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Second Ayia Napa shooting averted Police believe arrests averted a serious crime, just months after shooting spree By Jacqueline Agathocleous

AMAGUSTA District Court yesterday remanded one Albanian and two Greek men for eight days, after they were caught with two loaded guns in their car in Ayia Napa on Sunday night. Police yesterday said they believed a serious crime had been averted. According to police spokesman Andreas Angelides, the force received a tip-off that the suspects were “acting suspiciously” in a specific area in the popular tourist resort. Officers went to the scene and spotted a 44-year-old, who, according to the police, gave a contradictory statement as to what he was doing there. At first he told police that he had driven to Ayia Napa with two other men, aged 29 and 33 years old, and led them to the rented car, where the two other suspects were found. It later became clear the suspects had come from Greece. “After searching the car, a handgun with two magazines (in the glove compartment) and a second gun (under the driver’s seat) were spotted,” said Angelides. “The weapons were taken to police headquarters and they are carrying out tests.” In court yesterday, all three suspects gave different accounts as to why they arrived on the island from Greece. The 44-year-old Greek national claimed he arrived in Cyprus with the other two to “execute a job”, for which he wasn’t given many details apart from the fact that he would be used as a driver.

The second suspect - a 29year-old Albanian man who the court heard had a fake Greek ID card - said he had come to Cyprus from Greece with the other two to carry out a big robbery. He said while they were in Ayia Napa, an hour before their arrest, an unidentiﬁed man with a Cypriot accent, with whom they had spoken before over the phone, led them to the specific area where they found the pistols and bullets. The man then asked them to murder a Cypriot from the area, for whom the suspect didn’t give further information. The 33-year-old, also Greek, suspect denies involvement in the case and claims to have come to Cyprus on holiday. Reports yesterday claimed the trio were paid killers and were on the island in connection with the June shootings of ﬁve people in Ayia Napa four of whom were Famagusta businessman Phanos Kalopsidiotis’ security guards. Angelides said it was a member of the public who spotted the suspects and alerted police. “Based on the three suspects’ movements and the weapons that were found, it is believed that a serious crime was avoided,” he said. The suspects face the charges of conspiring to commit a crime and illegal possession and transportation of guns and explosives. Police yesterday told the court they were planning to take around 35 statements from people in the Larnaca and Famagusta districts. The Greek authorities have been

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Hundreds of goats and sheep were let loose yesterday as part of the protest over subsidy cuts to farmers

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Goats and sheep let loose in subsidy protest By Natalie Hami FARMERS let around 200 goats and sheep loose in Paphos’ ﬁelds yesterday as part of their ongoing demands to receive the full subsidy they say was promised to them by the state. It was the second day they had abandoned their goats and sheep in the ﬁelds. “Everyday we’ll leave our animals in the countryside since we cannot give them the necessary food,” said head of the Paphos sheep and goat farmers’ association, Evagoras Chrysanthou. According to Chrysanthou, farmers will continue to take measures until their demands are met. Chrysanthou has previously said that they will only take a cut in the subsidy if

President Demetris Christoﬁas, his ministers and deputies take the same cut in their incomes. The sheep and goat farmers have staged several protests in recent weeks since Cabinet in August announced their state subsidy would be halved this year and is due to expire under EU rules. The Cabinet offered farmers €5.2 million to be distributed depending on livestock numbers. Some 50 farmers from around the island initially gathered at the Timi village bypass and then made their way - escorted by police - in their cars, guiding their animals towards the Ahelia government farm premises. They then waited two hours at the premises for Agriculture Minister Sophoclis Aletraris who was on a visit to Paphos, for him to tell them where they could leave their animals.

“We came here to the Ahelia premises but they won’t take our animals… we won’t break down the doors...we want legally for the minister to show us a place where he’ll receive the animals…we were clear,” said Chrysanthou. With all attempts to hand over the animals failing they then let them loose. Later yesterday, Aletraris said around 2000 farmers are prepared to accept the reduced subsidy. He criticised political parties which he claimed were misleading farmers by telling them if they won next year’s presidential elections farmers would get the subsidy until 2020. “They shouldn’t be telling people such rubbish,” said Aletraris, adding that the farmers would have better negotiating powers if they organised themselves better.

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PEO, the trades union afﬁliated with ruling AKEL, yesterday slammed a newspaper and its journalist over a report that it had close to €3.0 million in loans written off by the Bank of Cyprus (BoC), without however offering its side of the story. The union spoke of lies and half-truths aimed at undermining the repute and dignity of PEO and its ofﬁcials, but it did not deny the report, which daily Politis ran on Sunday. Neither did it give its side of the story, beyond it being “a morally and legally” correct decision on behalf of the bank. “We will not give in to the temptation to play Politis’ and Mr (Makarios) Dhroushiotis’ propaganda game and get into detail on the bank’s handling of a case that lasted a decade,” PEO said. Politis said the BoC wrote off €2.7 mil-

lion owed by a company, Tamasos Hotel Enterprises Ltd, that belongs to PEO on paper but controlled by AKEL, and €170,000 owed by PEO. The €2.7 million - some €700,000 were penalties - was unsecured and the guarantors were the company’s four directors - all members of AKEL and PEO, including the union’s chief Pambis Kyritsis. The BoC had secured a court order against the company only and reserved its rights to move against the guarantors. At the same time, PEO owed the bank €531,000 that was also fully unsecured. According to Politis, the union offered BoC €361,000 as full repayment of the union’s loan but at the same time they asked that Kyritsis and the other three ofﬁcials were released from their obligations as guarantors. The four said they signed as guarantors at the behest of their party, AKEL, and

that it had been a political decision. Only two of the four owned property, Politis said. The BoC board decided on March 7 not to pursue any measures against the guarantors. Yesterday, PEO said for any impartial individual “who knows the facts of this supposed scandal”. it would be obvious that the bank’s decision not to claim the debt through court is the result of the judgement of the lender itself that “objectively, such a thing could neither be legally supported convincingly nor it would be morally right.” The union sought to link the report with the bad state of the economy and bank’s share of the blame. PEO suggested that some people were uncomfortable because it has become clear it was the banks and the regulator - at the time - that are to blame for the state of the economy.

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‘Criminal’ lack of safety measures caused death Builder killed on his first day of work at Limassol site By Jacqueline Agathocleous A ROMANIAN builder was killed after falling 15 metres from the open veranda of an unﬁnished apartment block in Limassol yesterday, prompting authorities to deplore the “criminally negligent” lack of safety measures at the construction site. The building, according to ofﬁcials, had absolutely no scaffolding and no protective nets and workers had to go inside the construction to get to where they needed to work. An order was issued straight after the fatal accident to stop work at the site in Linopetra continuing until investigations are complete. Although the two employers – that reports claimed were both foreign - were yesterday questioned by police, Limassol District Court rejected a request for their remand. A spokesman for Limassol CID

said the court didn’t deem it necessary to remand them, as they were both cooperative. The 29-year-old married Romanian, who was on his ﬁrst day at work, had just started working on the veranda – which had no railings or scaffolding around it – when the accident occurred at a little after 9 am. He was given ﬁrst aid by his colleagues until an ambulance arrived to take him to Limassol general hospital. However, doctors said he died immediately after his fall. State pathologist Eleni Antoniou and labour inspector Socrates Socratous were both quick to condemn the complete lack of protection for the site’s workers. Antoniou, who carried out an autopsy at the scene, said the 29-year-old fell from a great height. “He was hammering nails on a veranda without a railing, with absolutely no safety measures, no

scaffolding, no nets – he lost his balance and fell headﬁrst between two walls,” Antoniou told the Cyprus Mail. The pathologist, who doesn’t normally comment on other aspects of a case, said it was time something was done about the ever-growing phenomenon of irresponsible contractors. “There was chaos there, absolute chaos. It is very sad,” she said. She said the Paphos-based contractors in question were renowned for not looking after their workers. “These building contractors have a bad name. They employ cheap foreign workers and don’t even pay them. We can’t have such irresponsible behaviour.” Antoniou said there were around seven workers on the site yesterday and none of them were acquainted with each other. “There was no coordination for such a big construction. The infrastructure

was extremely inadequate,” said Antoniou. Labour inspector Socratous agreed. “The construction was in a state, with a complete lack of protective measures – on all levels, from the stairway, to the verandas, to the skylights and there were even holes in the floors,” he explained. “With the state of the construction and the behaviour of the employers, it was definitely only a matter of time before an accident like this happened,” said Socratous. He said he immediately ceased operations on the site. Socratous said, “Yes, this negligence is criminal”. Questioned by reporters, he said the specific site had not been checked by his department prior to the accident. “But the fact that it wasn’t checked doesn’t rid contractors of their obligation to the law to provide a safe working environment for their workers.”

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Small provident funds hugely exposed to banks’ high-risk securities By Stefanos Evripidou A NUMBER of small provident funds invested up to 90 per cent of their deposits in the high-risk securities that banks have stopped paying interest on, the House Labour Committee heard yesterday. The committee convened to discuss the adoption of a law on the activities and supervision of professional fund services, during which MPs also heard how a number of funds took huge risks investing in securi-

ties that Laiki Bank and Bank of Cyprus halted interest payments on. Speaking before the committee yesterday, head of the Social Insurance Fund, Fanis Tryfonos, said small provident funds with fewer than 100 members were most exposed by the lockdown on bank securities, noting that from 140 small funds, 25 of them invested between 50 per cent and 90 per cent of their deposits. From the 160 funds with over 100 members, 52 invested in bonds

‘Massive’ Napa crime averted (Continued from front page) sent DNA to get the suspects’ personal details, while the recovered guns have been taken for ballistic tests. The suspects’ car and apartment were searched further, and a court order was issued so police could look into their phone data. Police are now on the lookout for the unidentiﬁed man the suspect claimed he had contact with. Meanwhile, Limassol District Court yesterday remanded two 22-year-old men and another 23-yearold for three days, after ﬁnding explosives, a concealed carry gun, an airgun

and a sword on them. The suspects were stopped by police in the early hours of Sunday in Limassol. Searching their car, police found 36 vials and a metal cylinder with pieces of detonating cord in it, a damaged trafﬁc cone, a cleaver, precision scales, two pieces of plastic tube with detonating cord, a knife with a wooden handle, a handmade pistol and a number of plastic and metal-coated pellets as well as 290 capsules. After searching their homes, police found another airgun in the 23-year-old suspect’s possession.

IMF chief to visit for Ecofin meeting INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde will attend this Friday’s Eurogroup meeting in Nicosia, it was reported last night. Lagarde has been invited by Eurogroup President JeanClaude Juncker to attend the two-day informal meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs (Ecofin) Council starting this Friday. Other participants include EU finance ministers, central bank governors, and representatives from the EU institutions and international organisations. CyBC quoted IMF sources saying that Lagarde will also meet with senior Cypriot officials to discuss ongoing negotiations between Cyprus and the troika (IMF, European Central Bank and European Commission) for a bailout loan. An unnamed Eurogroup official told CyBC that the troika was waiting to hear what Cyprus’ requests regarding a loan would eventually be.

Limassol bus drivers declare strike LIMASSOL BUS drivers yesterday decided to go on a 24hour strike this Friday over owed wages. The decision was taken after a union meeting last night reached the conclusion that the best way forward was to call a one-day strike in the hope that the Limassol Transport Company (EMEL) pay up owed weekly wages before Friday. SEK union representative Yiannis Tsouris said around 110 out of 250 drivers in total are owed their wages.

of which only ﬁve were largely exposed to the bank securities. The ﬁve funds had invested up to 15 per cent of their deposits before the adoption of the relevant EU directive in 2010, putting a ten per cent ceiling on investment in one product. Tryfonos called for a law expanding the European directive to include small funds to spread the risk, while also imposing rules on their investment policy. Committee chairman and AKEL deputy Andreas Fakontis said those

funds that invested up to 90 per cent of deposits will most likely have difﬁculty providing funds for retiring members. It recently transpired that the island’s two largest lenders - in need of a bailout - collectively accumulated over one billion euros in securities but stopped paying interest on them after making signiﬁcant losses in the wake of a Greek sovereign debt write-down. The banks closed access to capital, affecting some 8,000 people. The majority of the investors claim

they were deceived by the banks into investing in securities without being told the risks by an authorised professional. A variety of disgruntled investors’ groups have emerged as a result. Phivos Mavrovouniotis, a representative of the biggest investor group yesterday met with Bank of Cyprus ofﬁcials. Speaking after the meeting he said that by the end of October, investors will receive a joint proposal from the ﬁnance ministry and the two banks.

Relatives are stunned by sex assault claims Pathologist says three year old murder victim could have been sexually attacked By Stefanos Evripidou THE GRIEVING family of the pregnant mother and her three-year-old child murdered last December in Paphos heard yesterday in court that the toddler may have been sexually abused before her death. Greek pathologist Sotiris Tsantilis made the claim yesterday after being invited to give testimony on behalf of the legal team defending the 30-year-old Paphos hairdresser on trial for the murder of his pregnant girlfriend and her daughter. Julia Oborok, 24, was shot and her three-year-old daughter Victoria strangled almost to death and then drowned last December in Yeroskipou by the sea. The 30-year-old denies the charges. The private sector pathologist told the court yesterday that based on photographic evidence studied, he suspected the three-year-old had been sexually abused a few hours before her murder. Tsantilis, who did not examine the body, said one photograph in particular

revealed signs of sexual abuse. During cross-examination by the prosecution, it transpired that Tsantilis received his pathologist’s licence in 2009. Since then, he has performed ten postmortems, none of which involved a child rape. The prosecution also questioned how Tsantilis found evidence of sexual abuse when his own professor from Greece, Chara Spiliopoulou, had studied the same evidence but did not come to any conclusions on sexual abuse. The prosecutor also pointed out that the Cypriot state pathologist who examined the three-year-old’s body in the presence of a gynaecologist and paediatrician speciﬁcally for signs of sexual abuse had found no evidence of any such assault. The one thing all pathologists agree on regarding Victoria’s death is that the evidence shows she was nearly suffocated by hand and then drowned using considerable force by the assailant who pushed her face down violently on the stones in shallow water. On hearing the shocking

Julia and her daughter were murdered last December claims of sexual abuse by the defence witness, members of the toddler’s family became increasingly upset, resulting in the judge having to ask one of the members to leave the courtroom.

Former state pathologist Marios Matsakis was also present at court yesterday on the request of the Attorney-general to act as a consultant to the prosecution during cross-examination of the Greek pathologist.

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IMF looks into money laundering regulations EU watchdog hails changes EXPERTS from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) arrived here yesterday at the invitation of local law enforcement authorities for an update on Cyprus’ compliance with anti-money laundering standards. Speaking to reporters, Eva Papakyriacou, head of the unit for combating money laundering, MOKAS, said the IMF team was not conducting an investigation per se. She said it was MOKAS who took the initiative to invite the foreign experts here for an on-site visit, in order to provide the IMF with an update on how Cyprus’ antimoney laundering legislation complies with international standards. Usually, requests for information by the IMF are handled via email and teleconferencing, said Papakyriacou: “However, in order that no loose ends remain, we proposed the [IMF] team visit Cyprus and receive clarifications in a transparent manner, so that they can have a fuller picture.” The IMF experts leave today. During their stay they will be meeting with MOKAS, as well as with finance ministry officials and the bar association. The issue of regulation was highlighted by the recent public debate in the press regarding bank confidentiality, following reports that Cyprus was providing Russian authorities with bank information ostensibly without going through the proper channels. A section of the local media suggested that this jeopardised Cyprus’ credibility and the confidentiality on which the banking system is based. Shortly after, MOKAS responded with a statement noting that there was “no issue of discrediting Cyprus’ financial sector since, as a lawful state, we ought to cooperate with foreign authorities in the cases where it is

justified.” There would be an issue if Cyprus did not cooperate because it “would be presented as a country that covers illegal activities,” MOKAS had said. Russian authorities had requested Cyprus’ assistance in investigating the alleged embezzlement of millions by former officials of the Bank of Moscow, and its transfer to the bank accounts of companies registered on the island. Details of the accounts were obtained after the authorities secured a court order. Russia’s request was handled by the book, going through the justice ministry and the attorney-general who then submitted an application at the Nicosia district court. MOKAS comes under the attorney-general’s office. Cyprus has laws which protect the right to privacy, but allow that privacy to be breached in the event of legitimate suspicion of wrongdoing. Under the Assessment and Collection of Taxes Law information may be disclosed to an overseas authority only if a series of strict requirements are met. Last December the Council of Europe Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism (MONEYVAL) issued a report on measures to combat money laundering and terrorist financing in Cyprus, following an on-site visit the previous year (June 2010). MONEYVAL found that Cyprus had taken additional measures to fight money laundering and financing of terrorism, through the enactment of legislation and sector-specific norms, which had addressed most of the issues raised in the course of the previous evaluation.

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Schools re-open amid concerns for safety By Natalie Hami WITH thousands of primary and nursery school children returning to school yesterday MPs expressed concerns over the safety of certain schools that are being renovated. “Areas with big nails which were sticking out were located and obviously they threaten the safety of our children,” said Nicos Tornaritis, chairman of the House Education Committee, adding that a multipurpose room had also not yet been ﬁnished. He was speaking yesterday following a meeting on the safety of students at the Strovolos Ayia Marina pri-

mary school currently being renovated, after MPs visited the school. Tornaritis also claimed that the contractor who had undertaken the job had taken on too much work. “The safety of our children and the management of money concerning education must be dealt with seriously and with complete transparency,” said Tornaritis. Vice head of the school’s parents association Constantinos Papadopoulos also said that there had been many safety concerns in recent days. “Up till yesterday members of the association came to the school to clean up metal,

Glad to be back at school (above), but schools like Ayia Marina in Strovolos (left) are still being renovated, leading parents to raise safety concerns (Christos Theodorides) locate open pits, remove broken glass and nails sticking out of doors,” he said, adding that they are still concerned about the fact that the yard is closed and cannot be accessed by the Fire Services and ambulances. However head of technical services at the Education Ministry, Andreas Pattihis reassured MPs that the school was ready to a satisfactory level by yesterday and there were no safety issues.

“The school was delivered at a satisfactory level and even above satisfactory levels for it to function, and there are no issues/problems to do with safety,” said Pattihis, adding that anything that has been located over the last three days has been dealt with by the contractor. He said that at the moment because of the renovations some children were being taught in pre-fabricated buildings.

UK criminals in Lapithos, says TC newspaper THREE SUSPECTED criminals wanted by British police for a number of offences are believed to be hiding in occupied Lapithos, according to a Turkish Cypriot newspaper. UK crime-ﬁghting charity Crimestoppers published the names of nine suspected criminals - three Cypriots and six Britons - thought to be hiding in Cyprus last week and appealed to the public for help to arrest them. On Saturday, the Cyprus Today news-

paper published a report claiming that two of the most-wanted criminals - Wayne Smith and his girlfriend Julie Skelding - are living in Lapithos village in the north. Smith, 38, is wanted by West Midlands Police for his alleged role in a horriﬁc road accident that killed a 22-year-old man. Skelding, 40, is wanted for perverting the course of justice and stands accused of giving a false witness statement about the accident.

Smith was quoted by the paper saying: “I want the truth to be told. I’ll be back in the UK in the near future.” The paper reported that British ofﬁcials met with senior police ofﬁcers in the breakaway regime to discuss ways of returning suspected criminals to Britain. It also claimed that another wanted criminal on the list, drug smuggler and suspected ostrich farm fraudster Martin Evans, 50, may also be living in Lapithos.

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CYPRUS Airways (CY) has selected Air France-KLM Consulting to draft a restructuring plan whose objective is to turn the ailing company into a competitive carrier. In a letter to the ﬁnance minister, CY said it has hired Air France-KLM Consulting to draft a restructuring plan aiming at “transforming the company into a competitive carrier in the international aviation industry”. The plan must also make the airline attractive to any strategic investor wishing to acquire a majority stake in CY. The company was selected from a list of six that included Lufthansa Consulting and KPMG. Air France-KLM submitted the fourth lowest bid at €226,175 plus expenses. A viable plan was a condition set by parliament before it releases the second tranche of a €31 million share capital increase and would have to be approved by lawmakers before it can be implemented. The brief includes reviews of CY’s management structure, its business model, and determination of personnel requirements and remuneration levels. The national carrier posted a €32.1 million loss in the ﬁrst half of the year as passenger and cargo revenues dwindled. The airline said passenger numbers dropped by around 75,000. A Canadian conglomerate that expressed interest in the airline is reportedly having second thoughts as experts it hired suggested that CY cannot become competitive.

Videos and mobile phone data included in evidence OVER 150 items of evidence were yesterday submitted to the Larnaca Assizes Court, as the trial into last year’s Evangelos Florakis naval base blast continued. The evidence, which was submitted by chief constable Charalambos Agathocleous from police headquarters’ CID, included - among others - images and videos of the scene after the explosion, debris that was taken for lab tests, files of documents by the legal services, personal files of the defendants and individual files for the 13 victims who were killed in the blast. There were also documents from the National Guard, fire services, the finance, defence and foreign ministries, and the auditor-general’s report. Other evidence included data from mobile phones that were found at the scene of the explosion and pictures of the victims’ postmortems. In total, Agathocleous who inspected the scene on the morning of the explosion and was put in charge of handling the evidence and preparing a list - presented

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North’s students a huge economic boost Lawyers weighed down with the piles of documents relating to the Mari case the court with 152 items of evidence. The prosecution relayed the undisputed facts of the case - that the explosion took place on July 11 last year at around 5.47am to 5.48am among 98 containers of munitions that had been conﬁscated from the M/V Monchegorsk (a Cyprusﬂagged ship that sailed from Iran) and that 13 people were killed as a result. The facts were accepted by the defence teams of the defendants - former foreign and

defence ministers, Markos Kyprianou and Costas Papacostas respectively, former National Guard deputy chief Savvas Argyrou, former ﬁre service chief Andreas Nicolaou, deputy ﬁre chief Charalambos Charalambous and former disaster response squad (EMAK) commander Andreas Loizides - as well as the judges. Agathocleous wasn’t cross examined by the defence and the trial will re-commence tomorrow morning. The Mari explosion led to

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public outrage, as hundreds of people gathered outside the Presidential Palace calling for President Demetris Christoﬁas to stand down.

STUDENTS studying at universities in the breakaway regime contributed around €650 million to the economy of the occupied areas during the academic year 2011-2012, according to a study by research company Technopolis Group. According to Turkish Cypriot daily Kibris, the breakaway regime saw 47,063 students taking up higher education during the last academic year.

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CYPRUS TODAY Helios appeal hearing delayed

Betfair object on free market principles By George Psyllides ONLINE sports betting company Betfair yesterday ﬁled a complaint with the European Commission over a new gambling law that may spell the end of exchange betting in Cyprus in its current state. Any attempted ban on betting exchanges - player-toplayer betting - constitutes discrimination and violates EU law as it “may apply only to exchange providers, with all other sports betting products remaining unaffected,” Betfair said in a written statement. “We have therefore asked the Commission to review the matter and engage with the Cypriot authorities, with the aim of addressing the concerns raised in our complaint,” said Martin Cruddace, Betfair’s chief legal and regulatory ofﬁcer. “Current Cypriot law goes against European free market principles and we look

forward to working with the Commission and the Cypriot government so we can continue to provide our Cypriot customers with Betfair’s best-in-class exchange product and odds value.” Authorities sought to justify the restriction imposed in July by suggesting that exchange betting raised the risk of money laundering and match ﬁxing. Betfair said these were unfounded and misinformed concerns. “They have been unable to produce any evidence of increased risk of money laundering through exchanges, as required by EU law, to substantiate these claims,” Betfair said. To date, Betfair remains the only sports betting operator which has actively engaged on the issue of match ﬁxing with a far reaching memorandum of understanding for exchange of information with the Cyprus Football Association in suspected cases, the company added.

“Betfair is a transparent and responsible operator, with a track record of working cooperatively alongside governments in any jurisdiction in which it operates,” Cruddace said. The law, passed on July 6, also bans cash transactions - another point raised in Betfair’s complaint. It also bans online casino games like roulette. But at the same time it allows Greek state gaming company OPAP to offer random number games, like Kino. Betting companies have complained about the exemption. The run up to the vote saw several OPAP shops torched or otherwise damaged. Parliament last week started looking into OPAP’s exemption with a view to ascertain whether it constituted a violation of fair competition. Lawmakers determined that OPAP has been operating with little or no oversight since 1969.

Commerce and Industry Minister Neoclis Sylikiotis greeting his Lebanese counterpart Vrej Sabounjian

Minister hails new era in Cyprus-Lebanese ties with agreement FOLLOWING cooperation agreements signed last week with Jordan, Cyprus is set to conclude a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Lebanon in the areas of industry and investment. Plans for the MoU were unveiled yesterday by Industry Minister Neoclis Sylikiotis following a meeting in Nicosia with his Lebanese counterpart Vrej Sabounjian. Sylikiotis later told newsmen Sabounjian’s visit marked “a new era in relations” between the two countries. He said his ministry would study a draft MoU submitted to it yesterday by the Lebanese so that the Cypriot delegation would be ready to put its signature on the final agreement during a visit to Beirut “in the near future”. Sabounjian was yesterday received by President Demetris Christofias at the Presidential Palace. Responding to questions, Sylikiotis said he and Sabounjian did not discuss the issue of natural gas at length, since he had talks about this with the Lebanese energy minister back in July. Claims over gas fields in the region’s Levant Basin extend to Lebanon, Israel’s northern neighbour and 100 miles across the sea from Cyprus. Lebanon has said some Israeli fields may stretch into its waters and has asked the United Nations to intervene to prevent a conflict over exploration areas as the country gears up for its first offshore oil and gas bidding round this year. Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, which fought a war with Israel in 2006, has repeatedly pledged to protect the nation’s offshore resources. Recent reports suggested that Lebanon’s offshore gas reserves may be considerably more than Cyprus’, which are currently estimated at between 5 and 8 trillion cubic feet.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF PAPHOS PROBATE JURISDICTION

Application Number: 141/2012

IN THE MATTER OF PETA DOROTHEA JENNIE TATTERSALL, Passport No. 108698980, late of Paphos Notice is hereby given that, after the expiration of eight (8) days, application will be made in the principal Probate Registry of Paphos for the grant of probate of the will of Peta Dorothea Jennie Tattersall, late of Paphos. ……………………………… Andreas Chr. Konnaris Executor of the Will of Peta Dorothea Jennie Tattersall,

AN APPEAL hearing in Greece concerning the Helios Airways 2005 air disaster scheduled for yesterday was pushed back to late October due to the absence of one of the defendants. An Athens court decided to reschedule the hearing for October 26 after one of the defendants in the case - Helios’ managing director Demetris Pantazis - did not show up citing health reasons. Back in April a magistrate’s court in Greece found Pantazis, along with ﬂight operations manager Giorgos Kikkides, Bulgarian chief pilot Ianko Stoimenov and chief British engineer Alan Irwin, guilty of negligent manslaughter, a misdemeanour. They were sentenced to 10 years in jail, pending an appeal. In Greece the statute of limitations for a misdemeanour is eight years, giving the appeals system there until August of 2013 to rule deﬁnitively otherwise the case there will be dismissed.

Remanded for knife attack FAMAGUSTA District Court yesterday remanded a 33-year-old British man for three days, after he was arrested in connection with attacking four men with a kitchen knife. According to a Famagusta police spokesman yesterday, at a little after 7 am on Sunday morning, police were notified that a man living in a Paralimni flat was wandering around the area holding a big kitchen knife. Arriving at the area, police found four men from the flat opposite to the one where the 33-yearold Brit was staying - an Italian, Belgian, Briton and Greek Cypriot who said they were in their flat when the suspect barged in and attempted to stab them. They said it was without reason.

AEL fined Limassol football team AEL have been fined €8,000 by the disciplinary body of the European football authority UEFA, according to the Cyprus Football Federation (KOP). The fine was imposed after AEL fans sitting in the aisles refused to move during the team’s match against Belgrade’s Partizan on August 1. The fine was also imposed because the AEL team delayed the start of the second half by two minutes.

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One pistol was used in family shooting Explosives squad visits victims’ Surrey home

Between: 1. KALLISTHENI A. GEORGIOU, Limassol 2. ANDREA AGGELOPOULOU, Limassol

Plaintiffs And 1. DIRECTOR OF LANDS AND SURVEY OFFICE LIMASSOL DISTRICT, Demokratias 54, 3012 Limassol, P.O. Box 50200, 3601 Limassol 2. BOHEZ FLORENT SILVEER HENDRIK (Belgian Passport Number 690675/8668) of unknown address. 3. DE SMENT JEANNINE DELPHINA LOUISA (Belgian Passport Number 690675/8668) of unknown address. Defendants EX PARTE APPLICATION BY: KALLISTHENI A. GEORGIOU AND ANDREA AGGELOPOULOU PLAINTIFFS 1 AND 2 – APPLICANTS Following an Application without notice to the other party by Mr. Alecos Markides, lawyer for Plaintiffs 1 and 2/ Applicants and following the reading of the affidavit which was filed in support of this application, The Court hereby ORDERS that: 1. A Court order be issued and is hereby issued, which allows for the substitute service of the Writ of Summons to Defendants 2 and 3 via the publication of the Generally Endorsed Writ of Summons and the Statement of Claim in an English-language weekly newspaper in Cyprus, together with a true copy of the present order. 2. If Defendants 2 and 3 wish to enter a Notice of Appearance in the abovementioned Action they can do so within 40 days from the date of service as described above. 3. In the event that Defendants 2 and 3 do not enter a Notice of Appearance as described above, then every application which may be filed will be deemed as duly served provided that a true copy of the application is posted on the notice board of the l District Court of Limasso for a period of 7 days. 4. Costs reserved. ISSUED ON 05.07.2012 COMPILED ON 16.07.2012 TRUE COPY REGISTRAR (Sign.) T. Nicolaou, District Judge

Limassol District Court

1. KALLISTHENI A. GEORGIOU, Grigori Afxentiou 43, 3026 Limassol 2. ANDREA AGGELOPOULOU, Ayiou Andreou 33, 3601 Limassol Plaintiffs and 1. DIRECTOR OF LANDS AND SURVEY OFFICE LIMASSOL DISTRICT, Demokratias 54, 3012 Limassol, P.O. Box 50200, 3601 Limassol 2. BOHEZ FLORENT SILVEER HENDRIK (Belgian Passport Number 690675/8668) of unknown address. 3. DE SMENT JEANNINE DELPHINA LOUISA (Belgian Passport Number 690675/8668) of unknown address. Defendants To the abovementioned Defendants of (a)(i) Dimokratias 54, 3012 Limassol, P.O.Box 50200, 3601 Limassol, (ii) of unknown address, (iii) of unknown address (b) You are hereby ordered to enter an appearance in the action brought against you by (i) Kallistheni A. Georgiou and (ii) Andrea Aggelopoulo, from Limassol (c) The Plaintiffs’ claim in the action is set out in indorsement overleaf. The Plaintiff’s address for service (d) the Law Office of Mr. Panayiotis Kouzoupis, Gladstonos 69, Acropolis Centre, 2nd floor, Flat 201, Limassol, Court Box 64. And take notice that in default of your appearance in the manner specified below, the Plaintiffs may proceed with the action and a judgment may be issued in your absence. Filed and sealed on (e) 5 October 2010 (Sign.) Alecos Markides Registrar (d) Lawyer for the Plaintiffs Note: An appearance maybe be entered either personally or by advocate by delivering to the Registrar at (g) Limassol a memorandum of appearance and on the same day by delivering at the Plaintiff’s address for service a duplicate of such memorandum dated, signed and sealed by the Registrar. _________________________________________________________________________________________ (a) Give full address, including street and number of premises, if any. (b) State Defendant’s occupation, if known (c) State Plaintiff’s occupation. (d) Give the full name, occupation, and address of a person within the municipal limits of the town or village in which is situates the Registry in which the action is filed, with whim the documents intended for Plaintiff may be left. (e) The date should be filled in by the Registrar. (f) Delete the words “Lawyer for the Plaintiff” if you are bringing the action personally and add the word “Plaintiff”. (g) State the town or the village in which is situated the Registry described in (d) above. Note: In drawing up a writ regards should be had to the provisions of Order 2 and the provisions governing indorsement of claim. Note for Defendant: A Defendant who wishes to employ an advocate should bear in mind that, except with the leave of the judge, an advocate cannot enter appearance for him unless he has a retainer in writing in Form 12A given to him by the Defendant.

Army personnel stand outside the home of Saad al-Hilli in Claygate, south of London near the village of Chevaline, not far from the picturesque Annecy lake where the Hilli family were staying at a campsite on holiday. About 25 gun shells were retrieved from the area and the corpses of the four victims suggesting that there could have been more than one gunman. Maillaud has repeatedly declined to say whether police were searching for one

assailant or more. Earlier yesterday, ofﬁcers sealed off the road in the leafy village of Claygate in Surrey, southwest of London, and began removing neighbours living close to Hilli’s £1 million ($1.60 million) house after ﬁnding suspicious substances in the back garden. “A bomb disposal unit was called to the scene to carry out an assessment as a pre-

cautionary measure.” a Surrey police spokeswoman said, adding that the search of the property was continuing. “Surrey Police can conﬁrm that items found at an address this morning in Oaken Lane, Claygate are not hazardous.” Yesterday’s search was the latest development in a shooting that has dominated media headlines in Britain.

Afghan Taliban threaten to assassinate Prince Harry Actress’ severed head recovered from London canal POLICE have recovered a severed head from a canal where the decapitated remains of a former EastEnders actress were found. Scotland Yard said the discovery was made by a member of the public in Regent’s Canal in Hackney, east London, on Sunday afternoon. It comes more than six months after the headless and limbless body of actress Gemma McCluskie, 29, were discovered in the same stretch of water. Miss McCluskie, who played Kerry Skinner in the BBC soap in 2001, had been missing for a week after attending the £650 million opening of the new Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London. Her brother, Tony McCluskie, 35, is due to stand trial accused of her murder on November 12.

Costs Scale: EURO 10.000-EURO 50.000 V.A.T. Number CY0021302 Action Number: 5361/2010

Between:

ENDORSMENT OF CLAIM The Plaintiffs claim: A. A Declaration by the Court that the Sale Agreement for the Immovable Property registry no. 11007, Page/ Map LIV / 39, Plot 136/3, in the village of Parekklisia, in the District of Limassol (below “the Property”), dated 14.09.1992, which was signed by the Plaintiffs and Defendant 2 and / or the later Sale Agreement for the Property dated 11.05.1993, which was signed by the Plaintiffs and Defendants 2 and 3 in replacement of the Sale Agreement dated 14.09.1992 (below “the Agreements”), which were filed at the Limassol District Lands Office on 09.10.1992 and 15.03.1993, with numbers 1142/92 and 210/93 respectively, for Specific Performance purposes, do not form and / or do not pose an Encumbrance over the Property and / or that the Encumbrances which were registered over the Property, consequent to the filing of the Agreements with the Limassol District Lands Office, are no longer in existence and / or that the said Encumbrances must be struck off due to the passing and / or expiration of the time period foreseen in the Sales of Land (Specific Performance) Law (Chapter 232) for the taking of legal action on the part of Defendants 1 and 2 for the specific performance of the Agreements. B. An Order by the Court which orders Defendant 1 to cancel and / or to strike off the Encumbrances in place today over the Property, which were registered over the Property consequent to the deposition of the Agreements with the Limassol District Lands Office. C. Further or other remedies. D. Costs plus V.A.T. Scale: EURO 10.000 – EURO 50.000 True Copy (Signed) Alecos Markides Lawyer for the Plaintiffs Registrar (a) Strike out the word “Advocate for” if suing in person District Court of Limassol

Gemma McCluskie

Action Number: 5361/2010

NOT TO BE SERVED OUT OF JURISDICTION TO DEFENDANTS 2 AND 3 BEFORE PRIOR COURT PERMISSION (Form J. 190G) Number 1 – WRIT OF SUMMONS (O.2,1.)

By Catherine Lagrange and Michael Holden A SINGLE semi-automatic weapon was used to shoot dead four people in the Alps last week, including the parents and grandmother of two British girls who survived the attack, French state prosecutor Eric Maillaud said yesterday. Police searching the family’s home in Surrey, to the south of London, brieﬂy widened a security cordon around the site and called in bomb disposal experts but found nothing hazardous. “Yes, it’s conﬁrmed,” Maillaud told Reuters when asked about reports of a 7.65 millimetre automatic pistol being the only weapon used in the multiple murder on a remote mountain road near the border with Switzerland and Italy. Saad al-Hilli, the Iraqiborn British driver was shot twice in the head in his car along with his wife, her mother and a passing cyclist last Wednesday on the road

District Court of Limassol Before: T. Nicolaou, District Judge

THE AFGHAN Taliban said yesterday they were doing everything in their power to try to kidnap or assassinate Britain’s Prince Harry, who arrived in Afghanistan last week to ﬂy attack helicopters. Queen Elizabeth’s grandson is in Afghanistan on a four-month tour, based out of Camp Bastion in the volatile Helmand province, where he will be on the front line in the NATO-led war against Taliban insurgents. “We are using all our strength to get rid of him, either by killing or kidnapping,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location.

Prince Harry is on a fourmonth tour of Afghanistan “We have informed our commanders in Helmand to do whatever they can to eliminate him,” Mujahid added, declining to go into detail on what he dubbed

the “Harry operations”. Britain’s Ministry of Defence declined to comment on Mujahid’s statement, and British authorities have given few details of Prince Harry’s stint in Afghanistan for security reasons. The 27-year-old prince, who is third in line to the throne, took up his new role two weeks after being photographed frolicking naked in Las Vegas. Known in the military as Captain Wales, he ﬁrst served in Afghanistan in 2008 as an on-the-ground air controller, but his tour was cut short when a news blackout designed to protect him while he was on the front line collapsed.

Government pledge on suicide prevention research THE government has promised to pump £1.5 million into research exploring how to prevent suicides among those most at risk of taking their own lives. The pledge comes as ministers unveiled a new suicide prevention strategy that is aiming to cut the suicide rate and provide more support to bereaved families Funding will be used to look at how suicides can be reduced among people with a history of self-harm. Researchers will also focus on cutting suicides among children and young people and exploring how and why suicidal people

use the internet. Launching the new strategy to coincide with World Suicide Prevention Day, Care Services Minister Norman Lamb said: “One death to suicide is one too many - we want to make suicide prevention everyone’s business. “Over the last 10 years there has been real progress in reducing the suicide rate, but it is still the case that someone takes their own life every two hours in England. Around 4,200 people in England took their own lives in 2010 and suicide continues to be a public health issue - especially in the current period of economic uncertainty.

Scale: EURO 10.000-EURO 50.000 V.A.T. Number CY0021302 Action Number: 5361/2010

Between: 1. KALLISTHENI A. GEORGIOU Grigori Afxentiou 43, 3026 Limassol 2. ANDREA AGGELOPOULOU, Ayiou Andreou 33, 3601 Limassol Plaintiffs and 1. DIRECTOR OF LANDS AND SURVEY LIMASSOL DISTRICT, Demokratias 54, 3012 Limassol, P.O. Box 50200, 3601 Limassol 2. BOHEZ FLORENT SILVEER HENDRIK (Belgian Passport Number 690675/8668) of unknown address. 3. DE SMENT JEANNINE DELPHINA LOUISA (Belgian Passport Number 690675/8668) of unknown address. Defendants STATEMENT OF CLAIM 1. The Plaintiffs are the owners of the Immovable Property with registry number 11007/ Page/ Map LIV/39, Plot 136/3, at Parekklisia Village, in the District of Limassol (below mentioned as the “Property”). 2. On or around the 14.09.1992, the Plaintiffs signed a Sale Agreement with Defendant 2 over the Property (below mentioned as the “First Sale Agreement”). By virtue of the provisions of the First Sale Agreement, Defendant 2 agreed to pay the Plaintiffs and in any event did pay to the Plaintiffs as consideration for the purchase of the Property, the sum of Cyprus Pounds 20.000,00 (the equivalent of Euro 34.172,03). 3. The First Sale Agreement provided that the Property be transferred in the name of Defendant 2 within 1 month from the receipt by Defendant 2 of the relevant permission from the Council of Ministers, which would have allowed the acquisition of immovable property in Cyprus, by virtue of the applicable at the time provisions of the Acquisition of Immovable Property (Foreigners) Law (Chapter 109). 4. The Plaintiffs claim that on or around the 9.10.1992, Defendant 2 filed the First Sale Agreement with the Limassol District Lands Office for specific performance purposes, based on the relevant provisions of the Sale of Lands (Specific Performance) Law, Chapter 232. In confirmation of this action, the Limassol District Lands Office issued Defendant 2 with the relevant receipt which carries the number 1142/1992. 5. Following the request and / or demand of Defendant 2, the Plaintiffs on or around the 11.03.1993 cancelled the First Sale Agreement and in replacement of the said agreement, signed on that same day with Defendants 2 and 3 a new sale agreement for the Property (below mentioned as the “Second Sale Agreement”), which replaced the First one. The Plaintiffs claim that the contents of the Second Sale Agreement and / or its terms of essence were exactly the same as those of the First Sale Agreement and repeat mutatis mutandi the contents of paragraph 2 above. 6. The Plaintiffs claim that on or around the 15.03.1993 Defendants 2 and 3 filed the Second Sale Agreement with the Limassol District Lands Office for specific performance purposes based on the relevant provisions of the Sale of Lands (Specific Performance) Law, Chapter 232. In confirmation of this action, the Limassol District Lands Office issued Defendant 2 with the relevant receipt which carries the number 210/1993. 7. The Plaintiffs claim that after the signing of the Second Sale Agreement and / or with the passing of one month from the signing of the Second Sale Agreement, they repeatedly tried to contact Defendants 2 and 3, in order to check whether they had received the permission mentioned in paragraphs 2 and 4 above from the Council of Ministers. Despite their ongoing attempts, the Plaintiffs received no response and in any event lost all contact with Defendants 2 and 3, while the Property remained, and in any event remains until today, pledged and / or the object of an encumbrance as a consequence of Defendants 2 and 3 filing the First and / or the Second Sale Agreement (below mentioned as “the Agreements”) with the Limassol District Lands Office. 8. The Plaintiffs claim that as a consequence of the disappearance and / or lack of interest on the part of Defendants 2 and 3 concerning the transfer of the Property in their name and / or due to the lack of contact details of Defendants 2 and 3, they instructed their lawyer to address the competent governmental departments in order to investigate the matter. Consequent to the letters by lawyer Mr. Alecos Markides addressed to the Secretary of the Council of Ministers and / or the Director General of the Ministry for Home Affairs, dated 04.05.2009 and 14.10.2009 respectively, the Plaintiffs, on or around the 20.04.2010, were informed by means of a letter by the Limassol District Authority that Defendants 2 and 3 filed an application in order to secure permission for the acquisition of the Property on 09.12.1993, i.e. at a time following the signing of the Second Sale Agreement, which however was rejected. 9. Consequent to the letter from the Limassol District Authority mentioned in paragraph 8 above, the Plaintiffs, on or around the 28.06.2010, sent via their abovementioned lawyer a letter to the Director of the Limassol District Lands and Survey Office, by means of which they requested, inter alia, the removal of the encumbrance from the Property, consequent to the provisions of article 7(1) of the Sale of Lands (Specific Performance) Law (Chapter 232). The Plaintiffs claim that they have not received any response from the Limassol District Lands and Survey Office in relation to their lawyer’s abovementioned letter dated 28.06.2010. 10. The Plaintiffs claim that the encumbrances registered over the Property as a consequence of the filing of the First and / or the Second Sale Agreement with the Limassol District Lands Office, have ceased to exist and in any event the Agreements do not constitute and / or do not comprise and / or have ceased to comprise an encumbrance over the Property, consequent to the expiration of the time period foreseen by the Sale of Lands (Specific Performance) Law (Chapter 232) for the taking of court action on the part of Defendants 2 and 3 for the specific performance of the Agreements. 11. The Plaintiffs claim against the Defendants: A. A Declaration by the Court that the First Sale Agreement of the Property dated 14.09.1992 and / or the Second Sale Agreement of the Property, dated 11.05.1993, which were filed, as described above, with the Limassol District Lands Office for specific performance purposes, don not consist and / or do not comprise an encumbrance over the Property and / or that the encumbrances which were registered over the Property, as a consequence of the filing of the Agreements with the Limassol District Lands Office, are no longer in existence and / or that the said encumbrances must be removed, due to the passing and / or the expiration of the time period foreseen by the Sale of Lands (Specific Performance) Law (Chapter 232) for the taking of court action on the part of Defendants 2 and 3 for the specific performance of the Agreements. B. An Order by the Court ordering Defendant 1 to cancel and / or remove the encumbrances in place today over the Property, which were registered consequent to the filing of the Agreements with the Limassol District Lands Office. C. Any further or other relief. D. Costs plus V.A.T. Signature Alecos Markides Lawyer for the Plaintiffs Filed on 06 September 2012 REGISTRAR

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World WORLD TODAY Al Qaeda chief killed YEMENI armed forces have killed Said alShehri, a Saudi national seen as the second-incommand of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a government website said yesterday. The Ministry of Defence website said Shehri was killed yesterday, along with six other militants, in what it called a “qualitative operation” by the army in the remote Hadramout province in eastern Yemen. It gave no further details. AQAP, which has planned attacks on international targets including airliners, is described by Washington, which has used unmanned drones to target its members, as the most dangerous wing of al Qaeda.

Killings suspect detained HUNGARY yesterday detained a former top Communist party ofﬁcial for his role in the bloody suppression of an anti-Soviet uprising in 1956, the ﬁrst time that any of the Soviet-backed leaders of the time is brought to justice in the country. More than two decades after the fall of communism, the prosecution of Bela Biszku, 90 - who has been detained on suspicion of war crimes - could reopen old wounds in the central European country which has still not fully faced up to this tragic chapter of its history.

Tiger farm discovered A THAI man has been caught raising six tigers in a cage on top of an apartment block. Environmental police acting on a tip found four adult and two juvenile tigers in the rusty caged compound on the rooftop of a four-storey apartment building in a residential neighbourhood in Pathum Thani province.

Japan isles buy enrages China JAPAN has agreed to buy a group of islands disputed with China from their private owners, a government official said yesterday, prompting an angry rebuke from China a day after Chinese President Hu Jintao warned against such an “illegal” move. Japan aimed to nationalise the uninhabited islands in the East China Sea as soon as possible to control them in a peaceful and stable manner, Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura said. The islands, called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, are near rich fishing grounds and potentially huge maritime gas fields and have been at the heart of long-running territorial disputes between the world’s second and third-largest economies. Tension flared anew last month when Japan detained a group of Chinese activists who landed on the islands. But the row may now be having an economic impact, intensifying from merely an exchange of rhetoric, with a Chinese official saying Japanese car sales may have been hit in the world’s biggest auto market.

“This is just the ownership of land, which is part of Japan’s territory, moving from one (private) owner to the state, and should not cause any problem with other countries,” Fujimura said. “Having said that, we don’t want the Senkaku issue to affect overall Sino-Japanese relations. Because it is important to avoid misunderstanding and unforeseen development, we have been closely communicating with China through diplomatic channels to this day.” But China was ﬁrm in its opposition to what it saw as a “political trend”. “This is a serious infringement of China’s sovereignty and has seriously hurt the feelings of 1.3 billion Chinese...” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “The Chinese government and people express their resolute opposition and protest strongly.” Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi called in Japanese Ambassador Uichiro Niwa to lodge a strong protest, while state-run Xinhua news agency cited Premier Wen Jiabao as saying China would “never yield an inch” of territory.

Japan aimed peacefully to nationalise the uninhabited islands as soon as possible, said Fujimura (AFP)

US passes Bagram control to Afghanistan authorities Handover comes ahead of foreign troops’ exit

Afghan National Army troops attend the Bagram prison handover ceremony yesterday (AFP)

By Jessica Donati and Miriam Arghandiwal THE United States handed control of the controversial giant Bagram jail and its 3,000 suspected Taliban inmates to Afghan authorities yesterday, amid concerns the transfer could leave prisoners vulnerable to further rights abuses. Hundreds of Afghan soldiers watched as an Afghan ﬂag was hoisted in front of the prison at the huge US-run airﬁeld north of Kabul, as part of a plan to withdraw foreign troops from combat operations in 2014. “Today is a historical and glorious day for Afghanistan where Afghans are able to take the charge of the prison themselves,” acting Defence

Minister Enayatullah Nazari told a large crowd including US military ofﬁcials. In a move that has angered the Afghan government, the

US plans to keep at least one block at the prison, where any suspected Taliban ﬁghters or terrorists captured in future raids will be held be-

fore being handed over. Afghanistan has long sought control of the sprawling prison which has been likened to Guantanamo in Cuba and

Abu Graib in Iraq for its association with torture and long detention times. Prisoners have often been held for years without trial, and activists say they will be vulnerable to more rights abuses once the handover is complete. Afghan authorities will maintain the American policy of detention without trial at Bagram, and many fear the practice could be extended to the rest of the country heralding a new chapter of rights abuses by powerful tribes and families. Afghan lawyers say Afghanistan’s social system of powerful tribes and influential families could mean that inmates are exposed to abuse if individuals are imprisoned without trial and on the basis of little, if any, evidence. “A wealthy figure or a person of authority, if offended for whatever reason, can arrest an innocent citizen over personal or family vendettas,” the president of Afghanistan’s Independent Bar Association, Rohullah Qarizada, said. Afghan officials maintain that detention without trial is illegal under Afghan law.

Cartoonist arrest revives freedom of speech debate in India THE arrest of a cartoonist on sedition charges for drawings that satirise graft in India’s political elite rekindled a national debate on freedom of speech yesterday weeks after a clampdown on Twitter in the world’s largest democracy.

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Cartoonist Aseem Trivedi turned himself in and was remanded in custody on Sunday, an ofﬁcial at the east Mumbai police station said. The arrest followed a private complaint over a series of cartoons, including one that depicts the parlia-

ment building as a lavatory buzzing with ﬂies. If found guilty, the satirist faces a three-year prison term. Trivedi became an instant cause celebre among free speech and anticorruption activists who complain India’s corruption-plagued government

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is increasingly intolerant of criticism. Tousle-haired and bearded, Trivedi shouted slogans as he was bundled by police into a patrol car outside the court, television images showed. He refused the services of a lawyer and welcomed his own arrest.

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IAEA presses for access to Iran’s Parchin THE head of the UN nuclear watchdog pressed Iran yesterday to grant his inspectors immediate access to the Parchin military site, where they believe Tehran may have conducted explosives tests relevant to the development of nuclear weapons. Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, also said it was “frustrating” that the IAEA and Iran had made no real progress in talks that began in January aimed at allaying concern about suspected atom bomb research. Western powers may seize on his statement to a closeddoor session of the IAEA’s 35-nation governing board to strengthen their case for further international pressure on Iran, one of the world’s largest oil producers. Saying Tehran must address the substance of the UN agency’s questions, Amano later told a news conference he was committed to intensifying the dialogue with the Islamic state but that no date had been set yet for a new meeting. “We need to stop going around in circles discussing process ... Iran has the obligation to fully cooperate with us.” Asked about Iran’s demand for access to documents which form the basis for the IAEA’s suspicions about possible military dimensions to Iran’s nuclear programme, Amano said he was ready to provide them “when appropriate”. He made his comments one day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel and the United States were in discussions on setting a “red line” for Iran’s nuclear programme, which Tehran says is peaceful. Israel, believed to be the only nuclear-armed state in the Middle East, sees the possibility of Iran developing an atomic bomb as a threat to its existence and has said it may use military means if diplomacy and sanctions fail. European Union heavyweights Britain, France and Germany called last week for new sanctions and Canada has unexpectedly severed ties with Iran.

‘Both sides in Syria strife commit abuse’ UN rights chief fingers Assad forces, rebels By Tom Miles and Stephanie Nebehay

Fighters with the Free Syria Army pass weapons through an opening in the embattled northern city of Aleppo

Iraq’s fugitive vice president claims ‘absolute innocence’ IRAQ’S fugitive vice president has declared his “absolute innocence” and rejected the terror trial that sentenced him to death on charges of masterminding the murder of rivals. Tariq al-Hashemi, a Sunni, who fled Iraq after the government brought the charges against him, called the trial illegitimate and accused prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite and longtime foe, of orchestrating it as part of a political vendetta. “The verdict is unjust, politicised, illegitimate and I will not recognise it,” al-Hashemi said in the Turkish capital of Ankara. “But I put it as a medal of honour on my chest because it was al-Maliki, not anyone else, behind it. I’m proud that it is al-Maliki, and not anyone else, to target me. “The death sentence is a price I have to pay due to my love for my country and my loyalty to my people,” he added. “I reiterate that I’m innocent, and am ready to stand before a fair judicial system and not a corrupt one that is under alMaliki’s influence.” Al-Hashemi fled to Turkey after Iraq’s Shiite-led government issued the terror charges against him in December, the day after US troops withdrew from the country. He would receive a retrial if he agrees to return to Baghdad, but he says he will never get a fair hearing in a Baghdad court. The politically charged case sparked a government crisis and fuelled Sunni Muslim and Kurdish resentment against al-Maliki, whom critics say is monopolising power. On Sunday, Baghdad’s criminal court convicted al-Hashemi and his son-in-law, Ahmed Qahtan, of organising the murders of a Shiite security official and a lawyer who had refused to help the vice president’s allies in terror cases. The two defendants were acquitted in a third case of the killing of a security officer due to a lack of evidence.

S. Africa mine unrest spreads

Yukiya Amano of the IAEA

INDUSTRIAL action has spread in South Africa with a wildcat strike by 15,000 gold miners, while few workers reported for duty in the fourth week of a stoppage at a platinum mine. Gold Fields International said its strike started on Sunday night and senior managers were at the scene trying to ﬁnd out the cause of the problem at the west section of its KDC mine. The east section of the mine was operating normally. At a second platinum mine, Implats, 15,000-plus workers are demanding a 10-per cent

pay rise while continuing to work. Lonmin platinum mine said 6 per cent of its 28,000 workers turned up at its mine in Marikana, west of Johannesburg. Strikers have threatened to kill any miners or managers who do not respect their demand for all work to stop until Lonmin agrees to a monthly take-home pay of 12,500 rand (£975), about double their current wages. Miners said they were getting desperate and do not have enough money to feed their families because of the no-work, no-pay strike.

THE U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights blamed both sides in the Syrian conﬂict yesterday for human rights violations and said that justice would eventually catch up with them. Addressing the 47-member UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Navi Pillay reiterated that the Syrian government’s actions might amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. “The use of heavy weapons by the government and the shelling of populated areas have resulted in high numbers of civilian casualties, mass displacement of civilians inside and outside the country and a devastating humanitarian crisis,” she said. “I am equally concerned about violations by antigovernment forces, including murder, extrajudicial execution and torture, as well as the recently increased use of improvised explosive devices,” she added. Both government forces

and militants had also deployed snipers who targeted civilians, she said. Pillay, a former UN war crimes judge, has repeatedly called for Syria to be referred to the International Criminal Court, but such a referral can only be effected by the UN Security Council, which is split on how to deal with Syria. China and Russia oppose any attempt to lay the blame for the crisis on President Bashar al-Assad.

‘ACCOUNTABILITY’ “A referral will make it abundantly clear to all actors in Syria that they will not escape justice and will be held accountable for alleged violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law,” Pillay said yesterday in a separate speech she made to a discussion on Syria. “Opposition forces should be under no illusion that they will be immune from prosecution,” she added, calling on the rebels to halt what she called a deterioration in their conduct.

The Human Rights Council has repeatedly voted to condemn Syria’s government for its handling of what began as a peaceful protest movement against the government and has escalated into civil war. China, Russia and Cuba have consistently voted against its resolutions. Independent UN human rights investigators, in their latest report issued on August 15, said that Syrian government forces and allied shabbiha militia have committed war crimes including murder and torture of civilians in what appears to be state-directed policy. The United States called yesterday for the mandate of the inquiry led by Brazilian Paulo Pinheiro, which expires later this month, to be extended so that it continues to collect evidence and testimony. “The onus is upon this Council to ensure that those who commit such heinous human rights violations are investigated and identiﬁed so that perpetrators can be held accountable,” US ambassador Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe told the Council.

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Business Tough talks with Greece lenders

Europe shares consolidate gains, await more stimulus

GREECE acknowledged yesterday it was having trouble persuading its foreign lenders to accept a plan to save nearly €12 billion over the next two years, essential to unlocking the aid payments the country needs in order to avoid bankruptcy. Hopes that Greece, now in its fifth straight year of recession, might get a quick green light on the package were dashed when inspectors rejected part of it after bilateral talks resumed on Sunday. There appeared to be little progress at a second round of talks yesterday between Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and the 'troika' of inspectors from the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. "It is a difficult discussion," Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras told reporters after the meeting. "We are trying to convince them on the soundness of our positions." Troika officials rejected some of the proposed measures to cut public sector expenses and wanted a bolder plan to reduce the number of civil servants, a senior Greek official said. "They insist on rejecting the measures that concern the restructuring of the state," the official said. "We insist that they accept them." Slashing public sector jobs is a highly sensitive subject in Greece, where the constitution bars firing civil servants. Athens' proposed austerity package includes a controversial plan for a "labour reserve" in which civil servants get reduced pay before being laid off, but the scheme only targets savings of 167 million euros over 2013 and 2014, a draft of the plan obtained by Reuters late last month showed.

Crucial week ahead with FED, German ruling eyed By David Brett EUROPEAN shares trimmed the previous session's gains early yesterday, with investors in consolidation mode awaiting catalysts such as potential stimulus from the United States and a German constitutional court ruling on the eurozone's bailout fund. By 0745 GMT, the FTSEuroﬁrst 300 was down 3.15 points, or 0.3 per cent at 1,103.57, having hit a fresh 13-month intraday high on Friday on enthusiasm over the European Central Bank's bond-buying plan. "Our medium term view is still bullish for equity markets but in the short-term we see some consolidation as we await the ESM court decision in Germany, the outcome of elections in Holland and the FOMC meeting in the US," said Achim Matzke, European stock indexes analyst at Commerzbank. Investors will focus on a number of events during the week, including the ruling by Germany's constitutional court on the legality of the eurozone's permanent ﬁnancial rescue fund, the European Stability Mechanism. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve, the US central bank, looks set to launch a third round of bond purchases

Investors were in consolidation mode after earlier enthusiasm over the European Central Bank's bond-buying plan at its Federal Open Market Committee meeting on Thursday, to try to drive borrowing costs lower and revive economic growth. "If we get larger-than-expected QE from the US then it is good for the equity markets and risk assets, but if it is not large enough then momentum in equities could run out of steam," Commerzbank's Matzke said. UBS said it now sees further QE at the Fed's meeting this week, which would trigger a return of capital ﬂows to emerging markets and potentially push miners towards the top of their valuation range with

BHP 10- to 15-per cent higher and more upside for mid caps or discounted names. Miners were the main gainers again, up 1.2 per cent as expectations brewed for more stimulus in the US, while weak trade data from the world's biggest consumer of raw materials, China, fuelled further expectations that its government would soon act to stimulate the economy. M&A factors also drove Marks & Spencer 2.8 per cent higher after bankers said late on Friday they are exploring debt packages to back a potential buyout of the UK retailer.

With the main risk events of the German ESM ruling and the FOMC meeting coming late in the week, and a rather empty economic calendar, markets adopted their recent behaviour of treading water until a clear trigger for action emerges. After recent surge, following a long period of underperformance, stocks in Spain, Italy and Portugal faded early yesterday. The three troubled eurozone countries and Greece all made it into the top ﬁve performing global equity markets last month, according to Thomson Reuters indexes.

Europe equity funds recorded net outﬂows for the eighth time in the past nine weeks, according to EPFR data for the week to September 5 (pre-ECB bond buying plan), though daily data showed the pace of redemptions from Europe Equity Funds ebbing as the week progressed. In a sign investors remained optimistic that policymakers would intervene to stimulate economies, the main drag on indexes came from highly valued defensive stocks such as utilities and food and beverages while riskier assets like banks, miners and ﬁnancial services rose.

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Glencore says its Xstrata offer is final PXP into energy big leagues

These Bank of Cyprus rates for telegraphic transfer transactions (spot deals) apply to yesterday, but provide a good guide to today’s value against the euro.

COMMODITIES trader Glencore laid out what it said was a final $36 billion (£22.5 billion) takeover offer for Xstrata yesterday, warning the miner's investors it would not improve the terms again after making concessions to woo recalcitrant shareholders. Glencore, which already owns just over a third of Xstrata, confirmed its bid was now at 3.05 new shares for every Xstrata share held. This is up from 2.8 and in line with proposals made on Friday, following a turnaround that ended months of stalemate with the miner's secondlargest investor, Qatar. That level represents a 27-per cent premium to the ratio at which Glencore and Xstrata were trading last week, when the market believed the deal would collapse. "Glencore confirms that it is an all-share merger, and it will not increase the merger ratio further," the trading company said. "The increased merger ratio represents a substantial premium for a company with a 34 per cent shareholder." The offer released after a weekend of intense negotiations has been seen by those close to the deal as more conciliatory and less aggressive than proposals presented to Xstrata's board on Friday, just minutes before the miner's shareholders were due to vote on Glencore's original bid. Glencore's chief executive and top shareholder Ivan Glasenberg still demands the top

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The Xstrata logo seen at its HQ in Zug job in the combined entity, but the deal now retains a merger structure unless a change is approved by Xstrata - rather than shifting to a straightforward takeover requiring a simple majority to approve the bid. It also provides for a balanced board, as in the original bid made in February, and makes the deal conditional on a retention scheme for the miner's senior managers easing concerns about the operational risk of changes at the top. Shares in Xstrata were up 2.4 per cent at 1,038.5 pence at 12.20pm British time, outperforming a 1.8-per cent rise in the UK mining sector, while Glencore was down 1.2 per cent.

PLAINS Exploration & Production Co is paying $5.55 billion (£3.4 billion) for BP Plc's stake in some deepwater Gulf of Mexico wells, a deal that boosts its power in the North American energy market and sharpens its focus on crude oil. Shares of Plains, commonly known by the stock exchange symbol "PXP," fell more than 8 per cent, however, as investors were wary about the price of the deal and the $7 billion in debt that will fund it. By buying such a large network of oil exploration rigs, Plains Exploration is effectively jumping into the energy industry big leagues with Anadarko Petroleum Corp, Devon Energy Corp and other large independent oil and natural gas producers. The company was spun off from privately held Plains Resources Inc in 2002 and had previously focused much of its attention on oil drilling in Southern California. Roughly two-thirds of PXP's operations will now be in the Gulf, with one-third on land, and daily production will triple to 300,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. The deal is part of the company's strategy to focus less on natural gas, whose prices are at a decade low, and more on lucrative crude oil. "This is not your brother's Gulf of Mexico," PXP Chief Executive James Flores told investors. "This has very long life and we have a well-developed plan for the next eight years." The move helps BP shed smaller, older assets to focus on larger, newer wells that are more lucrative. It also helps the company reach its goal of raising $38 billion from asset sales to pay for damages from the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven people died and 4.9 million barrels of oil spewed from the mile-deep (1.6 km-deep) Macondo oil well in by far the worst offshore US oil spill.

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Opinion

Bank of Cyprus debt write-off for AKEL union highlights need for transparency HOW IRONIC, at a time when AKEL and the government have been waging war on the banks, a story would appear about the decision of the Bank of Cyprus to write off of loans worth close to €3 million it had given to a company of the AKEL-controlled union PEO. It also refused to pursue the guarantors of the loans, all of whom were members of AKEL and included the PEO boss. Was this blatantly preferential treatment, aimed at currying favour with a political party, an example of the mismanagement of the banks that AKEL and the government have been talking about every day for the last six months? To how many businesses or personal guarantors do the banks show such astonishing generosity? PEO was obviously not an ordinary debtor. The decision to write off the loan was taken in March this year, at a time when the Bank of Cyprus was unsuccessfully trying to raise funds for its recapitalisation. This did not seem a good time to write off loans. Then again such decisions are the exclusive domain of the bank’s top brass who are accountable to their board and shareholders. The real issue is the total lack of transparency in the dealings of the political parties and their subsidiary organisations in issues of funding. The voters do not have a clue who contributes funds to political parties or to the campaigns of presidential candidates because there is no legislation obliging them to disclose such information. In fact all parties are united in opposing legally regulated transparency with regard to contributions from individuals and businesses. There have been attempts by isolated deputies to change the law, but the leadership of the parties have stood ﬁrm, insisting on safeguarding the secrecy that surrounds contributions. One argument used was that many contributors would stop giving money if their names were made public. There is a lot of truth in this, as many of the big companies contribute funds to all the parties, and they do this for obvious reasons. This is why funding transparency is necessary - it would restrict shady dealings and corruption as ordinary people would know of the links between parties or candidates and their contributors/benefactors. If transparency adversely affects fund-raising, the parties may suffer for a while, but it would be for the best, because those who want their contributions kept secret are those who would want special favours and treatment.

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Returning US congress faces big tasks ahead but is likely to do little Comment Thomas Ferraro

NE OF the most unpopular and unproductive US Congresses in modern history returned yesterday from a five-week recess, facing a crush of big tasks, few of which will likely get done. Lawmakers are expected to be in Washington for only about two weeks between now and the November 6 election, making their return to the capital little more than a pit stop. “Everyone wants to get out of town - fast,” said a top Senate aide, voicing the sentiment on both sides of the political aisle. Quickie sessions are the rule rather than the exception in election years, and lawmakers may be around just long enough to approve a must-pass spending bill to keep the government running before racing home to campaign for their seats. This year they do will so as voters seem more frustrated than ever with their partisan gridlock. Unfinished business on Capitol Hill includes bills to overhaul the massive farm law, improve cyber security for the nation’s critical infrastructure, downsize the ailing postal service, and normalise trade with Russia. The most urgent item - making sure Congress does not trigger a recession early next year - is by all accounts on hold until after the election, when lawmakers will attempt to head off trouble of their own making: tax increases and automatic spending cuts that threaten to send the United States over what’s been called “a fiscal cliff.” Corporate leaders say the uncertainty surrounding this single issue is already weighing on business decisions, particularly in the defence industry. A preventable recession, induced by a forewarned Congress, would be a first. Most still believe lawmakers will avoid going over the cliff, some how, some way. “My faith in Congress is pretty minimal,” said Dan Ripp of Bradley Woods, a New York-based

Members of congress recently took time out of their recesses to attend national party conventions - Illinois nominee for Congress Tammy Duckworth at the Democratic convention public policy research firm. “But members of Congress are excellent at self-preservation and that is why I think they will do something to avoid ‘the cliff’ and voter backlash,” Ripp said. Nevertheless, any progress may depend on how party leaders analyse the results of the election contest between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Lawmakers will calculate whether they have something to gain - or lose - by waiting until the convening of a new Congress in January to deal with tax and spending issues. Thus a pre-election paralysis has taken hold on top of the gridlock that has afflicted Washington since the 2010 election, when Democrats lost control of the House of Representatives and government became officially divided along party lines. Just 61 bills have become law

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in 2012, the fewest in a year in more than 60 years, according to records compiled by the House clerk’s office. In 2011, 90 bills became law, down from 258 the year before, when Democrats controlled both chambers and the White House. “The metaphor for congressional ineptitude is its inability to even reform the postal service,” said Greg Valliere of the Potomac Research Group, a private firm that tracks Washington for institutional investors. “Members in both parties talk tough about reducing deficits, but they are scared to close a local post office because they will get angry letters from constituents,” Valliere said. “If you can’t reform the post office, how are you ever going to reform entitlements” like the Social Security retirement programme and Medicare health

programme, he said. Amid budget battles last year, Congress pushed the government to the brink of a shutdown and an unprecedented default, generating plenty of public disgust, anger and fear. During the past year or so, Congress’ approval ratings have been in or at single digits, the lowest numbers ever. Even so, most lawmakers seem certain to win another term, largely because of the advantages of incumbency, such as name recognition and the ability to raise money. Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics said voters were puzzled as to why lawmakers cannot be more productive. “Most people just don’t understand why Democrats and Republicans can’t get together and split at least some of their differences,” Sabato said. Members of Congress certainly have plenty of time to clear their heads, stretch their legs and literally ﬁnd common ground outside of Washington. While the average American worker has a median household income of about $50,000 and gets 13 days of annual paid vacation, lawmakers command salaries of $174,000 and will have recesses this year totalling more than four months. Lawmakers do not though call their recesses vacation. Instead, they refer to many of them as “district work periods” used to meet with constituents. Democrats and Republicans spent some of their recent recess at their political parties’ respective national conventions. However, with Congress in such low esteem, lawmakers maintained low proﬁles at the nationally broadcast events, which featured prime-time speeches by Obama and Romney. On a recent rainy day, out-oftown visitors to the US Capitol voiced frustrations. “I want to have faith in them, I really do, but it is hard,” said Ronda Rieves, a Florida pastor, accompanied by her husband, Franklin, a construction worker. “The only time we hear from them is every two years, on a recording that says, ‘Vote for me,’” she said.

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1973

25 years ago Friday September 11, 1987

Chile’s socialist president Salvador Allende dies during a military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet and supported by the United States.

The Gulf War ﬂared savagely yesterday, the eve of a UN peace mission by Secretary-general Javier Perez de Cuellar. Iranian gunboats attacked a tanker while Baghdad reported Iranian gunners hammered Iraqi cities. When the UN Security ordered the Secretary-general to visit Iran and Iraq, it asked both countries to cease ﬁghting while he was in the area.

1978 Writer and broadcaster Georgi Markov dies of blood poisoning, four days after he said he was stabbed with an umbrella at a London bus stop.

1980 In England, two Chicago gangsters steal jewellery from a shop in London worth in excess of £1 million. The two thieves are later apprehended.

2001 Terrorists hijack airliners and deliberately crash them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon, killing around 3,000 people.

2005 Thirty-eight years of military rule come to an end as Israeli soldiers lower the ﬂag and pull out of Gaza.

35 years ago Sunday September 11, 1977 “There is no question of Enosis for the Greek Cypriot people, the solution under discussion is independence and not Enosis”, President Kyprianou declared. The President made the statement in answer to the question “Archbishop Makarios was never able to denounce Enosis. Do you see Enosis as an unattainable goal?”

45 years ago Monday September 11, 1967 Greece and Turkey tonight agreed to continue exploring the possibility of bringing closer their view on the solution of the Cyprus issue. The announcements came at the end of two days of talks between the Premiers of the two countries. The Cyprus problem, dominated the discussions held today and yesterday.

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Showbiz Complex Cloud Atlas divides in leap from page to screen By Julie Gordon CULT novel Cloud Atlas was once considered unﬁlmable. For some movie critics, it still is. The adaptation of the philosophical book by Britain’s David Mitchell premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to sharply divided reviews, suggesting the complex storylines and ambitious plot structure did not always connect with audiences who had not read the novel. With a budget that reportedly topped $100 million, and an all-star cast of Tom Hanks, Hugh Grant and Halle Berry playing multiple roles, the pressure is on for Cloud Atlas to be a box ofﬁce hit. And with Hollywood awards season just around the corner, anticipation is running high. Co-directed by Tom Tykwer of Run Lola Run fame, and the sibling team behind The Matrix Trilogy, Andy and Lana Wachowski, Cloud

Atlas is made up of six narratives spanning from the 1840s to the present day to a post-apocalyptic future. The century-hopping ﬁlm explores how actions can have consequences in the past, present and future, and the notion that humanity cannot help but repeat itself. While Mitchell’s book tells six separate but linked stories in chronological order, moving from the past to future and then back again, the ﬁlm intercuts the stories to drive home the link between the threads. “When you read the book you see that there are very resonant themes in all six stories,” co-director Lana Wachowski said of the adaptation process. “Once we started seeing the resonant pieces of narrative and the pieces of narrative that seemed connected, we began sort of laying it out as if it was one big story and that was our goal.” Britain’s Guardian newspaper

gave the film two stars, saying it “carries all the marks of a giant folly, and those unfamiliar with the book will be baffled.” “Yet it’s hard to wholly condemn the directors’ ambition - this is fastpaced and cleverly assembled, with the best of the performances shining through the prosthetics,” the Guardian said. The actors undergo several big physical transformations in their various roles. Hanks is a shady doctor in the 1840s, a nuclear scientist in the 1970s and then a simple valleydweller in the distant future, while Hugo Weaving (Agent Smith in the Matrix films)switches from a hired hitman in the 1970s to an iron-fisted female retirement home nurse in the present day. Despite the challenging content, Hanks said that doing the film was a no-brainer for him. “And it was totally worth it if only to see Hugh Grant as a cannibal,” Hanks added with a grin.

Cannibal: Hugh Grant in Cloud Atlas

Kristen Stewart claims she and Robert Pattinson are ‘fine’

Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds get married

THE 22-year-old actress was caught cheating on Robert with her Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders in July resulting in the 26-year-old actor dumping her. Despite their problems, Kristen doesn’t think it will be awkward for the former couple to promote The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 - the final movie in the series - together in November. Speaking at the premiere of On The Road at the Toronto Film Festival, Kristen said: “We’re going to be fine. We’re totally fine.” Kristen and Robert play on-screen lovers Bella Swan and Edward Cullen in the popular vampire franchise and the brunette beauty is determined to not let her “momentary indiscretion” affect their professionalism or let their fans down. She added: “We have been waiting for this thing to be unleashed for so long. It was sort of one of those situations where you just have to put yourself in your body and go appreciate the moment.”

Cake brought in from Virginia, Florence Welch entertains guests

Mel B planning to stay in Aus THE Spice Girls singer stars as a judge on X Factor Australia and enjoyed it so much she wants to move Down Under permanently with husband Stephen Belafonte and daughters, Phoenix, 13, Angel, ﬁve, and 12-month-old Madison. Mel - originally from Northern England - has spent most of the last year dividing her time between Los Angeles and Sydney, but now wants a permanent base in Australia. She said: “To get citizenship here takes quite a bit of effort but we really want to get residency.”

THE couple - who met on the set of The Green Lantern and have been dating since last year - tied the knot in an intimate ceremony at Hall Plantation in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina on Sunday, according to People magazine. Florence Welch performed three songs for the newlyweds and their guests at the reception, which took place in a large white marquee on the plantation, while they also hired a DJ to entertain the revellers. Bette Midler was spotted having dinner with Blake’s mother and sister in the town over the weekend, although it is unclear if she attended the nuptials. People said a cake had been driven down from Virginia for the event. In July, Blake and Ryan sparked speculation that they had already married after a blundering law enforcer made an error while ﬁlling paperwork on a police t. report. re the big day, Blake Before d on her Twitter page hinted that her romance was ‘the m of a lifetime’. dream The Teen Choice Awardwinnerr wrote: ‘You are living in a m of dream your own on. creation. ‘Let it e be the m dream feof a lifetime, for s that is exactly

what it is.’ Ryan, 35, was previously married to Scarlett Johansson while Blake, 25, has dated her Gossip Girl co-star Penn Badgley and actor Leonardo DiCaprio. Broody Blake recently revealed she can’t wait to become a mother. She said: “I want to be a mum someday. I’m upset that my nieces and nephews aren’t my own children. It’s something I can’t wait for and I’m so excited about.” While Blake and Ryan rarely talk about their relationship, she also revealed her ideal man is someone who can be her best friend. She said: “When I look for a partner there has to be a strong connection. He needs to be my best friend, whether he’s macho or sensitive - it doesn’t matter. He also has to make me laugh. I enjoy someone who’s a lot of fun to be with. “He also needs to be kind, patient, caring and not take himself too seriously. And of course, he needs to appreciate my cooking! I’m very domestic.”

The couple met on the set of The Green Lantern

Brad Pitt ‘doesn’t feel safe’ without a gun THE Killing Them Softly actor is protective of his fiancée Angelina Jolie, and the children they raise - Maddox, 11, Pax, nine, Zahara, seven, Shiloh, six, and fouryear-old twins Knox and Vivienne - and feels owning a weapon is “in his DNA” as an American. He said: “America is a country founded on guns. It’s in our DNA. It’s very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don’t feel safe, I don’t feel the house is completely safe, if I don’t have one hidden somewhere. “That’s my thinking, right or wrong.” Brad, 48, points out how he was exposed to guns from an early age but still turned out to be a responsible adult. He added: “I got my first BB gun when I was in nursery school. I got my first shotgun by first grade [six years old], I had shot a handgun by third grade [eight] and I grew up in a pretty sane environment.” While Brad and Angelina have very busy acting schedules, filming in locations around the world, they always take their family with them, and make a point of always eating breakfast together, no matter how hard they are working. Brad explained: “Right now, Mama [Angelina] is working but the day always starts with breakfast, all of us together. “It’s chaos and a joy. When they are young like this, it’s special, and I’m very aware they’ll be grown up before we know it. I see it already and I’m clinging on with my nails.”

Beyonce loves changing nappies BEYONCE Knowles claims she and husband Jay-Z love changing their daughter’s dirty diapers. The Halo singer and the hip-hop star welcomed little Blue Ivy into the world in January and are loving every moment of parenthood, including the not-soglamorous parts. She said: “Actually, [JayZ] is very good. We both [change diapers]. I love changing diapers, I love it. I love every moment of it, it’s so beautiful. I love it all.” Beyonce also revealed how she likes to make up songs for Blue Ivy to send the tot to sleep. In an appearance on TV show Anderson Live, she revealed’: “I make up actually a lot of crazy, corny songs.” However, while she sings songs at home, Beyonce admits her little girl gets confused when she sees her perform in front of an audience. She said: “I’m Mommy and when [Blue] sees me today was the ﬁrst time she saw me perform in rehearsal - she was very confused.”

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Environment

Climate change is out of sight on the US campaign trail Record temperatures, drought fail to ignite environment issue By Deborah Zabarenko WHEN it comes to the environment, the presidential contest has offered sharply contrasting images: Barack Obama posing beside an Iowa wind turbine and Mitt Romney standing in front of an Ohio coal mine. But in their rhetoric, both candidates have focused on a similar theme - sustainable development, the notion that the private sector can work with government to protect the environment while boosting the economy and creating jobs. The pro-business focus has disappointed some ardent environmentalists. Obama, for example, has been criticised for not cracking down on the controversial technique of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which uses chemicals and water to blast through underground shale formations. Romney’s recently unveiled energy policy focuses on industry optimism about drilling in underground shale deposits for domestic oil and natural gas. Romney’s supporters include the billionaire Koch brothers, who made their fortune in oil, gas and chemicals. The big question is whether any of their environmental rhetoric will matter when voters go to the polls. Despite withering temperatures and a widespread drought, the race for the White House barely has a tinge of green. “While this year’s wild weather has caused alarm, it has so far not raised environmental issues on the public agenda,” said Karlyn Bowman, who tracks public opinion at the pro-business American Enterprise Institute. “There’s no evidence that it will be a big issue nationally.” The environment trails far behind the economy and jobs as a pivotal concern for US voters, which has been the case in the last few presidential elections, Bowman said. On the issue of climate change, both Obama and Romney have expressed their belief that climate change is occurring and that human activity contributes to it, a shift for Romney who once said he was uncertain. Obama has dubbed climate change “one of the biggest issues of this generation” in an online discussion with scientists. Romney has voiced his view that unilateral US action to curb greenhouse gases would “shift industrial activity overseas” to countries with less stringent environmental laws. Obama’s campaign touts the president’s commitment to decrease US foreign oil dependency by promoting

All of the above: President Obama was photographed beside a wind farm

Protected areas for wildlife expand to the size of Russia PROTECTED areas for wildlife have expanded worldwide to cover a land area the size of Russia in the past two decades, but far more parks and reserves are needed to meet a 2020 target, a new study showed. The sharp growth, as governments expanded existing areas and declared new ones, was needed to help slow a loss of animal and plant species and to conserve eco-systems which serve vital functions such as purifying water and storing greenhouse gases. “These rich natural areas are very important for people, who rely on them for food and clean water, climate regulation and reducing the impacts of natural disasters,” said Julia Marton-Lefevre, head of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The IUCN report, issued during a meeting of the organisation in South Korea, said the areas protected had risen to 12.7 per cent of the world’s terrestrial area in 2010, or 17 million km², from 8.8 per cent in 1990. The United Nations has set a goal of protected areas reaching 17 per cent of land area by 2020 - that would mean adding at least six million km² or an area about twice the size of Argentina or India, it said. The area of the sea protected within national jurisdictions has risen more than four-fold to four per cent, from 0.9 per cent in 1990, but is also far short of a UN goal

of 10 per cent by 2020. Reaching the target would require adding marine areas the size of Australia. Protected areas also vary widely in their effectiveness, according to the study by IUCN, which includes governments, scientists and activists. “Some of the world’s protected areas are properly managed but many, many of them aren’t,” Trevor Sandwith, director of the IUCN’s Global Protected Areas Programme, said. One possible option to meet the UN target would be to recognise more of the land that is under the control of indigenous peoples as protected, he said. Indigenous peoples were often better at conserving territory than governments. Sandwith said UN climate negotiations had failed to agree a ﬁnancial reward for governments which protect rainforests, putting a brake on conservation efforts. Trees soak up carbon as they grow and release it when they burn or rot. Deforestation, from the Amazon Basin to the Congo, may account for 17 per cent of all greenhouse gases from human activities, according to some government estimates. Talks on a new global deal to ﬁght climate change, which may include forest carbon, are making slow progress. The UN’s goal is to strike an agreement by 2015 which will come into effect in 2020.

Zoo welcomes birth of rare turtle

renewable energy sources including wind, solar and geothermal. It notes that US electricity generation from solar power has more than doubled since Obama took office in 2009. The campaign also promotes new energy efficiency rules that would boost mileage for cars and light trucks to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, nearly twice the 2009 level. The campaign website features a video on Obama’s “all-of-theabove” energy strategy, with a mix of renewables, oil, natural gas, biofuels, nuclear and fuel efficiency. Republicans have seized on the administration’s failed investment in Solyndra, the solar panel company that went bankrupt after receiving $535 million in government loans. And Obama’s approval of offshore oil leases in the environmentally sensitive Arctic Ocean has raised alarm among his ecologically minded supporters. “Obama is pushing to drill the Arctic Ocean, where climate change is having a disproportionately severe im-

pact,” Peter Van Tuyn, an Alaska-based environmental attorney, said. “This is a risky project that ﬂies in the face of science and common sense.” Romney and the Republicans, Van Tuyn said, feel compelled to play to Obama’s right, “and thus think that even more drilling of the Arctic is the answer.” Obama’s philosophy of promoting a variety of energy alternatives is similar to one pitched by Republicans in 2008 in response to recordhigh gas prices. They have continued using it, even as Obama adopted it to push back at critics claiming he favoured clean energy technology over traditional fuels like oil and gas that emit climatewarming carbon dioxide when burned. A recent white paper called “The Romney Plan For A Stronger Middle Class: Energy Independence,” is long on energy development: state control of energy development on federal lands within their borders, opening offshore areas to drilling, changes in regulation and easing of

private development of new technologies. The document says this will create more than three million jobs, spark an economic resurgence and lower energy prices. It does not assess the plan’s environmental impact. The environment’s limited role in the current campaign may be a sign of how the issue has evolved over more than a century, said Steven Cohen, executive director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University. Before the environment surfaced as an issue, there was a push to protect nature, as exempliﬁed by Teddy Roosevelt’s creation of the US Forest Service and the national park system. By the 1970s and 1980s, Cohen said, that push had shifted to health and safety concerns about toxins in US air, water and soil. Now, he said, “The environment’s being treated as an economic development issue... so we have to ﬁgure out a way to run the global economy in a way that doesn’t poison us.”

ONE of the world’s rarest species of turtle has hatched at a zoo in Bristol for the ﬁrst time. The tiny seven-week-old Vietnamese box turtle is so precious that it is being kept in a climate-controlled room at Bristol Zoo Gardens and is hand-fed chopped worms to give it the best possible start in life. It is the ﬁrst time a British zoo has ever bred this critically endangered species and is only the second in Europe, after a zoo in Germany, to have done so. The youngster, which keepers have named Vernon,

weighs just 28g and measures around 5cm long - roughly the size of a matchbox. Curator of reptiles Tim Skelton, who has cared for turtles for more than 40 years, said: “This is a very difﬁcult species to breed so I am thrilled with the arrival of this baby after so many years; it is certainly a career highlight.” The birth takes the total number of Vietnamese box turtles at Bristol Zoo to seven. However, there are so few of these turtles in captivity that there is no dedicated zoo breeding programme for them.

Drilling to give clues to sea rise A BRITISH plan to drill into a sunless lake deep under Antarctica’s ice in December could show the risks of quicker sea level rise caused by climate change, scientists said. Sediments on the bed of Lake Ellsworth, which is several hundred metres below sea level and buried under 3km of ice, may include bits of ancient seashells that could be dated to reveal when the ice sheet last broke up. Experts say the West Antarctic ice sheet over the lake contains enough ice to raise world sea levels by 3-5 metres if it ever broke up - a threat to low-lying areas from Bangladesh to

Florida. “Society needs to know the risk of a collapse,” of the ice sheet, said Martin Siegert, of the University of Bristol and principal investigator for the mission that will also look for unknown life forms in a rivalry with Russian and US scientists. There are 360 known subglacial lakes in Antarctica - formed by heat from the Earth melting the bottom of the ice. “One way to ﬁnd out (the risks of collapse) is to know when it last happened,” he said of the mission that has been in the planning stages for 16 years. “We are ﬁnally ready to hit the ‘go’ button,” he said.

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films

(K) All Audiences (12/15/18) No admittance to Under-12s/ 15s/ 18s (N/A) Not Available

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

NICOSIA Total Recall (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.25, 7.45 and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) at 5.25, 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 11.30am and 3pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Campaign (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.35, 8.05 and 10.10pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) at 5.35, 8.05 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Bel Ami (N/A) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) at 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

The Expendables 2 (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 5.30, 8 and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 5.30, 8 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 11.15am, 1.20pm and 3.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Dark Knight Rises (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 8.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in 2D, in Greek) at 5.35pm. Tel: 77778383

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

LIMASSOL Total Recall (12) Rio 3 at 6.15 and 10.20pm, weekends at 6.20 and 10.30pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 5.25, 7.45 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Campaign (12) Rio 1 at 4.45pm (weekends only), 6.30, 8.20 and 10.10pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.35, 8.05 and 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Bel Ami (N/A) Rio 3 at 8.20pm, weekends at 4.30 and 8.30pm. Tel: 25871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

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Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.30 and 8pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in English) at 5.30, 8 and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.30 and 8pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) (in English) at 5.30, 8 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (K) Rio 4 (in 2D, in English) at 4.45pm (weekends only), 6.30, 8.20 and 10.10pm; Rio 2 (in 3D, in Greek) at 4.45pm (weekends only), 6.30 and 8.20pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) (in Greek) at 5.30 and 8pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in English) at 5.30, 8 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Expendables 2 (15) Rio 2 at 10.20pm. Tel: 25871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 5.30, 8 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Raven (15) Rio 6 at 5.30pm (weekends only) and 7.45pm. Tel: 25871410 Ted (15) Rio 5 at 8.20 and 10.20pm. Tel: 25-871410 The Dark Knight Rises (12) Rio 6 at 10pm. Tel: 25-871410 Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in 2D, in Greek) at 4.30pm (weekends only) and 6.20pm. Tel: 77778383

LARNACA The Campaign (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.35, 8.05 and 10.10pm. Tel: 77778383 Total Recall (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.25, 7.45 and 10.15pm. Tel: 77778383 Bel Ami (N/A) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.30 and 8pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in English) at 5.30, 8 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Expendables 2 (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 5.30, 8 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Dark Knight Rises (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 8.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in 2D, in Greek) at 5.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383

PAPHOS Total Recall (12) Rio 1 at 6, 8.10 and 10.20pm, weekends at 4, 6.10, 8.20 and 10.30pm. Tel: 26-207000

The Campaign (12) Rio 6 at 6, 8 and 10pm, weekends at 4.30, 6.30, 8.20 and 10.20pm. Tel: 26-207000 Bel Ami (N/A) Rio 3 at 8 and 10pm, weekends at 6.30, 8.30 and 10.30pm. Tel: 26-207000 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (K) Rio 7 (in 3D, in Greek) at 6, 8 and 10pm, weekends at 4.30, 6.30, 8.30 and 10.30pm; Rio 5 (in 2D, in English) at 6, 8 and 10pm, weekends at 4.30, 6.30, 8.30 and 10.30pm. Tel: 26-207000 The Expendables 2 (15) Rio 4 at 6, 8.10 and 10.20pm. Tel: 26-207000 The Raven (15) Rio 2 at 4pm (weekends only) 6 and 8pm. Tel: 26-207000 Ted (15) Rio 3, weekdays at 6pm, weekends at 4.30pm. Tel: 26-207000 The Dark Knight Rises (12) Rio 2 at 10pm. Tel: 26-207000 Ice Age: Continental Drift (K) Rio 4 (in English), weekends only at 4pm. Tel: 26-207000

listings Today Exhibition MA Fine Art Show Work on display will include paintings, sculpture, ceramics and installation art. Opens September 11, 7pm until September 15. Cornaro Institute, 23 Mehmet Ali Street, Larnaca.Open daily: 10am-5pm. Tel: 24-254042. www.artcyprus.org

Other Events Egyptian Night Features a dance show by the Egyptian National Troupe for Folkloric Arts, traditional Egyptian finger food and a chance to win three return tickets to Cairo. September 11. The Amphitheatre of the European University, Nicosia. 8pm. Tel: 22-449050/51

Tomorrow

Music

Theatre

The Ultimate Tribute Show & Dance with Elvis, Elton and Tina Turner Chris King as Elvis Presley, Andrew Oliver as Elton John and special guest Kaela Santosh as Tina Turner. Three top tribute acts combine in one amazing performance. September 11. Pentaras Hall, Coral Bay Road, Paphos. Doors open 7.30pm, showtime 8.30pm. €10. Show reservations essential - Tel: 99-832538 or book online at www.xciteworld. co.uk.

My Name is Rachel Corrie Political play featuring well-known actress Mania Papadimitriou. September 12. Cultural Centre of the University of Cyprus, Manor House on Axiotheas Street, Old Nicosia. 8.30pm. €5/10. Tel: 22-894531

Other Events Cyprus Services Rambling Club Come join a ramble - nature trail Calabria (Mouttis tis Kapparissia) Finikaria area. Approximately 7 miles, Grade 3. September 16, bookings by midday Wednesday September 12. Tel: 99-292092 or csrc. bookings@gmail.com, www.csrc.ws

Ongoing Music Fourth International Contemporary Music Festival Pharos Foundation presents a showcase of contemporary ‘classics’, as well as over 20 world premieres by composers. Includes a young composer Workshop. September 9-29. Olive Grove, Delikipos and Shoe Factory, Nicosia. €10/15. Tel: 22-663871/70-009304

Other Events Barrel House Craft Beer Week Craft Beer Tastings, beer games, competitions, prizes, beer talks, live music and more. Until September 16. Barrel House, 3 Ioanni Sikoutri Street, Larnaca. 6pm. Free. Tel: 24622455/99-331088

Exhibitions 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

Summer Breeze Group mixed media exhibition. Until September 15. Apocalypse Gallery, 30 Chytron Street, Nicosia. MondayFriday: 10.30am-1pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 10.30am-1pm. Tel: 22-30000/150 Charcoal Project Interactive happening by Greek Cypriots, Turkish Cypriots and other international artists using charcoal and tables as the main material. Exhibition of works and screenings of the video documentary Charcoal Project. Until September 16. House of Arts and Letters, 41 Athinas Street, Paphos. Working hours: 9-12pm. Tel: 26-818560 Silia Philippou Solo painting exhibition. Until September 18. Gallery Gloria, 3 Zinonos Sozou Street, Nicosia. MondayFriday: 10.30pm-12.45pm and 5pm-8pm. Tel: 22-760286 Iosif Hadjikyriakos Solo painting exhibition inspired by the art of Lefkara. Until September 20. Gallery Kypriaki Gonia, 45 Stadiou St, Larnaca. Tel: 24-621109

Summer 2012 Group exhibition of paintings and sculptures. Until September 30. Morfi Gallery, 84 Agkyras St, Limassol. Monday-Saturday: 10am-1pm. TuesdayFriday: 5pm-8pm.Tel: 25-378733 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 Cooperation, 28 Markou Drakou, opposite Ledra Palace Hotel in the UN Buffer Zone, Nicosia. Open Monday-Sunday: 10am-6pm. Tel: +90 542 8506681/22-445740 Méditerranée Works by artists from Cyprus and the Mediterranean, who through their work explore the spirit of the closed sea of cultures. Until September 30. Lanitis Foundation, Carob Mill, old Limassol. Daily 9am-1pm and 3pm-8pm. Saturday and Sunday 3pm-8pm. Tel: 25-342123

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

Our Lady of Nicosia Exhibition about the church of Phaneromeni and its relics. Until September 30. Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, 96-90 Phaneromenis Street, old Nicosia. Monday-Sunday: 10am-7pm. Tel: 80-000800 Terra Mediterranea – In Crisis Group contemporary art exhibition curated by Yiannis Toumazis scrutinising the current turbulence experienced globally, from both a political and a poetic stance. Until December 30. Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre 19, Palaias Ilektrikis, Nicosia. Tuesday-Saturday: 10am-3pm and 5pm-11pm. Sunday: 10am-4pm. Tel: 22-797400. info@nimac.org.cy. www.nimac.org.cy The project includes a second contemporary art exhibition curated by Re Aphrodite team. The exhibition deals with the unwritten feminine histories of Cyprus and their private and public structure. Until December 30. Ethological Museum – The House of Hagjigeorgakis Kornesios, 20, Patriarxou Grigoriou, Nicosia. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 8.30am-3.30pm. Wednesday: 8.30am-5pm. Saturday: 9.30am-3.30pm. Tel: 22-305316

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15 To have your event included for FREE in our listings, send details to: Arts Editor, Cyprus Mail, PO Box 21144, Nicosia. Fax: 22-676385. Email: whatson@cyprus-mail.com Please send your information as early as possible. Include full details, a contact number and good quality photos

A pantheon of artistic diversity IF YOUR interest in art runs from paintings to poetry, to music and beyond, there’s no better event to quench your interest than Pantheon Cultural Association’s annual festival, Pantheon Urban Soul Festival. In a lively setting within the Tripoli Public Park in the centre of Nicosia, the Urban Soul Festival let’s you get a real sense of the creative energy that makes the arts come alive. Plays, films and literature all have a place, but the artists themselves will be celebrated above all else. For one day only, this Saturday, between 5pm and midnight, Nicosia’s historic city centre will bloom as crowds flock to share what is truly a communal ates experience in a collective event that celebrates artistic diversity. Going beyond the closed confines of a gal-lery and the four walls of a music venue, the event not only hopes to draw in artistic types but also aims to lure passersby into the festival grounds as they see the thronging of the crowds, coupled with the sounds of live music. Ardent shoppers will also find it hard to reer sist once they see all goodies on show. After sia all, it’s not every day that the centre of Nicosia is transformed into a space where individuals come together for a free event that embraces the best in contemporary music and the local art scene. Zines (independently created publications), comics, posters, stickers, music T-shirts and postcards are some of the communication mediums that you can expect to see in the publishing and handicraft section. Furthermore, handicrafts such as jewellery, dolls and other small items will be on display. As art is brought practically to your doorstep, there’ll be lots of great surprises in store to make this day really exciting. Throughout the course of the day a drum Circle jam session will be developed with Agnes Sacca and Efe Ojelemoh. Attendants will have the opportunity to join in an inspired rhythm and percussion circle. People are welcome to bring their own instrument. HajiMike and Poetz4Peace will have a poetry reading under the trees, while the art scene presents a series of installations and art works created for the festival that will be placed within the park. On the more productive and healthy side of activities, Constantinos Michaelides Freeride Bike Shop will be organising a bicycle tour. The start and end point will be at the urban soul festival. Andri Sophokleous from the Life Centre will also be hosting yoga classes suitable for everyone. Come along and bring your friends and make sure to bring your own yoga mat and towel. Film fans won’t be left out in the cold during this festival. The International Pantheon Xperimental Film & Animation Festival 9.0 will be projected during the course of the evening. Look out for the festival’s catalogue and make yourselves comfortable on the grass

Review Theatre The best festival yet? THE play of Othello written by William Shakespeare is a vast canvas of pride, passion, lust, lies and deceit. When reinterpreted in the opera Otello by Giuseppe Verdi with a libretto by Arrigo Boito, the emphasis on these emotions is enhanced not so much by a melodic score but by atmospheric motifs that open up the characters and assist the portrayal of their roles.

OtakuCy will host Japanese festival as part of the Urban Soul Festival 5.0 run by Pantheon Cultural Association, which includes origami workshop and anime screenings and comics. Below inset: Love2Craft Cards & Crafts on dsiplay

as you embrace the weird and wonderful scre screenings on offer. In addition, a kiddie section will give children and families an opportunity to ﬁnd their inner artists and enjoy visual and performing art in a fun and creative way. The festival also proves that you don’t have to travel the world to experience a new culture. If you’ve been considering Japan as a future holiday destination you might be interested to know that it’s possible to get a taste of this enchanting country right here on Cypriot soil. OtakuCy will be presenting its ﬁrst Japanese Festival within the framework of Urban Soul Festival, and will attempt to decorate the area akin to a traditional matsuri (Japanese festival) using elements such as paper lanterns, koinobori and red and white table decorations. This section of the festival is jam-packed with activities, so make sure you make the time to take a good wander around. Get creative with Miguel Matayoshi, who will be running an origami workshop as well as providing information about his private origami classes. Loris Lysiotis will be demonstrating his love of Japanese orating calligraphy by decorating paper, hands and faces alike. A number of local manga artists will come together to show their latest character and story board ideas and educate e the public about the able manga art style. A table h pawill be available with

Was it to be so with the performers of The Opera of the Slovak National Theatre at the opening performance on Friday for the 14th Paphos Aphrodite Festival? A categorical ‘yes!’ Here was a production beautifully presented within a multi-levelled setting, designed by Milon Ferenčik, which surprised in its ingenuity with some simple effects and changes. The opening of Act 1 presented the stormy arrival of the vessel bearing Otello (Michal Lehotský) effectively projected onto the set with the chorus and principals lustily narrating its arrival. Upon entering, Lehotský immediately established that we had a tenor maybe not as strong as Domingo, but capable of compassing

this dramatic role. While short in stature he was able to portray his love for Desdemona in mellowed tones, convey an authorititive ﬁgure during the ensembles and demonstrate his jealousy as the poison is metaphorically poured into his ears by Jago. Dalibor Jenis, the Bratislavian baritone, as Jago quickly conveyed his despicable character but spoilt the developed malevolence during his ‘Credo’ in Act 2 by being allowed to move around the set too much, however his big duet with Lehotský (Act 2, Scene 5) was brilliantly delivered and interpreted. Eva Hornyàkovà (Desdemona) has matured beautifully since she gave her ‘Mimi’ in La Bohème with this

per and pens for visitors to try their hand at this popular graphic style. Throughout the night there will be showings of documentaries about Japan as well as short ﬁlms and artistic anime cuts. A mixture of traditional and popular Japanese music will be played throughout the day. OtakuCy’s members will attempt to provide traditional festival games such as kingyosukui (goldﬁsh scooping) as well as a portable video game meet up and console set up focusing on favourite Japanese video games. As for food, the East Asian Film and TV Drama Appreciation Society will be providing home cooked traditional Japanese festival food and snacks and will be working on handicrafts such as festival fans. And let’s not forget the environment is cosplay and yukata friendly. Meaning a number of participants will be donning festival yukatas while the general public will be encouraged to join in either as their favourite pop culture characters or in kimonos and yukatas or other traditional dress. Pantheon Urban Soul Festival 5.0 rating A collective event celebrating ed artistic diversity organised by the Pantheon Culturall Association. September 15. Tripoli Public Park (withinn the ls). moat of the Nicosia walls). 5pm-midnight. Free. Tel:: heon22-670843. www.pantheonculture.org

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Programme Music: 5pm-12 Music & Theatre Workshop for Kids: 6pm-8pm

tour around Nicosia and return shall be at 9pm at the festival. Time of attendants 6.30pm

Art & Painting for Kids: 5pm-8pm

Drum Workshop/Circle: 6pm-12

Urban Yoga for Everybody: 6.30pm-7.30pm

Art Scene: 5pm-12 Publishing/ Handicraft Scene: 5pm-12

Drawing Workshop: 5pm-8pm Otakucy - Japanese Festival: 5pm-12

Pantheon Xperimental Film & Animation: 8pm12

Bicycle Tour: 6.30pm-9pm. Start is at 7pm for a

Food a& Drink Scene: 5pm-12

company in 2010. Always aware of her character, she projected the innocence with great sincerity and, once again, knew the measure of requirements to ﬁll the arena. Her ‘Willow Song’ in Act 4 was beautiful. The pivotal character in this drama, Cassio, as portrayed by Tomás Juhás, was sung well but lacked the heroics and charisma necessary to inﬂame Otello’s covetousness. Artistic Director Peter Dvorský and Stage Director Josef Prudek allowed the use of chorus entries and exits without consideration for the geographics of the set so that the large ensemble appeared and disappeared at all levels with little interruption to the action. This

removed some of the realism but this is opera after all and, like some of the other action within this production, is acceptable. The orchestra, under the baton of Ondrej Lenárd, were a dream. This late Verdi opera has a complex score but nothing was missing. The strings particularly never cease to amaze this writer on how they maintain their tone and pitch in such high humidity. The offstage trumpets and chorus control was also immaculate. A great ‘night at the opera’, for which the Paphos Aphrodite Festival can be proud; and thank-you for keeping the speeches down to 15 minutes. By Chris Ekin-Wood

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Reportage Back to her roots: fashion designer Bori Vaczi, co-creator of local label Matyo Design, presents the traditional clothes of the Matyo people

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HE winding ﬂower embroidery of the Matyo folk is a living traditional art form in the tiny Hungarian village of Tard, where Rozi Vaczi spent time as a child. When Vaczi had a T-shirt decorated with the embroidery two years ago for her boyfriend Ervin Nagy, a well-

Matyo Design

known Hungarian actor, it sparked intense interest in her company, Matyo Design. Urban hipsters now readily fork out $45 for a Matyo Tshirt. After opening a showroom in Budapest earlier this year, Vaczi now hopes to build a fashion design business on the ruins of Hungary’s communist-era textile factories. “We’d like to create a company that sells internationally,” said Vaczi, earning a global “place in fashion design” in a

first for a Hungarian firm. Around emerging Europe, where garment assembly for Western brands has been a thriving business for years, there is a new confidence that local designs also have a chance on the world stage. With wages still low compared to other regions, including Asia where costs have ballooned, retailers are

analyst at KBC Securities in Warsaw. “The region still has room to catch up with western Europe... Surely, Russia is their key target.” Polish fashion companies like LPP, the creator of the brand Reserved, have grown rapidly and in some markets even taken on giants like Spain’s Inditex, the world’s top fashion retailer and par-

With wages still low compared to other regions, including Asia where costs have ballooned, retailers are moving business back to eastern Europe, meaning a big influx of orders moving business back to eastern Europe, meaning a big inﬂux of orders and a new investment in infrastructure, fashion company executives said. Local manufacturers are also helped by the potential for expansion in domestic markets such as Poland and Russia which, though huge, are a lot less saturated than in the West. “I think that clothing companies from (central Europe) have big growth potential,” said Kamil Szlaga, a retail

ent of Zara. “In Russia, Inditex has more shops but we’re following them quite well,” LPP Deputy Chief Executive Dariusz Pachla said. The company has opened 100 shops there so far “and we plan to open a lot more”. LPP nearly doubled its annual proﬁt in 2011, recording a net income of 269 million zlotys ($80.75 million). Like many others in the region, the company has focused its efforts on eastern Europe, mainly Russia.

“The East has been our target for years,” Pachla said. “Russia is developing very quickly.” Joanna Przetakiewicz, a Polish designer and protégé of fashion legend Karl Lagerfeld, plans to open outlets for her La Mania line in Russia, China and Japan after the prestigious UK department store Harrods began selling the label in July. Harrods’ head of womenswear Helen David said La Mania was one of many interesting new labels to come out of eastern Europe lately. “Eastern European designers are creating increasingly considered and innovative designs,” David said. “The region is a wonderful new hotbed of emerging fashion talent and we are thrilled to have La Mania in store as a representation of this.” Przetakiewicz, who also has plans to launch La Mania at the Milan department store Excelsior, said western buyers have become more welcoming to emerging European designers. “I must say that an overall climate, not only in the fashion industry, is changing positively,” she said. “Poles are becoming more recognisable and popular, particularly in the UK.” The positive trend can be seen not just at the consumer end, but also when it comes to raising funds. The designs of Hungar-

ian Szandra Sandor, who splashes folk art-inspired patterns on ﬁnely cut clothes under the label Nanushka, have been featured in international fashion magazines and sold widely in the United States, Europe and Japan. Sales, 80 per cent of which go overseas, grew quickly to reach about $500,000 in 2011. But when the orders came too quickly to ﬁll, Nanushka

The Russian market has previously been the target of Eastern European brands

was compelled to seek partners. Despite a general reluctance to finance fashion companies by banks squeezed by the financial crisis, venture capital group PortfoLion stepped in. Bolstered by PortfoLion’s one-million-euro investment, plus a one-million-euro loan, Nanushka now aims for annual sales of about $5-7 million within five years.

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els aim for the he world stage “Every family business gets to this special point, where it’s grow or die,” Sandor said in her newly refurbished downtown shop in Budapest’s glitzy Fashion Street. PortfoLion said Nanushka’s attraction was its global focus. “We only invest in companies which are already capable to expand in foreign markets,” PortfoLion chief Peter

Oszko, a former ﬁnance minister, said. “Nanushka... only needed capital to take advantage of their opportunities.” Rebekah Schindler, Nanushka’s US agent at Showroom Seven in New York, said the capital injection was essential to conquering the US market, especially large department stores where the ability to produce in quantity

and be ﬂexible are a must. “It (Nanushka) has been around for a few years but it always hit a glass ceiling as far as sales go,” she said. “I think that this angel investment can really contribute to it growing exponentially in the next year.” As designers like Nanushka expand from cottage businesses to larger-scale operations, they need reliable

production facilities and bet ter infrastructure, which is where the return of the bigger international fashion houses come in. As a growing number of these companies bring production closer to their markets from traditional assembly areas such as China, where costs have risen, and North Africa, which has been hit by turmoil in recent years,

Hungarian Nanushka

the eastern fringes of Europe are looking more and more attractive with their relatively low wages and stability. “Now we see European companies returning to Europe,” said Daniel Csereklyei, who runs a garment assembly operation in Hungary called Kezmu, employing 5,000 people. “We have worked for high-end brands who have stayed nearer, but now second-tier labels return too, creating even more demand.” He said orders a r e pouring in from big fashion houses, including familiar luxury names, but asked that the labels not be identiﬁed to protect client conﬁdentiality. Building on the rampedup production capability, Csereklyei has also ventured into the creative side of the business, teaming up with designer Kati

Zoob to roll out a new brand called Attitude. Attitude is geared toward the well-heeled, older customer, said Zoob, 54, in her store in a Budapest shopping centre. But unlike her younger competitors, she does not plan to expand into foreign markets immediately. “You don’t have to be world famous right away,” she said.

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PROPERTY TO LET NICOSIA HOUSE FOR RENT on first floor in Pallouriotissa, 3 bedrooms, big sitting room, big fitted kitchen, big verandas, a/c, fully furnished, very good furniture and very close to supermarkets, elementary school, gymnasium. Price €500. Tel: 99494178 ACROPOLIS LUXURY FLAT; three bedrooms, master with ensuite; bathroom; laundry room; fully fitted kitchen; large sitting/ dining room; everyday room; two large verandas; guest WC; c/h-a/c, broadband internet/ TV/satellite connections, covered parking. Furnished/unfurnished (€1,200/1,000 monthly) 22312255, 99557457 FOR RENT luxurious furnished office next to “City Plaza” Nicosia ready for business. Tel: 99697243 SPACIOUS 2 bdrs 2 baths fully furnished kitchen fully equipped dishwasher AC cold/hot large terasse 4rth floor great location Kennedy av. 1 block from Central Bank €600 monthly charges and

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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. – Makedonitissa €1200 (H4MAK0016-R), (photos in the website)

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ﬁce and guest room with separate entrance. The house has big sitting and dining room, separate family room, separate kitchen, big bedrooms, internal elevator, central heating, full a/c, big yard with tiles, covered kiosk and trees, 2 covered parking, in a quiet area in a dead end opposite Cineplex – Strovolos €3000 (H4STI0042-R), (photos in the website).

9. 3 bedr upstairs and 2 separate bedroom in the basement luxury detached house(all the bedrooms with en suite bathrooms/ shower), also separate kitchen and sitting room in the basement which has also separate entrance from the house, central heating, full a/c, solid parquet floor all the house, big sitting and dining room with fire place, big fully equipped kitchen with breakfast area and family room, big overfloor, swimming pool with covered patio area with fully equipped bar(bbq, fridge, freezer, cooker),mature garden around the house,2 parking places, alarm system near the Cyprus Conference Centre- PLATY AGLANTZIAS €3500 (H5PAG0002-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 neighbourhood close to CYBC station. Can be rented furnished or not. – Platy Aglantzias €3000 (H5PAG0001-R), (Photos on the website).

10. 4 bedr new luxury ﬁnished top quality detached house, 290sq.m, central heating, full a/c, master bedroom with en-suite 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 €2700 (H4STI0039-R), (Photos on the website). 11. 4 bedr luxury detached house built in 3 plots of land. Separate maid’s room outside the house, big basement with playroom, of-

13. 3 bedr detached house with extra room for office,250sq.m, central heating independent, 4a/c, big renovated, kitchen with cooker and oven, big sitting and dining room with parquet floor and fire place,1bathroom,1 shower,2wc, 2 covered parking, big verandas surrounded by trees and bushes off 28th October street - Makedonitissa €1300 (H4STI0043-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).

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TO LET NICOSIA 15. 3 bedr luxury semi detached house with central heating independent, a/c, 3wc, parquet floor, fire place, electrical appliances in the kitchen, curtains, in a very quiet neighbourhood in the area near Falcon school – Strovolos €1500 (H3STI012-R), (photos in the website). 16. 5 huge bedrooms luxury detached house(2 bedrooms downstairs+3 upstairs) all of them en suite with bathrooms, separate maid’s room, big sitting areas and big separate dining room, big kitchen, central heating, full a/c, extra sitting room upstairs, big swimming pool with cover, big covered patio around the pool and bbq area, covered parking, in a very quiet area near Alpha Mega supermarket. Price negotiable - ENGOMI €4000 (H5ENG0002-R), (photos in the website). 17. 4 bedrs new luxury detached house, all the bedrooms very big and all with big bathroom/ shower, sitting room upstairs, attic room with shower and wc, office space/maid’ s room with shower and wc, central heating, full AC,450sq.m, big sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with sitting area and fitted cooker and oven,6 wc, 2 covered parking’s, big yard with tiles and garden with grass, bbq area in a very quiet neighbourhood near the CYBC ( RIK) station and near a neighbourhood park – Aglantzia €2000(H4AGZ0005-R), (photos in the website). 18. 4 bedr semi detached house with central heating, 4 a/c, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms, 180sq.m, small yard, bbq area, FULLY FURNISHED, off Costantinoupoleos street near French Ambassador residence – Strovolos €900 (H4STI0043-R), (photos in the website). 19. 4 bedr + 2 separate rooms with showers and wc (120sq.m) detached house with big sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with dining area and family room with fire place, very big swimming pool with bbq area, covered patio, garden with grass, central heating in 4 zones, full

TO LET NICOSIA a/c, 6wc, 5 covered parking’s, pressure system, opposite Apoel training field. Can be rented furnished or not. AVAILABLE END OF AUGUST – Archangellos €4000 (H4AR0007-R), (photos in the website). 20. 4 bedrs luxury detached villa built in 5 plots of land, 600sq., central Heating, full a/c, very big garden with grass, big swimming pool 5 x 13, bar with bbq area, office space, TV room with fire place, marble floor, all the bedrooms en suite shower/bathroom, separate self contained apartment for the maid, 2 covered parking in a nice area with easy access to the Limassol road. Can be rented also partially furnished – Latsia €5000(H4LAT0007-R), (photos in the website). 21. 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). 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. 3 bedr furnished apartment, 140sq.m, near Cyprus Hilton, kitchen, bathroom and extra guests toilet, large sitting room, opposite a small park, recently renovated independent oil central heating, air conditions, solar heater, covered parking – Acropolis €630 (A3ACS0040-R), (photos in the website). 2. 2 bedr luxury apartment, 3 a/c for hot and cold, covered veranda, NICELY FURNISHED, covered parking on a small building 200 METRES from Akropolis Park. Price includes common

TO LET NICOSIA expenses – Dasoupolis €650 (A2DAS0027-R), (photos in 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 neighbourhood – 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. 2 bedr Brand new luxury finished apartment on a small modern building with storage heaters, full Daikin air conditions, electrical appliances in the kitchen, top quality double glazed windows with electrical shutters, 1 showers, 1 bathroom, 2 wc, big sitting and dining room, Very big covered veranda, pressure system, covered parking, big storage room, near Acropolis park – Dasoupolis €670 (A2DAS0028-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 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. 1 bedr, fully furnished and equipped apartment, 50sq.m, 2 a/c for hot and cold, covered verandah, covered parking, ice view off Makarios Avenue between Hilton and DEBENHAMS shop – Nicosia Centre €460 (A1NIC0006-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

TO LET NICOSIA and oven in the kitchen, blinds in the living room, 2 bathrooms, 130sq.m, big veranda with view, covered parking, 200m opposite Akropolis park. Acropolis €850(A3ACS0039-R), (photos on the website). 10. 2 bedr new( 5 years old) luxury ground floor apartment,85 sq.m, storage heaters, full ac, fully modern expensive furnished and equipped ,expensive silver appliances in the kitchen with dishwasher, small garden and big yard in a quiet neighborhood behind Burger King. MINIMUM CONTRACT 2 YEARS – ENGOMI €650 (A2ENG0002-R), (photos in the website). 11. 2 bedr spacious luxury finished apartment in a small modern building with electrical floor heating independent, full a/c, 2wc, big bedrooms, big sitting and dining room, FULLY NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, big covered veranda, covered parking and storage room, off Kennedy avenue in a quiet area – ACROPOLIS €800 (A2ACS0030-R), (photos in the website). 12. 2 bedrs big luxury flat, 110sq. m+big covered veranda, CH ind, 3 a/c, cooker, oven in the kitchen, roller blinds, 2 bathrooms, 2 wc, parquet and granite floor, big bedrooms, big sitting and dining room, covered parking, intercom, on a small building with 6 flats only near Coca Cola factory 2 km from McDonalds in Egomi – Agios Dometios €550 (A2ADO0013-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 neighbourhood park – Dasoupolis €550 (A2DAS0001-R), (photos in the website). 14. New 2 bedr luxury apartment, 90sq.m, storage heaters, 3 a/c, cooker and oven, covered verandah, 2 wc, NICELY FURNISHED, covered parking and storage room of Kyriakou Matsi street near the centre – Agioi Omologites €650 (A2AOM0008-R), (photos in the website). 15. 3 bedr +separate maid”s room

For information call 99781943 WIN A TRIP FOR 2 TO SOUTH AFRICA IN AID OF PAPHOS HOSPICE Organised by SACY NEWS The SACY NEWS was launched early 2012, and has within a short period, become a popular and well-liked publication among the South African community, and other expatriates living on the island of Cyprus. With the support of the South African Consulate, the SACY NEWS has become a prime media source for all South African Cypriots living in Cyprus. “We wanted to create a ‘voice’ for all South Africans in Cyprus. The South African community has increased in number, and it was only a matter of time before we had our own community paper,” says Paul Charalambous, editor of the SACY NEWS. The high-quality publication is produced on a bi-monthly basis and is distributed all over the island, free of charge. The SACY NEWS’ presence as a media sponsor for almost all South African events has spread extensively throughout the island. In recognition of the strong and supportive South African community, the SACY NEWS will be organising the South African New Year’s Eve Ball at the ‘Fifth Floor Restaurant’ in Paphos. This event will become an annual affair on the SACY NEWS calendar. “Everyone is welcome,” says Paul. “We want to revive the traditional South African Greek events we were accustomed to in South Africa.” The SACY NEWS will be organising competitions on a regular basis to support the many charities on the island. After months of planning, and the support from many sponsors in Cyprus and South Africa, the SACY NEWS recently launched the ‘Win a trip for 2 to South Africa Competition’ in aid of the Paphos Hospice. This unique prize package, which includes two return tickets to Johannesburg with Etihad Airways and Century Travel, will be complimented by seven nights at the 5-Star Peermont D’oreale Grande at Emperors Palace Hotel, Casino and Convention Resort. The prize includes an additional two nights at Sandton’s premier Michelangelo Hotel, and a further two nights at the Thabana Safari Lodge for an exceptional full board safari experience. SAFARIS 4 U – A leading group tour operator based in Johannesburg, will provide unique tours to top attractions in Johannesburg, during the course of your stay. Tickets are on sale from all Paphos Hospice Charity Shops, participating outlets (island wide) and private individuals for the price of € 3 per ticket. The winner will be announced at the South African New Year’s Eve Ball on the 31st December 2012. For more information on this unique eleven nights prize package to South Africa, contact the SACY NEWS on 96 343 687. You can also visit their page on Facebook.

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

THE DEVONSHIRE RESTAURANT IN PAPHOS WILL RE-OPEN ON THE 1ST OF SEPTEMBER, WILL RESUME IT’S REGULAR MENU, OPEN FOR SUNDAY ROAST LUNCH AND DINNER, FOR BOOKINGS CALL 96870774

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA (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 €1100 (A3NIC0023-R), (photos in the website). 16. 2 bedr luxury modern penthouse apartment 125sq.m +40sq.m veranda with very nice view and bbq area, solid parquet floor all the flat, fully modern furnished and equipped central heating independent, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, big sitting and dining areas, covered parking in a very quiet neighborhood in a dead end, off Athalassa Avenue near English School behind Stephanis Electronics – Strovolos €770 (A2ST10010-R), (photos in the website). 17. 3 bedr luxury apartment with central heating independent, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, parquet floor, big covered veranda, covered parking, storage room, electrical appliances in the kitchen, off Makarios avenue near the centre – NICOSIA Centre €820 (A3NIC0025-R), (photos in the website). 18. 3 bedr luxury spacious floor apartment on the 4th floor of award winning building,200sq. m+big covered veranda, central heating independent, full built in air conditions, lighting fixtures, curtains and blinds on all windows, big spacious living room with fire place, big kitchen with double cooker, oven and microwave and breakfast area, double glazed windows, all the bedrooms with en suite shower/

TO LET NICOSIA bath, big satellite dish with sky decoder,2 covered parking and storage room, close to American embassy and other amenities – ENGOMI €1600 (A3ENG0025-R), (photos in the website). 19. 3 bedr luxury spacious floor apartment on the 4th floor of award winning building,200sq. m+big covered veranda, central heating independent, full built in air conditions, lighting fixtures, curtains and blinds on all windows, big spacious living room with fire place, big kitchen with double cooker, oven and microwave and breakfast area, double glazed windows, all the bedrooms with en suite shower/ bath, big satellite dish with sky decoder,2 covered parking and storage room, close to American embassy and other amenities – Engomi €1600 (A3ENG0025-R), (photos in the website). 20. 3 bedr luxury spacious ground floor apartment with separate entrance, big verandas and garden, big sitting and dining room, central heating independent, full a/c, 2wc, very big master bedroom, electrical appliances in the kitchen, aluminum shutters on windows, parquet laminate floor all the flat, covered parking, storage room, in a very quiet neighborhood in a dead end street, off Athalasas Avenue behind Stephanis near English School €800 (A3ST10030-R), (photos in the website). 21. 2 bedr new luxury apartment with central heating independent, full a/c, 2wc, big sitting and dining room, separate kitchen with cooker and oven, blinds on all windows, covered veranda, solar heater, pressure system, covered parking, storage room, on a small building in a quiet neighbourhood next to a playground,

TO LET NICOSIA near Central offices of Cyta and Laiki Head quarters – Dasoupolis €600 (A2DAS0018-R), (photos in the website). 22. 4 bedr new luxury finished apartment, 160sq.m+35sq.m covered veranda, big sitting and dining room, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, Daikin air-conditions for hot and cold in all the rooms, 2 bedrs with en suite shower/wc, 4wc, 2 covered parking, in a small modern building off Makarios Avenue in a quiet neighbourhood – Nicosia Centre €1400 (A4NIC0001-R), (photos in the website). 23. New luxury spacious 3 bedr quality apartment, 165sq.m+ big covered verandah, separate floor heating, full a/c, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms (one en suite), solid parquet floor all the flat, big sitting and dining area (can fit 2 sitting rooms and dining table), electrical appliances in the kitchen which has a breakfast area,2 covered parking, storage room in a very quiet green neighbourhood near the centre and Ag. Andreas - Nicosia Centre €1450 (A3NIC0004-R), (photos in the website). 24. New luxury 2 bedr apartment, open plan kitchen, 3 a/c for hot and cold, blinds on all the windows, nicely expensive full furnished with real leather sofas, double bed, big dining table, LCD 32”, satellite dish with receiver, internet, very big bedrooms with big and many wardrobes, covered parking and storage room, in a quiet area near BMH – Aglantzia €590 (A2AGZ0001-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, alu-

TO LET NICOSIA minum 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 – Strovolos €800 (A2ST10023-R), (photos in the website). 26. 3 bedr luxury spacious fully renovated apartment with separate central heating, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, 3 wc, parquet floor all the flat, big sitting and dining areas with fire place, big covered veranda, covered parking, blinds, cooker and oven in the kitchen, covered parking, on a small 2 storey building, walking distance to the centre – Lykavitos €1000 (A3LYK0009-R), (photos in the website). 27. 3 big bedrs +office space luxury penthouse floor apartment, renovated, central heating independent, full a/c, 230sq.m, double glazed windows,3wc, 2 bathrooms (one en suite), solar heater, pressure system, SKY satellite dish, big sitting and dining areas, solid parquet floor all the flat, big kitchen with cooker and oven and breakfast area, very nice view of the old city,40sq.m private roof garden area ,covered parking on a small building in the centre of Nicosia near the Museum and the old Hospital. Available middle 15th of SEPTEMBER –Nicosia Centre €1200 (A4NIC0005-R), (photos in the website) 28. 3 bedr new luxury finished PENTHOUSE apartment 150sq.m internal areas+120sq. verandas, solid parquet floor all the flat, big bedrooms, big sitting and dining room, big semi separate kitchen with electrical appliances, home cine ma with big screen, LCD tv,

TO LET NICOSIA covered parking in a quiet neighborhood near CYTA, Laiki + Hellenik bank headquarters and French school. CAN BE RENTED ALSO expensive furnished for higher rent – Dasoupolis €1200 (A3DAS0019-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 ***************************** 2 BDRM ﬂat in the centre of Nicosia. Rent €450. For information call 99453663, 99663927.

LIMASSOL FOR RENT in Apshou village undetached – 2 bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, sitting room, parking. satellite, solar water. 10minutes from roundabout. €400 per month Tel: 25 369219 99 773151 FOR RENT one bedroom furnished ﬂat in Katraki building, 100 metres form the sea and Debenhams Olympia. Price €430 (included common expenses) Tel: 99406415 Andreas, fax: 25582963 FOR RENT deluxe 2 bedroom fully furnished 100 sq m brand new 3rd ﬂoor, beach front apartment at EDEN BEACH APARTMENTS, 28th October Street, Limassol, near Municipal Garden, with parking, store room, swimming pool, gym and unobstructed sea view. Tel: 99639714 OFFICE FOR RENT opposite sea with amazing sea views. 120sqm,

TO LET LIMASSOL 2 bathrooms, kitchen. Security system, cabling and server room ready. Price € 1400/month negotiable tel. 99 330 908 www.cyprusre. com/listing-LIM-0103

LARNACA SPACIOUS two bedroom apartment (one en-suite) in Euro Lodge building Drousia, Larnaca. It has a/c and c/h (under ﬂoor). Separate kitchen with oven and hob. Covered parking and storage room. Call Despina 99310015 FOR RENT 2 bed, 2 bath, new built apartment, in a quiet scenic location In Alethriko, Larnaca 5 min. to Larnaka, 5 min. to the beach Fully furnished, A/C, communal pool, under covered parking, Long term rent, €350.00 per month For more info pls call 99639378 FOR RENT PHINIKOUDES PROMENADE, one bdrm apartment on the 4th ﬂoor, f/f, a/c, in the most exlusive area on the sea front of the city centre. A panoramic view of the Marina and the sea. Situated right on the sea. Makes life a holiday all year round. For long term rent only €380. Tel. 99222197, 99541828. LARNACA FLATS TO LET Fully furnished, spacious 2 bedrooms in central Larnaca. Near Saint Lazaros Church, 4 minutes walk to Phinicoudes sea front. Small block 2 years old (6 apts) From €400 - to €500. Tel. 99388901 FOR RENT 2 bed, 2 bath, new built apartment, in a quiet scenic location In Alethriko, Larnaca 5 min. to Larnaka, 5 min. to the

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beach Fully furnished, A/C, communal pool, under covered parking, Long term rent, €350.00 per month For more info pls call 99639378 PROTEA APTS LARNACA Residential and holiday apts for rent monthly or weekly Larnaca – Dhekelia road, close to Golden Bay Hotel 1 & 2 bedroom apts, furnished and with low rent with swimming pool, 2 minutes walking distance from the beach, with a new pedestrian crossing in front of the building. Contact us on 99672466, 99404522, and 99078590 LARNACA FLAT FOR RENT: Fully-furnished spacious 2-bedroom first floor flat in central location near Metro supermarket, A/C, private parking, intercom system, en-suite bathroom, small block. Phone: 99354789 FULLY FURNISHED one bedroom flat near Larco hotel Larnaca. Price €370. Tel: 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 ! *****************************

FOR RENT A selection of 1 to 5 bedroom houses & apartments F/F & U/F Universal, Peyia, Tomb of the Kings, Tsada, Timi & Kato Paphos Landlord & Owners please call 99329357 Or please view at are website www.cyprussands.com Fully Registered Company in Cyprus

CHLORAKA – 3 bed villa – u/f, a/c, 1 bedroom downstairs, ﬁre, private pool, large balcony with sea views,quiet location – €600 EMBA – 3 bed villa – u/f, a/c, 1 bedroom downstairs, 3x en-suite bathrooms, private pool, garden, storage, quiet location and close to all amenities – €650

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Peyia: 1 Bed F/F Apartment 1st Floor, Comm Pool, Gym, Underground Parking. 325 Euros per month REF: JAP1A219

***************************** 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. On 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 fur-

Emba: 3 Bedroom U/F House, A/C, White Goods Communal Pool 500 Euros per month REF: JAP3V053

FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL - 9977 4314 OR 9962 1875 ****************************** BRAND NEW APARTMENT block in the centre of Paphos (near Papantoniou supermarket) with fantastic views offers to rent, 2 bedroom apartment spanning the entire 3rd floor, unfurnished with a/con, and office for rent spanning the entire first floor, 130 sqm, both are offered at very reasonable rents, please call: Vasilis 99553624

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We urgently require properties in all areas for waiting clients. Property management only 25 Euros per month. John Alice Properties TEL: 00357 99984681 WEB: www.johnaliceproperties.com ****************************** PAPHOS RENTAL

MESOYI – 4 bed detached house – u/f, a/c, new property, very quiet location with views, this property can also be furnished – €600

Call 99 457882 or 99 609543 for further details.

Game Fund Service: (Wildlife and hunting) Central offices (Nicosia): 22867786, 22-867897 Nicosia: 22-664606, 99-445697 Limassol: 25-343800, 99-445728, Larnaca/Famagusta: 24-805128, 99-634325 Paphos: 26-306211, 99-445679

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.

2 BEDROOM APARTMENT in the heart of Kato Paphos, the property is situated in a quiet, private complex, next to archeological site overlooking the light house, very reasonable rent, tel : 99411933

Tombs Of The Kings: Ground Floor F/F Apartment 1 Bedroom, A/C, BBQ area, Centrally located 300 Euros per month REF: JAP1A220

PANTO AUDITIONS It’s panto time again! Auditions for act’s Christmas pantomime, “Cinderella’’ will be held at St. Paul’s Anglican Cathedral Hall, Byron Avenue, Nicosia on Saturday afternoon, 15 September at 2pm for children (8-12 years) and 3.30pm for adults (13+ years). Performances at Russian Cultural Centre on 1/2/7/8/9 December. Members and nonmembers welcome both on and off stage.

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Comm Pool, Undercover parking, 375 Euros, Ref: JAP2A217 Peyia: 2 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom, ground ﬂoor apartment, F/F Com pool, under cover parking, gym, shutters, A/c 375 Euros per month. REF: JAP2A126

MESOYI - 3 bed detached house – u/f, spacious family home, garden, storage, quiet location – €450

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3. TREMITHOUSA €250 luxury 2 bedroom maisonette. Fully furnished with modern furniture and satellite broadband. Modern furniture with new appliances. & A/c throughout. Good sea views. Located in a fabulous village. A must to see!

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Peyia: 2bed F/F town house, A/C, Nilesat, Communal Pool, 375 Euro p/m REF: JAP2T221

CORAL BAY THREE BEDROOM HOUSE To let furnished or unfurnished with panoramic view to sea and mountain a st0nes throw from coral beach, rent 600 euros monthly, negotiable tel 99431415 (available ﬁrst November) Mob: 99604658.

nished modern 3 bedroom detached house with small garden is available, a/c throughout and satellite broadband. Offering fantastic views of the sea.

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Peyia: 1 Bed Traditional Stonehouse, furnished, Ideal for single person, village location close to shops and amenities 250 Euro p/m Ref:JAP1H214 Kato Paphos: 2 Bedroom F/F 2nd ﬂoor apartment, A/C, Large Communal Pool. 360 Euros per month inc water & refuse. REF:JAP2A212 Kissonerga: 2 Bed 1st ﬂoor apartment, f/f, A/c, Large Kitchen,

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 OFFERING FULL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT & RENT COLLECTION SERVICE 1.

Geroskipou €350 modern ground ﬂoor 2 bedroom apart-

ment. Situated in a quiet complex with lovely communal pool. Enclosed pretty patio area & underground parking. Fully furnished with modern furniture, including leather sofa’s and plasma tv. Would suit mature couple. Pets allowed. 2. Chloraka €425 modern 3 bedroom townhouse, master with ensuite. Ground floor guest wc. Fully furnished with modern furniture. Enclosed garden with decking offering sea views. Undercover parking. Pets allowed. Complex with large communal pool & playground. 3. Tomb of the kings €450 modern 2 bedroom apartment on first floor with lift. Modern ensuite shower room & family bathroom. Fully furnished with modern furniture. Balcony with sea views. Situated on a good complex with lovely communal pool. Close to bus routes and shops. 4. Tala €650 modern 3 bedroom detached villa with garage. Situated in a small quiet cul de sac. Includes underfloor heating plus real fire. Master with ensuite. Separate utility room. Shutters & flyscreens. Covered veranda, garden with mature plants & private pool offering stunning sea views. Available unfurnished. 5. Peyia €750 price includes pool cleaning. If you are looking for a villa with breathtaking views & privacy than this property is for you. This modern detached 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom villa is furnished with modern furniture, including satellite tv. One bedroom & bathroom on ground floor. A spacious enclosed garden with

PROPERTY RENTALS From 250 Euros per month. Villas and apartments available. Also wanted for waiting clients. www.johnaliceproperties.com johnalicecy@ gmail.com Tel: 00357 99984681

ACT’s summer production of The Rivals will now be performed on 26/28/29 September in the grounds of St Paul’s Cathedral, Byron Avenue, Nicosia. Performances start at 7.30pm prompt. Tickets are €15 - pls book early as seats are limited. Tel: 96 504284 or 99 924363 for ticket reservations. Don’t forget your coolbox for your picnic under the stars Or why not take advantage of the Get Fresh sandwiches and wraps which will be on sale during the interval along with wine, beer, soft drinks and coffee.

TO LET ON THE BEACH STUDIO FLAT WITH SUPERB SEA VIEW Newly renovated, fully air-conditioned one bedroom ﬂat, comprising open-plan living room, fully equipped kitchen, bathroom and veranda with direct sea view on the beach next to the Larnaca ﬁshing harbour. Covered parking in gated garage. Long-term rental, furnished €650 or unfurnished €575/month.

Call 99441499, 99431873

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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.

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Our aim is to open a Third Shop in the Limassol area due to popular demand.

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TO LET PAPHOS fully furnished apartment in good location close to ISOP. Open plan living area with dining space. Fitted kitchen, 2 double bedrooms, master with en-suite. Family bathroom. Off street parking & comm. Pool. Minutes into Paphos. €425. Or close offers 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 ensuite. 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. €750.00 per month. 6. UNIVERSAL AREA. 2 bed fully furnished apartment. Living area, fitted kitchen. 2 double bedrooms and family bathroom. A/C. Enclosed garden area, comm. Pool and parking. Euros 375.00 a month or offers. 1 & 2 bed apartments available on Universal starting at €250 per month. 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.€1500.00 per month or offers. 8. POLEMI – 4 bed 2.5 bath massive unfurnished apartment with

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FOR PAPHIAKOS ANIMAL WELFARE SOS HELPLINE, 24 HOUR MEDICAL EMERGENCY SERVICE - CALL 99655581 CONTACT DETAILS FOR PAPHIAKOS. 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 STOP, SHOP AND GIVE TO THE ANIMALS! ALL DONATIONS ARE WELCOME AT OUR CHARITY SHOPS! 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 Tel 26910325 Shop No.2 Ap Pavlou Avenue, Kato Paphos Tel 26942894 Shop No.3 Gr. Afxentiou Avensia Court 3 Larnaca 24623494 Shop No.4 9 Ayiou Ioanni Street 3061 Limassol 25561695 Peyia Information Centre & Shop & T Rooms 26622828 Polis Information Centre & Shop & T Rooms 99223572 Book Exchange Shop Trimithousa 99771763 Our shops are always happy to receive your unwanted goods! NOW YOU CAN HELP BY COLLECTING YOUR ALUMINIUM CANS AND HANDING THEM IN AT ANY PAPHIAKOS CHARITY SHOP OR THE CLINIC. SAVE AN ANIMAL AND SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT!! 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 WITH THEIR NECESSARY WORK. Telephone Jan 26946461 ex 114 or 97614008 THE DONKEYS AT PAPHIAKOS WOULD BE DELIGHTED TO HELP YOU GET RID OF YOUR UNWANTED CAROBS. PLEASE DELIVER TO THE CLINIC AND GIVE THE DONKEYS A SPECIAL TREAT! FORTHCOMING EVENTS FOR PAPHIAKOS CHARITY NO. 1529 September 15th Paphiakos Stall at Episkopi Fete. September 15th Sights & Sounds of the 60s & 70s Live Music & Dancing Trimithousa Community Hall at 8pm €5 tickets from Ollies Bar Trimithousa Pre Show Suppers at Ollies ring 96354182 September 27th Legends of Rock Pissouri Ampitheatre €10 tickets from Pissouri Pools, Markos Internet Café & all Paphiakos Charity Shops Tel 99905624/99955431 for further details. PAPHIAKOS SHELTER OPEN DAY The Open Day will be held on Sunday October 7th between 10am and 3pm. It will be a Family Fun Day out with a lot of different activities. There is car parking, toilets and refreshments on site so enjoy and join in the celebration of animals and what they bring to our lives. Entrance is €2

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CRYPTIC 2182

7 PREVIOUS DAY’S SOLUTIONS

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17 HOW TO PL AY: 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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23 24

25 26 (3) 15 One in calling earnestly is making a demand (8) 19 Shy drink! (6) 20 Snooped on the said lions

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(5) 22 Father, sailor and graduate (4) 23 Archaeologists’ accommodation (4)

Answers to crossword 2181

QUICK: Across – 1 Apologising; 9 Runny; 10 Maestro; 11 Necklet; 13 Valid; 14 Ivy; 15 Fixed; 16 Pie; 17 Havoc; 19 Sampler; 21 Nodding; 23 Dodge; 24 Down payment. Down – 2 Panicky; 3 Loyal; 4 Gum; 5 Shelved; 6 Natal; 7 Brandishing; 8 Cold-hearted; 12 Texas; 15 Fiction; 16 Paladin; 18 Video; 20 Madam; 22 Goa.

Rating EASY

CRYPTIC: Across – 1 Philatelist; 9 Vicar; 10 Diagram; 11 Russell; 13 Lamed; 14 Now; 15 Bigot; 16 Cut; 17 Oasis; 19 Towpath; 21 Eroding; 23 Siena; 24 Princely sum. Down – 2 Hacksaw; 3 Large; 4 Ted; 5 Leaﬂet; 6 Scrum; 7 Over and over; 8 I’m a Dutchman; 12 Light; 15 Bastion; 16 Château; 18 Spoor; 20 Wispy; 22 Gee.

Rating HARD

2 A burning that could be spontaneous (10) 3 Be certain to do this (4,4) 4 Call in church to be excessively humble (6) 5 Record passage (5) 6 Inferno swallows up the plant (4) 7 State, in Connecticut, a homeland! (4) 11 Great abundance coming from a conical receptacle (10) 13 Clearing part of the ﬁeld (3) 14 Note the same healthy start

Rating EASY

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1 Film on pollution (4) 8 A line with ten others was binding (10) 9 Am all right in a frenzy (4) 10 Establish oneself firmly in French ditch (8) 12 Broke open right inside the statue (5) 13 Took first place (3) 16 Overfast? (6) 17 Taking action to reduce friction (6) 18 Has to remove the remains (3) 21 Throw tar (5) 22 A mountain dweller found another road ran north (8) 24 Current maps redrafted (4) 25 How a stick-in-themud was prevented from making progress? (6,4) 26 Old vehicle, a steamer almost (4)

QUICK Down

1 Prima donna (4) 8 Raincoat (10) 9 Sword (4) 10 Visitor (8) 12 Away (5) 13 Coy (3) 16 Verse (6) 17 Teem (6) 18 Obscure (3) 21 Cut of beef (5) 22 Smelling (8) 24 Verdi opera (4) 25 Criminal (3-7) 26 Extinct bird (4)

2 Burden (10) 3 Changing (8) 4 Short play (6) 5 Telltale (5) 6 Bad smell (4) 7 Thunder-god (4) 11 Impartial (4-6) 13 Sorrowful (3) 14 US sweet potato (3) 15 Picture-________ (8) 19 Greek islander (6) 20 Ablaze (5) 22 Vend (4) 23 Central US state (4)

HOROSCOPE

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ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

You may have unwittingly been blocking yourself from being the success you desire to be. But the cosmos has laid on some great inﬂuences that will encourage you to feel more positive about your situation. It is so important to research your options, get help from experts and keep looking until you ﬁnd what you want. Leave no stone unturned.

Your efforts are getting you places. Jupiter in your networking zone is helping you make new friends for romance and business. The more you join in, the more fun, money and greater success you will enjoy. Plus, Venus in your sign, gives you superior instincts. If you have a goal in mind, and can visualize the outcome, chances are you can achieve it.

Your dreams may be a powerful source of guidance and inspiration, especially concerning matters that you may have not wanted to admit to or may be in denial about. Being a happy-go-lucky Sagittarius you often try to avoid painful emotions, so your dreams may help you to face up to them and may even reveal ways in which they can be healed.

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

You don’t usually have much trouble getting along with others, but today your friends and associates may be less co-operative than usual. They may be argumentative, stubborn or even manipulative. If you have anything to ask them, this probably isn’t the best time, or you may need to ask in another way. Heal tensions by doing something arty.

You are loving the chance to make a statement, give a presentation, and get the attention you deserve. If you have a desire to make a big splash, this is your opportunity to do so. With careful planning, and the utmost conﬁdence, you can now transform your career. Move from uncertain to totally conﬁdent in a short space of time, and see the difference.

You seem to be looking for new ways to expand your options, but don’t get lost in the details and so forget to see the big picture. It might help to get out of your mind and into your heart. You may have ideas about what you want to achieve, but will they bring personal satisfaction. It is time to get the balance right and to think about what makes you happy.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

You sense that you are on the verge of a major breakthrough. You don’t have much longer to wait, so hold tight. In the meantime, take stock of your priorities and get to work on the most important goals and projects on your to-do list. The effort you put in now will be boosted by a run of good luck in the near future. Better things are shaping up.

The Moon in Cancer highlights your career zone, encouraging you to put your latest ideas into action. With Mars urging you on to greater things, you perhaps feel that you could do more, be more and have more to show for your efforts. At the same time, the universe is pushing you to upgrade your skills. This can give you the chance to earn more.

There is a lot of intensity in your life right now that is showing up in association with your career goals, and also in your determination to get your message across and share your ideas with the world. Because of this, you need to eat the right foods and make sure that you get enough rest so that you ride the waves of change to great success.

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

You are aware of secrets you may not have revealed. It is not going to be easy to keep them quiet for much longer. This is especially the case if you have been trying to suppress painful feelings, or pretend that something that happened, didn’t. The truth is better out than in. If you need help this is a time to get counselling or share with a friend.

It may help to think out of the box if you need some bright ideas to kick-start your career, relationships or any other area of life. Right now you have a lot going for you, including the ability to zero in with pin point focus which helps you achieve your goals with maximum ease. But today it will also help to be ﬂexible and to keep an open mind.

The Moon in Cancer may encourage you to make some creative choices. And having Neptune in your sign means that there may be times when you seem to be overwhelmed with choices and can’t decide what to do. Don’t worry about doing the right thing - just do something, and if you can you will have already started the process of change.

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07.00 NRG Music Channel 08.00 Kids’ TV Shown till 12.30, then repeated till mid-afternoon. 16.30 Euromaxx Magazine show with a European flavour. 17.00 60 Minute Makeover (rpt) DIY challenge, in which a team of designers have just one hour to transform a home. 18.00 Biz/Emeis (rpt) 18.50 News In English 18.55 News In Turkish 19.10 Futuris 19.30 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers Pre-game analysis. 20.00 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers Cyprus vs. Iceland. 22.00 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers Post-game analysis. 22.30 The Good Wife (rpt) Two episodes from first season. ‘Fleas’. Alicia and Will represent a client who is accused of leaking information to a drug lord, which resulted in the murder of an important witness in a trial. Followed by ‘Heart’. Will and Alicia attend an emergency hearing in a hospital involving a pregnant woman who is told a heart operation for her unborn child has been cancelled because her insurance does not cover it. 00.00 Repeats

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06.10 Paralliloi Dromoi (rpt) 06.50 Batso Agapi Mou (rpt) 07.30 Inspector Gadget 08.00 Nea Mera 10.00 Proino Mou (rpt) 12.00 Enimerosi Tora 14.00 Greek Series TBA (rpt) 15.00 Eheis Meson Local investigative show looking at alleged abuses of power, often reported by viewers.

05.40 The Del Monte Heirs (rpt) 06.20 Erotas Me Epidotisi 07.00 Protoselido 08.20 Eﬁaltis Stin Kouzina (rpt) 09.00 Se Fonto Kokkino (rpt) 09.50 Vasiliki (rpt) 10.20 Oi Takkoi (rpt) 11.10 Vourate Geitonoi (rpt) 12.00 Mesimeri Kai Kati Daily local news and magazine show. 14.20 Baywatch (rpt) 15.10 Pame Paketo (rpt) 16.00 Magazino With News at 18.00. 18.30 Tropico 19.20 The Del Monte Heirs (rpt) 20.10 News 21.20 The Del Monte Heirs 22.10 To Kokkino Domatio 23.10 The 4400 Third season of sci-ﬁ drama series. ‘The Starzl Mutation’. Tom and Diana’s investigation into a string of grisly murders leads them to uncover a sinister conspiracy in the government, while a returnee rewards Shawn with the power to see his own future. 00.00 News 00.05 Sex and the City Repeat of the second season. 00.30 G4 (rpt)

06.45 Star News 07.45 Mesimeriani Meleti - Best Of 09.15 Fotos - Maria Live Best Of 10.30 Axizei Na To Zeis 11.50 Kostakis Ki Yioi (rpt) 12.30 I Kouzina Me Tin Dina (rpt) 13.30 Star News 14.00 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) 21.00 Exelixeis Stin Showbiz 22.00 Fringe (rpt) First season. ‘Midnight’. A serial killer is on the loose in Boston and the FBI discover the victims have each had their spinal ﬂuids completely drained. Agents Olivia Dunham and Peter Bishop try to stop the murderer’s spree and are led to a scientist with possible links to the ZFT bio-terrorist cell. 22.45 Supernatural (rpt) Fifth season of fantasy drama. ‘The Devil You Know’. Crowley offers to help the brothers ﬁnd Pestilence and reclaim his ring. 23.30 LTV Sports News 00.15 Diet Please 01.15 Star News 02.00 Repeats

16.00 Yia Sena 17.40 Mia Stigmi Dio Zoes Greek drama series, based on a Latin American telenovela about mistaken identities. 18.20 News 18.30 Mousiko Kouti Greek game show. 19.20 Sto Para Pente (rpt) Greek drama series. 20.10 News 21.20 Eftyhismenoi Mazi (rpt) Greek drama series. 22.20 Piso Sto Spiti (rpt) Greek series about a recession-hit family desperately trying not to lose their house. 23.20 Daddy Cool (rpt) 00.00 News 00.10 The Shield 01.00 Yia Sena (rpt) 02.15 Enimerosi Tora (rpt) 04.00 Proino Mou (rpt)

01.30 Se Eida (rpt) 02.30 Tiﬂomiga (rpt) 03.30 Magazino (rpt) 04.30 Tropico (rpt)

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Television PICK OF THE DAY Captain America (Novacinema1, 22.00) The Avengers is the third-biggest film of all time (unadjusted for inflation), proving it’s impossible to have too much hype. For years before the Marvel Comics dream-team assembled on our screens this year, the global audience had been primed to look forward to it, with individual films (blockbusters, all of them) made on each of the team’s individual superheroes: Thor, Iron Man, Hulk and (yes) Captain America. You’d think the audience might’ve started to resent the endless hard-sell, but in fact they enjoyed it; there were cheers at the end of Captain America (its full title is Captain America: The First Avenger) when the Captain suddenly finds himself catapulted into the present day and accosted by Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, chief headhunter for The Avengers. Cap is the old-fashioned guy in the team, the opposite of snarky, fast-talking Iron Man and nothing at all like the angry, troubled Hulk. He’s decent, heroic and ... well, nice. “You don’t win wars with niceness!” barks a crusty CO played by Tommy Lee Jones - but Captain America does, the war in question being WW2. Steve Rogers (played by Chris Evans)

doesn’t ask to be Cap; he just wants to join up and fight Nazis, though not because he enjoys fighting wars. “I don’t want to kill anyone; I just hate bullies,” explains Steve, a man with the physique of a wilted lettuce - at least till a “super-soldier” project transforms him into Captain America, who’s very strong and fit and carries a shield made of indestructible vibranium. The Captain himself isn’t indestructible, of course; a well-placed bullet would presumably be the end of him. Marvel isn’t very good at providing superheroes with cool superpowers (mostly they have cool gadgets, like Thor’s sword and Iron Man’s flying suit) - and the film turns into an ordinary war movie once Steve gets shipped to Europe and proves himself in battle, fighting the Nazis who’ve stolen a “Tesseract” and are using its occult powers for evil (shades of Raiders of the Lost Ark, or indeed the real-life Nazis and their real-life interest in the occult). The whole thing is pleasant but disposable, light-hearted fun that won’t knock your socks off. Then again, I thought the same about The Avengers. Made in 2011.

Preston Wilder

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SATELLITE Newborn King 22:00 Captain America: The First Avenger 00:10 Trespass 01:45 Cine News 02:15 Men In Black Ii 03:45 The Portrait Of A Lady

War of the Worlds (CyBC1, 15.30) Afternoon oldies on CyBC1 are a Good Thing - but oldies do some genres better than others, and science fiction is a bit of a lottery. There are lots of sci-fi classics from the 1950s - but also lots of rather drab, conservative fi lms like this talky adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic. Martians land on Earth (starting with a small town in California) and prove to be less than friendly; they’re actually planning an invasion, the fi lm’s paranoid tone tying in with the anti-Red hysteria that was all the rage when it was made. Interesting more than exciting, and mostly outdone by the Spielberg version; made in 1953.

Saint John of Las Vegas (LTV3, 20.30) No-one plays losers like Steve Buscemi (unless he’s playing a hero in Boardwalk Empire), just as no-one plays sardonic little people like Peter Dinklage (unless he’s playing a hero in Game of Thrones) and no-one plays mildly demented bad girls like Sarah Silverman (“She’s cute, in a psycho kind of way”). This little-known comedy would be worth a look for the cast alone - though you do have to wonder why it’s so little-known, with such a good cast. Steve is an ex-gambler who loses his money in Las Vegas and vows never to return, going instead for a safe ofﬁce job - but the job takes him back “into the belly of the beast” when the boss (Dinklage) assigns him to the Fraud division and sends him to investigate the case of a Vegas stripper who claims to have been in a car accident. Then there’s Romany Malco as his partner, Silverman as a co-worker obsessed with smiley faces, and bizarre detail including a circus performer dubbed “the Flame Lord” and right-wing survivalists who are also nudists. Can we say ‘quirky’? Made in 2009.

Happy-Go-Lucky (LTV, 21.00) Meet Poppy. She’s happy-go-lucky, always cheerful, refusing to be bowed down by daily mishaps. Is she a wise woman - or something of a child, an innocent, a fantasist? “Ooh, ‘Road to Reality’. Don’t want to be going there!” she giggles, perusing the title of a book in a bookshop - and the fi lm works best when it leaves the possibility open that Poppy may be lost in her own little world. Actually no, the fi lm works best when it puts Poppy together with Scott, a driving instructor who’s as truculent and paranoid as Poppy is laid-back and sanguine, peppering his driving lessons with furious rants about multiculturalism, speed cameras and Kids Today. The scenes between them are superb - Sally Hawkins and Eddie Marsan both great in the roles - but director Mike Leigh gets it wrong in the second half, siding too obviously with Poppy and turning her almost into a Mary Poppins figure. Still worth a look; made in 2008.

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Sport Patriots record ninth season opening win against Titans Tom Brady scores two touchdowns for New England side

IN BRIEF

THE New England Patriots recorded their ninth successive season-opening win with a routine 34-13 victory at the Tennessee Titans’ homeground on Sunday. The Patriots, who lost the 2012 Super Bowl to the New York Giants, rode the reliable arm of Tom Brady, who threw for 236 yards and two touchdowns. His opposing quarterback Jake Locker had a debut to forget after being sacked twice and conceding two turnovers. Locker’s miserable match came to an end when he hurt his shoulder in a tackle on Patrick Chung. The New York Jets overpowered the Buffalo Bills 48-28 with quarterback Mark Sanchez prominent. Sanchez threw three touchdown passes, including two to rookie Stephen Hill, Jeremy Kerley had a touchdown catch and a punt return for a score, and Antonio Cromartie took one of New York’s three interceptions of Ryan Fitzpatrick to the end zone. Rookie quarterback Ryan Tannehill suffered on his debut as the Miami Dolphins slumped to a 30-10 defeat to the Houston Texans. The Texans’ defence had too much know-how for Tannehill, who started well before throwing three interceptions in a six-minute spell late in the ﬁrst half which changed the complexion of the game. For Houston, Arian Foster had two touchdown runs and Matt Schaub threw a TD pass to Andre

Routine: Tom Brady #12 of the New England Patriots runs out of the pocket against the Tennessee Titans during their season opener at LP Field on Sunday in Nashville, Tennessee Johnson. Michael Vick overcame four interceptions as the Philadelphia Eagles edged past the Cleveland Browns 17-16. Vick was a long way from his best but was still the match-winner when he threw a four-yard touchdown pass to Clay Harbor with 1:18 left in the fourth quarter. Vick went 29 of 56 for 317 yards and two TDs, his ﬁrst going to Jeremy Maclin.

Robert Grifﬁn III made a winning debut with 320 yards passing and two touchdowns as the Washington Redskins beat the New Orleans Saints 4032 but another debutant quarterback, Indianapolis’ Andrew Luck, could not get the job done as the Colts were beaten 41-21 by the Chicago Bears. Luck was 23 of 45 for 309 yards with a 4-yard TD pass to Donnie Avery early in the fourth but he also got

picked off three times and failed to match the Bears’ Jay Cutler. Cutler threw for 333 yards and two touchdowns and was backed up by Brandon Marshall, who added 119 yards receiving with a TD. Adrian Peterson scored two touchdowns for the Minnesota Vikings in their 26-23 overtime victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars. As impressive as Peterson was, the Vikings were still indebted to Blair Walsh,

who kicked four ﬁeld goals, including a 55-yarder as regulation expired and another in overtime. In the other afternoon games, Matthew Stafford threw a ﬁve-yard touchdown pass to Kevin Smith with 10 seconds left to give the Detroit Lions a 27-23 win over the St Louis Rams while Matt Ryan threw for 299 yards and three touchdowns as the Atlanta Falcons overcame the Kansas City Chiefs 40-24.

Yankees back on top of American League East THE New York Yankees regained sole possession of first place in the American League East on Sunday with a 13-3 rout of the secondplaced Baltimore Orioles. Curtis Granderson homered and drove in five runs off the bench and Derek Jeter also went deep to earn the Yankees a split of the season series and a one-game lead over Orioles at the division summit. Elsewhere in the American League, BJ Upton hit three home runs and James Shields threw a two-hit shutout in the Tampa Bay Rays’ 6-0 victory against the Westleading Texas Rangers. Kansas City were 2-1 winners against the Centralleading Chicago White Sox, Mike Moustakas and Jeff Francoeur hitting RBI singles in the 10th inning for the Royals. In other AL games, the Minnesota Twins beat the Cleveland Indians 8-7, the Toronto Blue Jays saw off the Boston Red Sox 4-3, the Los Angeles Angels defeated the Detroit Tigers 3-2 and the Oakland Athletics prevailed 4-2 against the Seattle Mariners. In the National League, Ricky Nolasco threw his second shutout against Washington in a fortnight, restricting the Nationals to four hits as Miami cruised to an 8-0 victory at Nationals Park. Giancarlo Stanton homered for the third consecutive day for the Marlins to help secure their series win. The result allowed Atlanta to close to within 5 1/2 games of the Nats at the East summit with a 3-2 success against the New York Mets. Brian McCann homered and hit a game-winning sacrifice fly in the 10th inning to hand the Braves a fifth straight win. Matt Dominguez clubbed a three-run homer and Edgar Gonzalez threw five solid innings as the Houston Astros overcame the Central-leading Cincinnati Reds 5-1, while the San Francisco Giants opened up a 5 1/2-game advantage atop the West with a 4-0 victory over the LA Dodgers.

Doping ban cannot keep Contador from Vuelta win

Reigning MotoGP champ sets Australian Rules footballer sights on a return to action found dead in Las Vegas

A MONTH after completing a two-year ban for doping, Alberto Contador showed he was still a force to be reckoned with as he won his second Vuelta a Espana title on Sunday. The Saxo Bank-Tinkoff rider claimed his fifth Grand Tour victory after he finished in the main pack in Sunday’s largely ceremonial stage into Madrid, won in a bunch sprint by Germany’s John Degenkolb. Spanish riders scooped all three top spots overall, with Alejandro Valverde second at one minute 16 seconds and Joaquim Rodriguez in third at one minute 37. Sunday’s victory was Contador’s first Grand Tour triumph since he completed a doping ban four weeks ago.

REIGNING MotoGP champion Casey Stoner has dismissed speculation he might retire earlier than planned after undergoing an operation on his injured ankle. The 26-year-old Australian is recovering at home in regional New South Wales after specialist surgery to repair torn ligaments and remove bone fragments following a crash in qualifying at the Indianapolis GP in August. Stoner announced in May he would retire from racing at the end of the 2012 season and no earlier, despite fears his ankle may never fully recover. “My goal is to get back on the bike, for it to end like this would be a disaster for me,” Stoner said.

AN Australian Rules footballer with the top-ﬂight Port Adelaide Power team was found dead outside a Las Vegas hotel, the team said yesterday. John McCarthy, a 22-year-old midﬁelder for the Australian Football League (AFL) club, had been on holiday with a group of team-mates before he was found dead outside the Flamingo Hotel early on Sunday morning. “We were informed at 9.30 (2330 GMT Sunday) this morning that John had been involved in a fatal accident,” Port CEO Keith Thomas said. “It’s our understanding that at the time of his death he wasn’t with any other players.”

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Sport

Pelendritou captures silver for Cyprus at Paralympic Games By Nemanja Bjedov

Cypriot Paralympian Pelendritou ﬁnished second in the women’s 100m breaststroke SB12 event this weekend

KAROLINA Pelendritou captured the only medal for Cyprus at the 14th Summer Paralympic Games that closed on Sunday night in London, after ﬁnishing second in the women’s 100m breaststroke SB12 event on Saturday evening. The 26-year-old Cypriot ﬁnished the race with a time of 1:16.38, while Azerbaijani Natali Pronina claimed gold after setting a new world record, which was only 21 of a second faster than the Cypriot, at 1:16.17. Yaryna Matlo of Ukraine completed the race in third, arriv-

ing more than four seconds later than the winner. This was the fourth Paralympic medal for Pelendritou who won gold in Athens in the same event but in the SB13 category, and then gold and bronze in Beijing four years ago in the SB12 breaststroke category and women’s 200m individual medley SM12 respectively. “We want to congratulate our swimming champion Karolina Pelendritou on this extraordinary achievement. She earned at least a medal at the third consecutive Paralympic Games,” stated the Cyprus Sports Organization’s announcement.

“Pelendritou showed the greatness of her soul and her spirit in London. Bearing in mind how difﬁcult the preparation period was for her, winning the silver medal is an enormous success. We wish her a brilliant career for years to come and we would also like to express our sincere congratulations to the National Paralympic Committee of Cyprus.” The only other Paralympian who ever won a medal for Cyprus was Antonis Aresti, who captured two silvers in Beijing. He competed in two athletics events: men’s 200m T46 and men’s 400m T46.

Second straight victory for McIlroy

Italian GP a timely win for Lewis Hamilton ‘Sometimes you need a race like that’ By Ian Parkes A SPOT of tender loving care ensured Lewis Hamilton realised a dream he feels “came at a good time”. Hamilton went into the Italian Grand Prix weekend in need of a tonic in the wake of a tough couple of weeks. The death of a close relative initially hit him hard, which was then compounded by his ﬁrst corner crash in the Belgian GP last weekend. As if that was not enough to contend with, Hamilton was forced to face a barrage of questions leading up to the race over his future and whether he would quit McLaren or join Mercedes. So to claim pole, spearheading a new F1 record for McLaren of 62 front-row lockouts, and then winning his 20th career race, made for a perfect weekend on track. “Sometimes you need a race like that,” Hamilton said. “Every now and then you dream of something like that to happen and it came at a good time. “It’s one of the races I hadn’t won so I am very, very happy. “The team did an incred-

ible job, the car’s been fantastic all weekend so a very, very strong performance by the team.” But was it good enough to make him stay? That was a question he again refused to answer. For his part, Martin Whitmarsh has surprisingly revealed there is no plan B should Hamilton decide to quit McLaren.

‘FOCUS’ “I’m not really focusing on next year. I want to focus on this year,” Hamilton said. “This is one race at a time and I’m trying to take this team to the top. “I’m trying to help them as they are trying to help me, to win both championships. “It is an incredible team and I have a great relationship with them, so I’m really looking forward to the future.” It should have been a McLaren one-two, but teammate Jenson Button retired with a fuel issue on lap 33 when trailing Hamilton by a handful of seconds. That made Hamilton think twice about his own position, adding: “I was conscious something happened

to Jenson so I thought to myself ‘please’. “I had 15 or 20 laps to go, so I was thinking ‘Okay, take it easy, don’t use any kerbs’. “I was trying to nurse the car home, driving it with love and care.” Hamilton ultimately finished four seconds ahead of a brilliant drive from Sauber’s Sergio Perez, with Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso delighting the home fans to claim third and open up a 37-point gap to Hamilton who is now his closest challenger. Kimi Raikkonen lies third for Lotus, a further point back after taking fifth behind the second Ferrari of Felipe Massa. For the second race this year Sebastian Vettel’s Red Bull suffered an alternator issue to leave the reigning champion 39 points down. To complete a depressing weekend for the team Mark Webber also retired a lap from home after flat-spotting his tyres in a spin, with the Australian 47 points adrift. Mercedes duo Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg were sixth and seventh, with Force India’s Paul Di Resta eighth.

Perfect weekend: Hamilton claimed pole, spearheading a new F1 record for McLaren of 62 front-row lock-outs, then went on to win his 20th career race

Cypriot wins final GP3 race of the year at Monza

Can’t catch him: Tio Ellinas

CYPRIOT Tio Ellinas won the ﬁnal GP3 race of the year at Monza, passing Daniel Abt with a lap and a half remaining, to deny the German the points he needed to steal the title from long-time series leader Mitch Evans. The points lead changed hands no less than six times during a

McIlroy triumphed in Indiana on Sunday night

thrilling race. Evans ﬁnished 20th, having driven into the points from 25th on the grid only to suffer a puncture, forcing him to pit. Abt was left to rue just how close he had come to glory: “To be honest, it’s a shame to ﬁnish second like this. Coming here, I

didn’t think (that winning the title) could happen, but when you can win it, when I knew Evans was out, I knew I had to do it. “But I just couldn’t hold (Ellinas) off, he was really quick,” he said of the Cypriot. “It was nearly a perfect weekend, we were so close.”

WORLD number one Rory McIlroy secured his second consecutive PGA Tour victory Sunday night with a near-flawless final round in the BMW Championship at Crooked Stick in Carmel, Indiana. The Northern Irishman, winner of the Deutsche Bank Championship in Norton last Monday, closed with a five-under-par 67 to finish two shots clear of England’s Lee Westwood and American Phil Mickelson. USPGA champion McIlroy sank six birdies while a bogey on the final hole was the only blemish on his card as he climbed from an overnight position of joint third to claim the title on 20 under. “I came here with the mindset from Boston that I just wanted to keep going on this roll,” said the 23-year-old, whose previous triumph lifted him to number one in the FedEx Cup standings and ensured he will have a shot at the $10-million prize at the Tour Championship in Atlanta later this month. “Some suggested that I could have taken a week off and still could have been in the top five in the FedEx Cup standings going into Atlanta, but I felt like I was playing really well and didn’t want to stop that run. “I sort of picked up where I left off in Boston, shot 64 the first day here, and just playing with a lot of confidence right now. “I’m confident in my ability and confident with the shots that I’m hitting and confident on the greens. I’m making the right decisions out there, and everything is really just going to plan at the minute.” Mickelson carded a finalround 70 and had to settle for joint second alongside Westwood (69). American pair Tiger Woods (68) and Robert Garrigus (69) were a further stroke adrift on a congested leaderboard.

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Sport Georgallides doubtful as Cyprus start defence

Italy ring the changes in search of Malta win

By Nemanja Bjedov

FOLLOWING a disappointing showing in their opening World Cup qualifying match against Bulgaria on Friday, Italy are hoping for a convincing win against Malta in Modena today. Cesare Prandelli’s side drew 2-2 in Sofia but, despite Bulgaria’s second goal “stinking of offside” according to sports daily La Gazzetta Dello Sport, few in Italy thought the performance deserved more than a point, least of all Prandelli himself. “The performance in Sofia was insufficient, negative,” said the Italy manager on Saturday. “This shows that you can forget the things that you’ve learned. We played lots too many long balls. “We need to go back to working on concepts we were putting into practice as recently as two months ago.” Prandelli is expected to return to the 4-3-1-2 formation that served his team well during Euro 2012, after his players failed to adapt to his preferred 3-5-2. That decision seems to have been forced by a thigh injury to midfielder Daniele De Rossi during the draw with Bulgaria. Early reports suggest De Rossi, who was a doubt for Friday’s game after hurting his ankle in Roma’s 3-1 win at Inter Milan last Sunday, could be out for up to three weeks. Torino centre-back Angelo Ogbonna could make way for either Federico Peluso or Mattia Cassani as Prandelli looks to offer more protection for Gianluigi Buffon in goal. Forward Pablo Osvaldo, who in the absence of Mario Balotelli and Antonio Cassano continued his good early-season form by scoring both of Italy’s goals on Friday, is almost certain to start alongside his Roma team mate Mattia Destro, with Bologna’s Alessandro Diamanti playing in behind the pair. “Osvaldo is one of my most in-form players, right now he can make the difference.” said Prandelli. Malta endured a disappointing start to their qualifying campaign, going down 1-0 at home to Armenia on Friday.

CYPRUS are set to take on Iceland in their second game of the FIFA World Cup Qualification Round Group E this evening, at Larnaca’s Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium, without their first choice of goalkeeper - Antonis Georgallides - who will be given a late fitness test after an injury sustained in Tirana. “This game is extremely important for us. If we manage to win, we would then stay in contention for one of the qualifying spots. We need to do everything in our power to win and it would be great if we could combine a good result with a quality performance,” said Nikos Nioplias, the head coach of the Cypriot national football team.

‘DANGEROUS’ “Obviously we feel a lot of weight on our shoulders. However, we need to be patient and careful because we will face very good opponents who possess excellent physical condition. Noone should ignore the fact that Iceland arrives here excited about the first game victory over Norway and this makes them even more dangerous,” Nioplias added. Iceland ended an 11-match wait, spanning 25 years, to finally overcome Norway. Kari Arnason and Alfred Finnbogason were scorers as Lars Lagerbäck’s men recorded a 2-0 victory in Rejkyavik last Friday. “My experience as a coach is that when you are winning, everything is easy,” Lagerbäck said. “As a coach, after a victory, you do not have to do so much. It is just like playing the piano, you do not have to do so much: just smile. If you lose, then it is a real challenge for the coach to get the players back on course and recharge the batteries. “Playing away against Cyprus is another match. Our scouts have been there and seen them. I have heard they are building a new national team so we will see how they react after losing their first game. It will be very warm so I expect a tough game,” Lagerbäck concluded. Cyprus and Iceland have played five official matches so far and the Icelanders have won two of them, while the other three ended with a draw. Last time the two nations met was in the UEFA EURO 2012 qualifiers in 2011, with Iceland celebrating a narrow 1-0 victory in Reykjavik, and the game in Nicosia finishing in a goalless draw. The match in Larnaca will kick off at 8pm local time.

Spain’s newly-recovered Villa (second right) netted in Friday’s 5-0 friendly against Saudia Arabia

Villa a boost for Spain as title defence begins By Iain Rogers FAVOURITES Spain start the defence of their world title away to Georgia today when coach Vicente del Bosque will have another chance to test the form of record marksman David Villa, recently returned from eight months out with a broken leg. The 30-year-old Barcelona striker, who sat out Spain’s triumphant Euro 2012 campaign, came off the bench to score in his ﬁrst game back for both club and country and his eye for goal appears as sharp as ever. His strike from the penalty spot in Friday’s 5-0 friendly victory against Saudi Arabia was his 52nd goal for his country on his 83rd appearance and he told reporters

Georgia clash will be new chance to test striker’s form afterwards the surgery to repair his leg had been a complete success. “I have not felt any concern since the ﬁrst day I returned to training seven weeks ago and there has been no problem since the operation,” Villa said. “I am building up muscle tone, conﬁdence and strength in my movement,” he added. “I have been training a long time now and the body is adapting, but whether I can play from the beginning is a decision for the coach.” Villa was an automatic starter for Del Bosque at the

2010 World Cup, but without him at Euro 2012 the coach alternated between playing Fernando Torres as a lone striker and using Cesc Fabregas as a roving forward. Villa’s return adds another attacking option to a team who have swept all before them since winning Euro 2008. The world’s top-ranked side are on a 22-match winning streak in European Championship and World Cup qualiﬁers, last failing to win in a 1-1 draw in Iceland in September 2007. “Villa is a man who loves scoring goals,” his in-form

Barca and Spain team mate Pedro, who netted twice against Saudi Arabia, told a news conference on Saturday. “We knew the injury was very serious but he has made a spectacular recovery and he is continuing to build fitness, confidence and rhythm.” France will likely be the main threat to the Spanish in Group I, which is completed by Belarus and Finland. France and Georgia are joint top on three points after they won their opening qualifiers on Friday away to Finland and at home to Belarus respectively. Georgia were indebted to goalkeeper Giorgi Loria for keeping the Belarussians at bay as Tornike Okriashvili scored the only goal of the match six minutes into the second half in Tbilisi.

Now or never for Austria against Germany IF Austria are ever going to end their dismal run of defeats against neighbours Germany, then today’s World Cup qualiﬁer in Vienna would appear to be the ideal opportunity. The two neighbours shared one of the ﬁercest rivalries in Europe during the 1970s and 1980s, but Austria’s unhappy decline has turned recent meetings into a procession of wins for their larger neighbours. Germany have won their last seven meetings against Austria, demolishing them 6-2 in the most recent encounter last year during Euro 2012 qualifying and scoring 25 goals in the process. Austria’s most recent win was in 1986 and the last time they avoided defeat against Ger-

many was a goalless draw 20 years ago. But they will start their 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign with hope, thanks partly to a bright generation of players many of whom ply their trade in Germany’s Bundesliga. Germany also look vulnerable after their disappointing Euro 2012 semi-final exit to Italy and a 3-1 home to defeat to Argentina in a friendly last month. They did little more than their duty in beating Faroe Islands 3-0 in their opening qualifier last Friday. Paradoxically, Austria domestic football’s financial woes have aided the national side, with clubs such as Rapid Vienna and Austria Vienna preferring to field home-grown players to foreign imports.

Germany’s win over Faroe Islands was comparatively tame

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Depleted England aim to build on fast start Three Lions missing six key players before Ukraine game

Down and out: Johh Terry (above) joined Ashley Cole on the injury list with an ankle injury during the Moldova game By Mike Collett ENGLAND must cope without six key players when they aim to build on a superb start to their World Cup Group H qualifying campaign against Ukraine today. An emphatic 5-0 win in Moldova came at a cost with key defender John Terry joining his Chelsea clubmate Ashley Cole on the injury list when he was ruled out of the Ukraine game with an ankle injury, joining Wayne Rooney, Andy Carroll, Gareth Barry, Ashley Young and Scott Parker on the sidelines. Terry, who featured in one of the pivotal moments when England beat Ukraine 1-0 in a Euro 2012 group match in Donetsk in June, picked up the knock against Moldova and limped off two minutes before the end. Cole, who damaged his ankle in the European Super Cup against Atletico Madrid 10 days ago, missed the Moldova game but had hoped to be ﬁt to win his 99th cap

against Ukraine, but the FA’s medical team sent him back to his club for treatment. England, playing their first competitive game at Wembley under coach Roy Hodgson, who is unbeaten in eight matches in charge, should build on the momentum and take another three points from Ukraine who are playing their first match of the campaign. England have won four of the five matches played between the countries, including the last one on June 19 when Rooney scored the winner and Terry cleared a Marko Devic shot from behind the goal line, but officials failed to award a goal. Hodgson was a happy man after the Moldova game with youngsters like 19-year-old Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Tom Cleverley, 23, playing very well alongside the experienced Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard in a flexible 4-2-3-1 formation. Lampard, playing in a deeper role with Gerrard which allowed the young-

sters room to manoeuvre, still managed to score twice, once from the spot, taking his international tally to 25, to become England’s 13th highest scorer of all time. Hodgson was expected to retain most of the starting lineup against Ukraine including Cleverley, who impressed the coach playing for Britain during the Olympic Games. “The Games were good for him and important for me as well because that is where I sort of ‘discovered’ him, although of course I knew about him before,” said Hodgson. “You could call him an attacking midfielder but he’s an attacking midfielder in the same way as Cesc Fabregas, he’s capable of coming back and winning the ball where necessary.” Ukraine come to London facing formidable odds if they are to create an upset. England have only ever lost two out of 40 World Cup matches (qualifiers and tournament games) at Wembley and apart from the penalty

shootout defeat by Italy in the Euro quarter-finals which counts as a draw after 90 minutes, are unbeaten in 13 competitive matches. Manager Oleg Blokhin, whose news conferences are often more entertaining than the football his side plays on the field, will be without Ukraine’s greatest player, Andriy Shevchenko, who retired as a player at the end of the Euros after scoring 48 goals in 111 games for his country. Instead, he will be relying on 22-year-old attacking midfielder Andriy Yarmolenko, the team’s best player at the Euros, to orchestrate them on Tuesday along with Anatoliy Tymoschuk, who has a record 120 Ukraine caps, and the outstanding prospect Yevhen Konoplyanka. Ukraine’s only win against England came during qualifying for the 2010 World Cup finals when they won 1-0 in Dnipropetrovsk to finish second behind England in the group before being eliminated in the playoffs.

Trapattoni warns McClean he got off lightly for Twitter rant REPUBLIC of Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni has warned James McClean that he is lucky to still have an international career following his foul-mouthed Twitter rant. McClean vented his fury on the micro-blogging site at not coming off the bench during the Republic’s narrow and undeserved 2-1 win over Kazakhstan on Friday night. The 23-year-old, who has been in good form for Sunderland this term, described his personal experience in Astana as a “f****n* joke” - a move that clearly did not go down with the Italian, who hauled the player in front of the squad for a public dressing down in London on Sunday. Trapattoni only decided to retain the player for today’s friendly against Oman after he made a grovelling apology, and the Italian admits that had McClean been playing for a bigger country, he would have been axed. “Another manager, English or German, would have said take your bag and go home, but I might need him in the game to score a goal,” Trapattoni told a press conference. “He was mortiﬁed (when he was pulled up in front of the squad). If he could have, he would have eaten his words. He was very apologetic. “I said to everyone this is not about respect for the manager, this is about respect for everyone. I said the players are your col-

leagues. “If I don’t play him, I can play others. There was Stephen Kelly and Kevin Doyle on the bench. They have many caps. “The matter is closed now. With the young we need to have patience. “Sometimes they say things they regret.” Republic left-back Stephen Ward insists the squad have no problem with McClean despite his outburst. He said: “Of course (everyone accepted his apology). We don’t tend to dwell on these things. “He was frustrated not to play and 20 minutes after the game he calmed down and was just happy we got the result. On the plane home he sort of regretted it. “He apologised to the lads and we have moved on from it.” McClean’s apology has not been enough to earn him a starting place in the Republic’s game against Oman today after Trapattoni conﬁrmed the winger would once again start on the bench. The Italian plans instead to give 20-year-old winger Robbie Brady a chance to impress at Craven Cottage. The Manchester United man is yet to start a game for his club, but enjoyed a successful loan spell at Hull last term and last week became the Republic’s record goal scorer at Under-21 level. “He’s a (type of) player we are missing,” Trapattoni said.

McClean had vented his fury for being left on the bench when Ireland took on Kazakhstan on Friday

Diaby fills gap as France take on Belarus ‘Macedonia clash is not a must-win’ FRANCE will look to the rejuvenated Abou Diaby to provide more inspiration when they host Belarus in their second World Cup Group I qualifier today. The midfielder missed more than a season of international football through injury and his comeback performance against Finland on Friday in which he scored the game’s only goal showed his value. “I hope he will go on like that for a long time because he is essential to the team,” said fellow midfielder Rio Mavuba. How long will this last is often the question with Diaby, a player whose career has been plagued by injuries. Last season, he played only four games with Arsenal and missed the Euro 2012 finals because he was not fully fit. “I hope it is the good comeback. Last year

was not easy, I worked hard during the off season to come back strong. I hope I will not be injured this year,” said Diaby, who only won 15 caps since his first appearance in 2007. Diaby’s pace and poise proved lethal against Finland and Coach Didier Deschamps did not expect any less. “I did not need to be reassured because I have been seeing him play at Arsenal. He has a lot of qualities,” said Deschamps. “He is an all-round midfielder. He wins the ball, but also carries it forward very well and he can score. Obviously I prefer to have him at my disposal.” Diaby could make up once again for Karim Benzema’s lack of impact in the box as the Real Madrid forward has been playing more as a playmaker than a proper striker since last June’s Euro finals.

SCOTLAND defender Christophe Berra is comfortable with the pressure that comes with the World Cup qualiﬁer against Macedonia tonight - but refuted suggestions it was a must-win game. The goalless draw with Serbia on Saturday in Scotland’s Group A opener has increased the importance of taking three points in the second part of the Hampden doubleheader, against a Macedonia side who are ﬁfth seeds in the group. Top seeds Croatia and highly-fancied Belgium both started the group with wins, but Berra said: “There are 10 games, it’s a bit silly saying if we don’t get three points, it’s game over. “Look at the teams in the group, there are going to be points taken everywhere. “It’s going to be a marathon but if we get

three points we will be looking forward to the October games. “We’re looking to win the game on Tuesday and if we do that it will put us in good stead for future games.” Some Scotland fans greeted the ﬁnal whistle with boos on Saturday and, although the Hampden crowd is sure to be behind their team from the start tonight, they could become restless if the hosts do not get a ﬁrst-half goal. But Wolves defender Berra said: “Footballers, no matter if you’re playing at international level or club level, there are always expectations and pressure and we have just got to deal with it. “As soon as you cross the white line, you go out and try to win the game. “This is no different, we’ve been under pressure before and we’ll just have to deal with it.”

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Williams caps a memorable summer with US Open glory NOT for the first time in her career, Serena Williams climbed off the canvas to win her 15th grand slam title on home soil at the US Open. The 30-year-old had been a hot favourite to beat world number one Victoria Azarenka after her victories at Wimbledon and the Olympics, but she was pushed all the way, fighting back from 5-3 down in the decider to win 6-2 2-6 7-5. Williams looked stunned as she absorbed her achievement, which brought a fourth title at Flushing Meadows and very different headlines to the ones she has written in New York over the past few years. In 2009, the world number four lost to Kim Clijsters in the semi-final after receiving a point penalty for abusing a lineswoman, then last year she was beaten by Sam Stosur in the final after again losing her cool, this time with umpire Eva Asderaki. Meanwhile, earlier last year, Williams’ life was in danger when she suffered from blood clots on her lungs as a result of a foot injury that kept her out of the game for a year. It has been a remarkable period for the tennis player, and she said: “I don’t think about the downs too much. I hope I never think about them as my life continues. “But I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall. I have fallen several times. “Each time I just get up and I dust myself off and I pray and I’m able to do better or I’m able to get back to the level that I want to be on. “So I feel really awesome that I have been able to do that and that I can do that. “You see great people like Muhammad Ali, who is a complete person I have always looked up to in sports. I just really think that defines a champion.” Speaking on court after the match, Williams joked that she had been preparing her runners-up speech, and she said: “Obviously I would have wanted to win easy.

“But, at the same time, this is more exciting to win because you don’t really know what’s coming. You don’t know what to expect, and then you get it. This is the best feeling I think in tennis. “To cap off the gold medal and then to come from the gold medal to win US Open is unforgettable. I’m really so excited.” It was the first three-set women’s final in New York for 17 years, and it was one of the best grand slam finals for a long time. It did not look that way when Williams blasted her way through the first set in little more than half and hour but she made errors at the start of the second and that gave Azarenka an opening. The Belarusian is a renowned fighter and she grabbed her chance, and in the decider it really looked like the Australian Open champion would cause a shock. Williams was mixing winners with errors and Azarenka battled into a 5-3 lead, but the American, who won her first title in New York 13 years ago, was not done. She produced some trademark huge serving to hold and then broke the world number one as finally the occasion caught up with Azarenka. It was largely down to the force of will of Williams, though, and it was no surprise when she clinched a fourth straight game to claim another slam title. Azarenka sobbed into her towel at the end but was content that she had given absolutely everything. The 23-year-old said: “I think it was a great match. Being so close it hurts deeply to know you don’t have it, you’re close, you didn’t get it. “But, at this moment, I have no regrets. I felt like I gave it all. Could it have gone my way? Probably, yes. But it didn’t. It really, really hurts. “Those emotions come out and you feel sad, but it’s time to really realise what happened today. It was close but not for me.”

After victories at Wimbledon and the Olympics, Williams won her 15th grand slam title at the US Open

Britain’s double Olympic gold medallist Mo Farah makes his trademark “Mobot” gesture during yesterday’s parade

Heroes thank fans who ‘made Games’ W

ell-wishers packed the streets of London yesterday to cheer Britain’s sporting heroes as they paraded through the capital. Olympics and Paralympics stars including Jessica Ennis, Sir Chris Hoy, Hannah Cockcroft and Jonnie Peacock proudly wore their medals as they waved to fans from open-top floats which wound their way through streets full of fans. Despite the Paralympics coming to a close with a rousing ceremony Sunday night, the celebrations continued today with a carnival-like atmosphere in the city. Around 800 athletes travelled on 21 floats, grouped in alphabetical order by their sport. The stars of the Olympics’ Super Saturday - Mo Farah, who won gold in both the 5,000m and 10,000m, heptathlon gold medallist Ennis and long jump champion Greg Rutherford - were in the first three floats, which departed from Mansion House in the City just after 1.30pm following a fanfare of trumpets. The crowds, dozens deep in places, were a sea of red, white and blue as fans waved Union Jack flags at the passing floats. Many also held up homemade banners, with some donning patriotic fancy dress for the occasion. But athletes humbly insist-

Well-wishers pack London streets to cheer athletes ed the procession was also there to recognise spectators for their support during the Games. Ahead of the parade setting off, Hoy said: “This isn’t really for us this is for them because they’ve made the Games. “They’ve made the atmosphere, they’ve supported the athletes, not just in the venues, but through the streets, and the pubs, the public venues, it’s been incredible. “So it’s our chance to give them a wave and a thank you for all the support they’ve given us.” Ennis also said the parade was a chance for the athletes to thank the public. She said: “We’ve had so much support through the past few weeks, every session was filled with cheering British fans, so now to come out and see another huge crowd and thank everyone is going to be really special for all of us.” The athletes were also dressed in red, white and blue as they wore their Team GB and ParalympicsGB outfits and waved Union flags as they passed supporters who loudly clapped and cheered. Hoy, who was on a float

with the rest of Team GB’s cycling stars including Jason Kenny, Laura Trott and Victoria Pendleton, smiled and held up his two gold medals as fans cheered. The victory parade travelled along Queen Victoria Street and Cannon Street towards St Paul’s Cathedral, and was due to continue along Fleet Street, past Aldwych and into The Strand, before reaching Trafalgar Square. Many of the sports stars, including Tom Daley and Trott, could be seen taking pictures of the crowd on their mobile phones. Aerial shots of The Greatest Team Parade showed the pavements thronged with thousands of people, while others leaned out of windows and from balconies to cheer the athletes. The parade was announced with a fanfare as it passed the Royal Courts of Justice on Fleet Street, where it reached the City of Westminster and left the City of London. Britain’s most successful Olympic sailor, four-times gold medallist Ben Ainslie, described the reception as

“awe-inspiring”. He had to shout to be heard above the noise from the screaming crowds as he told BBC News: “I’m blown away by the support, it’s amazing.” Wheelchair racer David Weir said his haul of four gold medals had not sunk in yet, describing the support he has received from fans as “unbelievable”. He told the channel: “It’s just been an unbelievable 11 days of competition.” Asked about the success of the Games, London 2012 chairman Lord Coe told BBC News: “I’ve never doubted it because the people that have helped us do this have been proud and passionate and it doesn’t matter where they live, whether it’s in northern Scotland or Cornwall, people have got this. “We wouldn’t doubt that they’d be out 10-deep today, they were out 10-deep after we came back from Beijing and that didn’t even take place in our own backyard. “I don’t think we’re ever going to see sport in this country in the same way again.”