchen with cooker and oven, big sitting area, roller blinds on all the windows, big veranda on a small building off Athalasas Avenue near Alpha Mega supermarket and Areteion hospital – Dasoupolis €1100 (A4DAS002-R), (photos on the website) 19. 2 bedr luxury apartment, 95sq.m, 4 AC for hot and cold, fully newly furnished and equipped, covered verandah, 2 wc, covered parking off Makarios Avenue between Hilton and Debenhams – Nicosia Centre €700. Can be rented also for 6 months for €1100 per month (A2NIC0024-R), (photos in the website)

20. 2 bedrs ground floor big apartment.130 sq.m, CH independent, 3 A/C, very big bedrooms with parquet floor, big sitting and dining area, big separate kitchen, fully nicely furnished, on a small 2 storey building off Makarios Avenue behind Hilton hotel walking distance to the centre - Nicosia Centre €550 (A2NIC0002-R), (Photos on the website). 21. 3 bedr spacious apartment, 150sq.m, central heating independent, 3a/c, big sitting room,2 bathrooms,2wc,covered veranda, in a small building with 2 flats only, covered parking, near Hilton Park hotel – Engomi €750 (A3ENG0022-R), (photos in the website). 22. 2 bedr new luxury modern, 2 storey & apartment with solid parquet floor, floor heating independent, full a/c, 2 bathrooms,2wc, expensive fitted electrical appliances, blinds, covered veranda with very nice view, in a quiet neighborhood in a modern design building. AVAILABLE 1st of August – Aglantzia €750 (A2AGZ0021-R), (photos in the website). 23. 1 bedr, fully furnished and equipped apartment, 50 sq.m, 2 a/c, for hot and cold, covered verandah, covered parking, off Makarios Avenue between Hilton and DEBENHAMS shop. Available middle July – Nicosia Centre €550 (A1NIC0006-R), (photos in the website). 24. 3 bedr+ separate maid”s room (with shower and wc) luxury apartment with central heating independent, full a/c, 3wc, 2 bathrooms, big separate kitchen with breakfast area

and electrical appliances, big sitting and dining area with solid parquet floor, big covered veranda, blinds, alarm system, 2 parking, in a quiet area off Makarios Avenue near Hilton – Nicosia Centre (A3NIC0023-R), (photos in the website). 25. 2 bedr new luxury finished and FURNISHED ground floor apartment, 80sq.m +120sq.m veranda and garden, separate floor heating, full a/c, 2wc, aluminum shutters outside the windows, pressure system, fully expensively fitted with electrical appliances in the kitchen, big covered parking and big storage room, off Athallassa Avenue near English School in a small modern building. AVAILABLE 1st of AUGUST – Strovolos €800 (A2ST10023-R), (photos in the website). 26. 3 bed brand new luxury finished apartment in a small modern design building with 2 bathrooms(one en suite), expensive electrical appliances in the kitchen, double glazed windows with electrical shutter, covered veranda, pressure system, solar heater, central satellite antenna, 2 covered parkings, storage room, security entrance, close to Honda traffic lights walking distance to the centre – Agioi Omologites €850 (A3AOM0009-R), (photos in the website). For many more properties with photos visit our website at www.landtouristestates.com which is updated daily. LANDTOURIST ESTATES LTD 22422225 / 96-422225 / 96422226 www.landtouristestates.com ******************************

TO LET LIMASSOL LIMASSOL ***************************** GROUND FLOOR HOUSE 3 bedrooms in Omonia furnished /unfurnished, fire place in sitting room, main sitting room, kitchen, bathroom, utility, shower with W/C. A/C in bedrooms. Covered parking. Price €650. Tel 95 116808 ***************************** VERY SPACIOUS LUXURY BUNGALOW HOUSE situated in the village of Palodeia, ideal for its proximity to the Heritage school and only 5 miles to Limassol town centre with shops and banks close by. Accommodation comprises of an open plan sitting room/dining area, fully fitted and equipped kitchen, 1 master bedroom with en-suite, 3 large bedrooms, a separate wc/bathroom and an office room. A/c & c/h throughout. In front of the house is a car port for 2 cars but has additional space for another 3 or 4 cars. Price €1250.00pm. Viewing available after 23/8/12 please contact Yiannakis Georgiou 99451011. ***************************** GROUND FLOOR HOUSE, furnished renovated this year. Laminated parke floor, and big wardrobes in the 3 bedrooms. Rent €590.00 Tel 99497576 99886775 ***************************** UN-DETACHED HOUSE FOR RENT in Apshiou village, 2 bedroom, kitchen, sitting room, bathroom with solar water heater. A/C, satellite, 15mins to roundabout. Parking space

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available. €400. Tel 25369219, work 10.30-17.30 25542968 home 99773151 ***************************** LIMASSOL, RENT: Office of around 110 m2, with partitions, split units, kitchenette and parking in a peaceful, green yet central area at Helladion House(off. 201), 5 Andrea Kalvou Str. For viewing, please knock on off. 202(2nd flloor). For further details, please call 25-521873 or 25-731163 after 8:00pm. ***************************** LIMASSOL. Spacious modern 2 bedroom flat, tranquil block, central residential area, sea and mountains views. Full a/c. Solar water heater, power shower. Covered parking. Real wood flooring. Italian kitchen. New Sony TV DVD. Fully equipped. 99409829 info@idclimassol.org ***************************** FOR RENT IN CENTRE OF LANIA village a 3 bedroom/2 bathroom modernised old village house. Unfurnished, 425 euro pcm Tel 99305491. ***************************** OFFICE FOR RENT OPPOSITE SEA WITH amazing sea views. 120sqm, 2 bathrooms, kitchen. Security system, cabling and server room ready. Price € 1400/month negotiable tel. 99 330 908 www.cyprusre.com/ listing-LIM-0103

99202543 ***************************** 1. K.S.L LETTINGS – APARTMENT FOR RENT Fully Furnished ground ﬂoor 2 bedroom apartment, overlooking pool. Beautifully furnished throughout. 350 Euros per calendar month. Larnaca District. Quote TLL884. Tel. (00357) 24815104 2. K.S.L LETTINGS – Properties Required for waiting Long Term Tenants. We desperately require 2/3 & 4 bedroom villa’s with private swimming pools for waiting tenants in the Larnaca District. Please call us for a free valuation. Tel. (00357) 24815104 3. K.S.L LETTINGS – largest range of properties. Over 200 rental properties in the Larnaca district at the most competitive rates! Flexible contracts available. Tel. (00357) 24815104 4. WWW.KSLLETTINGS.COM – VILLA FOR RENT Fully furnished 3 bedroom Villa with a good-sized rear garden & Communal pool, located in the village of Oroklini. Call for further information quoting Ref. TLL1189. Tel. (00357) 24815104 CALL 24 815 104 TO ENQUIRE OR ARRANGE A VIEWING – NO OBLIGATION OR FEES. VIEW OUR FULL RANGE OF OVER 200 PROPERTIES BY VISITING WWW.KSLLETTINGS.COM UPDATED DAILY. LANDLORDS ADVERTISE YOUR PROPERTY FOR FREE AND GET WORLD WIDE ADVERTISING – NO TENANT NO FEE ! ****************************

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Advertiser TO LET PAPHOS PAPHOS ***************************** FOR RENT new ground ﬂoor terrace studios for rent in Kouka village(20 minutes from Limassol) in a quiet and peaceful area fully furnished €180 per month minimum contract 1 year. Inf. Mob 99548855 ***************************** MESOYI – 3 bed detached bungalow - u/f, a/c, spacious living area, 1 x en-suite & family bathroom, large garden, very private, swimming pool, sea and mountain views, undercover parking -750 euros ***************************** FOR RENT 3 BDRM house in Paphos excellent position (near CYTA) D Mavrogenous no 9. Tel 99376507. **************************** For your consideration 1. KATHIKAS AREA €450 a modern 2 bedroom, stone walled villa with sea views, large swimming pool and 650 sq metres garden. In a quiet cul-de-sac, available unfurnished or furnished. Solar panels and pressurised water system. A great villa in a fabulous village. Will accept pets. 2. TREMITHOUSA €275 situated in a quiet cul-de-sac, this furnished modern 3 bedroom detached house with small garden is available, a/c throughout and satellite broadband. Offering fantastic views of the sea. 3. TREMITHOUSA €250 luxury 2 bedroom maisonette. Fully furnished with modern furni-

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ture and satellite broadband. Modern furniture with new appliances. & A/c throughout. Good sea views. Located in a fabulous village. A must see! 4. CENTRAL PAPHOS €250 modern 1 bedroom top ﬂoor apartment, opposite bowling, master with walk-in wardrobe. Fully furnished with all appliances. Lift to all ﬂoors. This complex offers a lovely communal pool area and security barrier entrance. Close to amenities, a great central location. Call Val on 99166563 Or Liz on 96703403 **************************** FOR RENT 2 bedroom townhouse, beautiful green areas with a lot of mature trees, only four houses in the project, swimming pool available. Walking distance to shops, €350 per month. Call 99439891 **************************** LUXURY PRIVATE NEW VILLA, seven bedrooms, swimming pool, satellite, TV, outdoor hot tub-spa, panoramic view, playground area, pool billiardsoccer table, table tennis, beautiful garden, coral bay area Pegia village/Paphos town, call 96351179 UNIVERSAL AREA, 2 bedroom modern furnished town house, communal pool Euro 450 per month Tel 99387842 ***************************** ANAVARGOS, 3 bedroom detached house, low maintenance garden, communal pool, very close to international school, Unfurnished or furnished, euro 550 per month

Tel: 99239262 ***************************** EPISKOPI – PAPHOS, 3 bedroom bungalow, unfurnished, a/con, fire-place, spectacular mountain views, large established garden with irrigation, swimming pool, very quiet location, euro 650 ono – long term Please call Micheal: 99655636 - no agents **************************** GREAT VALUE STUDIO FLAT FOR RENT, - Large modern studio flat in small residential block, in central Paphos, 5 minutes from town centre, 2 minutes from motorway, and 10 minutes from Kato Paphos. Separate Living area/ kitchen and bedroom. Fully furnished (washing machine etc.) Covered veranda, and undercover designated parking. Only Euro 215/month inc. communal charges. Phone 99-310481. **************************** AYIOS DEMETRIANOS 3 bedroom villa with swimming pool, large established garden, sea views, unfurnished, very quiet area. Euro 550 per month - ono. Call: 99127195 **************************** BEAUTIFUL, 2 BEDROOM APARTMENT, furnished and fully air-conditioned, situated close to Carrefour €330. And a 1 bed new apt, attractive and spacious, furnished with S.pool, in Chlorakas, 500 meters from the St. George hotel €290. OWNERS, TEL 99403261, 26934650 ***************************** GREAT VALUE STUDIO FLAT FOR RENT - Large modern studio flat in small residential

block, in central Paphos, 5 minutes from town centre, 2 minutes from motorway, and 10 minutes from Kato Paphos. Separate Living area/kitchen and bedroom. Fully furnished (washing machine etc.) Covered veranda, and undercover designated parking. Only €215/month inc. communal charges. Phone 99-310481. ***************************** 6 BEDROOM, luxury detached villa in Chlorakas, for rent. Breathtaking, unobscured sea and mountain views. Close to all amenities, located in a culde-sac in Melanos area with a private road. 6 bed, 2 bathrooms (+2en suite), utility room, outdoor storage, Jacuzzi, private pool, fully A/C, fitted kitchen, large verandas and landscaped gardens. Long term let or sale by owner, call 99414920 **************************** 1. YEROSKIPOU AREA, euro 380, beautiful 2 bed, first floor apartment, fully furnished, large bathroom, large balcony. 2. YEROSKIPOU AREA, 3 bedroom villa with pool, unfurnished, large garden and ample parking. Main bedroom en-suite, ground floor w/c with cloakroom, separate kitchen area. Euro 500 per month 3. UNIVERSAL, 1 bedroom apartment on ground floor with garden, patio to front, well maintained complex with pool, fully furnished, euro 300 per month ono 4. MESA CHORIO, 2 bedroom apartment , modern furniture, fully equipped, one bedroom en-suite + one bathroom, panoramic views, well maintained

complex with pool, euro 400 per month ono MANY MORE PROPERTIES AVAILABLE - CALL : 96753677 **************************** ONE BEDROOM fully furnished apartment for rent in Kissonerga. Near Cynthiana Beach hotel and close proximity to Coral Bay. Overlooking the sea and 100 metres from beach. AC in bedroom. Tel: 99-492521/ 99- 673276 **************************** PROPERTY TO RENT CHLORAKA: 3 Bedroom U/F Detached House Enclosed garden, A/C, Oven Hob Extractor 550 Per month REF: JAP3V159 TOMBS OF THE KINGS: 1st Floor F/F Apartment 1 Bedroom, Sat TV, A/C, Sea Views, Communal Pool 350 Euros per month REF: JAP1A024 PEYIA: 2 Bedroom F/F Apartment A/C, Communal Pool, Sauna, Gym. 325 Euros per month neg REF: JAP2A182 EMBA: 3 Bedroom U/F House, A/C, White Goods Communal Pool 500 Euros per month REF: JAP3V053 PEYIA: 3 Bedroom U/F Bungalow,some A/C, Flyscreens Cyta line, Private Pool, roof terrace. 600 Euros per month not neg . KATO PAPHOS: 2 Bedroom Furn apartment, Shutters, A/C, Close to Bar Street. 400 Euros per month REF: JAP2A186 PEYIA: 3 Bedroom U/F Detached Villa, Private Pool, Enclosed Gardens Car port, A/C. Large lounge, 600 Euros per

month neg REF: JAP3V199 CORAL BAY: 8 Bed furnished villa, pool, games room,8 bath rooms, play area, car port,Jacuzzi,grape vines, large plot. 2,250 Euros pm REF: JAP8V196 HOLIDAY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT/CLEANS CHANGEOVER SERVICE AVAILABLE. WE URGENTLY REQUIRE PROPERTIES IN ALL AREAS FOR WAITING CLIENTS. JOHN ALICE PROPERTIES TEL: 00357 99984681 WEB: WWW.JOHNALICEPROPERTIES.COM EMAIL: JOHNALICCY@GMAIL.COM **************************** FOR RENT a selection of 1,2&3 bedroom houses & apartments f/f & u/f. Universal, Peyia, Tomb of the Kings, Tsada & Chloraka. Please view at our website www.cyprussands.com or call 99329357. Fully registered company in Cyprus. PEYIA – 3 bedroom villa with modern quality furniture and ﬁnishes. Central heating, sky, alarm, inﬁnity pool and stunnning sea and mountain views €700 per month, call : 99389426 BRAND NEW APT, opposite Poseidonio Gym, near Carrefour, F/F, a/c, great quality, 1 bdrm, from €340p.m.Tel 99403261 ***************************** MR RENT PAPHOS, THE LEADING PROPERTY RENTAL AGENCY IN PAPHOS OFFICE: 26271858 (00357) IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY TO RENT WE ARE THE RENTAL AGENCY TO CONTACT OF-

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FERING FULL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT & RENT COLLECTION SERVICE 1. PEYIA €375 luxury modern 2 bedroom apartment. Beautifully furnished with modern furniture includes Miele kitchen appliances, fly screens, plasma TV with set up showing UK channels. Close to Peyia village on a great complex with gardens, large c/pool, hot tub, indoor pool, sauna & gym. Undercover parking & storage. 2. UNIVERSAL AREA €450 spacious 2 bedroom townhouse situated in great central location, not on a complex, with enclosed garden & jacuzzi hot tub. Fully furnished with good furniture. Private drive for off street parking. 3. KAMARES €600 detached 3 bedroom bungalow, master with ensuite. Situated in the sought after residential area of Tala. Offering a peaceful setting with covered veranda and views of the sea & mountains. Fully furnished with gas central heating and real working fireplace for those winter months. A lovely home with character. 4. TALA €675 unfurnished modern 3 bedroom detached villa offering total privacy & breathtaking sea views. Includes underfloor heating plus real fire. Master with ensuite. Large storage room. Shutters & flyscreens. Covered veranda, garden with mature plants, private pool offering sea views. Off street parking. a beautiful home. 5. LOWER PEYIA €700 unfurnished 3 bedroom bungalow, master with ensuite. Spacious kitchen & living area. Enclosed garden with well & private pool offering sea views. Rental price includes pool cleaning. Covered veranda, private drive for off street parking. Situated in a

quiet residential area. 6. KONIA €700 new to the market this spacious detached 3 bedroom villa, master with ensuite. Guest wc. Beautifully furnished with quality modern furniture. Separate modern fitted kitchen plus separate utility room. Shutters to all windows. Roof terrace with sea views. Fully enclosed garden with storage shed, covered barbeque area and private pool offering lovely views. 7. TALA €1300 magnificent modern 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom villa, furnished with designer modern furniture, though can be available unfurnished if desired. Large modern fitted kitchen with top brand appliances. Includes gas central heating & working fireplace. Beautifully designed & spacious with undercover parking, private pool & sea views. A must to see! 8. ANARITA €1800 amazing 4 bedroom detached villa, this stunning property offers top of the range modern kitchen. Spacious living rooms, all bedrooms with modern ensuites. Landscaped gardens with private pool offering total privacy & covered barbeque area, great for entertaining. Available fully furnished or unfurnished & includes gas central heating & so much more. Tel: 97790883 Tel: 99133422 office: 26271858 visit our website for many more properties www.mrrentpaphos.net email: info@ mrrent-paphos.net **************************** RENTAL POINT - PAPHOS * PROPERTIES AVAILABLE TO RENT IN THE PAPHOS DISTRICT. JUST A SMALL SAMPLE OF AVAILABLE PROPERTIES. ALL TYPES OF

PROPERTY URGENTLY REQUIRED FOR LONG TERM RENTAL. CALL 97641764 FOR MORE INFORMATION. LANDLORDS CALL IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY FOR RENT.!!! 1. LOWER PEYIA – 5 bed 2 bath fully furnished villa set in good area. Open plan living area. Separate kitchen with D/W.W/M etc. 2 ground floor bedrooms with bathroom. Stairs to 3 additional bedrooms and bathroom. Doors out to large roof terrace with views. Outside parking for 3 cars, large swimming pool, BBQ and water feature. Landscaped gardens. A/C. Euros 800.00 a month 2. TRIMITHOUSA 3 bed 2. bath unfurnished apartment/ house set in quiet location with views. Open plan living area and dining area. Fully fitted kitchen with appliances . Guest WC. 3 double bedrooms. Family bathroom. Large balcony, off-street parking. Euros 400.00 a month. 3. KATHIKAS – 3 bed,2 bath unfurnished stone bungalow with no immediate neighbours. Open plan living area with fireplace with log burner. Fitted kitchen, utility room. 3 bedrooms, master with ensuite. Family bathroom. Parking, Swimming pool and landscaped garden areas. Very quiet area. Euros 600.00 a month 4. CHLORAKAS – 2 Bed, 2. bath fully furnished apartments (2 available) in good location close to amenities. Open plan living area with dining space. Fitted kitchen, 2 double bedrooms. Bathroom. Off street parking & comm. Pool. Euros 395.00 a month inclusive of municipal taxes. 5. GOUDI (near Polis) Outstanding 3 bed, 3.5 bath unfurnished villa. Set in a rural setting the property enjoys privacy with no immediate neighbours. Open plan living area, spacious fitted kitchen. Guest WC. Ground floor bedroom with en-suite.

Stairs to 2 further double bedroom with en-suite. Breakfast area with hob & fridge and seating space. Doors out to large covered verandah with panoramic views. Full A/C, C/H, garage, over-flow tiled pool, SKY dish. Villa has substantial insulation to walls and floors. Large gardens. Euros 800.00 per month. 6. UNIVERSAL AREA. 2 bed fully furnished apartment. Living area, fitted kitchen. 2 double bedrooms and family bathroom. A/C, balcony, shutters, comm. Pool and parking. Euros 400.00 a month or offers. 1 & 2 bed apartments available on Universal. 7. TALA - 5 bed, 3.5 bath large fully furnished villa. Very large property with open plan living area. Fitted kitchen, storage cupboard, guest WC. 2 bedrooms, bathroom on this level with small seating area. Ideal for dual living. Stairs up to 3 double bedroom, en-suite & family bathroom. Heated swimming pool, A/C, C/H. Electric gates and garden areas. Parking for several cars.Euros 1500.00 per month or offers. 8. LOWER PEYIA. 3 bed, 3 bath villa. Set in pretty location. Open plan living area, fitted kitchen. Guest WC. 3 bedrooms one with en-suite. Family bathroom. Pool, landscaped gardens and parking. Available furnished or unfurnished. Euros 550.00 per month. FOR FULL LISTINGS OF A PA R T M E N T S / T O W N HOUSES AND VILLA PLEASE CALL FOR DETAILS. ALL TYPES OF PROPERTY URGENTLY REQUIRED FOR LONG TERM RENTAL LANDLORDS/ OWNERS PLEASE CALL PLEASE CALL 97648440 or email:- inforentals@aol. com **************************** REFURBISHED stone-built village house located in Kili Paphos. Consists of 3 large rooms 1 small. Traditional

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PROPERTY FOR SALE NICOSIA 3 BEDROOM Luxury Apartment in a lovely neighbourhood of Nicosia (Ayios Andreas) Bldg 12 years old 123 Sqm Covered area, Central Heating, Air Cond e.t.c Price 210 K Euro. For Details please call 99-379904 FLAT FOR SALE/RENT: ‘ITHAKI’ is a small 3 Storey brand new building, only 5 units located in quiet neighbourhood in Strovolos, near Falcon school. ITHAKI has only 2 completed 3 bedroom apartments per floor. And on 3rd floor an independent 3 bedroom penthouse with a roof garden. Italian Kitchen, big verandas, big storeroom and convenient parking. PANICOS STAVRINOU ESTATE AGENT R.N.497 99666703 email yemo@cytanet.com.cy FOR SALE is a building with 4 flats, each 3 bedroom. 2 on the ground floor with yards, and 2 on the first floor. 2 on first floor completely renovated. Located in quiet area. Building recently plastered and painted. €850,000 negotiable Call: 99 330 908 FOR SALE PENTHOUSE between Armenias Str and Hilton Hotel. 3 bedroom, main bedroom with shower, c/h, fireplace, large verandas. For more information please call: 99467596.

LIMASSOL A SEA SIDE BUNGALOW one bedroom and open plan living room with kitchen and bathroom, two verandas and a swimming pool in front. In excellent condition with A/C. Situated inThera complex near The Meridien hotel and the Marina of Limassol. Sale for €450.000. Rent €950 per month. Call 99624499

SALE LIMASSOL 2 bed flat on beach road; light, airy with balcony. New flooring, a/c units, lift 2nd floor, windows 3 sides, own car space. TITLE DEEDS. €115,000. Tel 99178141 www.homesinternational.info (Les Bois) ****************************

LARNACA NEAR MARONI Coastline Larnaca 2 bdrm bungalow on large plot Wrap around veranda with sea & mountain views, Large lounge/dining room, Large Kitchen, Full C/H Provision for a/c All furniture & car included €295,000 99147929

PAPHOS HOUSE FOR SALE, TALA, KAMARES VILLAGE IN PAPHOS 245 Sq.M, 12 years old, renovated, five bedrooms, master bedroom is ensuite, two bathrooms, underground studio, central heating, air-conditioning, fire place, swimming pool, beautiful garden with amazing sea view, electric garage for two cars:- price €485,000.- Call Helen:- 99497620 LUXURY VILLA 550 sq.m in 1250 lot.,5 bed.6 bath. maids en suite, walk in basement, beautiful landscape, double garage, large pool, playground, well, quiet neighborhoot. Price 1.550.000 M. Phone 357-99432074,35799552585 TALA, 5 bdrm villa for sale . Title deeds.sea and mountain view. 5 en-suite double bedrooms. Central heating, a/c, fireplace. Private L shape s/pool and garden area, patio, with bbq, bar and pergola. Car parking. Plot: 620 sq.m. Covered: 285sqm , €458.000. tel. 99587757

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OFFICE/WAREHOUSE FOR RENT 735m² of ofﬁce space and 1200m² warehousing available for long term rent on Yianni Kranidioti Avenue very close to Carlsberg Brewery. Easy access to Nicosia-Limassol highway (only 200 metres). Loading bays for warehouses and parking space for more than 40 cars. Hidden fuel tank plus car mechanics station. For more information please call 99218866

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CHURCHES ALL SAINTS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH (ENGLISH) Sunday Divine Liturgy 8-10am. Followed by Fellowship hour (coffee) Services are now being held at the underground Chapel of All Saints of Cyprus at St. Panteleimonos Church Makedonitissa Archangelos (Engomi) For more info please contact Fr. Joseph Coleman Tel. 99938924 THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF AGIOS ARSENIOS, LIMASSOL (near Tsirion Stadium) The Orthodox Liturgy in English Saturday, 4 February at 8:30 am For information please contact: Father M. Spanou at 99 – 401365 (msspanou@googlemail.com)

THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF ST ANDREW AND ST JOHN THE BAPTIST MESA GEITONIA, LIMASSOL The Orthodox Liturgy in English served fortnightly on Saturdays at 9.00 am. We also hold a Discussion Group every Thursday evening at 7.30 pm For information please call Fr. Christopher Klitou Mobile: 99957144 Fax: 25710318 You can email us at: klitoux@logos.cy.net or visit our website: www.christopherklitou.com

Paphiakos & C.C.P. Animal Welfare Education/Information Centre, No. 12 Dedalos Building, 8049 Kato Paphos PO Box 61272 8132 Kato Paphos Web. www.cyprusanimalwelfare.com www.facebook/paphiakos Email info@cyprusanimalwelfare.com Larnaca Emergency Service - The contact point for animal emergencies in Larnaca is Maria at the Paphiakos Animal Welfare Charity Shop, telephone 24623494 or 99325897 PAPHIAKOS NEW CHARITYSHOP/T.ROOMS NOW OPEN IN PEYIA. T ROOMS NOW OPEN (next to Peyia Police Station) Volunteers and donations needed please contact Suzanne 99151996 for further information. STOP, SHOP AND GIVE TO THE ANIMALS! ALL DONATIONS ARE WELCOME AT OUR CHARITY SHOPS!!!!! NOW OPEN !!! BOOKSHOP/INFORMATION CENTRE/T-SHOP IN POLIS CONTACT JUDY 99223572 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND DETAILS. SEE THE WEBSITE FOR UP TO DATE INFORMATION OR TELEPHONE 26953496 PAPHIAKOS & C.C.P. BOOK EXCHANGE SHOP TREMITHOUSA Paphiakos Book Exchange Shop, Tremithousa. Special Tuesday sales held on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Tuesdays of each month. For more information Tel 99771763/99283467 PAPHIAKOS & C.C.P. ANIMAL WELFARE Registered Charity No 1529 Contact our shops and we can take your clutter The Charity Shops are located at: Shop No.1 Agapinoros Street, Kato Paphos Shop No.2 Ap Pavlou Avenue, Kato Paphos Shop No.3 Gr. Afxentiou Avensia Court 3 Larnaca Shop No.4 9 Ayiou Ioanni Street 3061 Limassol Our shops are always happy to receive your unwanted goods! SORROW IS WHAT PAPHIAKOS IS ALL ABOUT!!! UPDATE PLEASE SEE OUR WEBSITE OR FACEBOOK FOR THE STORY OF SORROW. EVERY MEMBER OF OUR CLINIC WEPT FOR THIS POOR DOG. PAPHIAKOS ARE DETERMINED THE FUTURE WILL BE BRIGHTER AFTER THE CRUELTY AND TRAUMA. Sorrow is progressing well but will need further surgery. If you can help with donations to assist us to bring Sorrow to full health please contact the clinic on 00357 26946461. www.cyprusanimalwelfare.com PAPHIAKOS CAR BOOT SALE EVERY SATURDAY at the Ambassador Restaurant and outside in the grounds at Paphiakos. Free parking. Sellers from 7am, buyers from 8am. For information & bookings please call MIKE on 96702600. PAPHIAKOS & C.C.P. ANIMAL WELFARE URGENTLY NEEDS PASTA TO HELP FEED THE DOGS AND SOFT FOOD FOR ALL THE CATS. DONATIONS CAN BE MADE AT THE CLINIC. PLEASE SPONSOR AN ANIMAL OR BECOME A MEMBER TO ENSURE PAPHIAKOS CAN CONTINUE WIH THEIR NECESSARY WORK. Telephone Jan 26946461 ex 114 or 97614008

Sunday School (Juniors and Teens) Outreach and Evangelism Bible Studies

Tel. 99 293489, 99 279960 Email: immanuel.church.nicosia@gmail.com

LARNAKA COMMUNITY CHURCH APHRODITE STREET, LARNAKA 10.00 AM MORNING SERVICE and SUNDAY SCHOOL For more details ring Fred 24-365152

Nikosia: Am 1. und 3. Samstag im Monat in der St. Paul’s Cathedral um 18 Uhr Limassol: Am 2. Sonntag im Monat im Gemeindehaus in Germasogeia um 11 Uhr Am 4. Sonntag im Monat in der St. Barnabaskirche um 18 Uhr Paphos: Am 2. Samstag in der Kirche an der Paulussaeule um 16 Uhr Agia Napa: Am 4. Sonntag im Monat im Hof des Klosters um 9.30 Uhr

Open Door Baptist Church

Näheres Informationen durch Pfarrer Dr. Herold, Tel 25-317092 oder im Internet www.ev-kirche-zypern.de

GRACE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH Invites you to COME AND EXPERIEBNCE THE LOVE OF GOD WITH US Int. Christian Business Fellowship Meeting Centre Sundays: 10.00am Sunday School 11.00 am Main Service (Dine with us centre services) Wednesdays: Prayer meeting 6pm Address: To Arsinois Str., 1010 Nicosia (Next to Western Union Office to KISA) Contact: 99988900 or 97667932. VISITORS ESPECIALLY WELCOME!!!

THE REFORMED CHURCH OF LIMASSOL

CONTACT DETAILS FOR PAPHIAKOS.

Contemporary Christian Worship Sunday 10am (Holy Communion - 1st Sunday of the month)

DEUTSCHE GOTTESDIENSTE IN ZYPERN

9 Larnakos Street Katholiki Area Limassol Sundays: 9:45, 11:00 AM, 1:30 PM Wednesdays: 7:30 PM 25 751193 or 99 758729 www.cbm-odbc.org

FOR PAPHIAKOS ANIMAL WELFARE SOS HELPLINE, 24 HOUR MEDICAL EMERGENCY SERVICE - CALL 99655581

Family oriented evangelical church

Clear exposition of the Bible in the presence of God, and relevant to our lives. Our Sunday services start at 10:30 am sharp, and the Wednesday Bible discussion at 7 pm. International Evangelical Church (Reformed) is located at 352 St. Andrew’s Street. 1½ blocks from Starbucks / Fat Boy, and 1 block from the Municipal Gardens, Zoo. For further information call Steve at 99384742, or email: iee.limassol@gmail.com All are welcome!

NICOSIA CHRISTIAN CENTRE 10 PINDOU STR, ENGOMI, NICOSIA, TEL. 22464375 SERVICES: SUNDAY 10AM, WEDNESDAY 8PM St Barnabas’ Anglican Church 153 Leontiou A Street Limassol www.stbarnabas-cyprus.com Telephone: 25362713 - All welcome HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CHURCH, PAPHOS GATE, NICOSIA Sunday Masses: Saturdays 6.30 pm, Sundays 8.00am, 9.30am & 6.30pm Weekday Masses: 6.30 pm Monday to Friday Tel: 22662132 Email: holcross@logos.cy.net

GRACE CHURCH, LARNACA 8 Ayiou Neofytou St Sundays 10 a.m. Also Midweek Meetings Details: Colin 24530700

The Anglican Church of Paphos Ayia Kyriaki (St. Paul by the Pillar) Sunday 8.15am Holy Eucharist 6.00pm Sung Eucharist 4th Sunday 6.00pm Choral Evensong Wednesday 9.00am Holy Eucharist 3rd Wednesday (BCP) St. Stephen’s, Tala 1st & 3rd Sunday 11.00 am Holy Eucharist 2nd & 4th Sunday 11.00am Morning Worship St. Luke’s, Prodromi 1st & 5th Sunday 9.30am Morning Worship 2nd , 3rd & 4th Sunday 9.30am Holy Eucharist 1st & 3rd Wednesday 9.30am Holy Eucharist 1st Sunday 6.00 p.m. Peace & Wholeness with Holy Eucharist 4th Sunday every quarter 9.30 am Holy Eucharist from BPC Church Office: 26-953044 Fax: 26-952486 Email: anglicancofp@cytanet.com.cy for directions to each church

St Helena’s Anglican Church, Larnaca St Helena’s Court, Grigoris Afx Sunday Service: Holy Communion 9.30 am ALL WELCOME Tel:24651327 ofﬁce@sainthelenas.com

International EVANGELICAL CHURCH (Reformed) Limassol 352 St. Andrew’s Street (1½ blocks from Starbucks/Fat Boy) Sunday worship 10:30am Wednesday Bible Discussion 7pm For info: 99384742 ALL ARE WELCOME

Tuesday, July 17, 2012 CYPRUS MAIL

Television CYBC 1

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ANTENNA

08.00 Concert 09.30 Chef Ston Aera (rpt) 10.00 Reload Summer 12.00 Istories Tou Horkou (rpt) 13.00 Apo Mera Se Mera 15.30 Syn Plyn Local talk-show with studio discussion and viewers calling in. 17.00 Global Ideas (rpt) 17.30 Entehnos 18.00 News 18.15 Candid Camera 18.30 Kati Psinetai (rpt) Greek version of the show where contestants try to outdo each other by throwing the perfect dinner party, which is then judged on its merits by their rivals. 19.20 Paizoume Kypriaka Repeat of local game show, asking questions having to do with Cypriot dialect. 20.00 News / Weather/ Financial Report 21.00 Vimata Stin Ammo (rpt) 21.35 I Limni (rpt) Two episodes of local mystery series. 22.00 Oi Mahes Ton Ellinon Documentary series on 20thcentury Greek history focusing on the battles (both military and ideological) that shaped modern day Greece. 23.00 Oi Erasters Ton Kimaton (rpt) 23.30 News 23.45 Repeats

08.00 Kids’ TV 16.30 My Wife And Kids (rpt) 17.00 Reload Summer (rpt) 18.00 Kyprion Nostos (rpt) 18.50 News In English 19.00 News In Turkish 19.10 Megastructures 20.00 NRG Music Channel 21.00 Desperate Housewives (rpt) Two episodes from the ﬁfth season, starting with ‘Everybody Says Don’t’. Part one of two. Susan accepts Dave’s seemingly friendly gesture, while Gabrielle bumps into an old acquaintance who has lost everything. Lynette rails at Tom over his latest idea and Orson threatens to blackmail Bree. Followed by ‘If It’s Only in Your Head’. Part two of two. Susan and MJ’s lives are put in grave danger at the hands of Dave and Lynette adapts to Tom’s decision to go back to school. Last in series. 22.30 Criminal Minds (rpt) Fifth season of crime drama. ‘The Uncanny Valley’. An unusual personal obsession comes to the fore as the BAU investigates an abduction case. Meanwhile, Hotchner struggles with his return to work. 23.15 Mythical Beaches Of The 60s (rpt) 00.05 Repeats

05.00 Vale Antenna (rpt) 06.30 Proini Enimerosi 07.00 Tis Ellados Ta Paidia (rpt) 07.30 Oi Men Kai Oi Den (rpt) 08.35 Fast Money (rpt) 09.20 To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) 10.10 To Evdomo Kleidi (rpt) 10.50 Deixe Mou To Filo Sou (rpt) 11.35 Santa Yiolanta (rpt) Local comedy series. 12.20 Tin Patisa (rpt) 13.00 News 13.15 Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) 14.10 Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) 15.20 To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) 16.10 Vale Antenna 17.40 Tha Vreis To Daskalo Sou (rpt) With News at 18.00. 18.40 Santa Yiolanta (rpt) 19.30 Eva Luna Latin American telenovela. 20.20 News 21.20 Tin Patisa (rpt) 22.10 Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) Smash-hit local comedy series, with village setting. 23.00 Enopion Tou Laou 23.50 News 00.10 Ekeines Ki Ego (rpt) 01.00 Kai Oi Pantremenoi Ehoun Psihi 01.50 Athoos I Enohos (rpt) 02.45 News 03.50 Skertsakia (rpt) 04.20 Fili Zois (rpt)

MEGA 06.00 Paralliloi Dromoi (rpt) 06.50 Nea Mera 10.00 Proino Mou 12.00 Yia Banaki 15.00 I Dada (rpt) Greek comedy series, based on the popular US sitcom. 16.10 I Ora I Kali (rpt) 17.40 Mia Stigmi Dio Zoes Greek drama series, based on the Latin American telenovela about mistaken identities. 18.20 News 18.30 Mousiko Kouti Greek game show, testing contestants on their music knowledge. 19.20 Peninta Peninta (rpt) Greek comedy series. 20.10 News 21.20 Kliniki Periptosi (rpt) Greek comedy drama series, about a surgeon who is forced to retrain as a GP and takes up a post in a sleepy village where he soon ﬁnds himself at odds with the locals. 22.20 I Zoi Pou Den Ezisa (rpt) 23.20 Singles (rpt) 00.00 News 00.10 The Shield Police drama series chronicling the turbulent day-today life of the Strike Team, a group of corrupt Los Angeles cops. 01.10 Yia Banaki (rpt) 04.15 Proino Mou (rpt)

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PLUS TV

06.10 The Del Monte Heirs (rpt) 07.00 Protoselido 08.00 Kalimera 10.20 Vourate Geitonoi (rpt) 11.00 I Kouzina Tis Mamas (rpt) 12.00 Mesimeri Kai Kati 14.00 Eleni 16.40 Baywatch (rpt) Glossy surfside drama with the Malibu lifeguards. 17.30 Pame Paketo (rpt) Greek popular talk-show now in its fourth year, that deals with human interest stories such as reuniting people. With News at 18.00.

07.45 Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of 09.15 Kids’ TV 11.50 Diet ... Please 12.30 Thema Gevsis 13.30 Star News 14.15 Kids’ TV 16.15 Exelixeis Stin Showbiz 16.45 Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of (rpt) 17.50 Mila Best Of (rpt) 18.50 Nistikoi Praktores (rpt) 19.40 Fotis Maria Live Best Of (rpt) 21.10 Exelixeis Stin Showbiz 22.00 The Forgotten Crime drama about a group of civilians, who identify and solve crimes and missing persons. ‘Prisoner Jane’. An investigation into a woman found strangled in a warehouse leads Alex and the team to a man who may have been falsely imprisoned for her murder. 22.45 Supernatural (rpt) Fourth season. ‘The Monster at the End of This Book’. Sam and Dean are shocked to discover a series of comics titled Supernatural that accurately detail their lives as demon hunters. They track down the writer who explains he has visions of the brothers that he then turns into the strips, and he reveals that Lilith is coming. 23.30 LTV Sports News 00.30 Star News 01.00 Repeats

18.30 Tropico 19.30 The Del Monte Heirs 20.20 News 21.20 Irthe Ki Edese 22.10 To Kokkino Domatio 23.20 Sex And The City (rpt) First season. ‘The Power of Female Sex’. Carrie is appalled when her date gives her money after they sleep together, and Charlotte models for a famous painter. Meanwhile, Skipper becomes obsessed with Miranda. 23.50 News 23.55 Se Eida (rpt) 01.20 Istories Tou Astinomou Beka (rpt) 02.00 Allou Ximeromenoi (rpt) 02.40 Otan Megaloso (rpt) 03.20 Eleni (rpt) 05.20 Tropico (rpt)

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Kids’ TV Call Of The Wild Deste Tous Greek FILM: I Valitsa Tou Papa Mila Mou Prasina FILM: Choosing Matthias A couple’s marriage teeters on the verge of collapse after their child disappears without trace, leaving them battling to salvage their love. Emotional drama, starring Jeff Foley. 2001. O Anthropos Tis Thalassas Latin American telenovela. Melrose Place With News at 18.30. News Sports Time Rubi FILM: Terror Peak Thriller, starring Lynda Carter. 2003. See Film Picks. FILM: Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever A former FBI agent races against time to thwart a criminal mastermind who has developed a lethal new weapon. Action thriller, starring Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu. 2002. FILM: The Philadelphia Experiment A botched wartime Navy experiment sends two surprised sailors time-travelling into the future. Adventure, starring Michael Paré and Bobby DiCicco. 1984.

Radio BBC World Service (1323 MW) 00:01 BBC News 00:06 HARDtalk 00:30 BBC News Summary 00:32 Discovery 00:50 From Our Own Correspondent 01:01 BBC News 01:06 World Briefing 01:30 BBC News Summary 01:32 World Business Report 01:50 Sports News 02:01 BBC News 02:06 World Briefing 02:30 BBC News Summary 02:32 Business Daily 02:50 Sports News 03:01 BBC News 03:06 World Briefing 03:30 BBC News Summary 03:32 World Business Report 03:50 Witness 04:01 BBC News 04:06 The Documentary: It Started With A Tweet 04:30 BBC News Summary 04:32 Outlook 05:01 BBC News 05:06 The World Today 05:30 BBC News Summary 05:32 The World Today 06:01 BBC News 06:06 The World Today 06:30 BBC News Summary 06:32 Discovery 06:50 From Our Own Correspondent 07:01 BBC News 07:06 The World Today 07:30 BBC News Summary 07:32 The World Today 08:01 BBC News 08:06 The World Today 08:30 BBC News Summary 08:32 The Strand 08:50 Witness 09:01 BBC News 09:06 The World Today 09:30 BBC News Summary 09:32 The World Today 10:01 BBC News 10:06 Outlook 10:30 BBC News Summary 10:32 Business Daily 10:50 From Our Own Correspondent 11:01 BBC News 11:06 The Documentary: It Started With A Tweet 11:30 BBC News Summary 11:32 Discovery 11:50 Sports News 12:01 BBC News 12:06 World Update 12:30 BBC News Summary 12:32 World Update 13:01 BBC News 13:06 World Briefing 13:30 BBC News Summary 13:32

The Strand 13:50 Witness 14:01 BBC News 14:06 World Have Your Say 14:30 BBC News Summary 14:32 Business Daily 14:50 Sports News 15:01 BBC News 15:06 Newshour 15:30 BBC News Summary 15:32 Newshour 16:01 BBC News 16:06 The Documentary: It Started With A Tweet 16:30 BBC News Summary 16:32 Outlook 17:01 BBC News 17:06 World Briefing 17:30 BBC News Summary 17:32 Discovery 17:50 From Our Own Correspondent 18:01 BBC News 18:06 World Briefing 18:30 BBC News Summary 18:32 Sport Today 18:50 Witness 19:01 BBC News 19:06 World Briefing 19:30 BBC News Summary 19:32 World Business Report 20:01 BBC News 20:06 World Have Your Say 20:30 BBC News Summary 20:32 World Have Your Say 21:01 BBC News 21:06 World Briefing 21:30 BBC News Summary 21:32 Business Daily 21:50 From Our Own Correspondent 22:01 BBC News 22:06 Outlook 22:30 BBC News Summary 22:32 The Strand 22:50 Witness 23:01 BBC News 23:06 Newshour 23:30 BBC News Summary 23:32 Newshour

BFBS 1 (N’sia 91.7, WSBA 92.1, ESBA 99.6 FM) 02.00 The Vibe 04.00 BFBS Shufﬂe 05.00 Ops Breakfast 06.00 Cyprus Breakfast with Mark Humphries 09.00 Chris Pearson 11.00 Neil Skinner 13.00 Total Ops Connection 15.00 Wez Thompson 18.00 Charlene Guy 21.00 Jessie Aru 00.00 The Vault

BFBS 2 (Ni’sia 89.7, WSBA 89.9, ESBA 95.3 FM) 03.00 BFBS Radio News 03.03 BFBS Gold With Dave Windsor 04.00 Up All Night 07.00 Morning Reports 07.30 Wake Up To Money 08.00 Today 11.00 BFBS Radio News 11.00 Simon Marlow 14.00 BFBS Gold With Dave Windsor 15.00 World At One 15.45 Afternoon Show 19.00 PM 20.00 6 O’Clock News 20.30 Five Live Drive 21.00 Five Live Sport 00.30 Late Night Live

LiveCyBC2 (91.1, 92.4 FM) 06.00-7.30 Programmes in Turkish with News at 7.30 07.40 Good morning Cyprus 10.00-12.00 Kalimerhaba 12.00 Gunortasa 12.45 Greek Cyprus Press 13.00 Turkish Music 13.15 News in Turkish 13.30 News in English 13.45 PM Classics 16.00 Greek Radio 16.15 Our country doesn’t divide 16.50 News in Turkish 17.00-18.00 Programmes in Armenian; News at 17.15 18.00-20.00 Round & About 20.00 News in English 20.10 Welcome to Cyprus in French and German 20.40 Ship of Fools with Robert Camassa 22.00 News in English 22.00 International Music 00.00-06.00 Rebroadcast of the evening’s programme

Radio Napa (106.3 FM) 06.00 Morning Music 08.30 BBC World Today 09.00 News, Weather and Exchange 09.05 Nathan Morley 12.00 BBC News 12.06 Lunch-

time Classics 15.00 BBC News 15.06 Chris Yearley 18.00 News 18.06 Michael Godin 19.00 The Juke Box

98.5 Rock FM The Breakfast Show - Tony Newell - 07:00-10:00 2 Hours With Bejay Browne 10:00-12:00 Rock Fm’s Lunch Box - Jason Collins - 12:00-14:00 Non Stop Music 14:00-15:00 Valentina 15:00-18:00 Monday - Tuesday - Thursday - Friday Liquid Radio Show - Pavlos - 15:00-18:00 Wednesday Drive Time - Johny G. 18:00-20:00 Monday - Tuesday Johny G. 18:00-20:00 Wednesday (Mix @ 6) The Cocktail Show - Antonis - 18:00-20:00 Thursday - Friday Panic In The Year Zero - 20:00-22:00 Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday Radioactive Metal - 20:00-22:00 - Thursday Live Dj Set- Dj Allen D 20:00-22:00 - Friday 22:00-24:00 The Gathering - With Your Hosts Dj Mr Smith And Mc Svennyb – Live Wednesday & Friday Night Train 24:00-07:00 Monday To Friday Oldies Digital

(Hotbird SAT / (www.oldies-digital.com)

MONDAY-FRIDAY 05:00 That Was The Year 06:00 Easy Going Gold 10:00 The Juke Box 17:00 That Was The Year 18:00 Oldies Overnights - Hear the greatest hits of all time playing non stop during the darkest hours.

CYPRUS MAIL Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Television PICK OF THE DAY Cyberbully (Novacinema1, 23.00) It’s official: the internet is full of dangers, and Our Children’s lives can be ruined by all the pervs and cyber-bullies they will find there. It must be true because made-for-TV movies say so and they’ve always been a popular oracle when it comes to hot social issues, especially regarding Our Children (20 years ago they were doing domestic violence and sexual abuse). Indeed, the epidemic of online predators is matched only by the rash of films about said predators: two weeks ago LTV screened Sexting in Suburbia (also known as Shattered Silence), a tale of sexts gone wrong and sexters upsetting sextees, next week comes Trust on Novacinema though that’s actually not a made-for-TV movie at all, but a slick Hollywood production starring Clive Owen. In between we have Cyberbully - very much a madefor-TV movie (made for ABC Family) starring Emily Osment, better known as Hannah’s BFF on Hannah Montana. This is apparently a very bad film, but still perversely fascinating for the way it treats a hotbutton issue with all the subtlety of an episode of iCarly. Emily plays Taylor, a nice girl who gets

a new laptop for her birthday and signs up to a Facebook-like site (just like Our Daughters!) only to find things going wrong. Her account is hacked, and her status changed; she’s harassed and cyber-bullied; people call her names, spread lies and say mean things about her, to the point where she contemplates suicide. In fact (spoiler!) she does try to commit suicide with an overdose of pills, but (spoiler!) can’t get the cap off the bottle. Seriously? Yes, seriously. Cyberbully “is a great jumping-off point for talking to teens about the very real dangers that exist online,” says a rather earnest site called Common Sense Media - and they may be right, insofar as the film does contain all the issues you might want to talk about with your child (albeit not at midnight, which is when Nova are showing it). Clearly, the problem exists; clearly, young people get verbally attacked and called horrible names online, and sometimes harm themselves as a result - but does it have to be shown so simplistically? Our Children will snigger and scoff, and what good does that do? Made for TV in 2011,

Preston Wilder

FILM PICKS

SATELLITE

Hesher (LTV3, 20.00) Hesher (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, possibly the coolest American actor of his generation) is something of a misfit. He’s foul-mouthed and anti-social; he has long greasy hair, homemade tattoos and a ragged beard; he likes to smoke pot, walk around in his underwear and blow things up for fun. Understandably, Hesher lives alone - at least till he meets TJ, a depressed boy trying to deal with the death of his mother, and decides to move in uninvited with TJ and his equally depressed father. You know what’s coming next - grungy ‘free spirit’ turns out to be a good influence on troubled child - and the fi lm was generally seen as a maudlin low point in JGL’s impeccably cool career but it still sounds intriguing, especially if you like edgy non-Hollywood dramas with lots of swearing but a basically soft centre. Line to Quote: “Life is like walking in the rain. You can hide and take cover ... or you can just get wet”. Made in 2010.

The Country Girl (Nova Classics, 21.00) Oscar geeks like to talk about this one - because the Best Actress race was especially strong in 1954, including Judy Garland’s monumental performance in A Star is Born and Audrey Hepburn at her most enchanting as Sabrina, yet Grace Kelly won for her rather cold turn as Bing Crosby’s long-suffering wife in this stagy drama (it’s based on a play). Bing is an alcoholic actor, given a chance at a comeback by director William Holden but Crosby is weak and unreliable, and Holden believes (mistakenly) that Grace is to blame when in fact she’s doing her best in a bad situation. Lots of good talk, some of it sampled in Mika’s pop hit ‘Grace Kelly’; not the worthiest of Oscar wins, however. Made in 1954.

Desperado (Novacinema2, 22.00) “Bless me, Father, for I have just killed quite a few men.” God will understand - even the Catholic God they have down in Mexico - since, after all, they were bad men, and the killer is Antonio Banderas at his most effortlessly charming (Hollywood never quite figured out what a great comedian he is). This mid-90s action fl ick is a classic of sorts, director Robert Rodriguez remaking his own El Mariachi with a bigger budget and a bigger cast, not just Banderas but Salma Hayek and Joaquin De Almeida as heroine and baddie respectively. Antonio’s a mariachi (travelling musician) who comes to a lawless town bent on revenge, his target being drug lord De Almeida; the result isn’t really a ‘good’ fi lm, just a series of stylish shoot-outs leavened with tough-guy talk à la Quentin Tarantino (QT himself appears in a cameo, telling a bad joke) - but it’s lots of fun, if your sense of humour runs to the preposterous. Made in 1995.

Less 04:00 Essential Killing

07:00 Karina: Wild On Safari 07:25 Weird Creatures With Nick Baker 08:15 Dick ‘N’ Dom Go Wild 08:40 Breed All About It 09:10 Baby Planet 10:05 Wild France 11:00 Wildlife Sos 11:25 Going Ape 11:55 Animal Cops Specials 12:50 Safari Vet School 13:45 Animal Precinct 14:40 Wild France 15:30 Karina: Wild On Safari 16:00 Dick ‘N’ Dom Go Wild 16:30 Growing Up... 17:25 Cats 101 18:20 Dogs/Cats/Pets 101 19:15 Wildlife Sos 19:40 Going Ape 20:10 Stranger Among Bears 20:35 In Too Deep 21:05 Wild France 22:00 Rescue Vet 22:55 World Wild Vet 23:50 Animal Cops Houston 00:45 I’m Alive 01:40 Untamed & Uncut 02:35 Rescue Vet 03:30 World Wild Vet 04:25 Wild France 05:20 Stranger Among Bears 05:45 In Too Deep 06:10 Safari Vet School

01:10 The Weakest Link 01:55 Coast 02:55 Eastenders 03:25 Doctors 03:55 Spooks 04:45 The Weakest Link 05:35 As Time Goes By 06:05 Fimbles 06:25 Tellytales 06:35 Little Prairie Dogs 06:45 Nina & The Neurons 07:00 Show Me Show Me 07:25 Boogie Beebies 07:40 Charlie & Lola 07:50 Fimbles 08:10 Tellytales 08:20 Little Prairie Dogs 08:30 Nina & The Neurons 08:45 Show Me Show Me 09:10 Boogie Beebies 09:25 Charlie & Lola 09:35 As Time Goes By 10:05 One Foot In The Grave 10:35 Dinnerladies 11:05 Eastenders 11:35 Doctors 12:05 Coast 13:05 Inspector Lynley Mysteries 13:50 As Time Goes By 14:20 One Foot In The Grave 14:50 The Weakest Link 15:35 Eastenders 16:05 Doctors 16:35 Coast 17:30 Inspector Lynley Mysteries 18:15 The Weakest Link 19:00 Eastenders 19:30 Doctors 20:00 Bleak House 20:30 Bleak House 21:00 After You’ve Gone 21:30 Gavin & Stacey 22:00 London Hospital 22:50 2 Point 4 Children 23:20 Lead Balloon 23:50 Life On Mars 00:40 Fawlty Towers

07:00 Fifth Gear 07:25 Dirty Jobs 08:15 Deadliest Catch 09:10 Extreme Fishing 10:05 Mythbusters 11:00 How Do They Do It? ; 11:30 Destroyed In Seconds 11:55 Ultimate Survival 12:50 Wheeler Dealers 13:45 Overhaulin’ 14:40 American Chopper 15:35 Dirty Jobs 16:30 Mythbusters 17:25 Deadliest Catch 18:20 Extreme Fishing 19:15 River Monsters 20:10 How It’s Made 20:40 How Do They Do It? ; 21:05 James May’s Man Lab 22:00 Mythbusters 22:55 Moments Of Terror 23:50 How To Command A Nuclear Submarine 00:45 Ultimate Survival 01:40 James May’s Man Lab 02:40 Moments Of Terror 03:40 How To Command A Nuclear Submarine 04:40 Ultimate Survival 05:35 How It’s Made 06:00 Overhaulin’

09:30 Fitness: The Box 09:45 Cycling: Tour De France 11:00 Snooker: Australian Goldfields Open Brazil 13:00 Cycling: Tour De France 14:00 Athletics: World Junior Championships Spain 15:30 Football: Uefa European Under-19 Championship Estonia 17:00 Snooker: Australian Goldfields Open Brazil 19:00 Athletics: World Junior Championships Spain 20:30 Athletics: Eaa Meetings Lucerne 22:30 Boxing: Ibf Title-Super Middle Weight Contest 00:00 Car Racing: World Series By Renault Russia 00:30 Rally Raid: Silk Way 00:45 Athletics: Eaa Meetings Lucerne 01:45 Snooker: Australian Goldfields Open Brazil

06:25 XXX 08:30 Cine News 09:00 Summer Kids Zone 10:45 Sto Ksespasma Tou Feggariou 12:25 Just Married 14:05 California Suite 15:50 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps 18:05 Stars In Style 18:40 Inspector Gadget 20:05 Love And Other Drugs 22:00 Desperado 23:45 Sliver 01:35 Return To Paradise

19:35 Burn Notice 20:25 Ziteitai Pseftis 22:00 C.S.I. 22:50 Resident Evil: Afterlife 00:35 Cine News 01:30 Adult Zone

19:25 A Family Thanksgiving 21:00 The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader 22:55 Somewhere 00:35 Sin Ella

21:00 The Country Girl 22:45 We’re No Angels

Paul (Novacinema1, 20.10)

05:30 Long Way Round 06:15 Family Guy 07:05 No Ordinary Family 07:50 How I Met Your Mother 08:40 White Collar 09:25 Criminal Minds 10:10 Long Way Round 10:55 Family Guy 11:45 No Ordinary Family 12:30 How I Met Your Mother 13:20 White Collar 14:05 Criminal Minds 14:50 The Glades 15:35 Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior 16:20 Long Way Round 17:05 Family Guy 17:55 No Ordinary Family 18:40 How I Met Your Mother 19:30 White Collar 20:15 Criminal Minds 21:00 The Glades 21:45 Sons Of Anarchy 22:30 White Collar 23:20 The Glades 00:05 Sons Of Anarchy 00:50 Long Way Round 01:40 Family Guy 02:30 No Ordinary Family 03:20 The Goode Family 03:45 How I Met Your Mother 04:35 White Collar

07:00 Pawn Stars 08:00 The Universe 09:00 Patton 360 10:00 Pawn Stars 11:00 Ax Men 12:00 Irt: Deadliest Roads 13:00 Pawn Stars 13:30 American Restoration 14:00 Patton 360 15:00 The Universe 16:00 Irt: Deadliest Roads 17:00 Pawn Stars 17:30 American Restoration 18:00 Patton 360 19:00 The Universe 20:00 Pawn Stars 21:00 Ax Men 22:00 Storage Wars 23:00 No County For Old Men 00:00 Pawn Stars 01:00 Ax Men 02:00 Storage Wars 03:00 No County For Old Men 04:00 The Universe 05:00 Patton 360 06:00 Ax Men

07:30 Love Affair 09:30 Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls Of Ga’hoole 11:30 Notorious 13:40 Videofashion 14:15 500 Days Of Summer 16:00 Friends 17:00 Il Ciclone 19:00 Action Zone 19:30 Entourage 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 C.S.I. Miami 23:00 Love & Dance 00:40 Hustler TV 02:45 Dummy 04:15 Brideshead Revisited 06:30 LTV Sports News

Hesher (LTV3, 20.00) 07:00 Baby Looney Tunes 07:25 Steven

Spielberg Presents Animaniacs 08:15 Steven Spielberg Presents Tiny Toon Adventures 08:40 Loonatics Unleashed I 09:05 ScoobyDoo Where Are You! 09:30 Superman: The Animated Series 09:55 Big Cartoonie Show Nickelodeon 10:20 Tak & The Power Of Juju 10:45 Fanboy & Chum Chum 11:10 X’s 11:35 Ni Hao, Kai-Lan 12:00 Dora The Explorer 12:25 Spongebob Squarepants 13:15 Mighty B! 13:40 My Life As A Teenage Robot 14:05 Hey Arnold! 14:30 Icarly 15:20 Road Runner Show 17:00 Momentum: What Drives You 17:30 Barclays Premier League World 18:00 Rugby World Cup Winners 19:00 Nascar Sprint Cup Series 22:00 Pba All-Star Shootout 22:30 Irc 2012: San Marino 23:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Barclay’s Premier League 01:00 Pba World Championship 02:30 Pba All-Star Shootout 03:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Primera Division 05:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Bundesliga

07:15 V I 08:00 Friends 08:30 The Mentalist 10:00 The Ofﬁce 10:25 House M.D. 11:10 Boardwalk Empire 13:05 Supernatural 13:50 V I 14:35 The Mentalist 16:05 Two And A Half Men 16:30 Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles 17:15 Chuck 18:45 Supernatural 19:30 Grey’s Anatomy 20:15 According To Jim 21:00 The Big Bang Theory 21:30 Sons Of Anarchy 23:20 Desperate Housewives 00:05 Redemption 01:50 Klute 03:45 Two And A Half Men 04:15 Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles 05:00 Chuck 06:30 Grey’s Anatomy

07:40 Love Guru 09:15 Funny Bones 11:30 Oscar 13:30 Education N 15:30 Slammin’ Salmon 17:15 Cheyenne Autumn 20:00 Hesher 22:00 Boxer (2009) 00:05 Daring! TV 04:10 Kiss The Girls 06:10 Dragonslayer

05:25 Priest 06:55 Manolete 08:40 The Conquest 10:35 Films & Stars 11:10 Rango 13:00 Cine News 15:55 Bright Star 18:00 The Hit List 19:35 Hollywood 1 on 1 20:10 Paul 22:00 Magic City 23:00 Cyberbully 00:35 Something Borrowed 02:35 30 Minutes Or

02:00 MLB: Cleveland Indians at Tampa Bay Rays 05:00 PGA Tou Highlights John Deere Classic 06:00 Nationwide Tour Highlights Utah Championship Presented by Utah Sports Commission 07:00 Morning Dive 08:00 The Haney Project Ray Romano: Cash Cat 08:30 The Haney Project Ray Romano: Halfway Thee 09:00 Golf Central International From The Open Championship 10:00 MLB: Cleveland Indians at Tampa Bay Rays 13:00 Lucas Oil on the Edge Super Jet Boats 13:30 Lucas Oil on the Edge Jet Boats 14:00 Sports Unlimited 15:00 PGA Tour Highlights John Deere Classic 16:00 Nationwide Tour Highlights Utah Championship Presented by Utah Sports Commission 17:00 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Iowa Speedway 20:00 PRE GAME 20:15 CHAMPIONSHIP LAIKI POPULAR BANK 2011–12: APOLLON VS NEA SALAMINA 22:15 POST GAME 23:00 Lucas Oil on the Edge Super Jet Boats 23:30 Lucas Oil on the Edge Jet Boats 00:00 Sports Unlimited 01:00 Mobil 1 The Grid

07:00 Globe Trekker 08:00 Departures 09:00 Think Green 10:00 Opening Soon 11:00 The Thirsty Traveler 11:30 Floyd On Africa 12:00 Globe Trekker 13:00 Planet Sports 14:00 Megalopolis 15:00 Globe Trekker 17:00 The Thirsty Traveler 17:30 Floyd On Africa 18:00 Opening Soon 19:00 Globe Trekker 20:00 Planet Food 21:00 Flavours Of Spain 22:00 Wild Camping 23:00 Globe Trekker 00:00 Planet Sports 01:00 Planet Food 02:00 Flavours Of Spain 03:00 Wild Camping 04:00 Globe Trekker 05:00 Opening Soon 06:00 The Thirsty Traveler 06:30 Floyd On Africa

06:00 Catlow 07:40 The Hucksters 09:35 The Prisoner Of Zenda 11:15 Saratoga 12:55 V:I:P:S, The 15:00 Blackboard Jungle 16:45 The Last Time I Saw Paris 18:45 Little Women 21:00 Sitting Target 22:35 Clash Of The Titans 00:35 The Outﬁt 02:20 Whose Life Is It Anyway? 04:20 The Letter

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CRYPTIC 2136

6 PREVIOUS DAY’S SOLUTIONS

Across

8 3 Get Edward into regular order (9) 7 In port a boor was not allowed to enter (5) 8 Oust about one petitioner (9) 9 Without right, guarantee to 10 across (5) 10 What dog might do after my leader (6) 13 Any having disturbed rest in the West Country? (8) 15 Email Ted rewrote about interval before goods are delivered (4-4) 17 Get a new gold finish on the cake (6) 20 Stage for landing on the shore? (5) 21 But this might be where musicians sit for a concert (9) 22 Both sides took food in afterwards (5) 23 Mother pictured on computer? (9)

9 10 13

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HOW TO PLAY: Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1-9. There’s no maths involved, you solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic. With the ‘X’ sudoku, the shaded X must also contain the numbers 1-9.

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21 22 23 11 Giant list removed by people in court (9) 12 River crossing Irish county (9) 14 Speak indistinctly — scatter ink on paper (8)

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16 Idle sort of waddle (6) 18 In the bag a mangy lizard! (5) 19 Stop working sideways (3-2)

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QUICK: Across – 1 Jam session; 8 Fax; 9 Inaugural; 10 Adagio; 11 Nymph; 13 Quoted; 15 Bang on; 17 Album; 18 Aslant; 21 Oversight; 22 Too; 23 Kettledrum. Down – 1 Jiff; 2 Mixed doubles; 3 Eying; 4 Shadow; 5 Organza; 6 Primogenitor; 7 Old hand; 12 Squalor; 14 En masse; 16 Caught; 19 Lathe; 20 Zoom.

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CRYPTIC: Across – 1 Trashiness; 8 Gas; 9 Palladium; 10 Clotho; 11 Dealt; 13 Ratify; 15 Blotto; 17 Fuzzy; 18 Delved; 21 Scrivener; 22 Ore; 23 Prospectus. Down – 1 Toga; 2 Absolute zero; 3 Hop it; 4 Nelson; 5 Scandal; 6 Pip at the post; 7 Emotion; 12 Profuse; 14 Flyover; 16 Adonis; 19 Large; 20 Less.

Rating MEDIUM

Answers to crossword 2135 1 Putting weight on! (9) 2 Belittling one room below ground (9) 3 Exhibitionist rose up angrily (6) 4 Face up to another at 4 o’clock (3,2,3) 5 Out of sorts under the doctor! What a bore! (5) 6 Ronald to perform musical work (5)

QUICK Across

HOROSCOPE

3 Ottoman Empire (9) 7 Elf (5) 8 Vain hope (4-5) 9 Old measure (5) 10 Egg dish (6) 13 Prediction (8) 15 Country in Gulliver’s Travels (8) 17 Vied at (anag.) (6) 20 Din (5) 21 Waterproof sheet (9) 22 Lady’s name (5) 23 Be suspicious (5,1,3)

Down 1 Identiﬁed precisely (9) 2 In high spirits (9) 3 Putrid (6) 4 Abstinent (8) 5 Courage (5) 6 Cater (anag.) (5) 11 Illumination (9) 12 It spreads sleeping sickness (6,3) 14 Praise the Lord (8) 16 Finch (6) 18 Warning (5) 19 Force (5)

ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

No-one as energetic as you should have their ﬁres quenched - but you do have options. Part of the trick is to accept that there may be some lows, but not be too deﬂected by these. If you are keen to widen your aims, promote a cause or generally scoop possibilities, keep focused on the prize. Above all, avoid people politics, where at all possible.

It could be worthwhile reaching out to the people or connections that you sense will be on your wavelength. Mercury in your sign, may be faltering, but Venus provides a soothing balm, and by taking responsibility, and the lead where needed, some good things can evolve. Just accept that there are some people who will never embrace your specialness.

Something important or innovative can orbit your thoughts. But you could also be more impulsive than usual at this time, which can be less helpful - if you plump for a course that you haven’t sufﬁciently thought through. Look to see how you can build co-operation with others. As much as you like to do your own thing, it’s a case of strength in numbers.

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

The planetary message today encourages care and patience. You could easily fall prey to a misunderstanding or misread someone’s intentions. Strangely, the more determined you are, even if well meant, could let you down. Keep some of your aces up your sleeve and play a waiting game. Opposition could be strong, so be tactful and you should pull through.

Tackle whatever needs deﬁnition, or take stronger action with a touch of subtlety. Yet you need to stay in tune with the mood music. In other words, don’t permit any heavy or mischievous opposition to pin you down. Turbulence there may be, but it’s a great day for negotiating or persuading with a light touch. At the same time, be strong on time wasters.

Go all out for common sense - in other words, get things on a calm and equal footing. Today’s planetary pattern is not on the side of disputes. Keep controversy or anything which could turn volcanic on the back burner. A back to basics, warm-hearted and understanding attitude will help you make a lot more progress. Your pragmatism is your Ace.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

Your mind is so quick you are often ahead of the pack. However, it would be wishful thinking to believe you can achieve everything today. Try not to make any choices in a hurry. You could easily lose your way and put yourself at odds with other people’s plans. Instead, seek advice and guidance from your closest friends. It can be instructive Gemini.

This can, potentially, be a toxic phase for unexpected events. You’re pretty much free to push some successful thrusts, but equally don’t lose sight of your famous love of balance. Fairness and equal measures all round, might not entirely ﬁght off tests, but at least you won’t come out empty handed. Resist over-conﬁdence, and keep the dialogue going.

Might you be your own worst enemy? For a number of reasons lots of good things are on the horizon, some of which are promising an array of creative or business advantages. The trouble is, you might push for too much too soon. Stubborn, you? Surely not. All this may sound gloomy. It isn’t. Windfalls come from your own psychological insights.

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

You might need to adjust to things as you go along today Cancer. If anything comes up which doesn’t make immediate sense, avoid further confusion by adjusting your pace and just letting things be. This is also a day when you might ﬁnd yourself needing to hear others out. With Pluto dominant, it may feel like you are being browbeaten somewhat.

If you are by nature a combative Scorpio, the next few days could all get worse if you are overly keen to do battle. However cross you feel, adopt a gentler strategy of thinking twice before you act. If you can, soon you can use your drive to do deals, and other constructive things. But if you welcome a battle of wills, you might encounter a tough opponent.

It might prove tough to maintain your Piscean poise when personal irritations are lapping at your being. But see it like this...it can be a great day for negotiating with a view to meeting others half way. As long as you are willing to eat a slice, but only a small piece, of humble pie, you’ll beneﬁt in more ways than one. Now then, where’s your cake slice?

CYPRUS MAIL Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Sport Cyprus basketball teams learn European fate

Hamilton hints at resolving future soon

By Nemanja Bjedov

LEWIS Hamilton has dropped a broad hint he could ﬁnally resolve his future with McLaren during Formula One’s forthcoming summer break. With Hamilton out of contract at the end of the year, speculation continues to surround the 27-year-old, who has unsurprisingly been linked with all of his rivals over the past few months. Hamilton, represented by Simon Fuller’s XIX Entertainment, has so far resisted entering into any negotiations, preferring instead to focus on the current ﬁght for the title. Hamilton even suggested just over a month ago he may wait until the end of the year before looking at his options. But it now appears as if Hamilton will instead try to thrash out a new deal next month once the next two grands prix in Germany and Hungary are out of the way. Speaking to Russian sports agency R-Sport during an event in Moscow over the weekend, Hamilton said: “We haven’t sat down and discussed anything yet. “But I’m sure over the summer break, when we have the summer break, it would be nice to get something in place. “That would be a time when we can be more relaxed and make the most sensible decision for the future.” All roads appear to lead to another contract with McLaren, bearing in mind Mark Webber last week committed himself to Red Bull for 2013. It is highly unlikely Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso would wish to be partnered by Hamilton again after their destructive relationship at McLaren in 2007, although they are much more amicable towards one another these days. With Mercedes and Michael Schumacher poised to remain together for another year, it leaves Lotus as an unlikely long-shot should Hamilton opt to leave McLaren.

IN BRIEF

ETHA Engomi, Keravnos Strovolos and Apollon Limassol learned their European fate last week, as the draws for both the qualifying round and regular season of the FIBA EuroChallenge were made in the German city of Freising. The regular season tips off on November 6 and will feature 32 clubs, divided into eight groups of four teams each. Twenty-eight teams were drawn directly into the regular season groups, while four others will emerge following the qualifying round, which features eight clubs in total who will battle over two legs. Cypriot champions ETHA Engomi are in Group A, alongside KK Krka Novo Mesto of Slovenia, Turkish side Pinar Karsiyaka and the winner of the qualifying tie between another Turkish team Tofas SC Bursa and Estonians Rakvere Tarves. Keravnos Strovolos could also face a Turkish club in Group B as Aliaga Petkim will try to fight their way into the regular season through the qualifying matchup with Finnish team Joensuun Kataja. The Cypriot cup winners are also due to visit Russia and Romania as they face Krasnye Krylia and Asesoft Ploesti respectively. Limassol outfit Apollon will play in the qualifiers against Xion Dukes of Austria, with the first game scheduled for September 25 in Klosterneuburg and the return leg a week later in Cyprus. If they manage to overcome the Austrians they would then be included in Group D, together with Ukrainians Khimik Yuzhny, University Tartu of Estonia and French side JDA Dijon. The EuroChallenge Final Four will take place in the home venue of one of the four participants in late April. The exact location will be decided by FIBA after the conclusion of the competition play-offs.

Haye disposed of fellow Briton Chisora in ﬁve action-packed rounds at Upton Park on Saturday night

David Haye unlikely to take on Vitaly Klitschko By Duncan Bech DAVID Haye’s hopes of facing Vitali Klitschko appear remote after the Ukrainian’s manager declared the heavyweight super fight will probably never happen. Haye repeated his desire to meet Klitschko after disposing of Dereck Chisora in five action-packed rounds at Upton Park on Saturday night. But WBC world heavyweight champion Klitschko is likely to enter politics after clashing with Manuel Charr in Moscow on September 8. “We offered Haye the fight in September but he chose to fight Chisora instead because that was easier for him,” said Bernd Boente, Klitschko’s manager.

Ukrainian’s manager says the heavyweight super fight will probably never happen “David probably turned Vitali down because he got more money against Chisora, who is by far the easier opponent. “We had a contract ready for Haye, had booked an arena, but he turned us down for a second time - the ﬁrst time he chose to face Nikolay Valuev instead. “After ﬁghting Manuel Charr, Vitali goes on the campaign trail for parliamentary election in the Ukraine. He’s the leader for

the opposition, UDAR. “Should he be elected on October 28 then he will probably stop boxing. For him politics is the future - he wants to fight for democracy. “But even if he’s elected, maybe he’ll want to have a farewell fight. “At the moment David Haye means nothing to us and Vitali is definitely not afraid of fighting him.” Haye fears his explosive demolition of Chisora was

“too good”, convincing Klitschko that he should be avoided. “Vitali doesn’t want to fight me. Look what I did against Chisora and look what he did against him,” Haye said. “Why would a 40-year-old man fight someone as young, fresh and powerful as me? It doesn’t make sense. “Vitali’s a politician and he’ll find a way to get out of the fight. “If you were one of his advisors, someone who has invested millions in him to become mayor of Kiev, would you tell him to fight me? “I know what I’d do if I was one of his advisors because I’m a very dangerous fighter, someone who’s proved his punching power against someone who pushed him to the wire.”

India are ready to resume Mitchell and Turner named cricketing ties with Pakistan in Wallabies training squad

Federer passes Sampras with ranking milestone

India are ready to renew bilateral cricketing ties with Pakistan after yesterday conﬁrming plans to invite their neighbours for a “short series” later this year. India, who last faced Pakistan in a series ﬁve years ago, said the clashes would be held in December and January. Following a meeting in Delhi yesterday, the Board of Control for Cricket in India stated: “It was decided to resume cricketing ties with Pakistan by inviting the Pakistan cricket team for a short series in December 2012January 2013. The modalities will be worked out shortly.” Pakistan last toured India in 2007 when they played three Tests.

ROGER Federer added another record to his collection yesterday when he began his 287th week as world number one. The 17-times grand slam winner returned to the top rank after a two-year absence by beating Britain’s Andy Murray at Wimbledon this year. The 30-year-old Swiss’s seventh title at the All England Club ensured he would equal and surpass Pete Sampras’ record of 286 weeks at the top of the rankings. “I am extremely proud and honoured to have beaten Pete’s record as he was my childhood hero and I have always looked up to him,” said Federer.

WINGERS Drew Mitchell and Lachie Turner have been included in Australia’s training squad as they prepare for the Rugby Championship. With the regular Super 15 season coming to an end last weekend, Wallabies coach Robbie Deans has named a provisional 27-man squad to assemble in Sydney for a three-day training camp between July 24 and 26. The squad - which will be supplemented by three players from the national rugby academy to be named at a later date - does not feature any Queensland Reds players, with the reigning Super 15 champions qualifying for the play-offs.

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Sport

Beckenbauer hits back at Blatter suggestions

Van Marwijk in no hurry to return to management BERT van Marwijk is in no hurry to return to football management following his resignation as Holland coach. The 60-year-old stepped down from the post last month as a result of Oranje’s dismal Euro 2012 campaign, in which they failed to win a single point during the group stage. Since then, Van Marwijk has been linked with several jobs in Holland and overseas, but he admits he is not ready to return just yet. “There have been interesting offers, both ﬁnancially and on a sporting level,” Van Marwijk told www.spitsnieuws.nl. “I have total freedom and no obligations, and right now I have no appetite. “Who knows? Maybe in

Dismisses FIFA chief’s comment about 2006 World Cup decision FRANZ Beckenbauer has hit back at suggestions by FIFA president Sepp Blatter that there was irregularity in the decision to award the 2006 World Cup to Germany. In an interview with Switzerland’s Blick newspaper on Sunday, Blatter suggested the vote for the host of the 2006 World Cup had not run smoothly and he suspected malpractice. However, Beckenbauer, who was head of the organising committee for that tournament, was unhappy with the comments. “I cannot understand the remarks and suggestions of Sepp Blatter,” he said. Blatter suggested the vote had been ﬁxed to favour Germany over his own preference of South Africa. Germany eventually won the right to host the tournament by 12 votes to 11, with New Zealand’s representative of the Oceania confederation abstaining. “When we talk about a World Cup being bought, I remember back to 2006 where, at the very last moment, somebody left the room and, instead of having a vote of 10-10, it ﬁnished 10-9 for Germany,” said Blatter. “I am pleased because I did not have to cast a deciding vote but for somebody to sud-

FOOTBALL IN BRIEF

a month I’ll go to work somewhere or maybe I’ll stop altogether. “No, I won’t do that, it is more likely I will go back to work. But I have no idea when and, in that respect, these are exciting times.”

Viola duo heading to Napoli Suspicious mind: FIFA President Sepp Blatter (left) hinted at malpractice over the vote for the host of the 2006 World Cup, which eventually went to Germany denly leave the room - maybe I was too kind or too naive at the time.” When asked if he presumed the vote had been ﬁxed, Blatter said: “I don’t presume anything, I am stating facts.” Those facts, according to Beckenbauer, are ﬂawed. “He has even got the result wrong,” he said in Germany’s Bild newspaper. “It was 12-11 and not 10-9. “And what was decisive was that the eight Europeans all united behind us and voted for us.” The president of Germany’s Football League, Dr Reinhard Rauball, has called for

Blatter to step down as a result of the ISL bribery scandal which has recently come to light, but Blatter has ruled that out. “It is nothing new that people want rid of me,” said the Swiss. “Sometimes it is the British media, then the American and then the German. “The truth is, Rauball called me last Friday and told me that I should resign. “I told him that it is not as easy as he imagines. The fact is, I have been elected by the congress. “No club will decide whether and when I leave.”

‘I cannot understand the remarks and suggestions of Sepp Blatter’

Fluminense striker Fred scores his ninth goal in 10 derbies in 1-1 draw with Botafogo BRAZIL striker Fred scored his ninth goal in 10 derbies for Fluminense against Botafogo although Sunday’s 1-1 draw favoured Atletico Mineiro who opened a three-point lead in the Brazilian championship. Mineiro have 22 points from nine matches after their impressive 4-3 victory at Figueirense on Saturday when they came from 3-1 down with three goals in 11 minutes in the second half. Fluminense, the only unbeaten team in the championship, went ahead when Fred scored with a header from a corner nine minutes after halftime at the Engenhao in Rio. Arch-rivals Botafogo have borne the brunt of Fred’s ﬁnishing for ‘Flu’ as he took his tally to 88 goals in 130 games since joining them in 2009. However, with new signing Clarence Seedorf watching from the stands while awaiting clearance to make his debut, Botafogo equalised in the 67th minute with a header from Andrezinho. Fluminense goalkeeper Diego Cavalieri denied Botafogo substitute Fellype

Gabriel a winner in the 75th minute when he saved brilliantly with his foot at pointblank range. Figueirense, with Uruguayan striker Sebastian Abreu making his debut, fell behind to an early Ronaldinho penalty before taking a 3-1 lead against Mineiro. Ronaldinho played a major part in Mineiro’s recovery as they notched their seventh win in nine matches. He crossed for central defender Leonardo Silva to head home in the 65th minute, then laid on midﬁelder Bernard’s equaliser six minutes later with a quickly taken free kick. Substitute Guilherme completed the turnaround with the winner in the 76th minute. Libertadores Cup winners Corinthians, playing at full strength in the league for only the second time since being crowned South American champions, beat promoted Nautico 2-1 with a brace from midﬁelder Danilo. Corinthians have eight points and managed to climb out of the relegation zone.

NAPOLI were set to complete the signings of Fiorentina pair Valon Behrami and Alessandro Gamberini yesterday. Both players have been granted permission by the Florence-based club to undergo a medical with Napoli before completing permanent transfers to the azzurri outﬁt. Behrami, a Swiss midﬁelder, joined Fiorentina in 2005 from Bologna. The 27-year-old is set to sign a three-year deal with the Partenopei side. Italian central defender Gamberini, meanwhile, is expected to put pen to paper on a contract that will keep him tied to Napoli until June 2016.

New signing Bradley is ‘delighted’ with Roma NEW signing Michael Bradley has described his move to Roma as a “once in a lifetime” opportunity. The 24-year-old midﬁelder completed his 3.75million euros transfer to the Eternal City from Chievo yesterday and has signed a four-year contract with the Giallorossi. “I am very happy to be able to play at Roma,” Bradley said to www.asromanews. it. “This chance only comes once in a lifetime. “This club believes in me and I have proved that I am worthy of wearing this shirt. “Now I want to show that

I can earn a starting place at Roma, that I’m a player who can help the team to do well and give my best. “I am really enthusiastic and looking forward to working with (Roma coach Zdenek) Zeman, who is one of the best coaches in Italy.” The USA international attracted the attention of several clubs after an impressive debut season in Serie A. Bradley, who has won 69 caps for his country, joined Chievo last summer from Borussia Monchengladbach and made 31 league appearances for the Serie A

Ibrahimovic move delayed

Fred scored with a secondhalf header from corner

ZLATAN Ibrahimovic’s move to Paris St Germain would not be completed yesterday, according to club sporting director Leonardo. The AC Milan striker is in talks with the Ligue 1 giants over a possible move to the Parc des Princes this summer. “We continue to hold talks with Zlatan,” Leonardo told Gazzetta dello Sport. “The negotiations are going forward but I can assure you that today we have no meetings scheduled.” AC Milan have accepted PSG’s reported offer of 65million euros (just over £51million) for Ibrahimovic and Brazil defender Thiago Silva.

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Sport

Fabio Capello close to making Russia switch FABIO Capello has been named as Russia’s new manager - with the former England boss set to complete the formalities of his move to Moscow in the next few days. The Italian held successful talks with the Russian Football Union (RFU), who have confirmed he is the man they believe can guide the team to World Cup qualification in 2014. “Today we have decided to name Fabio Capello as the manager of Russia,” RFU vice-president Nikita Simonyan told the Itar-Tass agency. “We are now waiting in Moscow for the finalisation of the remaining details of the contract before he signs. “Once (Capello) and his representatives arrive, we believe they will sign the contract. I think it will happen on

Wednesday or Thursday.” Capello has been out of work since leaving the England job in February in protest at the Football Association stripping John Terry of the captaincy after he was charged with making a racist remark to Anton Ferdinand. Terry was acquitted of the charge at Westminster magistrates court on Friday.

SIX-YEAR DEAL In Russia, he succeeds Dick Advocaat who left to take up the coach’s role at PSV Eindhoven following the team’s group-stage exit at Euro 2012. Reports have suggested 66-year-old Capello has been offered a six-year deal which will take him up to the 2018

World Cup which Russia are hosting. Prior to his mixed stint with England, Capello was widely viewed as one of the best coaches in the world. His record includes seven Serie A titles - although two of these were later revoked - and two Primera Division championships. He also won the Champions League with AC Milan in 1994. Capello is relishing the challenge of guiding Russia. “If everything is completed in the best possible way, as the announcement from the Russian Federation states, I will be happy and proud,” Capello told Italian news agency ANSA. “If, as I believe the case will be, all goes as planned in terms of the contract, it will be a splendid adventure. “Russia are a great nation.”

Before his mixed stint with England, Capello was widely viewed as one of the best coaches in the world

Carroll future uncertain as Reds mull transfer options Short-term move for striker no longer on the cards ANDY Carroll moved closer to a Liverpool exit Sunday night despite the Reds rejecting a loan offer from the striker’s former club Newcastle. Press Association Sport understands Liverpool ﬂatly turned down the Magpies’ loan bid but have made it known they would be willing to listen to offers for a permanent move. New Reds boss Brendan Rodgers claimed last week that he would consider sending Carroll out on loan but, while the club were not commenting on the matter Sunday night, it is understood a short-term move is now not on the agenda. Instead Liverpool will attempt only to recoup some of the club-record £35million they paid to Newcastle 18 months ago should the right offer be tabled. Whether the Magpies will now be willing to return with a new offer for the Gateshead-born striker, who has failed to live up to his hefty price tag since leaving the north-east, remains to be seen after their loan bid fell well short of anything the Reds might

Liverpool will attempt only to recoup some of the club-record £35m they paid to Newcastle for Carroll 18 months ago, should the right offer be tabled consider. Liverpool have already strengthened in attack since the arrival of Rodgers following the signing of Roma striker Fabio Borini last week. Rodgers’ arrival has seemingly ushered Carroll towards the exit door with claims that the 6ft 3in strik-

er does not ﬁt in with the Northern Irishman’s passand-move style of play. That prompted West Ham to initiate contact over a possible loan move last week before Newcastle’s bid, which contained an option for a permanent move, was tabled yesterday. The Magpies have no im-

mediate need to strengthen their hand in the striking department, although they spent the early part of the summer wooing FC Twente’s Luuk de Jong but found the asking price too rich. However, the spectre of the release clause in Demba Ba’s contract makes

him vulnerable, at least until the end of this month, although boss Alan Pardew insisted last week that there had been no contact with any club over any of his key men. But Ba and Papiss Cisse could be required by Senegal for the African Nations Cup, while Leon Best and Peter Lovenkrands have left the club, so reinforcements will be required at some point. Carroll’s departure for Liverpool sparked a furious reaction in the north-east when a man around whom it seemed likely the team would be assembled was allowed to leave. Newcastle had little intention of selling him until the final few hours of the transfer window when the Reds made an offer they simply could not refuse. The marksman had barely half a season of top-flight football under his belt, but 11 goals to add to the 19 he had plundered in the npower Championship a season earlier had marked him out as an emerging talent. Dalglish was convinced he could prosper on Merseyside, but it simply did not happen for him in his first year or so at his new club, and his price-tag was repeatedly thrown back in his face as Ba and Cisse, the men signed from the proceeds, prospered on the other side of the Pennines. He belatedly made an impression at the end of last season and was one of few England players to emerge from Euro 2012 with any credit after scoring a superb headed goal against Sweden.

Chelsea told they will have to break the bank if they want to sign Oscar CHELSEA have been told they must break the bank if they want to sign Brazilian international Oscar. The European champions have approached Internacional over the 20year-old midﬁelder and are reportedly preparing a £25million bid. Internacional president Giovanni Luigi insists the Brazilian club are will-

ing to sell, but only at the right price. “I want the transfer of Oscar to be the biggest transfer deal ever in Brazilian football,” Luigi told Radio Gaucha. “And the Chelsea offer isn’t that far from that. “Last year, however, Tottenham made two offers for Leandro Damiao. We kept him and he was very important.

“Oscar’s situation is similar. If we get offers for Oscar that match our expectations, we’ll negotiate. “But they have to be of the value that mean signiﬁcant resources for Internacional. “But those values would be the biggest negotiation in Internacional’s history.”

Florent Malouda’s potential move in the opposite direction could be scuppered by the French midﬁelder’s wage demands. Santos head coach Muricy Ramalho is concerned by the ﬁnancial outlay needed to sign Malouda, who has slipped down the pecking order at Chelsea.

Dundee set to claim top-flight position DUNDEE will be invited into the Clydesdale Bank Premier League season to replace Rangers, the SPL confirmed yesterday. Irn-Bru First Division runners-up Dundee were chosen ahead of relegated Dunfermline during the league’s annual general meeting at Hampden yesterday. Rangers newco chief executive Charles Green and manager Ally McCoist arrived at Hampden ahead of the meeting. But, despite reports of a possible U-turn in recent days, SPL clubs agreed to work towards the decision made by Scottish Football League clubs to put the Ibrox club in the Third Division. A SPL statement read: “It was agreed that the SPL would work with the Scottish FA, SFL and Rangers to facilitate Rangers FC taking their place in SFL Division 3 this season. It was agreed that Dundee FC would be invited to fill the space vacated by Rangers FC in the Clydesdale Bank Premier League.” Ten SPL clubs voted to reject the Rangers newco application to the top flight on July 4, but a plan from the executives of the three main football authorities to put them in the First Division was subsequently rejected by 25 SFL clubs. That sparked reports of a potential U-turn and St Mirren chairman Stewart Gilmour warned his club would be among five in the SPL who would struggle to remain solvent in the coming weeks and months. But Aberdeen, Inverness, Dundee United and Hearts insisted over the weekend that there would be no revisitation of the vote. And the SPL statement appeared to shelve plans for a an SPL2, which was mooted by SFA chief executive Stewart Regan when he spoke to SFL clubs detailing his predictions for the impact of the various scenarios. The decision to promote Dundee could spark legal action from Dunfermline, who believed precedents meant they should have been reinstated.

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Garcia rematch a slim hope for Khan AMIR Khan’s chances of a rematch with Danny Garcia appear slim after he was knocked out in four rounds by the American to suffer a stunning upset defeat. Talk of a repeat of the fight seemed fanciful after watching the Bolton man get destroyed by Garcia at the Mandalay Bay Events Centre in Las Vegas on Saturday. Khan was admittedly the better man in the WBA/WBC light-welterweight unification bout before being sent crashing to the canvas in round three. It all unravelled for him from there as Garcia capitalised by flooring him twice more before referee Kenny Bayless stopped it in the fourth. Khan therefore suffered his second successive defeat following last December’s loss against Lamont Peterson, where he lost his WBA belt in the process only to be reinstated as that division’s champion after Peterson failed a drugs test. Question marks over Khan’s punch resistance will return and it is doubtful whether it would be a good idea to

fight Garcia again after the younger man finished him so chillingly. Khan’s team claim to want another chance, although Garcia’s firebrand father and trainer Angel rubbished such talk. “Amir said he will be back and hopefully Danny Garcia will come to England and maybe fight us over there,” said trainer Freddie Roach on Khan’s behalf after the fighter was taken straight to hospital for precautionary scans. “We were fighting a good fight and all of a sudden, one punch changed it and in boxing you never know. I guess I have to also congratulate Mr (Angel) Garcia also.” The new unified champion seemed open to the idea. “It’s up to my team, but he gave me the opportunity (so) I’ll give him the opportunity,” Garcia said, but his outspoken father - who acted the clown at this week’s press conference and directed racial slurs at Khan - cut his son off, saying: “Why give him a rematch? For what? “He (Khan) disrespected Danny

when he took him as an opponent. He thought he was a pushover. We’re not giving him a rematch.” All of Khan’s three defeats have come against rank underdogs. As a red-hot prospect in 2008 he was blitzed by unfancied Breidis Prescott and after rebuilding brilliantly, he was beaten by Peterson last year in a poor performance, regardless of the American’s testosterone use subsequently coming to light. He admitted before being taken to hospital that he was guilty of taking his latest opponent lightly. “It wasn’t my night,” admitted the Bolton ﬁghter. “After watching the replays a little bit I thought I was coming in with my hands down and Danny took advantage. “I respect Danny, he was countering very well against me.” Khan, now 26-3 with 18 early wins and two stoppage defeats, tore at his opponent from the opening bell before becoming embroiled in a war which he lost spectacularly when he was sent to the ﬂoor three times before being stopped.

Fall guy: Garcia (right) sent Khan to the canvas three times before the ﬁght was stopped in the fourth round

Woods, Rose paired at Open British tournament begins on Thursday By Mark Garrod FOR the fourth time at the Open Championship Tiger Woods and Justin Rose have been paired together in the first two rounds. The duo, who will be joined by Spain’s Sergio Garcia, were also partners at Muirfield in 2002, Carnoustie in 2007 and St Andrews two years ago. They tee off at 9.42am in the first round on Thursday at the Royal Lytham of St. Anne’s course and then 2.43pm on Friday. Just ahead of them each day will be defending champion Darren Clarke and Lee Westwood - but not together. Clarke begins his bid to retain the Claret Jug at 9.09am in the company of 2002 winner Ernie Els and American Zach Johnson, winner of the John Deere Classic in Illinois this weekend. Westwood, making his 58th attempt to lift a major title, is alongside Masters champion Bubba Watson and Japan’s comparatively little-known Yoshinori Fujimoto.

Woods (main picture) will be paired with Rose (inset left) in the British Open’s first two rounds for the fourth time Those arriving really early will have the chance to see three former winners playing together. Sandy Lyle and Americans Todd Hamilton and Mark Calcavecchia will be on the first tee at just after 7am - yet the championship will be well under way by then. Because the field is 157, one more than usual because of all the different exempt

players, the action kicks off at 6.19am with a two-ball of 52-year-old former Ryder Cup player Barry Lane, who came through qualifying, and American James Driscoll. World number one Luke Donald has been paired with Phil Mickelson, but they have to wait until 2.43pm on Thursday to hit their ﬁrst shots and both Rory McIlroy and Padraig Harrington are after-

noon starters as well. Second-ranked McIlroy is with 2010 champion Louis Oosthuizen and reigning USPGA champion Keegan Bradley at 2.21pm, followed by 2007 and 2008 winner Harrington alongside young American Rickie Fowler and European amateur champion Manuel Trappel. The Austrian is one of only two amateurs in the ﬁeld.

Northern Ireland’s Alan Dunbar, who won the British title last month at Royal Troon, is the other and he partners Australian Adam Scott and American Matt Kuchar at 8.42am. Five-time champion Tom Watson, the 62-year-old who last year saw England’s Tom Lewis shoot an opening 65 that was the lowest round ever by an amateur in the

Fedrigo earns France their fourth Tour stage, but Britain’s Wiggins still leads PIERRICK Fedrigo earned France their fourth Tour de France stage win this year when the FDJ rider took victory in the 15th, a 158.5-km ride from Samatan, yesterday.

Britain’s Bradley Wiggins retained the overall leader’s yellow jersey when he ﬁnished safe in the main bunch almost 12 minutes adrift. Fedrigo claimed his fourth Tour stage

victory by beating American Christian Vande Velde at the end of a long-range breakaway. France’s Thomas Voeckler, who won the 10th stage, was third, 12 seconds behind. Thibaut Pinot and

Pierre Rolland won the eighth and 11th stages respectively. Today is a rest day before the peloton tackle the last two mountain stages in the Pyrenees.

championship, is this time playing with Germany’s Martin Kaymer and Japanese star Ryo Ishikawa. It is only three years ago that Watson nearly rewrote the record books. He lost in a play-off to Stewart Cink at Turnberry - scene of his 1977 victory - when winning would have made him the oldest major champion by an amazing 11 years. The first time Woods and Rose were paired 10 years ago produced scenes rarely witnessed before at the championship. Woods had just won The Masters and US Open and so was seeking the third leg of an unprecedented Grand Slam of all four majors. Virtually every camera at Muirfield was trained on him as he started. Rose, fourth as a 17-yearold amateur in 1998, had just won his first two European Tour titles and he out-scored the American 68-70 in the first round. But neither challenged for the Claret Jug in the end - Rose came 22nd, Woods 28th after horrendous weather on the Saturday when he shot 81. Five years later Woods outscored Rose 69-75, but they both finished 12th, while at St Andrews Rose missed the halfway cut and Woods was only 23rd. He has not won any major since the 2008 US Open, but after crashing down the world rankings last year he has come back with four victories in the past eight months - and could even be world number one on Sunday night.