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State insists there will be no haircut Nicosia also rejects an increase in the levels of the island’s corporate tax

By George Psyllides

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HE government yesterday made it clear to international lenders that a haircut on bank deposits was not up for discussion, as the two sides disagree on the matter of debt sustainability.

Nicosia has also rejected an increase in the island’s corporate tax.

The two issues were raised by international lenders during a meeting with President Nicos Anastasiades.

“The President of the Republic reiterated the government’s determination to proceed with the conclusion of the loan agreement as swiftly as possible,” Finance Minister Michalis Sarris said after the meeting.

At the same time Anastasiades repeated which issues were not up for discussion, the minister said.

“Any discussion about haircuts or other demands regarding bank deposits is off the table; this is a very crucial issue,” Sarris said.

“I personally believe that most of them (troika officials) know that such a move, even discussing a haircut, which has not taken place anywhere else, poses great dangers.”

The minister added that Cyprus is already paying a heavy price because of the haircut talk.

Around €1.7 billion has been withdrawn from the island’s banks in January when talk of a haircut picked up pace.

It appears however, that the troika was now raising the issue of the island’s cor-

porate tax, something it did not do before.

Sarris said the government’s position was that the stability of its tax system was one of the cornerstones of the economy.

“For us there is no question of change,” the minister said.

Sarris said Cyprus was trying to find alternative ways, either through cutting expenditure or increasing revenues “to make debt management more effective.”

“Our positions are crystal clear; we believe we can find other ways to bring our debt where it should be so that markets consider it manageable,” the minister said.

In the past six months, Sarris said, the state’s fiscal performance was better than what was provided in a preliminary deal agreed with international lenders.

“We tell them that while we had a 4.0 per cent primary surplus -- the surplus that helps us pay the interest -this can become 4.5 per cent or 5.0 per cent without additional burdens, something, which allows you not only to pay the interest but also part of the debt,” Sarris said.

The minister said there will not be additional measures that will include cuts in wages and pensions.

Meanwhile, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi yesterday urged the government to look at how it was combating money laundering.

“It is very important that the Cypriot government takes this opportunity to revisit the anti money-

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CARNIVAL CELEBRATIONS KICK OFF AROUND CYPRUS

Cypriots celebrated Tsiknopempti (stinky Thursday) yesterday, eating lots of meat and getting into the swing of the carnival celebrations and playing traditional games (Christos Theodorides) SEE STORY PAGE 6

Man faces jail for laughing too loudly in own home A MAN from Long Island, New York, is facing up to 30 days in jail and a $500 fine after a neighbour complained to police he was laughing too loudly, his lawyer said this week.

Police issued Robert Schiavelli, 41, two tickets for disturbing the peace for laughing out the window of his home in Rockville Centre on Long Island at about 6pm on February 12 and February 13, his lawyer said.

Schiavelli said the neighbour regularly mocks him for a neurological disability, and the best response to those taunts is laughter.

“He just ridicules me all the time and the only thing I can come up with is laughing,” Schiavelli said in a tele-

phone interview.

His lawyer, Andrew Campanelli, said his client has frequent seizures as a result of neurological impairments but denied his laugh is loud or boisterous.

“He’s like a big teddy bear, he’s got a low laugh,” Campanelli said.

Schiavelli lives with his mother, Suzanne Schiavelli, who said that he had a “fairly loud” laugh.

“I think it’s infectious. It’s cute,” she said. “When my husband died, we said to ourselves, ‘We’re going to make sure to laugh every day and make the most of life’.”

Daniel O’Hanion, the neighbour who made the complaint, could not be reached for comment.

O’Hanion and Schiavelli live in adjacent private homes about 20 feet apart, separated by two driveways.

The Rockville Centre Police Department said they issued the summonses after receiving complaints about an ongoing pattern of noisemaking.

“On two occasions, police actually observed this individual creating a disturbance directed at neighbours and in violation of local law,” police said in a statement.

Schiavelli’s mother said O’Hanion often calls her son a “retard,” parodies his speech and mocks his walk. Relations worsened when they had builders in to renovate their house over O’Hanion’s objections, she said.

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WHAT THE MAIL SAID 25 years ago, Thursday March 8, 1988 The Cyprus government has retracted implied charges against former President Spyros Kyprianou that he had taken away with him documents and archives of the Presidential Palace of which there were no copies. The spokesman had indicated that the matter was being referred to the Legal Department for advice.

35 years ago, Friday March 8, 1978 Greek Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis arrived in Geneva today for talks with Turkish Premier Bulent Ecevit. Ecevit arrived in Switzerland earlier in the day.

The two leaders are to discuss issues such as Cyprus and rights in the Aegean Sea which have clouded TurkishGreek relations for years.

45 years ago, Sunday March 8, 1968 Turkish Cypriots used their first day of complete freedom of movement yesterday to travel around the island without any police checks or searches. In Nicosia’s Turkish quarter, recently freed of all restrictions, there was a general feeling of appreciation of the government’s gesture.

The removal of all police checkpoints around the Turkish sector coincided with the Turks preparations to celebrate Bairam today and tomorrow.

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Heading to Europe: parents Jane and Lloyd Gordon and their daughter Kalisha (right)

Distraught family take case to European court Brits make move after daughter dies of ectopic pregnancy

By Nathan Morley A BRITISH FAMILY are heading to the European Court of Human Rights after the Cyprus justice system dismissed inquest findings that a Paralimni doctor failed to diagnose their daughter’s ectopic pregnancy – which caused her death.

An inquest last year referred the case to the Attorney General to pursue a criminal investigation after it was established that gross negligence on the part of the doctor and procedures at the clinic contributed to the death of 21-year-old Kalisha Gordon in 2008.

However, after a twelve month wait and countless letters to the Law Office of Cyprus for updates, the Attorney General Petros Clerides stunned family lawyers by deciding that no action would be taken due to ‘insufficient evidence’, meaning neither the hospital nor the doctor will be brought to court by the state.

Clerides was scheduled to attend a pre-arranged meeting with father Lloyd Gordon last December to discuss the case, but pulled-out an hour

before, leaving an official from his office to break the news that no action would be taken.

“The delays which the family of Kalisha have faced during the proceedings since the death of their daughter are unacceptable, therefore making emotional closure for her death almost impossible,” Rebecca Seaberg, a Legal Consultant at the law office of Georgiades and Mylonas told the Cyprus Mail.

Lawyers for the family have now received instructions to proceed to file a case on their behalf at the ECHR under the European Convention of Human Rights on the grounds that the state failed to proceed with criminal proceedings or an investigation into the death.

Friends of Lloyd Gordon have spoken of the family’s frustration with the clinic and battle for the truth, which was paid for by family, friends and fundraising efforts.

“Nothing can mask the agony being felt by the family.

But it is making them more determined than ever. It is as if everyone in Cyprus just wants to sweep the death of Kalisha under the carpet,” a family friend told the Cyprus

Mail last night.

The Gordon family decided to head to the European Court after opening a civil case against the doctor in December, which has now been postponed by the courts from a scheduled preliminary court date last month until September. Mr Gordon was given three days notice that the case faced an eight month delay.

“The way this family is being treated is not right, they had to fundraise and fight just to find out how their daughter died. I think they feel that a court away from Cyprus would be better at dealing with this, based on what horrors they have been through,” the friend added.

Mr Gordon and his family fought for nearly four years to receive a full explanation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Kalisha, who died on the final day of a working holiday in Ayia Napa. As she was packing to leave on July 30 2008, she fell ill with severe vomiting, chest pain and loss of consciousness.

She died less than 24 hours later at the LITO clinic in Paralimni, leaving friends and family devastated.

At the inquest, Judge Christos Philipou, sitting as coroner, established that Kalisha died as a result of a hemorrhage shock due to a rupture of the right ovary caused by an ectopic pregnancy.

The LITO clinic had originally claimed she died of a heart attack.

The inquest judge received evidence from a number of witnesses, clearly establishing blame with the duty doctor, who failed to diagnose that the pregnancy was ectopic. Faults in communication between the nurses at the clinic and the treating doctor were also to blame, with Judge Philipou adding that if proper care had been administered it is probable that Kalisha would have survived.

The duty doctor Petros Afxentiou claims he carried out a number of tests and did nothing wrong.

An ectopic pregnancy occurs outside the uterus, which is a life-threatening condition to the mother.

To make matters worse, the judge also stated that there were missing documents in the case medical file which warranted investigation by the police.

A HEZBOLLAH member appeared in a Limassol court yesterday for the last time before it rules on whether he plotted to attack Israeli interests for the Iran-backed Lebanese group.

If the court finds the Lebanese-Swedish man Hossam Taleb Yaccoub guilty when it delivers a verdict on March 21, it will strengthen calls for the European Union to follow the US lead and declare Hezbollah a terrorist organisation.

Yaccoub was arrested at Limassol port last year two weeks before a suicide bomber killed five Israeli tourists in Bulgaria in July, an attack Sofia blamed on Hezbollah, a charge the group denied.

The prosecution says Yaccoub tracked the movements of Israeli tourists on the island, noting arrival times of flights from Israel and registration numbers of buses ferrying visitors to hotels.

He pleaded not guilty to eight counts of conspiracy, consent to commit a crime and participation in a criminal organisation.

Yaccoub, who was 24 when arrested, has not denied he is a member of Hezbollah or that he carried out courier duties for the organisation in Europe. He says he never plotted any crime but merely acted on the instructions of a handler, who always wore a mask whenever they met.

In a wood-panelled courtroom packed with high school students on work experience, Yaccoub nodded in greeting before taking his seat in the dock, head bowed as he listened intently to proceedings

translated from Greek to Arabic.

Unlike earlier appearances, Yaccoub was cleanshaven, and had laces on his shoes. The hearing was mostly procedural, with prosecutors and defence lawyers filing their closing arguments in writing.

The EU has resisted pressure from both the United States and Israel to blacklist Hezbollah, arguing this could destabilise Lebanon’s fragile government and contribute to instability in the Middle East.

But a guilty verdict would add to the pressure created by the bombing in Bulgaria for the 27-nation bloc to crack down on the organisation.

CRIMINAL Hezbollah, now a powerful part of Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s government, says the accusations against it are part of an Israeli smear campaign.

The fact that it is currently not considered a criminal group is a matter Yaccoub’s defence team is trying to use to its advantage.

“I have asserted the charges have not been proven because there is no proof that Hezbollah is a criminal organisation,” said Antonis Georgiades, Yaccoub’s lawyer who also said there was no witness evidence backing conspiracy charges.

Hezbollah was set up in 1982 with the help of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards to fight Israeli forces which had invaded Lebanon. It was designated a terrorist organisation by the United States in the 1990s.

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Anti graft bill highlight of slew at reconvened House AN ANTI-graft bill was the highlight of some 70 items of legislation tabled to the plenum yesterday during the body’s first session after the formation of the new government.

A bill drafted by DISY and vetted by the Attorney-general aims to make it mandatory for state officials to declare their assets upon taking office and provide regular updates to a watchdog committee.

It provides the legal ammunition paving the way to amend article 15 of the Constitution, which thus far prevented the publication of state officials’ assets by invoking an individu-

al’s right to privacy.

Previous attempts at forcing state officials to make their assets known had failed after the Supreme Court deemed the laws unconstitutional.

Article 15 does not allow for the violation of privacy unless “such intervention is provided by law, and if it is necessary only for the protection of security, or public order, or public health, or public mores, or the protection of the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution to every person.”

Under the proposed amendment, an exception to the prohibition would be

added, so that state officials’ assets may also be declared “in the interest of transparency in public life and to allow for effective measures to combat corruption.”

The item, approved by the Cabinet yesterday, is part of a batch of anticorruption bills drafted by DISY in the run-up to the presidential elections.

Another bill concerns the accountability of state officials. In the event an independent committee of inquiry finds a state official responsible for actions or omissions during the exercise of his or her duties, the findings will

be forwarded to the Attorney-general who will act on them.

Reports issued by independent commissions were thus far non-binding and had no legal force.

Also at the plenum yesterday, six DISY cadres were affirmed as MPs to fill President Nicos Anastasiades’ seat in the House and those of other deputies who were appointed ministers last week.

The new deputies are: Andreas Themistocleous, Maria Kyriacou, Nicos Nouris, Rikkos Mappourides, Prodromos Prodromou and Aristotelis Misos.

Majority think EU will help us through crisis, says poll 55 per cent of Cypriots say they feel that they are citizens of Europe

By Peter Stevenson THE majority of people in Cyprus believe the EU will help us through the crisis although the number who feel like citizens of Europe is dropping, a Eurobarometer

survey released yesterday showed.

Even though the island held the presidency of the EU when the research was carried out, only 55 per cent of those polled said they felt like citizens of the EU, seven per cent fewer than when they

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Head of the European Commission Representation in Cyprus, Georgios Markopouliotis said that the barometer was not indicative of people’s opinions but rather their tendencies. “This barometer is a photograph of the moment,” he said.

Sixty three per cent believe that the EU will help the country financially to come through the economic crisis, the fifth highest of those polled in the EU27 and significantly higher than the average of 49 per cent. Only Austria, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria had a higher percentage of people who believe that the EU

would help them financially.

Meanwhile, 32 per cent of Cypriots believe the EU will bring financial and banking stability, the highest percentage from the EU27, 22 per cent higher than the average of only 10 per cent.

Only 2 per cent of Cypriots would like to see the island drop the euro as its currency.

The 55 per cent of Cypriots who feel like they are EU citizens, represent the sixth lowest in the EU27. The only countries that felt less European than Cyprus were the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Italy, the UK, Bulgaria and Greece, which had the lowest percentage at 46 per cent. Luxembourg had

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the highest percentage with 87 per cent of the population feeling like EU citizens.

Asked whether they are aware of their rights as EU citizens, 52 per cent answered that they are, seven per cent higher than the EU average of 45 per cent. This is a six per cent drop from the spring of 2012 when people were asked the same question. Eighty five per cent of Cypriots would like to know more about their rights as EU citizens.

Peace between member states was the first choice for Cypriots when asked what they believe to be the most positive aspect of being part of the EU, with a total of 36 per cent giving this response.

The second most positive aspect according to Cypriots is the free movement of people, products and services through EU countries (32 per cent).

Meanwhile 82 per cent of Cypriots do not believe their fellow-citizens are well informed on European matters. The majority of Cypriots are informed via TV on European politics with the internet, newspapers and radios the next choices on how they receive their news.

A total of 41 per cent in Cyprus cannot differentiate between official websites and non-official websites when it comes to European matters, while 31 per cent trust official websites over others. Nine per cent of people do not believe anything relating to European matters that they read on the internet.

A 25-year-old man who was injured in a road accident in Limassol on Wednesday evening is fighting for his life in the intensive care unit (ICU) of Nicosia General Hospital.

According to reports, around 10pm on Wednesday the moped the young man was driving was cut off by a car being driven by a 22-year-old woman, travelling in the opposite direction.

The 25-year-old was taken to Limassol General Hospital but due to the severity of his injuries he was moved to the ICU in Nicosia. He was operated on and due to his severe head injury and bone fractures, his condition is considered to be extremely critical.

The young man was wearing a helmet at the time of the accident. Limassol police are investigating.

Church fall A 62-year-old man from Greece is recovering in Paralimni General Hospital after he was injured yesterday.

He fell from a height of two and a half metres while he was painting icons inside the church of Ayia Varvara on Wednesday, around 3.30pm. Police are investigating the exact cause of the fall.

According to reports, the man was standing on a metal ladder while he was painting icons and began shouting for help when a passer-by heard him.

After entering the church, the passer-by found the 62-year-old on the ground.

He was taken to Paralimni General Hospital where on-duty doctors established he had fractured his left jaw-bone.

Tax fines POLICE started to fine people who have not yet renewed their road tax yesterday, after the extended period ended with an estimated 150,000 people yet to pay up.

Patrolling police know if a driver has renewed their road tax by entering the car’s licence plate number into a system.

The driver is fined €85 on the spot. After 15 days the fine goes up to €127.50 and after 30 days €170.

No reception PRESIDENT Nicos Anastasiades and his wife Andri have decided to cancel the usual reception held on Woman’s Day at the Presidential Palace and give the money to feeding needy families.

The money that was planned to be used to organise and cater the event will now be given to the soup kitchens around the island that have been set up to help needy families.

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Government clarifies that there will be ‘no haircut’

State aims to trim spending abroad

Issue raised during meeting with troika officials and president

THE government plans to trim redundant personnel serving abroad, among others, as part of a broader drive to curb the state payroll.

The President has asked the Defence Ministry to explore the possibility of reducing the number of military attaches serving with Cypriot embassies overseas, the government spokesman said yesterday.

But the cutbacks would not be at the expense of the country’s level of representation abroad, Christos Stylianides said.

Despite the cost-cutting policy, the Cypriot diplomatic mission to Portugal is to be upgraded to an embassy, but this would be done purely for “political reasons,” he added.

Other instructions for downsizing have been issued to the Ministry of Justice concerning police officers. And various overseas activities of the semi-governmental Cyprus Tourism Organisation would be merged where possible.

Meanwhile, the Cabinet yesterday gave the nod to draft legislation allowing the creation of the position of junior minister.

The government intends to establish a maximum of six junior ministries.

In spite of the addition of departments, Stylianides insisted, overall these would not pose an additional burden on state coffers.

He was not in a position to say which these would be.

But press reports suggested that a Junior Minister for Energy under the Commerce Ministry would be one of them; he would be tasked with the natural gas brief.

The item of legislation allowing for the appointment of junior ministers was tabled to the plenum later yesterday.

Its aim is to enable a minister to name one or more junior ministers, and to delegate to them powers or functions.

The junior ministers would be appointed by the Cabinet, and their terms of service would be the same as those of a minister.

continued from page one laundering legislation - not so much in terms of the legislation, but in accepting international oversight on how effectively this legislation has been implemented,” he said.

Eurozone finance ministers pledged this week to agree a bailout for the island, hit primarily by its exposure to Greek debt, by the end of March, but details of how the rescue will be financed are yet to be sorted out.

One stumbling block has been concern about Cyprus’ implementation of its money-laundering laws.

The government has agreed to an independent review.

Admitting that the issue was not directly in the ECB’s remit, Draghi volunteered that it was a key issue at a news conference.

Meanwhile, yesterday a leader of Germany’s opposition Greens party says Eu-

The IMF’s Delia Velculescu arriving at the Presidential Palace for talks with the President yesterday rope should make the Cyprus bailout conditional on reviving talks about reunification.

“In the debate about financial help for Cyprus the question of reunification of the island does not figure, regrettably,” Greens joint chairperson Cem Oezdemir, who is of Turkish origin, told Reuters in an inter-

view released yesterday.

“I believe this issue should be on the table as well as the need to reduce the banking sector, fight money-laundering and end wage dumping,” he said. It appeared to be the first attempt by a European politician to link a bailout to the dispute.

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‘Cyprus has become colony again’

By Peter Stevenson CYPRUS has become a colony once more, this time of Europe, or at least according to the lyrics of a new song by journalist and poet Leonidas Malenis.

The song sees Malenis reunite with singer Stavros Hadjisavvas, who performed the song ‘Welcome Friends To Cyprus’ which was one of the many songs dedicated to Cyprus’ EU presidency.

“The song speaks for itself,” Malenis told the Cyprus Mail. “Through it I tried to describe my grief at becoming a colony once again”.

Malenis said his inspiration came from Brussels. “Our new conquerors in Brussels are the powerful nations led

by Germany now, and it is so sad to see our island fall victim to these nations that are taking advantage of our current economic problems,” he added.

Hadjisavvas echoed Malenis’ view and said it was an honour to interpret Malenis’ lyrics. “The song is a protest against the powers that wish to colonise Cyprus again,” he said.

“We are hearing fairytales from various sources that the Europeans are here to help us and to save us but it is not the truth,” Hadjisavvas added. “The people of Cyprus should be troubled

quested up to €17 billion - roughly equal to the size of its economy - in emergency loans from eurozone partners and the International Monetary Fund.

German officials are pushing for depositors in Cypriot banks, including many Russian and British business people, to be made to contribute to the rescue cost in a so-called “bail-in”.

The Berlin government responded sceptically to Oezdemir’s call. One official, who asked not to be named, said it “would introduce a political element into the talks which would be difficult to measure”.

Reunification eluded negotiators when Cyprus joined the EU in 2004. Turkish Cypriots voted in favour of a UN settlement plan but Greek Cypriots rejected

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it in a referendum. Oezdemir noted that the new president had supported Kofi Annan’s proposal for a loose federation between north and south at the time.

“The new Cypriot president, [Nicos] Anastasiades, is someone we can really deal with,” said Oezdemir.

German-born Oezdemir is one of some three million people of Turkish extraction living in Germany.

His roots may make him more sensitive to the issues at stake in Cyprus.

Many Germans both in the opposition and in Merkel’s own coalition are uneasy about sending taxpayers’ funds to help Cyprus, which critics accuse of serving as a haven for money-launderers and tax evaders. Cyprus rejects the criticism.

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Hadjisavvas and Malenis recording the song by what is going on around them right now and placing the finger of blame squarely on the shoulders of the politicians who keep feeding us lies,” he continued. “If this is the Europe we were promised then we don’t want any part of it,” he concluded.

The song begins by describing how Cyprus has become a colony of Europe but that it will never call it mother. The song also includes a sample from the anthem of the EU, Ode To Joy by Beethoven.

Malenis insists the use of

the German composer’s work is not ironic and that he has the utmost respect for Beethoven and his music.

“We frown upon football hooligans from England yet we love the work of Shakespeare,” he said. “We love the work of Beethoven but frown upon German politicians like Angela Merkel,” he added.

Malenis’ song ‘Colony of Europe’ can be found at: www.youtube.com/watch?v =LtZh2OYDmm0&feature =youtu.be

Si informa che l’Ambasciata d’Italia in Nicosia ha indetto una procedura di selezione per l’assunzione di un impiegato a contratto da adibire ai servizi di a s s i s t e n t e a m m i n i s t r a t i v o n e l s e t t o r e s e gr e t e r i a - a r c h i v i o - c o n t a b i l e .

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A tough fight ahead to save embattled CY

A man is surrounded by smoke as he grills kebabs in Nicosia yesterday (Christos Theodorides)

Minister says the government needs to persuade Europe that it is worth saving

By Stefanos Evripidou

Souvlas mark start of Carnival celebrations CYPRIOTS celebrated Tsiknopempti (stinky Thursday) yesterday, eating lots of meat and getting into the swing of the carnival celebrations.

The Thursday 11 days before the start of lent is dedicated to eating meat and marks the beginning of the Carnival, when masks are traditionally worn to see off the bad spirits of winter.

The day gets its name from the smell of smoke coming

from frying or meat being cooked on spits.

Paphos and Limassol started carnival celebrations yesterday. The King of the Carnival, dressed as a Chinese investor, started the Paphos parade at 3pm.

“Many events are planned for this year’s carnival throughout the ten day period,” said Paphos mayor Savvas Vergas.

Referring to the choice of King of the Carnival,

Vergas said “we have chosen this theme because many Chinese people are present in our city this year. We wanted to add a satirical mood of humour to the carnival to show our desire to strengthen our relationship with these people who have chosen to invest in Paphos.”

Children at most schools across the island also cooked kebabs yesterday, dressed up and played traditional games.

THE GOVERNMENT and Cyprus Airways (CY) have a “tough fight ahead” to convince the European Commission of the need to save the national carrier from closure, Communications Minister Tasos Mitsopoulos said yesterday.

“We are facing a harsh reality and have to give a very tough battle,” Mitsopoulos said following the decision of the European Commission to investigate Cyprus aid to the state-owned airline.

The minister said the commission feels “misled” by the Cypriot authorities and will need convincing that CY is worth rescuing.

The commission announced on Wednesday that EU competition regulators have opened an “in-depth investigation” into whether €104 million in state aid granted to CY complies with EU state aid rules.

“At this stage, the commission has doubts whether these measures are in line with EU state aid rules,” said the statement.

The commission said it doubted the airline’s capital increase, with a €31.3 million contribution from the Cypriot state, was conducted on market terms. It is looking into a €73 million rescue loan for the ailing airline.

The commission noted that loan payments made to CY this year already appear to have violated the rules since they were made without getting prior Commission approval.

Another violation being investigated is the fact that Cyprus Airways already received aid in 2007, though EU state aid rules specify that companies in difficulty can receive rescue and restructuring aid

Hard task ahead: Tasos Mitsopoulos only once over a ten-year period.

The commission further doubted the credibility of the CY’s restructuring plan, and questioned the intention to grant compensation to redundant personnel over and above what they were entitled.

In its statement, the commission emphasised that “no further state aid measures in favour of Cyprus Airways should be implemented without the commission’s prior approval”.

The latest announcement comes after the airline revealed on Monday that it had more than doubled its losses in 2012 to €55.8 million.

Commenting on the latest developments, Mitsopoulos said the commission requested information on the airline as far back as February 2012.

“This means the commission feels that at some point it was misled and cheated for not being informed in time, either because it was given

information that does not reflect reality or the Cyprus Republic has not respected its contractual obligations,” he said.

The authorities were notified on January 10, 2013 by the commission that the measure taken providing state aid was illegal.

The communications ministry will work in coordination with the finance ministry to send the message that the national airline needs to be rescued, said Mitsopoulos.

The ministry will hire the help of Brussels-based legal advisors to figure out how to handle the situation, he added.

“I believe valuable time has been lost, because at least we could have given the message that we are making a serious and structured effort to restructure and reform the company to make it more viable under the circumstances, limit the extent and size of its losses, and make it more functional,” said the minister.

CY chairman Stavros Stavrou said the commission investigation was expected but questioned what will happen to the national airline in the meantime.

He asked how the airline was expected to proceed with restructuring if it didn’t get the millions of euros needed to implement the plan.

“If we don’t get it one way or another, than we can’t perform miracles,” he said.

Stavrou argued that the EU is looking to get more information about measures taken, “but they’re not telling us to stop or not proceed with measures provided in the (restructuring) plan”.

The chairman said he would discuss with the finance ministry to decide how best to move forward with the necessary redundancies as specified in the plan.

Queen on Ice to be crowned

By Bejay Browne THE first ‘Queen on Ice’ will be crowned at a fashion on ice event tonight at the Carob Mill in Limassol in honour of International woman’s day.

According to organisers, the concept is a first for Cyprus and will draw crowds from across the island.

“The models will be skating to all sorts of music and will be wearing various fashion clothing items from a number of stores.

They will also be showcasing underwear, fur coats and jewellery,” said Tanya Burgwin of show organisers Macs Marketing.

They will also don masks in honour of the carnival celebrations which are now underway.

The event will include a fashion show on ice as well as a competition for female entrants only, who will have to follow a routine set out by the shows’ professional choreographer.

“All levels of women skaters can enter and a panel of judges will decide the winner. She will be crowned Queen on Ice and win a three night luxury break for two in Paris.”

The night’s models - eight women and one man - are of different skating abilities.

“Some of them are professional models we have taught to skate and others have good skating ability and are attractive. The last two weeks have been very intense.”

The marketing executive said that the idea to put on the show on International women’s day was to enable her to do something for women in Cyprus.

A limited number of tickets are still available for this evening’s event, the price of which includes food and unlimited beverages.

‘Queen on Ice’ Fashion show tonight at 8pm at the Carob Mill in Limassol. For information and tickets Tel: 99 799399 (Tanya Burgwin)

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Home Care urged after swine flu death in north

Minister plays down Egypt pulling out of EEZ reports

AUTHORITIES in the occupied areas have asked anyone exhibiting flu symptoms to seek medical advice following the death of one man there who had H1N1 influenza, also known as swine flu.

A seven-month-old boy is also “very seriously ill” in Makarios children’s hospital with influenza A virus, of which H1N1 is a subcategory. But authorities said that it made no difference treatment-wise if the virus strain responsible is that causing swine flu.

“What interests us is what can help with treatment,” said the head of the hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU), Thanasis Athanasiou.

He added that the infant was vulnerable because he had recently undergone surgery and has an autoimmune disorder. The baby is on a mechanical ventilator and was first admitted to Larnaca hospital on February 16, being moved to Makarios hospital last week.

Egyptian MP says that changing agreement could mean billions to his country

VIGILANT The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that the H1N1 virus is expected “to circulate as a seasonal virus for some years to come”, and recommends vigilance among high risk groups.

Turkish Cypriot daily Kibris said this week authorities confirmed that Kemal Oner Erureten, a 57-yearold ‘police officer’ who died on Saturday last week had swine flu.

Erureten, a diabetic, had chronic bronchitis and an inflamed gallbladder, which authorities said made him a high-risk case, Kibris said adding that four other people who also exhibited flu symptoms were cleared.

WHO has been informed, Kibris said.

In June 2009, the WHO declared an influenza pandemic following the spread of the H1N1 strain in most regions of the world. About a year later in August 2010, the WHO announced that “the new H1N1 virus (had) largely run its course”.

By Stefanos Evripidou FOREIGN MINISTER Ioannis Kasoulides yesterday played down reports that Egypt was preparing to annul its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) agreement with Cyprus.

The minister commented after the Egyptian statefunded news agency MENA reported that the legislative committee of Egypt’s Shura Council drafted a law on Wednesday cancelling the current maritime borders of Egypt and Cyprus.

The Shura Council is the upper house of the Egyptian bicameral parliament, and according to reports, has limited legislative powers.

MENA reported the draft law was submitted to the Council’s legislative committee by MP Khaled Abdel Qader Ouda, who argued that renegotiation of the CyprusEgypt agreement delineating their respective EEZs and signed in 2003 “could mean billions of dollars for Egypt”.

Ouda was quoted saying the draft law “calls for the creation of new borders surrounding the economic zone in the presence of Turkey as a third party”.

Asked to comment, Kasoulides said: “The Egyptian government has never raised such an issue, nor has it questioned the agreement between two signatories of the Convention on the Law of the Sea, an agreement which has been submitted to the UN.” He added: “Egypt is a friendly country to Cyprus and the issue arising from a news story by the Egyptian news agency refers to an internal discussion among Egyptian politicians in their upper house. The position of this specific MP is well known. I do not wish to intervene in Egypt’s internal discussions.”

Kasoulides highlighted that neither the Egyptian Foreign Minister raised doubts about

their bilateral agreement during his visit to Cyprus last November, nor did Egyptian Ambassador to Nicosia Menha Bakhoum raise the issue during her meeting with the new Cypriot minister on Tuesday.

The Cyprus Foreign Ministry released a statement yesterday highlighting that the governments of both Cyprus and Egypt “fully respect and practically implement” the EEZ delimitation agreement signed in 2003. Egypt was the first country to sign an EEZ agreement with Cyprus.

“No problems have arisen between them in relation to the Delimitation Agreement,” said the ministry noting that Cyprus attaches strategic importance to its relations with neighbour and friend Egypt.

“Cooperation in the field of hydrocarbons’ development in the areas adjacent to the Median Line of the EEZs of the two countries, as well as cooperation in other related fields, ranks high in relations and dialogue between governments,” it added.

However, Turkey continues to challenge Cyprus’ sovereign right to exploit its hydrocarbon reserves on two counts. First, it argues that any natural resources should be equally shared between both communities on the island, citing the 1960 treaties establishing the Cyprus Republic. Secondly, Turkey is not a signatory to the Law of the Sea Convention and does not recognise the island’s rights to delineate an EEZ, preferring instead a particular legal interpretation of what constitutes a continental shelf. In effect, Turkey is disputing Cypriot ownership of underwater natural resources in parts of its EEZ, saying it infringes on Turkey’s own rights.

Media reports have suggested Turkey has been leaning on both Lebanon and Egypt to reject the EEZ agreements signed with Cyprus.

DISY ‘fully backs civil partnerships’ THE government yesterday denied it is having second thoughts about a bill for civil partnerships, adding it fully intends to table the legislation to parliament.

Government spokesman Christos Stylianides dismissed media speculation that the government would rethink the matter due to opposition from the Church.

“The position of the government and of Nicos Anastasiades, both as presidential candidate and now as President, is that such a bill will be promoted,” said Stylianides.

The cabinet recently approved a draft bill enabling

couples to have a legally recognised relationship other than marriage. A civil partnership allows a couple, living together but not married, to register their relationship with authorities so they can have the same obligations and rights as married couples.

But a day earlier, Church leaders invoking citing Holy Scripture stated they would not accept same-sex cohabitation and would not condone any partnership outside of an official church wedding.

“The church advises those who have an addiction to homosexuality to fight

against their urges as they would fight against any other passions,” Paphos Bishop Georgios told newsmen after a meeting of the Holy Synod.

One cannot legislate morality, the cleric argued.

Cyprus does not recognise any other form of cohabitation beyond marriage, but authorities started mulling the recognition of cohabitation rights in 2011 when a 93-year-old woman complained to the Ombudswoman after authorities refused to give her a widow’s pension because she had never married her partner of 67 years.

Cooperation in the field of hydrocarbons’ development ranks high in relations between the two countries the foreign ministry said

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Schoolgirl stabbed to death on bus A 16-YEAR-OLD schoolgirl stabbed to death on a bus during the morning rush hour yesterday has been named as Christina Edkins.

A 22-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the murder of the teenager, a student at at Leasowes High School in Halesowen, West Midlands Police said.

He was held near a Morrison’s supermarket following a manhunt launched after the killing on a crowded doubledecker bus at around 7.30am as Christina made her way to school.

Police said the man was chased and arrested after being seen acting suspiciously and was being held on suspicion of murder.

Neil Shaw, the headteacher of Leasowes High School, said: “Christina was a bright and popular student much loved by staff and students alike.

“We are deeply saddened to hear

BRITAIN TODAY Abducted Brits are released BEDOUIN gunmen in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula have released two British tourists who were kidnapped earlier yesterday as they drove from Cairo to the beach resort of Sharm el Sheikh, security and tribal sources said.

The British pair, who were travelling in a private car, had stopped to change money in the town of Ras es-Sidr around 150 kilometres (93 miles) south east of Cairo when they were seized by the tribesmen, said the sources.

They were held for several hours in an unknown location before being handed over to the army after negotiations with tribal elders.

The sources said the kidnappers were demanding the release of four prisoners held in Alexandria on charges of arms smuggling.

South Sinai’s Red Sea coast is a major tourism area for Egypt and several other tourists have been held briefly by tribesmen in recent months and released unharmed, often after just a few hours of negotiations with authorities.

Heart surgery win CAMPAIGNERS have won a High Court challenge over proposed changes to children’s heart surgery services in England.

Save Our Surgery (SOS), which is trying to stop the closure of the heart unit at Leeds General Infirmary, argued the consultation process leading up to the changes was “unfair and procedurally flawed”.

Yesterday Mrs Justice Nicola Davies, sitting at London’s High Court, ruled that the challenge must succeed - but what the victory means for the future will be decided at a later date.

this tragic news and our thoughts and hearts go out to her family and everyone who knew her.

“The school is working closely with the police and a team of counsellors to provide support to our pupils and staff.”

Police said Christina’s family were being supported by family liaison officers.

Detective Superintendent Richard Baker said: “This is a tragic case and the victim’s family are devastated.

“We are still anxious to hear from anyone with information or who may have witnessed the incident this morning to speak to us via the dedicated hotline 0800 096 0095.

“There will be a high police presence across the city this afternoon following this morning’s tragedy, particularly on buses and in schools in the area to provide reassurance to local people.”

Police launched a hunt yesterday

morning for a black man in his late teens or early 20s, warning the public to be “vigilant”.

A second man was detained by police in connection with the stabbing but later released without arrest.

Baker said police were investigating the possibility that the murder was a random attack, adding: “We’re looking at a number of motives at the moment.”

The area was cordoned off this morning and and officers remained at the scene in Hagley Road, Birmingham.

The street, leading out of the city, was closed in the wake of the stabbing and was expected to stay shut for the rest of the day.

Emergency services were called to the area at 7.37am after the bus driver raised the alarm and reported that a passenger had been wounded.

But medics who rushed to help were unable to save the teenager.

Police and forensics at the crime scene on Hagley Road, Birmingham where a schoolgirl was stabbed to death on a bus during the morning rush hour yesterday

Labour calls for crackdown on benefits to immigrants But Britain should not ‘pull up the drawbridge’

By Sam Lister LABOUR yesterday called for a crackdown on some benefit payments to European migrants living in Britain to make the system fairer.

Yvette Cooper acknowledged fears about the impact of Bulgarian and Romanian migration when restrictions are lifted next year but insisted vital changes to ease potential problems could be made before January.

The shadow home secretary called for “sensible action” on welfare and public services, including a presence test that would prevent migrants from immediately making jobs benefits claims.

But in a major speech on immigration in central London - which comes after Ed Miliband’s admission in a party political broadcast Wednesday night that Labour got it wrong on immigration when they were in power - Cooper insisted Britain must not “pull up the drawbridge”.

“Most people who come to Britain from Europe work hard and contribute more in taxes than they use in public

Labour is attempting to reposition itself on immigration and shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper conceded the party should have been ‘ready to talk about problems’ services or claim in benefits,” she said.

“But the system needs to be seen to be fair. Giving people the right to work in other countries is not about people travelling and getting support from other countries if they don’t plan to contribute.

“So the Government is right to look at this area.

But so far they have come up with no specific practical proposals and are engaged in a frenzy of briefing and rhetoric instead.”

Cooper said a presence test would help “clarify” that “people will be expected to

be in the country for some time or to contribute before they get something back”.

She called for discussions with Europe to reform a long-standing regulation that means family benefits must be paid even if parents and children live in different countries.

“This causes significant unfairness,” she said.

“If someone moves from Newcastle to London for work and leaves their children behind, they cannot claim child tax credit. But if someone moves to London, leaving their children in Paris or Prague instead, they can claim child tax credit and send it home.

That’s not fair.”

Cooper pledged that Labour would ensure maximum transitional controls for any future countries joining the EU. She also called for tighter enforcement of labour market rules to avoid exploitation and prevent undercutting and suggested more must be done to make companies that recruit low-skilled workers from abroad do more to train local staff.

During the speech at the IPPR think-tank, Cooper also called for an end to student visitor visa loopholes that are allowing tens of thousands of people to enter the country without being monitored once they arrive.

She warned genuine international students are being blocked from studying in the United Kingdom while the short-term visas are being increasingly abused.

Labour is attempting to reposition itself on immigration and Cooper continued her leader’s mea culpa yesterday, conceding the party should have been “ready to talk about problems”, but adding that it now knows “that needs to change”.

Court finds Huhne’s ex-wife guilty of perverting course of justice THE ex-wife of Chris Huhne was found guilty yesterday of perverting the course of justice by taking penalty points on her driving licence in 2003 for a speeding offence he had committed.

Lib Dem Chris Huhne, who resigned from his cabinet post as energy secretary in February 2012 when he and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce were both charged over the 2003 points deception, had pleaded guilty to the charge on February 4.

Pryce, a former joint head of the government’s economic service,

had pleaded not guilty, arguing that Huhne had coerced her into taking his penalty points so he could avoid a driving ban. Huhne already had penalty points on his licence at the time while Pryce did not, so she was not at risk of a ban.

Pryce’s first trial ended last week when the jury were unable to agree on a verdict.

After a retrial, a new jury rejected Pryce’s defence of “marital coercion”, convicting her unanimously.

Huhne and Pryce now both face jail sentences.

The 2003 points deception remained a family secret until Huhne and Pryce’s 26-year marriage broke down in bitter acrimony in 2010 when he left her for a younger, bisexual woman and the details were splashed all over the newspapers.

Months later, Pryce told two newspapers about the speeding points in what the prosecution at her trial described as an act of revenge designed to destroy Huhne’s career. The first media reports about the points appeared in May 2011 and the police then started investigating the matter.

Pryce’s argument of marital coercion was rejected

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Berlusconi Bolshoi star: I didn’t Silvio is found guilty in call for acid in assault wire-tapping case Soloist says attack was meant to be a beating

By Maria Tsvetkova A DANCER accused of organising an attack that nearly blinded the Bolshoi Ballet’s artistic director admitted yesterday he had wanted him beaten up, but said he was shocked when he heard that his face had been splashed with acid.

Police formally charged Bolshoi soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko and two suspected accomplices in the January 17 attack, which stunned Russia, revealed discord in the theatre and left Sergei Filin with severe facial burns.

The charges of causing grievous bodily harm were announced after a Moscow court ordered the men held in custody for six weeks while authorities continue to investigate. All three could face prison terms of up to 12 years if convicted, police said.

Brought to a drab court in handcuffs, the slight, dishevelled Dmitrichenko told the judge he had agreed when the man accused of carrying out the attack suggested roughing Filin up, but did not tell him to throw acid in Filin’s face.

“When I heard what happened to Sergei, I was just in shock. I could not believe that the man who proposed beating him up went ahead and

Dmitrichenko is seen in the defendant’s cage at a court hearing in Moscow yesterday did this thing with acid,” said Dmitrichenko, 29, dressed in a black hooded winter coat and a striped sweater and speaking from behind the bars of a courtroom cage.

Dmitrichenko, who made a career playing villains such as the murderous medieval Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible, said that when the assailant had proposed that he “hit him (Filin) in the head, beat him, I agreed to this suggestion”. He also said he told the attacker when Filin left the Bolshoi late on January 17.

A masked assailant called Filin’s name as he returned home that night and threw acid in his face from a glass jar, leaving him writhing in pain in the snow. Filin, 42, is

being treated in Germany after several operations in Russia to save his eyesight and is expected to return to work later this year.

The attack exposed bitter infighting at the Bolshoi and compromised the reputation of the colonnaded theatre near the Kremlin in central Moscow, an enduring symbol of Russian culture that was founded in 1776.

Dmitrichenko was arrested on Tuesday and admitted to organising the attack in a police video shown on Wednesday, but said he did not mean for it to go so far.

The judge denied Dmitrichenko bail and granted a request from prosecutors who called the

Tymoshenko ally stripped of assembly seat A UKRAINIAN court has stripped an ally of jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko of his seat in parliament, prompting criticism from the European Union which considers his case politically motivated.

The ruling was made less than two weeks after an EU-Ukraine summit where Brussels told Kiev it needed to address the issue of selective justice if it wanted to secure landmark deals on political association and free trade with the bloc.

The court on Wednesday barred Serhiy Vlasenko, a member of opposition movement Batkivshchyna, following a motion from an ally of the country’s President Viktor Yanukovich, the party said in a statement.

The motion had accused Vlasenko of working as a lawyer - a practice that deputies are barred from, the Batkivshchyna statement added.

Vlasenko, best known for advising Tymoshenko’s defence team, has denied any

wrongdoing.

European Commissioner for Enlargement, Stefan Fuele, condemned the ruling, saying on his Twitter feed: “Stripping a parliamentarian of his mandate like being done in case of Vlasenko is not European way. Does this bring Ukraine closer to EU?” Earlier this week, Fuele and Catherine Ashton, the EU commissioner in charge of foreign relations, warned Ukraine against “creating any perception of misuse of the judiciary for political purposes”, referring to Vlasenko’s case.

Tymoshenko, who led the 2004 Orange Revolution protests that derailed Yanukovich’s first bid for the presidency, was jailed for seven years on abuse-of-office charges in 2011.

She now faces fresh tax evasion and embezzlement charges in a separate trial and state prosecutors say they suspect her of being behind a 1996 contract killing of a local businessmen and politician.

Le Drian: France mission in Mali is not yet complete FRANCE’S Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian paid a surprise visit yesterday to French forces battling Islamist rebels in rugged northern Mali, saying their military mission would not end until security was restored in the West African country.

After reviewing ranks of French soldiers near the desolate Adrar des Ifoghas

mountains, Le Drian told France 24 television that Paris’ aim was to help “reestablish security in the whole of Mali’s territory”.

“It is after that, progressively, we will hand over to an African mission under a UN mandate,” he said. “I came to greet our forces ... (and say) that France is proud of its troops and proud of the

professionalism of the operation and the way it is working out.”

France said al Qaeda-linked Islamist rebels’ seizure of the northern two-thirds of Mali in April posed a risk to the security of Europe and West Africa. It launched a ground and air operation on January 11 to halt a push southward

by Islamist rebels.

dancer a flight risk, remanding him in custody until mid-April. The dancer said he would not appeal.

AN Italian court sentenced ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi yesterday to one year in jail over the publication by his family’s newspaper of a transcript of a leaked wiretap connected to a banking scandal in 2006.

Italian justice system rules mean the 76-year-old media billionaire would not have to serve any jail time until the appeals process has been exhausted, and a higher court may still overturn the ruling.

It came in the middle of a political impasse arising from last week’s election which left no party able to form a government on its own, although Berlusconi’s centre-right formation emerged as the second strongest in parliament.

Berlusconi is in the middle of a series of trials, with separate cases over charges of tax fraud and paying for sex with an underage prostitute due to wind up this month.

Following yesterday’s verdict, he repeated denials that he was in any way connected with wrongdoing and said the decision showed that politically motivated judges were conducting a campaign against him.

Former Italy PM Berlusconi faces a series of trials “It is impossible to tolerate judicial persecution of this kind which has been going on for 20 years and which re-emerges every time there are politically complex moments in the political life of our country,” he said in a statement.

Berlusconi’s brother Paolo, publisher of the familyowned Il Giornale daily, was sentenced to two years and three months over the same case, which centred on confidential wiretap transcripts related to a bank takeover which appeared in the newspaper.

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World WORLD TODAY Malaysia troops kill militants MALAYSIAN security forces said they killed 31 Filipino militants in overnight clashes in eastern Sabah state as Prime Minister Najib Razak rejected a ceasefire offer from the armed group staking an ancient claim to the resource-rich region.

At least 52 militants and eight Malaysian policeman have died in clashes that began in the northern tip of Borneo island last Friday and intensified into an all-out assault by army troops early this week.

Security officials said many militants escaped the military attacks aimed at a coastal village where they had been holed up for weeks. The obscure group is believed to be at large in surrounding oil palm estates.

“We want the militants to unconditionally surrender and hand over their weapons,” Najib said in his first trip to the conflict area since the standoff began a month ago. If they did not surrender, Najib said the military would continue to track them down “for as long as it takes to eliminate them.”

Palestinian dies after stand-off A PALESTINIAN shot by Israeli soldiers during a confrontation with stonethrowers in the occupied West Bank two weeks ago died of his wounds yesterday, his family and a hospital official said.

The shooting occurred during protests in support of a hunger strike by four Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.

Mohammed Asfour, 22, was shot in the head and initially treated in a Palestinian hospital, his family said. He was later transferred to a hospital in Tel Aviv, where a spokesman said he died.

Asfour’s family said his funeral would be held today in his West Bank village.

Bin Laden kin held in Jordan A SON-in-law of Osama bin Laden who served as al Qaeda’s spokesman has been arrested and detained in Jordan in an operation led by Jordanian authorities and the FBI, U.S. government sources said yesterday.

The sources said Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a militant who had appeared in videos representing al Qaeda after the 9/11, attacks on New York and Washington in 2001, had initially been picked up in Turkey. The Turkish government then deported him to Jordan where local authorities and the FBI took custody of him.

North Korea threatens US with a pre-emptive strike UN Security Council approves fresh sanctions against reclusive state

By Jack Kim and Louis Charbonneau NORTH Korea threatened the United States yesterday with a preemptive nuclear strike, raising the level of rhetoric just before the U.N. Security Council approved new sanctions against the reclusive country.

North Korea has accused the United States of using military drills in South Korea as a launch pad for a nuclear war and has scrapped the armistice with Washington that ended hostilities in the 195053 Korean War. North Korea, which has one major ally, neighbouring China, threatens the United States and its “puppet”, South Korea, on an almost daily basis.

“Since the United States is about to ignite a nuclear war, we will be exercising our a right to pre-emptive nuclear attack against the headquarters of the aggressor in order to protect our supreme interest,” the North’s foreign ministry spokesman said in a statement.

North Korea conducted a third nuclear test on February 12, in defiance of UN resolutions, and declared it had achieved progress in securing a functioning atomic arsenal.

It is widely believed the North does not have the capacity to deliver a nuclear strike on the mainland US.

A video grab taken from North Korean TV shows a mass rally by citizens and soldiers in Pyongyang yesterday (AFP)

The UN Security Council voted yesterday to tighten financial restrictions on Pyongyang and crack down on its attempts to ship and receive banned cargo in breach of UN sanctions.

The new sanctions were agreed after three weeks of

negotiations between the United States and China, which has a history of resisting tough measures on its neighbour and ally.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a former South Korean foreign minister, welcomed the council’s move,

saying in a statement that the resolution “sent an unequivocal message to (North Korea) that the international community will not tolerate its pursuit of nuclear weapons”.

North Korea’s latest threats were the latest in an escalation of tough words from both

sides of the armed Korean border this week.

The North’s unnamed foreign ministry spokesman also said it would be entitled to take military action as of March 11 when US-South Korea military drills move into a full-scale phase as it had declared the truce invalid.

President Barack Obama’s administration said it had reassured South Korea and Japan “at the highest levels” of its commitment to deterrence, through the US nuclear umbrella and missile defence, in the face of fresh threats from North Korea.

Glyn Davies, the State Department’s point man for North Korea policy, also said in testimony prepared for a Senate hearing that Washington will not accept North Korea as a nuclear state.

North Korea, which held a mass military rally in Pyongyang yesterday in support of its recent threats, has protested against the UN censures of its rocket launches. It says they are part of a peaceful space programme and that the criticism illustrates US double standards.

The North’s rhetoric, however, rarely goes beyond just that. Its last armed aggression against the South in 2010 came unannounced, bombing a South Korean island killing two civilians. It was widely accused of sinking a South Korean navy ship earlier in the year, killing 46 sailors.

Venezuelans vow more revolution SALUTING, clenching fists and making the Roman Catholic sign of the cross over Hugo Chavez’s open casket, Venezuelans crowded yesterday to see their deceased leader one last time and pledge that his socialist revolution will not die.

Tens of thousands of grieving supporters stood in lines that snaked around a grandiose military academy in an mass show of respect for Chavez, who died on Tuesday at age 58 after a two-year battle with cancer.

From soldiers in fatigues to officers in ceremonial dress, senior ministers to residents of the slums where Chavez was most loved, those in line vowed to defend his legacy and back his preferred heir, acting President Nicolas Maduro, in a new vote.

“We want to see the president, we want to be there for his last moments,” said Trinidad Nunez, 40, outside the building where Chavez’s body will lie in state until an official funeral today.

“It is up to us to carry on the revolution and do what Chavez asked us to do: support Maduro.”

Chavez was dressed in an army uniform and a signature red beret like the one he wore in a 1992 speech to the nation that launched his political career after he led a failed coup.

One government source told Reuters that Chavez entered a coma on Monday and died the next day of respiratory failure after a rapid deterioration from the weekend when he had held a lengthy meeting with ministers at his bedside.

The cancer had spread to his lungs, the source added.

There is uncertainty over exactly when a presidential vote will be held in the OPEC country with the world’s largest oil reserves.

Though the constitution stipulates a poll must be held within 30 days, politicians say election authorities may not be ready in time and there is talk of a possible delay. Chavez ruled for 14 years, winning four presidential elections.

Maduro, 50, a former union leader who ended his education at high school before plunging into politics, looks certain to face opposition leader Henrique Capriles, 40, the centrist governor of Miranda state who lost to Chavez in last year’s election.

Opposition sources told Reuters on Wednesday they have agreed to again back Capriles, whose 44 per cent vote share in 2012 was the best performance by any candidate against Chavez.

A fainting Chavez supporter is carried away from the crowd waiting outside the Military Academy chapel to pay last respects to the leader yesterday in Caracas (AFP)

Indonesia issues volcano warning

Officials examine the Tangkuban Perahu volcano’s crater

INDONESIAN scientists are closely monitoring a smoking volcano popular with tourists on Java island and are urging everyone to stay off the mountain’s slope.

Government volcanologist Hendra Gunawan said yesterday that Mount Tangkuban Perahu in West Java province has spewed smoke and ash nearly 1,640 feet into the air since Monday. Scientists have put it on the second-highest alert level.

Debris and lava have not tumbled far, and nearby towns and villages remain safe. Authorities are warning tourists to stay at least a mile away from the crater because of the poisonous gas inside.

The 6,837-foot volcano is among Java’s most popular tourist attractions, and last erupted in 1983.

Visitors can usually hike to the crater’s edge to view boiling mud up close.

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‘Abducted UN mens’ freedom rests on pullback’ REBELS holding 21 U.N. peacekeepers near the Golan Heights in southern Syria say government forces must stop their bombardment and leave the area before their “guests” can be freed, a rebel activist said.

“They will be passed to safe hands when possible - because the area is surrounded and the Assad regime is bombarding it,” said Abu Essam Taseel, from the media office of the “Martyrs of Yarmouk” rebel brigade which detained the Filipino peacekeepers.

Several videos were released of the peacekeepers yesterday in which they said they were being well-treated by civilians and rebels battling President Bashar al-Assad, but 24 hours after their capture in the southern village of Jamla there was no indication when they might leave.

“It’s not just a question of their safety only but the safety of the people in the area,” Taseel said, adding the UN monitoring a ceasefire line between Syria and the Israelioccupied Golan Heights had a responsibility to keep heavy weapons out of the area.

The capture of the UN convoy just one mile (1.5 km) from Israeli-held territory was another sign Syria’s conflict, nearing its second anniversary, could spill over to neighbouring countries.

Israel says it will not “stand idle” if violence spreads to the Golan, which it captured in the 1967 Middle East war, though a senior Defence Ministry official voiced confidence yesterday the United Nations could secure the peacekeepers’ release, signalling that Israel would not intervene.

Suspected Sunni Muslim insurgents killed 48 Syrian troops inside Iraq on Monday and cross-border artillery fired from Syria has killed people in Lebanon and Turkey in recent months.

Kenyan paramilitary soldiers stand guard outside of a polling station as ballot-counting continues on March 6, 2013 in Mathare slum, Nairobi (AFP)

Odinga: Kenya polls results were doctored

By Edmund Blair and Richard Lough KENYAN presidential candidate Raila Odinga’s campaign team said some of the results of Sunday’s election had been doctored and called for the vote count to be halted, remarks that could inflame a largely peaceful poll.

Odinga, Kenya’s prime minister, is trailing Uhuru Kenyatta in the partial count.

His running mate Kalonzo Musyoka, who made the comments, said they were not a call for mass action and urged voters to stay calm and patient.

Kenyatta has been indicted for crimes against humanity over ethnic violence which grew out of disputes over Kenya’s last election in 2007 that killed 1,200 people, posing a dilemma for Western

Vote body says the count is credible despite glitches governments if he wins.

Despite technical glitches, international observers have in past days broadly said the vote and count was transparent, but Musyoka said it should be stopped.

“We as a coalition take the position the national vote tallying process lacks integrity and has to be stopped and re-started using primary documents from the polling stations,” he told a news conference. “We have evidence the results we are receiving have been doctored.”

Election officials said the count would not stop and the results could be delivered by today. The commission has

up to seven days from Monday’s vote to declare the outcome.

Issack Hassan, chairman of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, dismissed charges of any manipulation, saying: “The commission wishes to assure Kenyans that with the rigorous verification process in place, there is no room to doctor the results whatsoever by any election official.

“We cannot stop tallying, this is a legal process”.

Kenyans have been hoping this vote will restore its image as one of Africa’s more stable democracies after the mayhem five years ago and

many have voiced determination not to take their differences to the streets but to turn to a reformed judiciary.

Witnesses said areas in the capital Nairobi and Kisumu, a city in the west of Kenya, where violence erupted after the 2007 vote, appeared calm shortly after Musyoka’s comments.

“It is not a call to mass action,” Musyoka said. “We must tell them (Kenyans) there will be no mass action.

We are committed as a coalition to the principle of the rule of law.”

By 1515 GMT, with about 6 million votes tallied, Kenyatta had about 3.1 million votes to Odinga’s 2.6 million, giving the deputy prime minister more than 50 per cent.

But there is still some way to go, as turnout was estimated at more than 70 per cent of the 14.3 million voters.

Ousted Pistorius detective quits the police THE South African detective, pulled off the investigation of athletics star Oscar Pistorius for murder after it emerged he himself faces attempted murder charges, has resigned from the force, police said yesterday.

Warrant Officer Hilton Botha, the first officer on the scene after the Valentine’s Day shooting of Pistorius’s girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, was also criticised for mixing up key facts about the investigation at the “Blade Runner’s” bail hearing.

“He handed in his resignation yesterday and it was accepted with immediate effect,” police spokesman Brigadier Neville Malila told Reuters. “We are not going into the details.”

Botha, a detective with 24 years experience, is accused of firing on a minibus taxi full of passengers in 2011 while pursuing a man accused of murdering a woman and disposing of her dismembered body down a drain, local media said.

The charges were withdrawn but reinstated on February 4, 10 days before Steenkamp was shot.

The incident has embarrassed the South African police who regularly come under fire for failing to reduce one of the highest crime rates in the world and dispel perceptions of a force that is poorly trained.

Last week, eight policemen were arrested for tying a Mozambican taxi driver to the back of a vehicle and dragging him to the station.

The video-recorded treatment of the man who later died shocked audiences around the world.

Syrian opposition to pick provisional prime minister at Istanbul meeting next week THE opposition Syrian National Coalition will meet in Istanbul next week to elect a provisional prime minister to run a political transition if President Bashar al-Assad falls, coalition members said yesterday.

The opposition wants to create a provisional government to administer rebel-held areas in Syria and to show

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it can fill a power vacuum left by collapsing state institutions, putting structures in place to curb chaos in a post-Assad era.

The Istanbul meeting on March 12 and 13 was called after former Prime Minister Riad Hijab, the highest-ranking civilian defector from President Bashar al-Assad’s govern-

ment, withdrew his candidacy, several coalition members said.

Hijab had run into opposition from Islamists and liberals in the coalition for his past ties with Syria’s ruling hierarchy.

“The field of candidates has been expanding since Hijab withdrew,” said one coalition member who asked not

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The opposition had planned to meet on March 2, but postponed the talks partly because of Hijab’s withdrawal, he said. Hijab said he had informed the coalition’s president, Moaz Alkhatib, that he would not join the provisional government after talks in Cairo last month, but gave no reason.

Botha (above) was pulled off the Pistorius probe

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Business No ECB action planned over Italy

Bank of England decides not to restart gilt purchases

MARKETS have settled quickly after Italy’s fractured election result and any threat of contagion has been muted, the European Central Bank’s chief said yesterday, suggesting it is in no rush to take any action.

Italians delivered a strong rejection of austerity measures at elections last week and left no party grouping with enough support to form a durable government, raising the prospect of backsliding on economic reforms and debt-cutting measures.

“Markets after some excitement immediately after the elections have now reverted back, more or less, to what they were before,” Draghi told a news conference after the ECB held interest rates at a record low 0.75 per cent.

“You have seen certainly that the contagion to other countries has been muted this time, contrary to what might have happened about a year and a half ago. And this is another positive sign,” he said.

The ECB has calmed the eurozone crisis with its pledge to buy government bonds in potentially unlimited amounts, but it will only do so if a member country seeks help from the bloc’s rescue fund and agrees to austerity policy conditions.

The programme, dubbed Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT), is yet to be deployed and Italy could find itself outside the ECB’s umbrella if it cannot form a government prepared to adhere to its rules.

“OMT remains, is in place,” Draghi said. “It is a very effective backstop, and it is there.

But you know the rules.”

A Reuters poll of economists showed uncertainty stemming from Italy’s election makes it more likely the ECB will have to help struggling countries by buying their bonds at some point, but with Spain, not Italy, the most likely recipient.

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THE Bank of England decided not to restart its main stimulus programme for Britain’s ailing economy yesterday as the government stuck to its deficitcutting pledge and said the BoE should support growth.

The British central bank’s decision is likely to have been close-run. Last month, three officials - including governor Mervyn King - voted to buy a further 25 billion pounds ($38 billion) of government bonds.

Since then economic data have painted a picture of an economy teetering on the edge of its third recession in three years and several policymakers had said they were open to a wide range of ideas to boost the economy.

Economists polled by Reuters had seen a roughly 40 per cent chance that the central bank would restart its asset purchase programme this month.

Sterling jumped from levels close to a 2-1/2 year low after the BoE announcement.

The central bank said it was leaving the total level of asset purchases at the 375 billion pounds reached

by October last year. It also kept interest rates unchanged from the record low 0.5 per cent first hit four

A picture shows The Bank of England in central London on February 28, 2013 years ago.

“Although the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) left policy on hold again today, we expect that it will not take much to swing a majority of members in support of more stimulus in the near future,” said Capital Economics’s Martin Beck.

Ahead of the bank’s announcement, Prime Minister David Cameron said that it would be disastrous for his coalition government to abandon the austerity programme that has been the mainstay of its economic

policy since coming to power in 2010.

Cameron also said yesterday that the central bank should support economic recovery without putting financial stability at risk.

Cameron’s comments underscore how the BoE’s monetary policy remains the main tool to support growth, even as a senior member of the coalition government suggested it may be time to borrow more to invest in infrastructure projects.

But those arguing against further stimulus already point to Britain’s sticky in-

flation, which is currently at 2.7 per cent and not expected to return to the 2 per cent target until early 2016.

Britain’s central bank has already bought 375 billion pounds of gilts, the equivalent of 26 per cent of the economy, far more in relative terms than the Federal Reserve’s bond-buying.

Despite the BoE’s efforts, Britain’s economy contracted at the end of last year, and scepticism is growing about what more of the same would achieve.

The British Chambers of Commerce downgraded its

(AFP) growth forecasts yesterday and said fiscal policy, including measures to support business investment, would be more effective.

The Financial Times reported late on Wednesday that the government could soon change the BoE’s mandate to give it greater focus on boosting growth.

But analysts said the BoE was already adopting a flexible interpretation of its remit - to target inflation at 2 per cent on a two-year horizon - so tweaks to the wording may make little difference in practice.

Escalating BP payouts Data signals US employment market gains

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BP must keep paying certain types of oil spill compensation in much larger amounts and to more parties than it was expecting, according to a court ruling which could add billions to its bill.

The March 5 ruling, made by the New Orleans court where BP is battling to keep a lid on other fines and penalties, was outlined in the company’s annual report.

The decision applies to payments made as part of a settlement stemming from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 which BP has already agreed, but where the actual amount is uncapped.

BP had earmarked $8.5 billion for payments which included claims for “Economic and Property Damages”.

BP said it would appeal the ruling, which upheld the payout administrator’s interpretation of the settlement, and which has resulted in more and larger payouts than BP had expected.

“BP strongly disagrees with the ruling of 5 March 2013 and the current implementation of the agreement by the claims administrator,” it said.

“BP intends to pursue all available legal options, including rights of appeal, to challenge this ruling.”

BP also removed about $800 million from its $8.5-billion estimate for compensation claims under this part of its $42.2 billion of total spill provisions so far.

Far from signalling a lower potential final bill, however, BP said the reduction reflects “the inherent uncertainty that exists... (over) the higher number of claims received and higher average claims payments than previously assumed”.

BP said even if it wins its appeal, its final bill for this type of compensation will be much higher, because claims not yet received or processed are not reflected in its current estimate, and because the average payments per claim determined so far are higher than anticipated.

THE number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week, suggesting a pick-up in the labour market recovery and economic growth.

But the growth outlook was dimmed somewhat by another report yesterday showing a widening in the trade deficit in January as imports rebounded.

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell 7,000 to a seasonally adjusted 340,000, declining for a second straight week, the Labour Department said, and confounding economists’ expectations for a rise to 355,000.

The four-week moving average for new claims, a better measure of labour market trends, also fell 7,000 to 348,750 - the lowest level since March 2008 - pointing to some firming in underlying labour market conditions.

“It’s once again supporting

An employment seeker (R) seen at a New York job fair the thought that the economic recovery is strengthening,” said Andrew Wilkinson, chief economic strategist at Miller Tabak & Co in New York.

In a separate report, the Commerce Department said the trade gap rose to $44.45 billion in January from a

shortfall of $38.14 billion in December.

US government bond prices fell on the claims data, while the euro climbed to session peaks against the dollar.

A Labour Department analyst said no states had been estimated and there were no special factors influencing the report.

The claims data has no bearing on February’s employment report, due today, as it falls outside the survey period.

According to a Reuters survey of economists, employers probably added 160,000 jobs to their payrolls last month, a small pick-up up from January’s 157,000 count. That would just be enough to hold the jobless rate steady at 7.9 per cent.

Economists say job gains of at least 250,000 per month over a sustained period are needed to significantly dent the ranks of the unemployed.

Job growth averaged 200,000 in the last three months.

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Opinion

Only interests served by bank memo leak are CB chief’s own DEMETRIS Christofias might no longer be president, but the man he appointed as Governor of the Central Bank, Panicos Demetriades appears intent on continuing his work – the destruction of the Cyprus banking sector. There is no other way to explain the leaking of the 11-page memo that Demetriades presented to President Anastasiades about the state of the banking sector.

The main points of the memo, which painted a very bleak picture of the banks’ prospects and stoutly defended the methodology used by Pimco in deciding the level of capital assistance they needed, were published in Wednesday’s Phileleftheros.

Given that the Central Bank has leaked information to the paper on several occasions in the past, it is reasonable to deduce it was the source this time as well.

After all, at a time when the government has urged the Governor to try to lower the banks’ re-capitalisation needs, it would be resoundingly stupid for it to release information to the press, about the allegedly, rapid rate of growth of non-performing loans as a result of the recession in Cyprus and Greece. Nor would the government have anything to gain from publicising a document which indirectly defended Pimco’s methodology and justified the use of the adverse macroeconomic scenario for calculating the banks’ capital needs.

In his memo, Demetriades warns that the investigation of anti money-laundering measures by private firms could lead to withdrawal of deposits by foreigners, increasing the liquidity problems of the banks as well as their capital requirements, which in turn would increase the amount of financial assistance required. While this is a legitimate concern that he should have conveyed to government, did it serve the country’s interest to make it public?

Certainly not. The leaking of the memo served only Demetriades’ personal agenda – to show he was against a private firm investigating allegations of money-laundering (as if the government had a choice in the matter) and that Pimco’s re-capitalisation figure was correct given the rapid growth of non-performing loans (therefore he was not to blame for agreeing to the company’s methodology and assumptions).

Does Demetriades not realise he is not only undermining the government’s efforts to lower the capital requirements of the banks but also further destabilising the sector by releasing this type of information?

It was ironic that, in his memo, the Governor expressed concern about the moneylaundering audit leading to withdrawals of bank deposits and threatening the stability of the banking sector. But the fact is that nobody has threatened the stability of the banking sector in the last 10 months more than Demetriades. And the leak of the memo he gave to the president shows he is intent on carrying on doing this.

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resh U.N. sanctions are unlikely to halt North Korea’s nuclear programme given that seven years of previous measures from the world body and more than 50 years of U.S. penalties have failed to dissuade North Korea from trying to develop banned weapons.

Under new leader Kim Jongun, the North has pursued its nuclear programme even more aggressively, experts in Seoul said. The 30-year old Kim, in power for just over a year, also seems more willing to shun China, his sole powerful backer, than his father Kim Jong-il was, one of the experts said.

The UN Security Council agreed another round of sanctions against North Korea yesterday in response to Pyongyang’s latest nuclear test on February 12, bringing the measures more into line with a tough regime imposed on Iran.

The nuclear test was Pyongyang’s third since 2006.

It followed a long-range rocket launch in December. Both tests showed the North had made progress in developing a missile with a test range of 10,000 km (6,200 miles) and miniaturising a nuclear warhead for it.

“They will never give up their (nuclear) intercontinental ballistic missile plans. Their stance on this is very firm,” said Kim Yeon-su, professor of the department of security policy studies at the National Defence University in Seoul.

North Korea has used its nuclear programme vigorously since Kim Jong-il’s regime as leverage to bully the international community for money, resources and aid. His son, Kim Jong-un, took little time to continue his father’s ambitions, launching a long-range missile just months after the elder Kim died.

China backed the US-led push for the new round of sanctions in the United Nations. It has also supported previous efforts and stood behind condemnations of the North Korean long-range rocket launch in December which breached UN rules.

Kim from the National Defence University said recent ties between North Korea and China had been fragile. He noted there had been a lack of visits to North Korea from senior Chinese officials since the missile launch in December - a contrast to the usual interaction seen during the days of Kim Jong-il.

A Chinese politburo member was also snubbed by Kim Jongun on a trip to Pyongyang ahead of the December rocket launch and Beijing summoned the North Korean envoy after the test to express its “strong dissatisfaction” over the test.

Despite the warning from Beijing, North Korea has told China it is ready to push ahead with a fourth and even a fifth test, a top official with direct access to both capitals told Reuters in February.

“Compared to his father ... Kim Jong-un seems to be charting

Kim Jong-un (right) has taken little time to continue his father’s ambitions, launching a long-range missile just months after the elder Kim died (AFP) his own path when it comes to China,” said Kim at Seoul’s National Defence University.

The new UN sanctions aim to put the squeeze on another three North Korean individuals linked to its arms companies or the nuclear programme and also financial transactions that enable it to finance its weapons plans.

Experts who have dealt with North Korea during periods of negotiation with Pyongyang are sceptical as to whether the

money flows - in many cases carried by individuals travelling on diplomatic passports, or the proceeds of illegal activities such as counterfeiting or drugs - can be halted.

After being stung in a US Treasury-led raid on a Macau bank in 2005 that impounded more than $20 million of Kim Jong-il’s cash, the North has split up its bank accounts into smaller sums, making them harder to trace.

“If this new round of sanctions are at the same level as before,

‘As ever, Beijing holds the key. It will have to decide whether to interdict financial transactions, risking instability in the North, and whether it will inspect cargos travelling through its Dalian port, a key gateway to North Korea, as it is obliged to do under the new UN agreement’

they will have very limited impact,” said Moon Seong-mook, a retired South Korean general who took part in military talks and summits with the North from 2004 through 2009.

“We can’t say the sanctions have had zero effect ... but the sanctions need to make Kim Jong-un realise he cannot carry on this kind of behaviour any longer.”

While Iran exports billions of dollars a year of oil that has been targeted by the United States, North Korea produces little of value to the rest of the world apart from minerals destined for China, some low-end garments and tens of thousands of migrant labourers for Russia, China and the Middle East.

Pyongyang does not produce any national statistics.

Iran’s merchandise exports were $131.5 billion in 2011, the year before Washington stepped up sanctions. Of those shipments, three quarters were estimated to be oil and gas, which independent experts estimate may now have fallen by more than half.

North Korea by contrast exported just $1.07 billion in 2012 to South Korea and its exports to China totalled $2.48 billion, according to estimates from the Korea International Trade Association, released yesterday.

Even the new UN sanctions will depend on interpretation from member states. The assessment so far of the impact of past UN sanctions shows there has been a limited impact.

“This is because the vagueness of the existing sanctions, the ability of member states to execute sanctions and different standpoints of states on the sanctions will still exist even if new ones are announced,” according to a February report

by South Korean government think-tank the Korea Development Institute.

Previous sanctions have ranged from calling upon the North to abandon its nuclear arms programme to limiting financial transactions. Separate US measures have banned imports of any kind of North Korean product. The North has been sanctioned by Washington in one form or another since the 1950-53 Korean War. As ever, Beijing holds the key.

It will have to decide whether to interdict financial transactions, risking instability in the North, and whether it will inspect cargos travelling through its Dalian port, a key gateway to North Korea, as it is obliged to do under the new UN agreement.

China is thought to be harbouring a lump sum of Pyongyang’s financial assets, according to numerous experts who study the North, while simultaneously providing the North with funds and resources as its biggest trade partner.

“It all depends on what China says,” said Lee Young-hoon, a senior analyst at SK Research Institute in Seoul, who previously worked for the Bank of Korea and a state-run thinktank. “If they offer only words like before, then (sanctions) will be of little use.”

China has said it will back all UN sanctions.

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Taylor made prop for grieving Selena SELENA Gomez’s celebrity friends help her cope with fame.

The 20-year-old brunette beauty - who dumped Justin Bieber in January after struggling to maintain a “normal” relationship - says her friends Emma Stone and Taylor Swift are the only people she can vent to about living in the spotlight despite cherishing the support of her childhood pals from Texas.

A knuckle rapping for tardy Bieber JUSTIN Bieber has been reprimanded by his record company over his recent behaviour.

The ‘Baby’ hitmaker was subjected to a 20-minute Skype chat with his US label bosses following his performance at The O2 arena in London on Monday, which saw him take to the stage two hours late.

And the discussion also saw the 19-year-old singer warned to curb his partying ways and “stay in more”.

A source told the Daily Mirror newspaper yesterday: “Being amidst a barrage of abuse is uncharted territory for Justin. Understandably he is finding it hard to take ... His erratic behaviour and antics are not what his young fans expect of him.

“After an emergency meeting in the US, Justin’s people had him on Skype to bosses and he was given a serious talking-to.

“It was suggested he start staying in more and basically cleaning up his act ...

Justin took the news well and has promised to go back to putting his fans first.”

Miley finding LA a drain MILEY Cyrus is taking a break from social media as she works through her problems with Liam Hemsworth.

The couple - who got engaged last summer - are said to have hit a “rough patch” but the 20-year-old ‘Can’t Be Tamed’ singer claims they haven’t called off their nuptials despite admitting she feels drained.

Writing on her Twitter page on Wednesday: “I am so sick of La. And sick of the lies that come with it. I didn’t call off my wedding. Taking a break from social media. #draining (sic)” The Hunger Games actor and his fiancee have been plagued by break-up rumours after he was recently spotted hanging out with Emma Watson and also seen leaving a pre-Oscars bash in Los Angeles with January Jones, 35, while Miley was with friends at parties elsewhere.

A source confirmed to People.com that the 23-year-old actor and the popstar are having problems but are eager to get past them.

She told the April issue of Harper’s BAZAAR magazine: “It’s good to have both. It’s great to just pick up a phone and call Taylor and say, ‘I have people following me, and I’m having a bad day,’ but if I were to say that to someone else, it’s like, ‘Oh, boo hoo.’ But it’s nice to have people back home that grew up with me too.”

Selena previously credited Taylor, 23, with helping her though her split from 19-year-

old Justin after a tumultuous two year relationship.

She said: “Taylor is one of the most inspirational, positive, good-hearted people I know. I think she’s been a big part of me staying who I am, too.

THROUGH A LOT “I’ve been through a lot in the past few months. It’s been weird and sad and cool.”

The best friends never discuss their careers but instead talk about family or boyfriend issues.

She explained: “We have both experienced the same things at the same time ... But we’ve never once talked about our industry.

“She just became the person I’d go to for an issue with my family or boyfriend. It’s so hard to trust girls, so I’m lucky to have her.”

Selena found Taylor Swift sympathetic

Bonnie Tyler is hoping for Eurovision success Aiming to beat Engelbert’s embarrassing last-but-one place BONNIE Tyler will represent the United Kingdom at this year’s Eurovision competition.

The veteran singer, whose hits include ‘Total Eclipse Of The Heart’, will perform a track called ‘Believe In Me’ at the event in Malmo, Sweden.

She said: “I am truly honoured and delighted to be able to represent my country at Eurovision and especially with such a fabulous song. I promise to give this everything that I’ve got for the UK.” Katie Taylor, BBC controller of entertainment and events, said: “Bonnie Tyler is truly a global superstar with a fantastic voice and we are delighted she will be flying the flag for the UK in Malmo.”

The competition on Saturday May 18 will be broadcast live on BBC One and BBC1 HD with commentary

by Graham Norton, and on Radio 2 with commentary from Ken Bruce.

Bonnie’s career was almost over before it started when in 1976 she had surgery to remove nodules from her throat.

But the singer, who was

Flying the flag for the UK: Bonnie Tyler

For Noel it’s all about the importance of being ‘bone idle’

By Robert Dex born in South Wales, credits the operation with helping develop her trademark husky vocals and later that year scored her first hit when her second single, ‘Lost In France’, made the top 10.

Other hits included ‘It’s

A Heartache’ and ‘Holding Out For A Hero’.

Bonnie will be hoping she improves on last year’s performance by Engelbert Humperdinck who scraped into last-but-one place in the contest. He opened the show in Baku, Azerbai-

jan, with ballad ‘Love Will Set You Free’, but seemed to have been forgotten by the time voting started, 25 songs later and the singer, nicknamed The Hump, scored a total of 12 - ending up just one position above Norway.

Jo Wood offered drugs to her kids to keep an eye on them

By Hannah Stephenson and Sherna Noah

Jo Wood: ‘open and honest’

JO Wood, the former wife of Rolling Stone Ronnie, has told how she offered some of her children drugs to try when they were growing up.

She revealed that she offered daughter Leah a puff of a joint when she was 15 - but the teenager was actually horrified by her gesture.

Wood, 57, also admitted that she had given her son Tyrone a packet of cocaine to try.

He was 16 when she found a packet in his room which looked like marijuana but it turned out to be dried herbs.

However, she said she made sure that he tried the real thing so he would know what he was buying in future.

“I also gave him a small packet of coke to try one evening. Irresponsible? Perhaps,” said the former model, who has released her autobiography,

Hey Jo: A Rock And Roll Fairytale.

“But I would much rather he learned about these things under my roof, where I could keep an eye on him, rather than in some dodgy club taking God knows what.”

Wood, who was married to guitarist Ronnie for 23 years, said her children were often exposed to scenes of drug use as they grew up.

“They’d see people smoke joints openly. There were times when they were quite small when they saw people doing lines of coke. We were a rock-and-roll family and I was open and honest.”

Jo is glad she ditched her hedonistic lifestyle - three years before Ronnie did - and credits her desire to be a “great mum” with helping her get sober.

Hey Jo: A Rock And Roll Fairytale is published by HarperCollins this week.

NOEL Gallagher says he has enough new material for three new albums but can not be bothered to record them.

The former Oasis star, who said he was spending most of his time “sitting around being bone idle”, said: “I write all the time, I don’t write for any specific project, I write because it’s my hobby.

“I’m not really in the process of writing an album, I’ve got enough material for about three records anyway so it’s just a case of when I want to do it, when I can be bothered.

“The way it is, I think it’s enough for people’s little brains to deal with one album at a time let alone three”.

Gallagher recently took over the organisation of the Teenage Cancer Trust concerts at the Royal Albert Hall and said: “It’s a lot of phone calls and a lot of conversations that don’t amount to much in the end but it’s all right, it’s nice to help out”.

The singer-songwriter released his first album after quitting Oasis in 2011 when Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds topped the charts in the UK and eventually outsold the debut by brother Liam’s new band Beady Eye.

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Positive outlook linked to healthier cholesterol ALWAYS look on the bright side of life - it may even help your cholesterol.

US researchers writing in The American Journal of Cardiology have found better levels of “good cholesterol” and other markers of heart health in the blood of middle-aged study subjects with a sunny outlook on life.

At least some of the connection between optimism and blood lipids in the new study appeared to result from the optimists’ tendency to have a healthy body weight and a “prudent” diet, according to researchers.

“It is one additional piece of evidence suggesting that our psychological health and physical health are intertwined,

and that viewing the world optimistically may have some tangible benefits for our health,” said lead author Julia Boehm, a research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Too much salt may affect MS: study A DIET containing too much salt may play a role in autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS), research suggests.

Laboratory experiments showed that a type of immune cell linked to MS became more active and aggressive when exposed to raised levels of ordinary table salt, sodium chloride.

The Th17 “helper” T-cells pumped out chemical signals that can trigger an extreme immune reaction.

“In the presence of elevated salt concentrations this increase can be 10 times higher than under usual conditions,” said study author Dr Markus Kleinewietfeld, from Yale University in the US.

In mice, raising dietary salt consumption led to a more severe form of a disease similar to MS.

Brain activity ‘may signal illness’ SOME people with a family history of mood disorder have increased activity in a part of the brain that processes emotions even before they become unwell, a study has found.

The discovery could help early diagnosis of the conditions, allowing people with depression to be identified before the onset of illness.

The brain scan study saw scientists at the University of Edinburgh find that a fifth of the at-risk group had developed major depression.

Scientists found that the original scans of those with depression showed abnormal levels of activity in the insula cortex region of the brain, which helps regulate mood, even before they were diagnosed.

This could help predict who will become mentally ill in later life and shed light on the source of mood disorders.

Eating processed meat is linked to early death

Fight tobacco marketing, boost vaccinations to curb cancer, says report

Research involving half a million shows heart disease and cancer connection

FIGHTING the tobacco industry’s tactics in the world’s poorest countries and ensuring the best vaccines get to those most in need are key to cutting the number of cancer deaths worldwide, according to a report by specialists in the disease.

Experts reporting from a meeting of cancer organisations across the world said smoking and other forms of tobacco use are the main drivers of a growing global burden of cancer.

They urged governments to put citizens’ health above the financial gains they reap from the tobacco business.

“The number of people diagnosed with cancer across the world is increasing.

But there are clear actions that all countries can take which will go a long way to reducing both the numbers diagnosed from cancer and deaths from the disease,” said Harpal Kumar of the charity Cancer Research UK in a report published by the journal Science Translational Medicine.

Kumar, who worked with Harold Varmus of the US National Cancer Institute and others, said those actions included higher taxes on tobacco products, ensuring health workers set an example by not smoking, deglamourising the habit and protecting poor countries from increased marketing efforts by the industry.

Some 12.7 million people are diagnosed with cancer every year worldwide and cancer now accounts for more than 15 per cent of annual deaths globally.

The World Health Organisation’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) said last year that the number of people with cancer is set to surge by more than 75 per cent by 2030, with particularly sharp rises in poor countries as they adopt unhealthy “Westernised” lifestyles.

By John von Radowitz DIETS laden with pies, sausages, and ready meals can lead to an early death, a major study has shown.

Research involving half a million people highlights links between processed meat and heart disease and cancer.

It also shows that people who eat a lot of the meat products have a significantly greater chance of dying prematurely than those consuming low amounts.

Over a typical follow up time of 12.7 years, the risk of dying from any cause was 44 per cent greater for high processed meat consumers.

Rates of premature death rose with the quantity of processed meat eaten.

High processed meat consumption led to a 72 per cent increased risk of dying from heart disease, and an 11 per cent increased risk of dying from cancer.

Study leader Professor Sabine Rohrmann, from the University of Zurich in Switzerland, said: “Risks of dying earlier from cancer and cardiovascular disease also increased with the amount of processed meat eaten.

“Overall, we estimate that three per cent of premature deaths each year could be prevented if people ate less than 20g of processed meat per day.”

The findings, reported in the journal BMC Medicine,

come in the wake of the horse meat scandal which has caused people to question the origins of their food.

The Epic (European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition) study recruited men and women aged 35 to 70 with widely ranging diets from 10 European countries.

Participants filled in questionnaires about the food they had consumed over the previous 12 months.

Meats were grouped into red, white and processed.

Processed meat included ham, bacon, sausages and ready meal fillings.

Over the follow-up period a total of 5,556 participants died from heart and artery disease, 9,861 from cancer, and 1,068 from respiratory diseases.

High consumption of processed meat was defined as 160 or more grams per day.

In general, diets high in processed meat were linked to unhealthy lifestyles. Men and women who ate the most processed meat ate the fewest fruits and vegetables, and were more likely to smoke.

Men, but not women, who ate a lot of meat also tended to have high level of alcohol consumption.

Eating both red meat and poultry were not associated with significant increases in mortality risk, and small quantities of red meat appeared to be beneficial.

A diet rich in sausages, burgers and pies has been shown to be bad for health

The researchers concluded: “The results of our analyses suggest that men and women with a high consumption of processed meat are at increased risk of early death, particularly due to cardiovascular diseases but also cancer.

“As processed meat consumption is a modifiable risk factor, health promotion activities should include

specific advice on lowering processed meat consumption.”

Dietician Tracy Parker, from the British Heart Foundation (BHF), said: “The people who ate the most processed meat in this study also made other unhealthy lifestyle choices. They were found to eat less fruit and vegetables and were more likely to smoke, which may

have had an impact on results.

“Red meat can still be enjoyed as part of a balanced diet. Opting for leaner cuts and using healthier cooking methods such as grilling will help to keep your heart healthy. If you eat lots of processed meat, try to vary your diet with other protein choices such as chicken, fish, beans or lentils.

Despite obesity rise, US calories trending downwards U.S. adults have been eating steadily fewer calories for almost a decade, despite the continued increase in obesity rates, according to survey data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Researchers, whose findings appeared in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, analysed trends since the 1970s and found that among adults, average daily energy

intake rose by a total of 314 calories from 1971 to 2003, then fell by 74 calories between 2003 and 2010.

“It’s hard to reconcile what these data show, and what is happening with the prevalence of obesity,” said co-author William Dietz, former CDC director of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity.

“Seventy-four calories is a lot, and as I said before, we would expect to

see a measurable impact on obesity.”

Nevertheless, about 35 per cent of US adult women are obese, and that percentage has held steady since 1999, according to the CDC. For men, obesity has risen from 27 per cent to 35 per cent over the same time period.

Dietz said he would have expected obesity rates to have levelled off for both sexes and to be decreasing at

this point, if people are consuming fewer calories.

Experts said it’s possible more time is needed to see obesity rates respond to changes in calorie intake.

It’s also possible that Americans have changed their eating habits but are still not getting enough exercise to burn the calories they do consume. Or, the surveys may simply be wrong.

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Film SUMMARIES Oz: The Great and Powerful (See page opposite)

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Mama (See page opposite)

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tries on a pair of sparkling pink shoes, she and her best friend Hailey are whisked away to a fantastical ballet world where Kristyn discovers she must dance in her favourite ballets in order to defeat an evil Snow Queen. Directed by Owen Hurley.

DUBBED INTO GREEK. (Kids’ cartoon, 75 mins.)

Warm Bodies

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Lincoln In 1865, over the final four months of his second term as President of the USA, Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis) focuses his energies not just on ending the devastating Civil War, but something even bigger – the fight to pass the 13th Amendment, permanently abolishing slavery. Lincoln is a man of paradoxes: funny and solemn, a playful storyteller and fierce power-broker, a shrewd commander and a vulnerable father. But in his nation’s darkest hour, when the times demand the very best of people, he reaches from within himself for something powerful and everlasting. Also starring Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones and David Strathairn. Directed by Steven Spielberg. (Historical drama, 150 mins.)

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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters Once upon a time, as children, they were in deadly danger from a witch – but Hansel (Jeremy Renner) and his sister Gretel (Gemma Arterton) have grown up to be bounty hunters who track and kill witches all over the world. As the fabled Blood Moon approaches, the siblings encounter a new form of evil that might hold a secret to their past.

Also starring Famke Janssen and Peter Stormare. Directed by Tommy Wirkola. (Action fantasy, 88 mins.)

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Barbie in the Pink Shoes Barbie is Kristyn, a ballerina with big dreams. When she A Good Day to Die Hard

Gangster Squad In the post-war Los Angeles of 1949, Brooklyn-born ex-boxer turned crime boss Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs as many rackets as he can command under his ruthless control. He does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police, judges and politicians who are on his payroll. Determined to crush Cohen, police chief Bill Ratings Key Parker (Nick Nolte) Unforgettable commissions Sgt. Unmissable John O’Mara (Josh Brolin) – a decorated Recommendable commando from the Watchable US Army – to set up Regrettable a small, secret crew Gabriele Abominable of LAPD officers.

Muccino.

Led by O’Mara and (Romantic Sgt. Jerry Wooters comedy, 105 mins.)

(Ryan Gosling), the small team Our rating: set about breaking up Cohen’s illegal operations. Also starring Emma Stone, Robert Patrick and A Good Day to Die Hard Irreverent, take-no-prisoners Anthony Mackie. Directed by cop John McClane (Bruce Ruben Fleischer. (Crime action, Willis) finds himself on foreign 113 mins.)

Our rating: soil for the first time after travelling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack (Jai Playing for Keeps Courtney) – unaware that Jack George (Gerard Butler) is a is really a highly-trained CIA former football (a.k.a. ‘soccer’) operative out to stop a nuclear star who’s fallen on hard times. weapons heist. With the Russian He’s hoping to become a sports underworld in pursuit, and commentator on TV – but battling a countdown to war, meanwhile visits his ex-wife the two McClanes discover Stacie (Jessica Biel) and starts that their opposing methods coaching his 9-year-old son’s make them unstoppable heroes. soccer team as a way to get his Also starring Sebastian Koch. life together. Alas, his attempts Directed by John Moore. to become an adult are met with Includes some dialogue in challenges from the attractive Russian, with Greek subtitles. soccer moms who pursue him (Action, 97 mins.) at every turn, including Denise Our rating: (Catherine Zeta-Jones) who’s herself a former sportscaster.

Love in the End Also starring Dennis Quaid and Three love stories intersect. A Uma Thurman. Directed by girl on a cruise with her family falls in love with the ship’s lieutenant, and has to make a dramatic decision when they reach Istanbul. A boy, secretly in love with his best friend, finally manages to express his feelings through a fake Facebook profile – till she finds out the truth! And two strangers spent a night together in Thessaloniki, falling in love, but when they part ways, the girl’s mobile phone is stolen, along with the boy’s number. Starring Tzortzina Liosi, Leonidas Kalfagiannis and Katerina Geronikolou. Directed

by Vasilis Kehagias. IN GREEK. (Drama, 90 mins.)

(Drama, 114 mins.)

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Argo As the 1979 Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, six of the American embassy staff escape the mob attacking the compound and find shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador in Tehran. Anotherr 52 Americans are taken hostage. ge.

CIA ‘exfiltration’ specialist Tonyy Mendez (Ben Affleck) concoctss a risky plan to free the six livingg in daily danger of discovery.

He plans to fly in posing as the producer of a Hollywood sci-fi movie, ‘Argo’, and – with the six consular staff posing as his location scouting team, using false papers – lead them out onn a flight to safety and freedom.

It’s a crazy plan; but will it work? k?

Based on a true story. Also starring Alan Arkin and John Goodman. Directed by Affleck.

(Dramatic thriller, 120 mins.)

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The Impossible A family of five is caught, with tens of thousands of strangers,, ne in the chaos and mayhem of one es of the worst natural catastrophes mi of our time, the Thailand tsunami on Boxing Day 2004. Maria (Naomi Watts) is swept away er and struggles to survive with her m eldest son, teenage Lucas (Tom Holland). Somewhere in the ad chaos – or perhaps already dead – are her husband Henry (Ewann McGregor) and her two smallerr sons, Simon and Thomas.

Based on a true story. Directed

by Juan Antonio Bayona.

Sammy’s Great Escape Sammy and Ray, a pair of leatherback turtles, are captured by a poacher and shipped off to a spectacular aquarium show in Dubai. The kingpin of the place, Big D the seahorse, enlists them in his plans for a great escape – but, with their new friends Jimbo the bug-eyed blob fish and Lulu the snippy lobster, Annabel the sweet octopus and a whole family of penguins, Sammy and Ray hatch breakout plans of their own. That is when little Ricky and Ella arrive, determined to break in to rescue them. Directed

by Vincent Kesteloot and Ben Stassen. DUBBED INTO GREEK. (Kids’ cartoon, 92 mins.)

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Hotel Transylvania Welcome to the Hotel Transylvania, Dracula’s lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up, free to be the monsters they are without humans to bother them. It’s a special weekend and Dracula has invited some of his best friends – Frankenstein and his wife, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, the Werewolf family and many more – to celebrate his beloved daughter Mavis’ 118th birthday.

For good old Drac, catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem; but everything could change for the over-protective dad when one ordinary human guy stumbles on the hotel and takes a shine to Mavis. Directed

by Genndy Tartakovsky. In

3D. DUBBED INTO GREEK. (Cartoon comedy, 91 mins.)

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Intouchables Philippe (Francois Cluzet), a rich Parisian quadriplegic, is interviewing for a live-in carer when street-smart, unemployed Driss (Omar Sy) turns up. All he wants is a signature to show that he’s been looking for work, so he can be eligible for benefits – but Philippe hires him for a trial period, and keeps him on even after learning of his conviction for robbery.

Philippe, who was disabled after a paragliding accident, is a widower with a spoiled teenage daughter, while Driss has problems dealing with his younger brother Adama who’s keeping bad company.

Driss and Philippe develop a relationship that changes both their lives. Directed by Eric Tolenado. In French, with Greek subtitles.

(Comedy-drama, 112 mins.)

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At a meeting with childhood friends he announces the name of his future son, whom he plans to call Adolphe in honour of a literary character of the XIX Century – but everyone else can only think about Adolf Hitler.

The scandalous name sparks a discussion, which reveals unpleasant secrets from the collective past of the group.

Also starring Valerie Benguigui and Charles Berling. Directed by Alexandre De La Patelliere and Matthieu Delaporte. In French, with Greek subtitles. (Comedy, 109 mins.)

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Oz: The Great and Powerful Directed by: Sam Raimi Starring: James Franco, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz, Michelle Williams In 3D. US 2013, 130 mins.

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THE PLOT Oscar Diggs (Jame (James Franco), a travelling circu circus magician with dubi dubious ethics, is hurle hurled from dusty Kan Kansas to the vibran vibrant Land of Oz. At first he thinks he’s hit the jackpot: fa fame and fortune are his for the taking. That all changes, h however, when he mee meets three T witches, Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora (Rachel We Weisz) and Glinda (Miche (Michelle Williams), who are not convinced he’s th the great ev wizard everyone’s been expec expecting as p per the prophecy.

Nonetheless he’s all Nonetheless, they’ve got – and, as their new k king, he’s expected tto save them from evil. He is after all, tthe great and powerfu powerful Oz.

WHAT THE C CRITICS SAID

Oz: The Great and Powerful

Mixed/Anti: “Consciously evoking the struct structure and iconography of MGM’s classic The W Wizard of Oz without attempta ing to rival its imDisne pact, Disney’s Oz: the Great an and Powerful can be enjoyed, up to a poin point, on its own colour colourful, diverting but finally rather futile terms.

Offering an e eye-tickling but gau gaudily depersonalised Land of Oz popul populated by younger, sex sexier versions of wel well-known characters (most incongruous incongruously the Wicked Witc Witch of the West), this e elaborate exercise in visual Baum-bast non nonetheless gets some mileag mileage out of its game perfor performances, luscious produc production design and the un unfettered enthusiasm director Sam Raimi brin brings to a thin, simplistic origin story…

“Quite apart ffrom the question of whether the picture llives up to its various inspirations, however however, Oz: the Great and P Powerful finally falls s short by dint of a too-t too-timid imagination. In s straining for an all-ages simplicity, the script comes off as merely ba banal, full of flat, repetit repetitive dialogue about who who’s good,

who’s wicked and, most incessantly, whether Oscar is a real wizard, an opportunistic scoundrel or perhaps both.

Not until the third act does the film start to jell, with a couple of arresting set-pieces that neatly demonstrate how pluck, resourcefulness and an endless supply of tricks can equal, and even overcome, real magic.”

Justin Chang, Variety (US)

Mama Directed by: Andres Muschietti Starring: Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Charpentier Spain/Canada 2013, 100 mins.

Showing from today at the K-Cineplex and K-Cineplex (Mall of Cyprus) in Nicosia, the Rio and K-Cineplex in Limassol, the K-Cineplex in Larnaca and the Rio in Paphos.

Oz: The Great and Powerful

THE PLOT A man, having shot his exwife, kidnaps his two young daughters (aged one and three), and wanders with the kids through the woods till they come to a dilapidated cabin. Once inside, he prepares a double murder-suicide – but something emerges from the dark to snatch him away. Five years later, the girls, Victoria (Megan Charpentier) and Lilly (Isabelle Nelisse), now eight and six, have been discovered living on their own in the cabin. Feral, and frightened of people, they’re eventually released into the custody of their uncle Lucas (Nikolaj CosterWaldau) and his goth rocker girlfriend Annabel (Jessica Chastain). But the girls don’t come on their own: they bring with them “Mama”, their ‘friend’ from the cabin.

WHAT THE CRITICS SAID Pro: “As a horror enthusiast weaned on the classics of Universal and Hammer, I’ve been dismayed at how the genre has gone to the dogs – and the mindless zombies, motive-less poltergeists and indestructible psycho killers in remakes nobody needs.

I’m sick of all the unhappy endings with their nihilist final shots confirming that evil can never be put down – partly because a lot of people no longer buy the idea of closure in our senselessly violent culture, mostly because studios need their demons evergreen for those cheap, income-generating horror ‘franchises’.

I’ve started to avoid horror movies – my life’s blood.

“But I got a healthful transfusion from Mama, directed by first-timer Andres Muschietti and produced by lifelong genre freak Guillermo del Toro. The plotting isn’t fresh, and the politics are a tad reactionary, but the movie is also shapely, rounded, satisfying – a classical ghost story.

It ends with a heart-rending primal trauma, and yet it has the sort of closure you don’t see anymore in horror pictures. You’re left with more

Mama than the feeling that you’ve been mugged…

“As in most modern horror films, too many of Mama’s scares come with a fortissimo orchestral ‘Boo!’ to make you jump. But others owe their power to Muschietti’s fluid staging and knack for putting Mama in the part of the frame where you least expect her…

“I was guessing right till the bitter, scary, transcendent end. Another thing I loved: There’s no sequel in sight.”

David Edelstein, New York (US) Anti: “It is the first law of horror yarns that the dead shall rise and the past return to haunt the present. In 2008, for instance, Argentinean director Andres Muschietti made an electrifying three-minute short about two little girls on the run from their demonic mother. Now Mama is back, cranked out into feature length, with Guillermo del Toro as executive producer, and Jessica Chastain playing the irresponsible rock chick who discovers her own inner mum while riding to rescue a pair of semi-feral orphans.

It has been converted into a proficient, machine-tooled horror flick, stuffed full of shocks and buttressed with back-story. Mama got so flabby the second time around.”

Xan Brooks, The Guardian (UK)

Warm Bodies Directed by: Jonathan Levine Starring: Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, John Malkovich US 2013, 98 mins.

Showing from today at the K-Cineplex and K-Cineplex (Mall of Cyprus) in Nicosia, the Rio and K-Cineplex in Limassol, the K-Cineplex in Larnaca and the Rio in Paphos.

THE PLOT R (Nicholas Hoult) is a zombie in a post-apocalyptic world where the few remaining humans shelter behind a wall in a ruined city. They include Julie (Teresa Palmer), part of a team sent into zombie territory to retrieve medical supplies. Zombies and humans clash and R kills Julie’s boyfriend Perry (Dave Franco), eating his brains and absorbing his memories of their relationship. Somehow, this jump-starts R’s transformation back to the land of the living. His heart begins to beat. He starts speaking words. And he protects Julie from the other zombies. In short, R is in love – but can it ever work out between a girl and a zombie?

WHAT THE CRITICS SAID Mixed: “With their rotting flesh, gore-soaked jaws and insa-

tiable lust for brains – eating them, not using them – zombies have gotten the short end of the romantic stick.

They have ceded sex appeal to their hot undead cousins, the vampires. No matter how many teenage boys may beg for it, you’re never going to see a flesh-eating corpse on the cover of a teen mag next to Justin Bieber.

“Until now, maybe. The likable if not remarkable Warm Bodies is the world’s first romantic zombie comedy, told from the point of view of a dead guy, R… “[The film] takes a few necessary liberties with the monster mythology, in particular with R’s looks. He can’t be grotesque, like the mindless ghouls on The Walking Dead; he has to be cute, if a little veiny. Logic is mostly thrown out the window; one of the great questions for the ages regarding zombie films is whether the undead can run, and Warm Bodies’ take on the subject is inconsistent.

Zombie lore doesn’t allow for redemption, only head shots, and Levine’s film, amusing though it may be, is never gory enough to truly become a classic zombie movie. It also ignores the one basic necessity of monster films, even the funny ones: It really ought to be creepy or scary or gross, at least once or twice.”

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald (US)

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TELEPHONE NUMBERS: K-CINEPLEX: 77778383 RIO LIMASSOL: 25871410 RIO PAPHOS: 26207000

NICOSIA Oz: The Great and Powerful (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.30, 8 and 10.30pm, weekends also at 3pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) at 5.30, 8 and 10.30pm, weekends also at 11am and 3pm Mama (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.50 and 10.10pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) at 7.50 and 10.10pm Warm Bodies (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.30, 7.50 and 10.05pm, weekends also at 3.20pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) at 5.30, 7.50 and 10.05pm, weekends also at 11.10am, 1.15pm and 3.20pm Lincoln (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 7.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 7.15pm Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 5.30, 7.45 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 3.20pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 5.30, 7.45 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.20pm and 3.20pm

Barbie in the Pink Shoes (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.25pm, weekends also at 3.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.25pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.20pm and 3.30pm Gangster Squad (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 5.05pm, weekends also at 3pm A Good Day to Die Hard (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 10.10pm Love in the End (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in Greek) at 8 and 10.05pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) (in Greek) at 10.05pm Sammy’s Great Escape (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in Greek) at 5.25pm, weekends also at 3.20pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 5.25pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.15pm and 3.20pm

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

Mama (15) Rio 1 at 7.45 and 10pm; KCineplex (Screen 2) at 7.50 and 10.10pm Warm Bodies (12) Rio 4 at 7.45pm, weekends also at 5.30pm; Rio 2 at 10.10pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.30, 7.50 and 10.05pm, weekends also at 3.20pm Lincoln (12) Rio 6 at 7.30pm, weekends also at 4.30pm; Rio 5 at 10pm; KCineplex (Screen 5) at 7.15pm Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (15) Rio 3 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends also at 5.30pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 5.30, 7.45 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 3.20pm Barbie in the Pink Shoes (K) Rio 1 (in Greek), weekends only at 3, 4.30 and 6pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.25pm, weekends also at 3.30pm

Fish n’Chips (in Greek, with French subtitles) Cine Studio, tonight only at 9pm.

Tel: 96-420491, www.ofk.org.cy

Playing for Keeps (K) Rio 5, weekends only at 3.30pm

LIMASSOL

A Good Day to Die Hard (15) Rio 4 at 10pm

Oz: The Great and Powerful (12) Rio 2 at 7.45pm, weekends also at 3 and 5.20pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.30, 8 and 10.30pm, weekends also at 3pm

Love in the End (K) Rio 5 (in Greek) at 7.45pm, weekends also at 5.30pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in Greek) at 10.05pm

Argo (12) Rio 6 at 10.10pm Sammy’s Great Escape (K) Rio 4 (in Greek), weekends only at 3.30pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.25pm, weekends also at 3.20pm Hotel Transylvania (K) Rio 3 (in Greek), weekends only at 3.30pm Intouchables (in French, with Greek subtitles) Rio 5, Monday at 8.30pm, presented by the Limassol Cine Club. www.cinelesxi.org

LARNACA Oz: The Great and Powerful (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.30, 8 and 10.30pm, weekends also at 3pm Mama (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.50 and 10.10pm Warm Bodies (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.30, 7.50 and 10.05pm, weekends also at 3.20pm Lincoln (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 7.15pm

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 5.30, 7.45 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 3.20pm Barbie in the Pink Shoes (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek) at 5.25pm, weekends also at 3.30pm Gangster Squad (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 5.05pm, weekends at 3pm A Good Day to Die Hard (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 10.10pm Love in the End (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in Greek) at 8 and 10.05pm Sammy’s Great Escape (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in Greek) at 5.25pm, weekends at 3.20pm

PAPHOS Oz: The Great and Powerful (12) Rio 7 at 5.15, 7.30 and 9.45pm, weekends also at 3pm Mama (15) Rio 5 at 7.30 and 9.45pm Warm Bodies (12) Rio 1 at 6, 8 and 10pm

Lincoln (12) Rio 2 at 5, 7.30 and 9.45pm Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (15) Rio 5 at 5.45pm; Rio 6 at 7.30 and 9.45pm Barbie in the Pink Shoes (K) Rio 6 (in Greek) at 6pm, weekends also at 3 and 4.30pm Gangster Squad (18) Rio 3 at 9.45pm Playing for Keeps (K) Rio 5, weekends only at 4pm A Good Day to Die Hard (15) Rio 3 at 7.30pm Love in the End (K) Rio 4 (in Greek) at 5.45 and 7.30pm Argo (12) Rio 4 at 9.45pm The Impossible (12) Rio 3, weekends only at 3 and 5pm Sammy’s Great Escape (K) Rio 4 (in Greek), weekends only at 3.30pm Hotel Transylvania (K) Rio 1 (in Greek, in 3D), weekends only at 4pm

listings Today Exhibitions Singapore 2012 Group photography exhibition. Opens March 8, 7.30pm until March 13.

Casteliotissa Hall, old Nicosia. Open daily: 5pm-9pm

Theatre I Love You But...

Idea Planners presents interactive ‘couple-comedy’ on marriage, divorce and modern relationships. March 8-10. Latsia Municipal Theatre, 57 Yiannos Kranidiotis Avenue. 8.30pm. €20. In Greek. Tel: 22-878688

Dance

Cheapart Limassol Group exhibition at affordable prices.

Opens March 8, 7.30pm until March 23. Penindaplinena Gallery, 49 Ellados, Limassol. Monday-Friday: 4pm-8pm. Saturday: 12-4pm.Tel: 25340727. www.penindaplinena.com

Cyprus Contemporary Dance Platform 13 years with 13 dance groups. Parallel events Dance House Lemesos and Palia Xydadiko. March 8-10.

Rialto Theatre, Limassol. 8.30pm. €5/For all performances €10. Tel: 77-777745

Music

Other Events

Kro! Music and speech with the collaboration of three music groups and three actors. March 8. Melina Merkouri Hall, Famagusta Gate, Athina Avenue, Nicosia. 9pm. €15. Tel: 96-350144

Dance throughout the Year Parallel event of the Cyprus Contemporary Dance Platform, with presentations of works in progress, performances and discussions.

March 8-10. Dance House Lemesos and Old Vinegar Factory, Limassol. Tel: 25-340618. Email: info@ dancehouselemesos.com. www. dancehouselemesos.com

Beggar’s Blues Diary Greek rock band plays live. March 8.

Rolling Stone, Spyrou Araouzou 63 Limassol. 10pm. €10. Tel: 99-867777 You Don’t Bring Me Flowers Tour The classic songs of Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand with Ross Neil, Tina Chester & Andrew Oliver. March 8. Old Kamaroudi Tavern, Konia, Paphos. 8.30pm. €10. Meals available in restaurant. Tel: 99-832538/ 99857851. www.andrewoliver9.co.uk

Women’s Day 5km Wild Race A trail race especially for women with a 2km adventure run for girls, in Athalassa Park to mark Women’s Day. With great prizes to be one.

March 8. Race starts at 4pm, registration from 3pm at Athalass Park, Nicosia, hospital entrance. Free entry.

Tel: 99-267043

Women at the Forefront Open discussion with prominent Cypriot women under the theme Gender Equality and Women’s empowerment.

During the event a policy paper regarding localised gender issues, developed and published through the Active Dialogue Campaign of ‘Engage-Do Your Part for Peace’ will be presented.

March 8. University of Cyprus, Hall 010, Building 7, at the Social Activities Centre of the University Campus in Aglandjia. 6pm-8pm. Discussions will predominantly be delivered in Greek.

Tel: 22-894000 Depression Lecture about depression for both the general public and for professionals / students. March 8. European University, 6 Diogenous Street, Engomi, Nicosia. 6.20pm. In Greek. Tel: 22254585, kepapsy@yahoo.gr

Tomorrow Music The You Don’t Bring Me Flowers Tour The Classic songs of Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand with Ross Neil, Tina Chester & Andrew Oliver.

March 9. Lenia’s Tavern, Souni. 7pm - Showtime 8.30pm. €16 inc. buffet dinner. Tel: 25-717117/ 99-832538. www.andrewoliver9.co.uk

Beggar’s Blues Diary Greek rock band plays live. March 9.

Savino Live, 1 Watkins Street, Larnaca.

10.30pm. €10. Tel: 99-860304/99426011 Propaganda Engine Experimental art night with DJs part of the events of the Know Now exhibition. March 9. Basement of the ‘Satiriko Theatre’ Vladimiros Kafkaridis (next to the B.M.H. military camp, Nicosia). 8pm. Free. Tel: 99-516799/ 99-840804

Theatre Tom, Dick and Harry Satiriko Theatre presents comedy by Ray and Michael Cooney. March 9 until April 28. Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, 11-15 Vladimiros Kafkarides Street, Aglantzia, Nicosia.

On Saturdays at 8.30pm and Sundays at 6.30pm. €15/10. Tel: 22-312940/ 22-421609

Other Events Eighth Francophone Film Festival Screening of award-winning Swiss film Hiver Nomade. March 9: Ciné Studio, University of Nicosia, Nicosia.

Cocktail at 8pm offered by the Embassy of Switzerland, screening at 9pm. in French with English subtitles. Free

Ongoing Other Events Japanese Nights A unique opportunity to taste a Japanese Fusion dinner in an exotic atmosphere. March 1-9. Fontana Restaurant, Hilton Cyprus. 8pm. €30 per person.

Tel: 22-377777 The Know Now Project Group exhibition posing the question: how does modern technology affect art today? Through a series of events.

Until March 10. Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, 11-15 Vladimiros Kafkarides Street, Aglantzia, Nicosia.

Monday-Friday: 5pm-9pm. SaturdaySunday: 9.30am- 1pm & 5pm-11pm.

Tel: 99-840804. www.knownowart.com Limassol Carnival Open-air parties, children’s parades and serenaders evenings culminating with the Grand Parade. March 7-17.

Multiple locations in Limassol. http://www.cyprusevents.net/events/ limassol-carnival-2013/

Theatre Disposing of the Body Stage One Theatre Group production of mystery/thriller by Hugh Whitemore. March 5-9. Stage One Theatre, Emba, Paphos. 7.30pm. €12/6. Tel: 99-967737 or email: boxoffice@ stageonetheatre.com to reserve your seats

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

Oscar The New Stage of THOC presents tender play based on the novel by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. Until March 9. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. Wednesday through Saturday at 8.30pm. In Greek. €12/10. Tel: 77-772717 Isadora Duncan Satiriko Theatre presents a play based on the life of famous dancer.

Until March 10. Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, 11-15 Vladimiros Kafkarides Street, Aglantzia, Nicosia.

Friday and Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday at 6.30pm. In Greek. €15/10.

Tel: 22-312940/22-421609

Exhibitions The Work of Art as a Functional Object Second part of group exhibition. Until March 8. Centre of Contemporary Art Diotopos, 11 DZ, Crete Street, Nicosia.

Tuesday-Friday: 11am-1pm and 5pm8pm. Tel: 22-766117 Deep Connection Solo painting exhibition by George Heracleous. Until March 12. Gallery Technis Dromena, 53 Arch. Kyprianou, Nicosia. Monday-Friday: 10am-1pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 5pm-8pm.

Tel: 22-496398 ...The Other Shore Solo painting exhibition by Marina Emphietzi-Harris. Until March 13. Thiseas Art Gallery, 9 Thiseos Street, Agia Zonis, Limassol. Tel: 99-674243/96335889

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On The Scene Exhibition Island of culture & harmony SINGAPORE, the island city-state and smallest country in Southeast Asia, is the subject of a photographic exhibition opening tonight at Casteliotissa Hall in old Nicosia.

The exhibition will showcase images by five photographers and members of the Cyprus Photographic Society who travelled to Singapore last August and represented Cyprus at the 31st Congress of FIAP. Held in metropolitan Singapore, participants got the opportunity to experience the city’s multi-cultural extravaganza of sights, sounds and tastes during the congress.

Other than workshops and congress sessions, there were also special activities lined up to cater to the interests of photographers – one of which being the chance to have a first look at the works submitted for an international competition.

The Themed Faces of the World competition served as an intimate showcase of different cultures from all over the world.

The Cyprus Photographic Society was founded in 1960 and in 1964 became a full member of the Federation Internationale de l’Art Photographique (FIAP). In the following years, the art of photography was spread out and its acceptance as a means of expression led to the expansion of the society’s activities.

Since 1985 branches were created in Nicosia, Limassol, Paphos and Larnaca. Membership is open to all persons residing in Cyprus.

CPS has established itself as a recognised artistic body, organising annually both national and international prestigious photographic events, including competitions, exhibitions, seminars, lectures, darkroom techniques, photographic excursions and discussions. From tonight until Wednesday local audiences can enjoy a journey to the very soul of Singapore – a place brimming with unbridled energy where you will find a harmonious blend of cultural diversity, cuisine, arts and architecture like nowhere else in the world.

On the final day of the exhibition you can take a guided tour of the exhibition and mingle with the photographers themselves as they relate their experiences and adventures in Singapore.

Singapore 2012 Group photography exhibition. Opens March 8, 7.30pm until March 13. Casteliotissa Hall, old Nicosia. Open daily: 5pm-9pm

sion seems contrived and improbable, as though the author did not know quite how to end it. Never-the-less the result is a play about a disappearance that eventually disregards an expectedly neat conclusion in favour of a resting point that raises further questions over a too-tidily arrival at answers.

The main role of Henry Preece, superbly played by Denis Worth an actor of considerable depth who on this night fought the elements with great skill to retain the complex character of a man involved in an adulterous affaire; with a wife who would appear to go missing, believed murdered; descending mentally into a downward spiral.

His wife Angela, as portrayed

by Liz Pearce, had exactly the right attitude to make a husband falter and lean towards his secretary Joanna (a dual personality Carol Page) married to the rather wooden schoolmaster Alexander Barley of Nigel Payne. Henry’s son Ben, played by Allan Deveraux, warmed to his role in the second Act becoming a strong adversary to his fathers’ predicament but Heather Dackombe’s Kate, Henry’s sister did not fully register. Mark Farnsworth as the Hotel Manager Bassett impressed in this small but significant role.

Detective Inspector Clive Poole (as usual convincingly portrayed by Peter Sandwith) is reminiscent of JB Priestley’s one that ‘calls’, inserts the intrigue, however despite Henry’s

Review Theatre Stage One Theatre Group presentation of Disposing of the Body a play by Hugh Whitemore March 6, at the Emba Theatre THIS is the second time Stage One Theatre Group has visited author Hugh Whitemore’s work, the first being his play Pack of Lies in 2007. Disposing of the Body is very different and could fall into the category of the adultery play – that takes a teasing turn and fully lives up to the considerable promise of its title. It suggests unmentionable skulduggery, but Whitemore uses this suggestion in this quite most satisfying work.

The play is an interesting intrigue of the moral not physical sort, resulting in that rare evening in which you should end up resenting the intermission by not wanting anything to stand in the way of an ever more fascinating tale. Unfortunately, the Wednesday evening performance suffered from an audience that was incapable of taking the play’s genre seriously.

Its good plot possesses the sheer drive associated with rural misdeeds worthy of Miss Marple, although it’s conclu-

confession we, the audience, are never really certain as to what happens to his wife. The play ends with a ‘cop-out’ by the author to find a suitable conclusion.

Director Penelope Cook boldly took this modern script, cutting only one of several four lettered words, and used the not too minimalistic setting

by Cathy Asater to portray the multiple scenes; however the upstage monologues lost some of their impact in this setting. Obviously a great deal of thought had gone into the portrayals but much was lost on the audience who could not look life in the face without tittering. Overall a bold effort by Stage One. This writer is always impressed by the crew that support these productions, too many to be listed here but all contributing to an increasingly professional standard of expertise in both front of house and back stage activities. Paphos should be proud to have such a distinguished bunch of amateurs in their constituency.

Disposing of the Body Stage One Theatre Group production of mystery/thriller by Hugh Whitemore.

March 5-9. Stage One Theatre, Emba, Paphos. 7.30pm. €12/6. Telephone Box Office: Monday to Friday between 10am & 1pm, Tel: 99-967737. Theatre Box Office: Monday and Friday only, from 10am to 12.00 Midday, or email: boxoffice@stageonetheatre.com to reserve your seats

By Chris Ekin-Wood

Four strings attached attached BRENTANO String Quartet, one of the world’s pre-eminent chamber music ensembles, will visit Cyprus for the first time as part of their European tour for a special performance on Monday at the Shoe Factory.

The players came together in 1992 after graduating from New York’s famed Juilliard School and realising they wanted to make chamber music their career. Violinists Mark Steinberg and Serena Canin and violist Misha Amory are founding members of the quartet. In 1998, cellist Nina Lee joined the Quartet, succeeding founding member Michael Kannen.

The group takes its name from Antonie Brentano, considered by many to be Beethoven’s “Immortal Beloved”, the intended recipient of his famous confession of love.

The Quartet first rose to prominence by winning the first Cleveland Quartet Award and the prestigious Naumburg Chamber Music Award and in 1996 the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center invited them to be the inaugural members of Chamber Music Society Two, a programme that is now a coveted distinction for chamber groups and individuals.

While they have performed in the world’s most prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall and the Sydney Opera House, they have served as the first Resident

Quartet at Princeton University since 1999. During its first European tour, the Quartet was honoured with the Royal Philharmonic Award for Most Outstanding Debut.

The Quartet has also worked with the celebrated poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Mark Strand, commissioning poetry from him to accompany works of Haydn and Webern. For almost 20 years, they’ve been pushing boundaries with a high-concept repertoire, earning a reputation for performances that combine deep musical insight with stylistic elegance and technical brilliance. Don’t let the concert-hall demeanour fool you; the New York-based foursome is not your average string quartet, these folks are movie stars of a sort.

The ensemble can be heard playing Beethoven’s String Quartet No.14, Opus 131 in the critically acclaimed film A Late Quartet starring Hollywood heavyweights Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken and Catherine Keener; Lee plays a cameo role as herself in the film.

In addition to standard quartet repertoire, the Brentano Quartet has performed many musical works pre-dating the string quartet as a medium, and has commissioned works from some of the most important composers of our time.

The group is also interested in new music and has commissioned works by

contemporary composers Charles Wuorinen, Bruce Adolphe, John Mackey and Gabriela Frank.

For Monday’s concert the quartet, will be performing two of Beethoven’s string quartets. The music will be presented in a very unique format with each piece representing a certain era of Beethoven’s life, and opens with Op. 18 No. 2, written in Beethoven’s early career, described as fun and light.

Right afterward, at the opposite stylistic extreme, comes Béla Bartók’s Quartet No. 4, which is based on folk tunes. The evening concludes with Beethoven’s Op. 135, composed toward the end of

his career. This is the piece in which Beethoven inscribed the existential question, “Must it be?” and answered, “It must be!

Brentano String Quartet Pharos Arts Foundation presents concert with the ensemble-in-residence at Princeton University as part of their European tour. March 11. The Shoe Factory, 304 Ermou Street, Nicosia. 8.30pm. €20/15. Tel: 22-663871/70009304. Email: info@pharosartsfoundation. org. www.pharosartsfoundation.org. www. pharostickets.org

By Ledha Socratous

For a full listing of the day’s events, see facing page

Friday, March 8, 2013 CYPRUS MAIL

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Television CYBC 1 06.45 08.15

Proti Enimerosi Kali Sas Mera Local variety show, with entertainment options, cookery tips and more.

11.00 11.30

Kaftis Piperies (rpt) Istories Tou Horkou (rpt)

CYBC 2 07.00 08.00 17.00 18.00 18.50 19.00 19.10

Local comedy series, which happens to be the longest-running show on TV.

12.00

Apo Mera Se Mera

15.30

Entehnos

Current affairs show.

Local cultural show.

16.00 18.00 18.15

Mazi Sto CyBC News Kaftes Piperies

20.10 21.00

Paizoume Kypriaka Local game show, asking questions having to do with Cypriot dialect.

19.20

Moiraia Fengaria Local drama series inspired by Maro Kranidioti’s book ‘Otan i Moira Apofasizei’.

20.00 21.15

22.30

Tete A Tete Tasos Tryfonos interviews Greek celebrities from the world of showbiz.

23.00 23.30 23.45

Local Sketch (rpt) News Repeats

05.30 06.30 06.50 07.00

A series of documentary films whose aim is to shine the spotlight on some of the few places on earth where nature and man exist in harmony.

09.30 10.25 11.15

07.50 08.40

NRG Zone FILM: Oliver’s Story

23.30

12.10 13.00 13.20 14.00 14.50 15.45 16.40

Repeats

Erotas (rpt) Proini Enimerosi Me Agapi Strivein Dia Tou Arravonos (rpt) Akros Oikogeneiakon (rpt) Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) Einai Stigmes (rpt) Pansellinos (rpt) Ekeino To Kalokairi (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) News Mera Mesimeri Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) Deliyianneio Parthenagogeio (rpt) Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) Local comedy series, with village setting.

17.30 17.40

Top Gear Sixteenth season.

Episode 3: The trio visit Albania to test three luxurious vehicles - the Rolls-Royce Ghost, Bentley Mulsanne and Mercedes-Benz S65 AMG. Jeremy also drives three high-performance hatchbacks in the form of the limited-edition.

Jonathan Ross is the Star in the Reasonably Priced Car.

News Patates 8 Local satirical show, using comedy sketches and embarrassing TV clips to skewer local politicians.

22.00

NRG Zone Kids’ TV Kati Psinetai (rpt) Biz/Emeis News In English News In Turkish Vu Sur Terre Somewhere On Earth (rpt)

A wealthy law student is devastated by the death of his lover and begins alienating everyone around him, but a chance meeting with a woman in Central Park gives him a reason to carry on living. Romantic drama, starring Ryan O’Neal.

1978.

Live cookery show.

18.45

ANTENNA

Lefta Sto Lepto Vals Me 12 Theous (rpt)

MEGA 06.00 06.15 07.00 10.00 12.45 14.00 15.00

Local investigative show.

16.00 18.00 18.20

01.40 02.30 03.20 04.40

Tin Patisa (rpt) Niose Me News Spring Wipeout Laikes Paraskeves News Sports News Vradi Me Ton Petro Kostopoulo (rpt) Klemmeni Zoi (rpt) Angigma Psihis (rpt) News Deal (rpt)

Yia Sena News Master Chef Greek reality competition show where amatuer chefs compete against each other in weekly challenges.

19.30

20.20 21.15

06.10 07.00 08.20 10.30 11.20 12.00 14.30 15.20 17.10 18.00 18.05 18.40

22.30

Oi Vasiliades

19.30

Daily family comedy based on the Argentinian sitcomtelenovela Los Roldan.

20.20 21.20

Efta Ouranoi Kai Sinnefa Alites News Aspra Balonia

News Klemmena Oneira

22.20

Al Tsantiri News

Greek drama series.

A highly successful live satirical comedy show that features Lakis Lazopoulos giving ‘his version’ of the news.

FILM: Escape To Victory Two soldiers take to the football field in a bid to escape their German captors. World War II adventure, starring Michael Caine and Sylvester Stallone.

1981.

00.00 00.10 01.00 03.00

Vourate Geitonoi (rpt) Protoselido Eleni Mila Mou (rpt) Vasiliki (rpt) Mesimeri Me Kati Efta Ouranoi Kai Sinnefa Alites (rpt) Magazino Siga Min To Xeres News Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama (rpt) Anna Paola Latin American telenovela.

Two episodes of Greek drama series.

With News at 18.00.

18.40 19.30 20.20 21.30 22.15 00.00 00.05 00.30

Ta Epta Kaka Tis Moiras Mou Retire Nea Mera Proino Mou Enimerosi Tora Deka Lepta Kirigma Eheis Meson

SIGMA

News Gimnoi Angeloi (rpt) Yia Sena (rpt) Enimerosi Tora (rpt)

00.10 00.15 01.20 02.10 03.30 04.00 04.30

News Istories Tou Astinomou Beka (rpt) Siga Min To’ Xeres (rpt) Mono Mia Fora (rpt) Se Fonto Kokkino (rpt) Ta Hrisopsara (rpt) Eleni (rpt)

PLUS TV 06.45 07.20 08.30 09.05 10.00 10.45 11.40 12.30 13.00 15.30 17.00 17.50 19.40

Star News Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of I Kouzina Me Tin Dina (rpt) Mila (rpt) To Kleidi (rpt) Star News Mesimeriani Meleti Kids’ TV To Kleidi Fotis Maria Live Mila Discussions about various issues based on a woman’s life (men, relationships, sex, kids etc.).

21.15 22.00

Exelixeis Stin Showbiz FILM: On Deadly Ground A tough firefighter clashes with the president of an oil company who is planning to drill in Alaska. Ecological thriller, directed by and starring Steven Seagal.

1994.

23.30

08.20 08.50 09.25 10.00 11.00 11.30 12.30 13.25 15.15 16.05 16.45 17.35 18.15

LTV Sports News Star News Repeats

Magikos Kosmos S’Agapo (rpt) Akti Oneiron Ston Asterismos Tis Imeras Kouzina Me Apopsi Epi Topou (rpt) Milagros Kids’ TV Top Models S’Agapo Sabrina, To Koritsi Tis Agapis Akti Oneiron Pacific Blue With News at 18.30.

19.15 19.50 20.05 21.00

News Sports Time O Anthropos Tis Thalassas FILM: Brokedown Palace Two women who befriend an Australian man in Thailand end up in jail after he uses them as unwitting drug mules. Drama, starring Claire Danes and Kate Beckinsale. 1999.

22.50

FILM: Wake Of Death An underworld enforcer takes on a Chinese Triad gang to get revenge for his wife’s murder. Action adventure starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. 2004.

FILM: Nobody Knows Anything An aspiring filmmaker tries to make it in Hollywood with help from her washed-up uncle. Comedy, starring Linda Black. 2003.

01.00 01.50 02.20

CAPITAL

00.30

FILM: Another 9 1/2 Weeks Erotic drama, starring Mickey Rourke. 1997.

The Help (Novacinema4, 18.30)

01:10 The Weakest Link 01:55 EastEnders 02:25 Doctors 02:55 Keeping Up Appearances 03:25 Emma 04:15 Gavin & Stacey 04:45 The Stephen K Amos Show 05:15 Beautiful People 05:45 Keeping Up Appearances 06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 Charlie and Lola 07:10 Me Too! 07:30 Jackanory Junior 07:45 The Large Family 07:55 Balamory 08:15 Charlie and Lola 08:25 Me Too! 08:45 Jackanory Junior 09:00 Balamory 09:20 Keeping Up Appearances 09:50 Mastermind 10:20 The Weakest Link 11:05 EastEnders 11:35 Doctors 12:00 Emma 12:55 Last Man Standing 13:45 Gavin & Stacey 14:15 Mastermind 14:45 The Weakest Link 15:30 EastEnders 16:00 Doctors 16:30 Emma 17:20 Gavin & Stacey 17:50 Keeping Up Appearances 18:20 The Weakest Link 19:05 EastEnders 19:35 Doctors 20:05 Emma 21:00 Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow 21:45 Gracie! 23:00 Live At The Apollo 23:45 The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

07:00 How It’s Made 07:25 Wheeler Dealers 08:15 American Chopper 09:10 Dirty Jobs 10:05 Deadliest Catch 10:55 Ultimate Survival 11:50 How Do They Do It? 12:15

How It’s Made 12:40 Extreme Engineering 13:35 Fifth Gear 14:30 Wheeler Dealers 15:25 American Chopper 16:20 Mythbusters 17:15 Dirty Jobs 18:10 Deadliest Catch 19:05 Ultimate Survival 20:00 How It’s Made 21:00 One Car Too Far 22:00 Stan Lee’s Superhumans 23:00 Werner Herzog’s Death Row 00:00 Ultimate Cops 01:00 Banged Up Abroad 01:55 One Car Too Far 02:50 Stan Lee’s Superhumans 03:50 Werner Herzog’s Death Row 04:50 Ultimate Cops 05:45 How Do They Do It? 06:10 Overhaulin’

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07:00 Hell Divers 08:55 Bells Are Ringing 11:00 The Time Machine 12:40 Forbidden Planet 14:15 The Omega Man 15:50 Bhowani Junction 17:35 The Rounders 19:00 The Younger Brothers 20:20 Penelope 22:00 The Outfit 23:40 The Wild Bunch 02:00 Bells Are Ringing 04:05 The Time Machine 05:45 The Omega Man

By Preston Wilder

Miss Congeniality (LTV3, 20.00) Sandra Bullock swigs beer and scarfs pizza. She snorts like a pig when she laughs, beats up fellow FBI agents in training (“She’s got a lot of rage,” comments an onlooker), does unladylike things like extract her earwax in public. “She’s Dirty Harriet!” cries an exasperated Michael Caine - but Caine must somehow perform a miraculous makeover, turning this mannish broad into a plausible contestant in the Miss America beauty pageant, which is where a terrorist plans to strike next. Some might wonder if that makeover is really so miraculous - what kind of Message are we sending when Sandra becomes more ‘feminine’ by learning how to walk gracefully and smile vapidly? -

especially when it comes with a musical montage set to ‘She’s a Lady’, but it’s best to approach this likeable comedy without asking too many questions. Enough people did to spawn a sequel (without the excellent Caine), at which point it became clear that congeniality will only get you so far. Made in 2000.

Werner Herzog’s Death Row (Discovery Channel, 23.00) What would Werner Herzog’s Death Row look like?

Well, there wouldn’t be any Death Row if the veteran German filmmaker (and well-known wild man) had his way, though he might make an exception for people who support capital punishment. Herzog is

against the death penalty - he says he “respectfully disagrees” in his opening statement - and put his filmmaking chops to work in this documentary series, looking at four murders whose (alleged) perpetrators were on Death Row at the time of filming (Discovery might also be showing Into the Abyss, a fifth episode that got expanded into a standalone movie). “Focusing on what it feels like to know how and when you will die, Herzog enters into a dialogue with the inmates,” says the synopsis - and we open tonight with James Barnes, who was jailed for killing his estranged wife then confessed to additional murders after converting to Islam, and got the death penalty. Yeah, fry the bastard! Sorry, was that out loud? Part 1 of 4.

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CRYPTIC: Across – 1 Dramatically; 7 Verandah; 8 Rile; 9 Taxi; 11 Labrador; 12 Purred; 14 Thrust; 16 Ideology; 19 Swat; 21 Knit; 22 Opulence; 23 End of the line. Down – 1 Davit; 2 Meatier; 3 Tidal; 4 Cohabit; 5 Larva; 6 Yellow Sea; 10 Abundance; 13 Drop off; 15 Russell; 17 Opted; 18 Youth; 20 There.

QUICK: Across– 1 Heart-strings; 7 Vanguard; 8 Gave; 9 Clam; 11 Taunting; 12 Tunnel; 14 Toupee; 16 Impinged; 19 Lens; 21 Cuff; 22 Offstage; 23 Handkerchief. Down – 1 Havoc; 2 Regimen; 3 Slant; 4 Redoubt; 5 Night; 6 Seventeen; 10 Loudmouth; 13 Logbook; 15 Unlatch; 17 In fun; 18 Defer; 20 Shelf.

ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

Although Mercury continues to track backwards, today it is supported by both Saturn and Pluto. This suggests if you take the time to really delve beneath the surface, you can unlock some very important information. Equally, someone may entrust a confidence to you. At work, you can be less swayed by your emotions, and see the politics for what they are.

You could reach out to someone today in the belief that your warmth and wit will be appreciated, even reciprocated. They might be, equally they may not. For someone as proud as you this could be a wounding moment, but moment it will be, for if you get your head down and focus on practicalities someone else can appreciate you more.

Think before you speak today. Something you say without forethought may look like full on insensitivity. Tune into the environment and people you encounter, and you can engender a much better response. You might find yourself attracted to an item for your home. This could be a modern retro, or something more vintage. Appreciating the past is in vogue.

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

The Moon forges a nice link with Jupiter early on and a more challenging one with Saturn later. You could start the day in good form and then it can be someone else who interferes, or whose mood affects your own. Yet these are relatively fleeting influences and the big picture suggests you can forge some very valuable alliances - if you are open to them.

Someone may not have fed back the responses you wanted recently, and you may be feeling slightly or majorly jilted. But turn it around. Are you hanging on waiting for them to see the light? If so, move up from the feeling of rejection. Turn this around, think of how you are actually free to focus your energies on someone who will “get” you.

Due to Mercury’s retrograde it repeats a connection with Mars that happened last month. Over the next few days, because of this, you might find it harder to keep your own counsel. This can be especially so when you feel you are in the right. Just be aware that someone may try to be equally as belligerent towards you. Tact will help.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

It’s not always easy to keep on good terms with the office or work bore or ogre, but Venus gives you a better chance today. Even if you are never going to be the best of friends, its angle with Saturn and Pluto suggests a touch of diplomacy, together with flexibility and getting the job done well, can be an excellent formula to appease them.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, providing a service does not mean we have to be servile. Think of ways in which you can provide some sort of help or assistance. If you are prepared to be positive, and even entrepreneurial about this, you may come up with a fab idea which can also have the potential to earn you some spare cash or more.

You might find yourself being more outspoken about money today. Or if you think someone lacks respect for you or your values, you might chirp up. In fact, a point of principle could stick in your craw just as much as a difference over hard cash. Fortunately, with the Moon in your sign, you may also be able to bring some detachment to bear.

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

Mercury and Saturn remain in reverse, and so expansion in whatever form, may not come without forethought and some application. And yet Venus acts as an agent of goodness and can be your emissary, helping to create a good public perception of yourself, and in the course of this, your discussions may lead to some lasting positivity Cancer.

Yes, not everything has panned out as you’d have hoped, and there may be a sense of one step forward three back, especially around love. You may feel you are evolving at present, perhaps rapidly so, and as long as you are open to learning from any knockbacks, they can help to inform future choices. One you may have today can prove very astute.

Ordinarily, you might not see yourself as being a particularly impulsive person, but then perhaps you are. Either way, today you could find yourself making a series of very rapid decisions. You might be less inclined to hear out the viewpoint of others. Part of this reaction can come from a mounting frustration which has recently built up within you.

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TO LET NICOSIA patio with bbq and bar, central heating, full a/c, 180sq.m, FULLY FURNISHED or NOT, 2 covered parking, storage room, in a very quiet neighbourhood opposite Acropolis park - Acropolis - €1500 - H3ACS0004-R (photos on website).

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9. New modern luxury very good quality finished semi detached house built in 3 levels. Upstairs 1st level 3 bedrs all en suite+ laundry room, 2nd level big attic room which can be used for office space or bedroom.

Ground floor with 2 sitting areas ,dining area and breakfast area, kitchen with all the electrical appliances, central heating, full a/c units. Basement with kitchen with cooker and oven, dishwasher, microwave and 2 refrigerators, sitting room with fireplace, and 2 bedrooms with one bathroom. Outside private fenced garden with artificial grass, bbq area and covered veranda. The house has blinds and shutters on all windows, false ceiling with spot lights throughout house, pressure system, covered parking, sat-

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10. 4 bedr semi detached house with central heating, 4 a/c, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms, 180sq.m, electrical appliances, small yard, bbq area, off Kostantinoupoleos street near French ambassador residence.- STROVOLOS €700 (H4ST10043-R), (photos in the website).

11. 4 bedr new luxury finished detached house with central heating independent, full a/c, 3wc, 2 bathrooms, big kitchen with cooker oven, dishwasher and big family room, aluminium shutters in all the house, separate big sitting and dining room with parquet floor, 2 covered parking, alarm system, big covered patio, SWIMMING POOL, in a newly built area near Falcon school – Strovolos €2000 (photos in the website).

12. 4 bedrs new luxury detached house, 450sq.m, central heating, full a/c, office space, separate maid’s room, big kitchen with sitting room and fireplace and all the electrical appliances, all the sitting areas viewing the garden with grass, blinds on all windows downstairs, very big bedrooms with parquet floor, main bedroom with jacuzzi, 2 covered parking spaces near Alpha Mega supermarket and English School. AVAILABLE END OF JUNE 2013 – Strovolos €2700 (H4ST1003-R), (photos on the website).

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TO LET NICOSIA rate bedrooms in the basement luxury detached house (all the bedrooms with en suite bathrooms/shower), also separate kitchen and sitting room in the basement which also has separate entrance from the house, central heating, full a/c, solid parquet floor throughout house, big sitting and dining room with fireplace, big fully equipped kitchen with breakfast area and family room, big over flow, 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).

14. 3 bedr +office space +attic room +separate big maid’s/ playroom in the basement semi detached house, recently renovated with big sitting and dining areas with marble floor, big kitchen with cooker and oven and family room, central heating, 3 bathrooms, 4 wc, 6 a/c units, covered parking, behind Hilton Park near the park – Engomi €1700 (H4ENG0003-R), (photos in the website) 15. 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, 6wc, 2 covered parking, yard with tiles and SWIMMING POOL, bbq

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TO LET NICOSIA a/v, 2 wc, en suite bathroom/ jacuzzi, roman blinds, cooker, oven, microwave, washing machine and refrigerator in the kitchen, covered parking, near Metro supermarket – Aglantzia €600 (photos in the website).

area in a very quiet neighbourhood near CYBC ( RIK) station and near a neighbourhood park – Platy Aglantzias €2500 (H4AGZ0005-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

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2. 1 bedr spacious fully luxury renovated apartment,60sq.m, big sitting and dining room, big bedroom, fully newly modern furnished with LCD TV 32’, covered veranda, covered parking, storage heaters, full a/c, near Cyta, Laiki and Hellenic Bank headquarters – Dasoupolis €550 (photos in the website).

3. 2 bedr penthouse apartment, 100sq.m + 80sq.m veranda with flowers and bbq, big sitting and dining room with big 60” TV, storage heaters, full

4. 2 bedr luxury ground floor apartment with central heatingindependent, full a/c, structure cabling internet and satellite network, FULLY MODERN EXPENSIVE FURNISHED, with 46”LCD TV, covered parking, double glazed windows, aluminium shutters, on Pericleous street near Klimataria traffic lights – Strovolos €650 (A2ST10054-R) (photos in the website) 5. 4 bedr new spacious luxury finished floor apartment with floor heating independent, full a/c, 3wc, electrical appliances in the kitchen, blinds on all windows, very big 50sq.m covered veranda, fireplace, covered parking and big over floor heated covered swimming pool on the ground floor, on a small 3 storey building in a quiet neighbourhood near a playground and near Ippokration private hospital – Engomi €1500 (A4ENG0003-R) (photos in the website) 6. 2 bedr new luxury apartment, modern nicely furnished, storage heaters, 2 a/c, 100sq.m, big covered verandah with nice view, covered parking off Digenis Akritas street near Debenhams shop, walking distance to the centre. PRICE INCLUDES COMMON EXPENSES. – Lykavitos €450 (A1LYK0020-R) (photos in the website) 7.

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TO LET NICOSIA a p a r t m e n t ,6 0 s q.m,pa r que t floor, nicely furnished ,all fitted electrical appliances (cooker, oven, microwave, washing machine, dishwasher, fridge), roman blinds, provisions for home cinema, big covered verandah, storage heaters, 2 a/c ,covered parking in Dasoupolis near Alpha Mega supermarket and Areteion hospital. – Dasoupoli €500 (A1DAS0009-R) (photos in the website) 8. 2 bedr spacious renovated apartment 100sq.m with separate big kitchen, air condition for hot and cold in all the rooms, covered veranda, nicely newly fully furnished , off Kyriakou Matsi street very close to the centre on foot– Agioi Omologites €550 (A2AOM0003-R) (photos in the website) 9. New top quality 2 bedr apartment, 93sq.m+20sq.m veranda, on a small modern building with 6 flats only. Central heating independent, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, 2wc, fully fitted kitchen with all the electrical appliances, water pressure system roller blinds and shutters on windows, big sitting and dining room, big bedrooms, covered parking and storage room, in a quiet neighbourhood near Akropolis park. AVAILABLE middle of February – Acropolis €800 A2ACS0002-R (photos in the website) .

10. 2 bedr luxury spacious apartment, 85sq.m, big sitting room, big fully equipped kitchen, nicely modern furnished, storage heaters, full a/c, big bedrooms, covered veranda with nice view, covered parking, off Prodromou street. – Engomi

TO LET NICOSIA €600 (A2ENG0017-R)(photos in the website) 11. 2 bedr luxury spacious apartment on a small modern building with central heating independent (with petrol), full a/c, solid parquet floor, big bedrooms, big sitting room with open plan kitchen, big covered veranda, FULLY MODERN FURNISHED, covered parking off Makarios Avenue in a quiet area near the centre - Nicosia €800 (A2NIC0030-R) (photos in the website) 12. 2 bedr new modern luxury finished apartment with parquet floor, central heating independent, 2 a/c, modern kitchen with all fitted expensive electrical appliances, blinds on the windows, big covered veranda, FULLY NICELY FURNISHED, covered parking in a quiet neighbourhood off Kallipoleos Street - Lykavitos €650 (A2LYK0024-R) (photos on the website) 13. 3 bedr luxury penthouse apartment with central heating independent, full a/c, 2wc, big sitting and dining room with fireplace, separate kitchen, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, big covered and uncovered veranda, covered parking, in Strovolos near the Municipal building - €650 (A4ENG0003-R) (photos on the website) 14. 3 bedr spacious luxury finished apartment 150sq.m+30sq.m covered veranda, central heating independent with petrol, full wall a/c units, solid parquet floor, expensive electrical appliances in the kitchen, 3wc, curtains and blinds on windows, 3 COVERED PARKING,

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TO LET LIMASSOL honi, Zakaki and Yermasoyia Tel: 99675752 FOR RENT 4 bedroom detached house situated in a quiet area of Erimi, with spacious, living area, kitchen, guest WC downstairs, and four bedrooms upstairs with en-suite master bedroom, and bathroom. It has central heating, and air-condition. beautiful garden and parking. €800. 99675752 FOR RENT 4 bedroom detached house in Episkopi, on top of a hill with panoramic views of Curium Beach and garden all around (very private). It has a spacious living area, separate kitchen, utility room, guest WC downstairs and four bedrooms with bathroom upstairs. Central heating, air-conditioning, parking. €750. (negotiable) Tel: 99 675752 FOR RENT five bedroom villa for rent in Agios Sylas (7 minutes from town of Limassol) detached with beautiful panoramic mountain and sea views.

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TO LET LIMASSOL office, laundry shoot, four w/c, en-suite master bedroom with walk-in-wardrobe. Small kitchen area upstairs between bedrooms, large bedroom balconies. Central heating, airconditioning, barbaque area.

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***************************** UNIVERSAL – very nice f/f 1 bed apt + ofďŹ ce - large private roof garden with pergola, full air con, communal pool, close to shops and all amenities, situated on small complex in quiet location – â‚Ź300. For more information call - 9977 4314

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Enclosed mature garden with private pool. Available furnished with good furniture. Website reference number: RTL_544 5. LOWER CHLORAKA â‚Ź750 spacious detached 3 bedroom villa offering stunning views of the sea. Situated in a quiet residential street opposite orange groves. Gated entrance enclosed good-sized mature garden with fruit trees & private pool. Spacious living area with real ďŹ replace. Downstairs guest wc. Master bedroom with ensuite. Available fully furnished.

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Advertiser TO LET PAPHOS villa with an additional loft room conversion with en suite. Property has a downstairs bedroom, sitting/dining area, separate utility area with granite work tops, 2 bedrooms on the top level master en suite. Central heating, AC, fly screens, private pool, enclosed and fenced garden. Ref: 1199 €900 MESOGI 4 bedroom villa with private pool, nice quality fixtures, granite work tops, separate utility room, downstairs bedroom with en suite, fireplace, ac, 3 upstairs bedroom master en suite, separate bath, nice views, pets welcome, offered unfurnished Ref 783 €700 CHLORAKA 4 bedroom large villa with quality fittings , furnished to a very high standard, downstairs bedroom, 3 upstairs, en suites, bathroom, private pool, decking, fantastic sea views, near Tombs of the Kings Ref: 806 €850 SECRET VALLEY 2 bed villas furnished or unfurnished with private pool, downstairs bedroom, kitchen , sitting/dining area, guest wc, upstairs large master bedroom with en suite bath, large veranda. Nice location with sea views and off street parking: Ref: 1198 €450 PEGEIA 4 bed villa unfurnished, 2 downstairs bedrooms, large sitting/dining area, Italian kitchen with white goods, 2 bedrooms upstairs with outside large veranda. Property is of a high standard with central heating, full AC, off street parking, private pool, stunning views, quiet location. Ref: 765 €900 MESOGI Large 3 bedroom apartment with full AC, bathroom,

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Sport Wozniacki backs her beleaguered boyfriend McIlroy

IN BRIEF Sizzling Heat set record

‘He’s got to go out and play good golf’

By Mark Lamport-Stokes HAVING had her own fair share of knocks in recent months while struggling for form on the tennis court, Caroline Wozniacki sprang to the defence of her golfing boyfriend Rory McIlroy in his time of trouble this week.

McIlroy, golf ’s world number one, told a news conference in Miami on Wednesday that he had been wrong to walk off mid-round at last week’s Honda Classic and admitted his toothache was not bad enough to justify quitting the tournament.

“I think Rory did a really great job at the press conference,” Danish former world number one Wozniacki told reporters while preparing for the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells.

“He said what he had to say. He was honest. Now he’s got to go out there this week and hopefully play some good golf.”

McIlroy, who is competing this week in the elite WGC-Cadillac Championship at Doral, admitted to reporters that he had erred in withdrawing from last week’s event at PGA National.

“Obviously I’ve had a lot

of time to think about it,” the 23-year-old Northern Irishman said. “I realised pretty quickly that it wasn’t the right thing to do.

“No matter how bad I was playing, I should have stayed out there. I should have tried to shoot the best score possible.”

McIlroy, who played the first eight holes in sevenover-par before quitting, initially said he was not in a “good place mentally” but a later statement cited pain from his wisdom tooth.

Asked what is was like to date a fellow ‘high-profile’ athlete, Wozniacki replied: “To be honest, we’ve been in the media spotlight so long separately, it’s nothing new.

“We’ve gotten so used to it, we don’t really pay attention anymore - unless it’s a rumour like the one the other day that we’ve broken up. Oh really? Thanks for letting me know.”

McIlroy was also asked if off-course issues, perhaps related to his girlfriend, had hampered his focus on tournament golf.

“No, not at all. I’ve read what’s been written and just because I have a bad day on the golf course and Caroline loses a match in Malaysia, it doesn’t mean that we’re breaking up,” he

said with a laugh.

“It’s sport, and I’d rather keep my private life as private as possible. Everything on that front is great and I’m looking forward to seeing her next week when she gets to Miami.”

Wozniacki would dearly love to arrive in Miami after a successful fortnight at Indian Wells, having seen her world ranking drop from number one to ten over the past year.

Last month, she suffered one of her worst career defeats when she bowed out of the Malaysia Open to 186th-ranked Chinese qualifier Wang Qiang, losing 2-6 7-6 6-1 after cruising through the opening set.

“I don’t think I have a problem,” Wozniacki said of her form after making a 10-6 (win-loss) start to this season. “When you’re number one there’s basically just one way to go, and that’s down.

“I’m healthy. I feel like I’m playing well, so people can say what they want. But I have a life, and I’m happy I have a life.

“Everybody wants to be number one. No doubt about it. But right now, my focus is just trying to play well, to try and win tournaments,” said the Dane, a winner of 20 career WTA titles.

Rory McIlroy says his high-profile relationship with tennis star Caroline Wozniacki is not affecting his game

Kuznetsova makes a winning start at Indian Wells

By Mark Lamport-Stokes

The Russian, a two-time Grand Slam champion, is finding her form again after an injury-hampered 2012 campaign

SVETLANA Kuznetsova continued her encouraging resurgence from an injuryhampered 2012 campaign with a 6-3 6-1 demolition of Czech Andrea Hlavackova in the BNP Paribas Open first round.

The Russian, whose world ranking has plummeted to 46th from a career-high second, swept past Hlavackova after converting all five of her break point chances at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.

“I’m happy to be back on the court, this is the main thing,” Kuznetsova, 27, told reporters after booking a place in the second round against 18th-seeded Serb Jelena Jankovic.

“Every day I just try the best I can and things are coming along pretty well. I

feel really balanced within myself, which is important.”

Kuznetsova, a losing finalist in the California desert in 2007 and 2008 and a winner of 13 WTA singles titles, including two Grand Slam titles, was sidelined by a right knee injury for six months last year after losing in the first round of Wimbledon.

Having since had surgery, the Russian has made a promising 14-5 (win-loss) start to the 2013 season, reaching the quarter-finals in Sydney and also at the Australian Open.

In other first-round matches, Spaniard Silvia Soler Espinosa battled past American Vania King 6-7 6-2 6-1 while Kazakhstan’s Ksenia Pervak brushed aside Zheng Jie of China 6-1 6-2.

Qualifier Mallory Burdette was elated after beating

wildcard and fellow American Jill Craybas 6-3 6-1.

“I’ve made a concerted effort to be aggressive in all of my matches,” Burdette said after winning in just under an hour. “I’m happy with the way I’ve finished strong in each match.

“I didn’t have a whole lot of nerves out there today; I was ready to go. I think I’ve played very well so far.”

Australian Open champion and top seed Victoria Azarenka of Belarus, who demolished Russia’s Maria Sharapova 6-2 6-3 in last year’s BNP Paribas Open final, has a bye into the second round, as do the other seeded players in the WTA tournament.

The men’s event at Indian Wells, where four-time champion Roger Federer will defend his title, got under way yesterday with the opening round.

LEBRON James was the hero again, scoring a lefty layup with 3.2 seconds left to lead the Miami Heat to a franchise-record 16th consecutive win, beating the Orlando Magic 97-96 at American Airlines Arena.

The Heat led by 20 points in the third quarter before the Magic rallied. Orlando led 96-93 with 1:16 left before Miami came back, as they have so many times this season.

James led the Heat with 26 points, including nine in the fourth quarter, and Dwyane Wade added 24.

The Heat (45-14) lead the rest of the Eastern Conference by a wide margin and also have the best home record in the NBA at 27-3.

Elsewhere, Kobe Bryant matched a season high with 42 points, including 18 in a furious 33-9 fourth-quarter comeback, to power the Los Angeles Lakers to a 108-102 victory over the New Orleans Hornets.

The Lakers, who trailed by 25 points in the first half and were in a 93-72 hole late in the third quarter, never gave up.

The Hornets looked in the clear with an alley-oop dunk by Al-Farouq Aminu making it 100-83 with 5:40 left, but the Lakers refused to quit, going on a 14-2 run to close the deficit to 102-97.

Bryant tied the game 102102 and he put the Lakers ahead for good with a fallaway 15-foot jumper with 36.3 seconds left.

Tennis set for bio passports TENNIS will introduce biological passports for players and increase the number of blood tests done each year, the sport’s anti-doping agency said yesterday.

A number of players, including 17-time Grand Slam winner Roger Federer, had called for the sport to up its anti-doping measures in the wake of high-profile cases in other sports.

A biological passport is an electronic document containing test results collated over time that can be used to detect changes that might indicate doping.

According to figures on the ITF website, the governing body carried out only 21 out-of-competition blood tests in the professional game in 2011.

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Sport

We know we played badly, say embarrassed England

IOC ‘hugely impressed’ by quality of Tokyo bid

Tourists are bowled out for a meagre 167 as New Zealand dominate

By Elaine Lies

By Greg Stutchbury THERE was no need for the ‘hairdryer treatment’ from coach Andy Flower after England were bowled out for a meagre 167 by New Zealand yesterday, with the tourists fully aware of how badly they had played, batsman Jonathan Trott said after the close of play.

Alastair Cook’s side are the second best in the world in Test cricket, while New Zealand are ranked eighth, but the home team confounded expectations to finish day two of the rain shortened match at University Oval on 131-0 in reply.

Debutant Hamish Rutherford was 77 not out, while the recalled Peter Fulton was on 46 to put New Zealand in a strong position after the first day of the first Test was washed out due to rain.

Left arm pace bowler Neil Wagner and debutant left arm spinner Bruce Martin took four wickets each for the home side, though all but two of England’s batsmen were caught by fielders either in front of the wicket or behind square.

None were caught in the slips or by wicketkeeper BJ Watling, indicating they had failed to properly execute their shots, rather than be dismissed by relentless pressure from the attack, something Trott agreed with.

“We got ourselves out with poor shots and misjudgement,” Trott, who topscored with 45 before he fell to a miscued sweep off Martin, told reporters.

“Andy (Flower) is pretty

How’s that? New Zealand celebrate after ending the day well on top of their illustrious opponents philosophical, but he knows the right time to put his foot down and say ‘that’s not good enough’ and that might be what happens.

“I’m not particularly happy with how things went, I don’t think anyone is (so) I don’t think there is the need for a hairdryer treatment.

“It can’t get any worse ... but, there’s no place for feeling sorry for ourselves or thinking we didn’t get the

rub of the green because you earn that in cricket.

You earn the right to put the opposition under pressure and we didn’t do that today.”

England had entered the test match with just one four day match against the New Zealand XI as their final preparation, a match they lost, after playing a Twenty20 and one-day series.

Several players were also given time off to recover after their tour of India last year though Trott said they had not been under prepared for the test.

“With regards to preparation, I think its been fine, we’ve all felt really good and you can’t fault the guys’ commitment in the nets to get ready for a big series like this.

“We put ourselves under

pressure with our performance with the bat and we didn’t play as well as we should have.

“It was a good wicket and we have got to fight our way back into this cricket match.

“The next three days have an extra half hour so there’s a lot of cricket left in this game.

“We’ve got a big three days ahead of us.”

Brown braced for stiff Wales test

By Gavin McCafferty

Scotland captain Kelly Brown (right) is hoping his side can win three successive games in the tournament for the first time since 1996 - when it was still the Five Nations

SCOTLAND captain Kelly Brown believes champions Wales will pose his team the toughest challenge of their RBS 6 Nations campaign so far.

But the Scots are not looking to complicate preparations for tomorrow’s Murrayfield clash following wins over Italy and Ireland.

Interim head coach Scott Johnson led Scotland to consecutive Six Nations victories for the first time in 12 years on the back of intense work on the fundamentals of the game, following his anger at the way his side approached the collision area in their opening defeat against England.

And Brown believes more repetition is the key to challenging the Welsh as he expects his side could be under even more pressure than in

their backs-to-the-wall display against Ireland.

Brown said: “If you look at their squad, it’s absolutely filled with Lions and worldclass players.

“I would say it will be our toughest challenge in the championship so far but as a sportsman you want to be challenged by the top teams and there is no doubt Wales are one of those.”

Scotland have not won three successive games in the tournament since it was the Five Nations - a 16-14 win over Wales in 1996 set up a Grand Slam chance against England, which they lost as their opponents clinched the title on points difference.

Victory over Wales on Saturday would again leave them in with a chance of winning the trophy on the final weekend but Brown is not getting carried away.

“Everyone in the squad is very grounded,” he said.

“There is no doubt we take a lot of confidence from the last two wins but we know the performances were far from perfect.

“We have looked at those and identified the things we need to improve.

“Rugby is a relatively simple game. If you can do the basics exceptionally well when you are under pressure, then you will do pretty well.”

The flanker played through a broken nose in the gritty 12-8 victory over Ireland, with blood smearing his face for much of the contest following a collision with visiting hooker Rory Best.

And Brown got no initial respite as he recuperated the following day.

“It was a little bit smashed when I got home and my daughter accidentally whacked it with her head on the Monday night as well, and it started to bleed again,” Brown said.

INTERNATIONAL Olympics officials said yesterday that they were ‘hugely impressed’ by Tokyo’s bid to host the 2020 Olympic games as well as strong government support from a country keen to show it has recovered from the devastating 2011 quake and tsunami.

At stake are an estimated three trillion yen ($32 billion) in potential economic impact and the chance, Japanese officials say, to showcase the country’s recovery from the disaster in the way the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games highlighted the nation’s return after its World War Two defeat.

“We have been hugely impressed by the quality of the bid presentations made by the bid committee,” said Craig Reedie, vice president of the International Olympics Committee (IOC).

“Across the board, they have just been excellent,” he told a news conference.

Reedie declined to give details, but did single out strong support both from the government and from the business community.

Among those making presentations during the evaluation committee’s four day visit were Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Fujio Cho, the outgoing chairman of Toyota Motor Corp.

But Japanese media noted that Tokyo had received early praise during its failed bid to host the 2016 Games, which it lost to Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo governor Naoki Inose warned against any complacency.

“This is about at the halfway point of a marathon,” he told a news conference.

“The most crucial time is now. We must keep running this marathon for the next six months.”

Tokyo is up against Madrid and Istanbul, both of which have also bid for the Games and lost before. A decision will be made on September 7 in Buenos Aires.

In Tokyo’s favour are the fact that many of its venues are already built. Tokyo planners also emphasise the compactness of its offer, with 85 per cent of the venues located within a 5 mile radius of the Olympic Village.

The jewel in Tokyo’s campaign is a space-age makeover of the National Stadium, the main venue for the 1964 Games. The 80,000-capacity venue, which resembles a flying saucer.

The Tokyo government estimates that the Games would increase demand by 1.22 trillion yen in tourism, sales of Olympic goods and household spending. With private sector investments included, the total impact is likely to hit 3 trillion yen nationwide and include the creation of 150,000 jobs.

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Robust defensive play earns Newcastle draw with Anzhi Ben Arfa passes up golden opportunity Anzhi 0 Newcastle 0 HATEM Ben Arfa passed up a golden opportunity to celebrate his 26th birthday in style as Newcastle claimed a hard-fought Europa League draw in Moscow.

The Frenchman, making his first appearance since tearing a hamstring at Fulham on December 10, was played in on goal by compatriot Yohan Cabaye with 64 minutes gone, but could not beat goalkeeper Vladimir Gabulov with an ambitious chipped effort.

An away goal would have seen the Magpies take a significant step towards the quarter-finals, although had keeper Rob Elliot, once again deputising for the injured Tim Krul, not made two excellent saves from Samuel Eto’o either side of half-time, Anzhi Makhachkala could have been heading for St James’ Park next week with a lead to defend.

In the event, Alan Pardew would have been the happier of the two managers after seeing his much-changed side cope with the artificial pitch and plummeting tempera-

Ben Arfa (L) was handed a golden chance to net after the interval

tures at the Luzhniki Stadium to deny the hosts a home victory in Europe for the first time in eight attempts this season.

However, he will need no reminding that Metalist Kharkiv left Tyneside last month with a 0-0 first leg draw, but did not make it through to the last 16.

Anzhi ran out having not lost a European game on Russian soil and having only conceded their first home goal against Hannover in the previous round.

Pardew was without six members of his strongest side with Krul, Fabricio Coloccini, Mathieu Debuchy, Jonas Gutierrez, Yoan Gouffran and Papiss Cisse left behind for a variety of reasons, and he chose to leave Steven Taylor, Davide Santon and Cheick Tiote sitting on the bench.

That meant fielding a starting XI without a single recognised striker as Ben Arfa was asked to lead the line.

Unsurprisingly, the visitors failed to muster a single effort on target during the opening

45 minutes - but to Pardew’s delight, Anzhi were little more threatening themselves.

Newcastle’s cause was helped in no small part by £30million Brazilian Willian’s premature departure through injury.

In the 23 minutes he was on the pitch, he looked dangerous, feeding a telling 14thminute pass into the path of Oleg Shatov to prompt a timely intervention by Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa, and then drilling and shooting from a tight angle well wide seconds later.

Eto’o was left appealing in vain for handball against Massadio Haidara after breaking from his own half with 29 minutes gone, with Hungarian referee Istvan Vad unmoved.

Newcastle featured as an attacking threat only fleetingly with Gabriel Obertan keeping full-back Andrei Eschenko occupied at times, but without looking like opening the home side up.

In the event, it was Elliot who made the game’s first save five minutes before the break, tipping Eto’o’s dipping drive from distance over the bar.

It then took a brave block by central defender James Perch to prevent substitute Lacina Traore’s shot from troubling Elliot.

Newcastle responded with a rare cohesive attack as Moussa Sissoko found Ben Arfa and then set off in anticipation of a return pass, but central defender Ewerton stepped in.

Elliot turned Eto’o’s skidding 61st-minute drive around the post, and Shatov acrobatically fired wide from the resulting corner.

But Ben Arfa was handed a glorious opportunity to give the visitors the lead three minutes later when he was played in by Cabaye, but saw his chipped effort easily blocked by Gabulov. Ben Arfa was thereafter replaced

by European specialist Shola Ameobi.

Eto’o blazed a long-range free-kick high and wide, but it took a good block by Eschenko to stop Sylvain Marveaux’s long-range effort.

Elliot had to field a scuffed effort from Eto’o as time ran down - and the visitors held.

Enrique hails ‘incredible all round’ team-mate Suarez

By Carl Markham

Hotshot: the Liverpool striker is the Premier League’s leading scorer with 21 goals so far this season

LIVERPOOL defender Jose Enrique has likened teammate Luis Suarez to fourtime world footballer of the year Lionel Messi when it comes to his ability to go past people.

The Uruguay international is the Barclays Premier League’s leading scorer with 21, two ahead of Manchester United’s Robin van Persie, but goals are not his only talent.

Even when he was not scoring so regularly, the 26-yearold still posed a significant threat with his close skills and direct running.

Enrique has experienced the South American’s trickery in training and, although he has seen it many times, he still struggles to combat it.

“I tell Luis all the time that he always does the same thing - he tries to do nutmegs. It’s always ‘megs, ‘megs, ‘megs and you just know he is going to do it but you can’t stop him,” said the Spaniard.

“When you know someone

you can know what they are going to do, but he’s still a very difficult player to train against and he scores so many goals in training.

“It’s like with Messi: everyone says he is going to cut inside all the time and you know he is going to do this but you can’t stop him from cutting inside and scoring goals.

“With Luis it’s the same but of course there are some differences between the two players.”

Suarez, with 28 goals in the current campaign, has become Liverpool’s focal point and Enrique knows how much he offers the side.

“Luis is a great all-round striker but it’s not just about the goals, it’s about what he gives to the team - it’s about his personality and his attitude,” he told liverpoolfc. com.

“He’s the same in training as what you see in games.

He gives 100 per cent all the time. He never misses training and, touch wood, he has not been injured so far.

“Everyone wants to win my character is that I don’t like to lose at anything - but

with Luis when he loses the ball he knows exactly how to press again.

“It’s amazing, of course, how he scores goals and some of the goals he has scored have been incredible.”

In other news, Liverpool striker Jerome Sinclair has been named in the England Under-17s squad for the European Championship elite qualifying round later this month.

The 16-year-old, who became the youngest firstteam player in the club’s history when he came on against West Brom earlier this season, will be in international action from March 23 to 28.

The young Lions host Portugal, Russia and Slovenia with the winners progressing to May’s finals in Slovakia.

England kick off their qualifiers against Portugal at Walsall on March 23 before facing Russia two days later at Burton Albion’s Pirelli Stadium.

Their final game against Slovenia is in Burton on March 28.

Omonia buoyed by Anorthosis thrashing

By Nemanja Bjedov OMONIA and Apollon are the first two sides to progress to the Cyprus Coca-Cola Cup semi-finals after clinching aggregate victories in their quarterfinal ties.

Toni Savevski’s Greens beat league leaders Anorthosis 2-0 at the Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium in Larnaca thanks to goals from Andre Schembri and Freddy, to complete an emphatic 6-0 aggregate win.

“We have beaten a very good team and we are now definitely looking forward to the next stage of the competition. In the meantime, we need to focus on securing our championship playoff spot,” Saveski said after the game.

“These are difficult times for us and we need to stick together,” said Anorthosis coach Ronny Levy whose side have only one win in their last five games.

Apollon booked their semifinal spot after overcoming Ayia Napa 3-1 on aggregate.

The two teams played out a 1-1 draw in the second leg at the Tsirion Stadium in Limassol.

Elsewhere, Enosis Neon Paralimni and AEK Larnaca drew 1-1 in their first leg clash at the Dasaki Stadium.

“This was a typical cup match. I am satisfied with the performance of my players. We came here knowing that the second leg will be played at our stadium. We had a few opportunities to score the second goal, but unfortunately we did not. I believe that in the second leg we will have the edge and qualify for the semi-finals,” said AEK coach Ran Ben Shimon.

The second leg between AEK and Enosis Neon Paralimni, as well as the game between AEL and AEP will take place on Wednesday.

The Limassol outfit hold a 4-1 lead from the first leg which was played two weeks ago in Paphos.

Europa League Anzhi Newcastle

0 0

Plzen Fenerbahce

0 1

Steaua Bucharest 1 Chelsea 0 Stuttgart Lazio

0 2

Benfica Bordeaux

L L

Basel Zenit

L L

Levante Rubin Kazan

L L

Tottenham Inter Milan

L L

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Champions League ‘WE HAVE A CHAMPIONSHIP TO WIN AND WE’RE IN A CUP SEMI,’ SAYS CELTIC BOSS

Juventus still see themselves a rung below elite

By Brian Homewood

The dream is over: Neil Lennon said he was enormously proud of his Celtic players for reaching the Champions League Last-16 and knows their efforts, including a famous victory over Barcelona, will not have gone unnoticed

Lennon: it’s hard to keep stars CELTIC manager Neil Lennon admits it will be difficult to retain the players who have impressed during the club’s run in the Champions League.

Having reached the last 16, the SPL leaders were beaten 2-0 by Juventus in Turin, 5-0 on aggregate.

“There’ll be players who want to progress their careers and it’s a progression for us too,” said Lennon.

“We want to bring in players, develop them and sell them on for a profit. So far that strategy’s worked for us.”

Three key members of Lennon’s squad are nearing the end of their contracts.

Striker Gary Hooper and

defender Victor Wanyama, whose deals expire in the summer of 2014, have so far rejected offers to extend their stay in Glasgow.

And midfielder Joe Ledley, who will also be a free agent next summer, has yet to open talks on his future.

“We’ll have a look at things and see how players are feeling at the end of the season,” said Lennon. “We have a championship to win and we’re in a cup semi-final.”

Trailing 3-0 from the first leg in Glasgow, Celtic started brightly in the heavy rain only for the hosts to book their quarter-final place with goals from Alessandro Matri and Fabio Quagliarella.

But Lennon said he was

enormously proud of his players for getting this far in the tournament and knows their efforts, including a famous victory over Barcelona, will not have gone unnoticed.

“It would be a travesty for these young players not to progress their careers having achieved so much in this campaign and having played against some of the best players in the world,” he explained.

“Some of them want to progress their careers maybe out of Scotland and it is difficult to stop that progression.

“We’re doing our job. We’re bringing these young players in, we’re developing them

and hopefully selling them on for significantly more than what we brought them in for.”

Reflecting on the end of Celtic’s European adventure, Lennon added: “It’s disappointing. You always want more.

“The handicap we have is that we’re probably £100m behind most of the other squads in the last 16 of Champions League.

“The difference is the quality in the final third. We had good chances again tonight and we didn’t take them.

“Quality counts and that was the difference over two games. We were just a little bit short in some areas.

“Juventus are a fantastic

team. They have a great work ethic about them.

They maybe don’t have the flamboyance of Barcelona but they work so hard for each other and have a great balance.”

Lennon revealed that Efe Ambrose was disciplined for being late for training on the morning of the match but insists it was not the reason the defender was omitted from the starting line-up.

The Nigeria international missed the team bus from the hotel and had to catch up by taxi.

Ambrose appeared at halftime as Wanyama picked up a hamstring injury, while fullback Adam Matthews also suffered a similar problem.

No favours for benched Beckham

By Julien Pretot

The former England captain warms up, but was an unused substitute against Valencia

DAVID Beckham got confirmation that there would be no favourable treatment at Paris St Germain when he was not used by coach Carlo Ancelotti in their Champions League last-16 second leg against Valencia on Wednesday.

Ancelotti left the former England captain, who joined in January on a five-month deal, on the bench when qualification was at stake.

PSG, who won the first leg 2-1, qualified 3-2 on aggregate after Ezequiel Lavezzi salvaged a 1-1 draw at the Parc des Princes when he cancelled out Jonas’ second-half opener.

Beckham started warming up at the end of the first half and continued during most of the second but after Valencia opened the scoring through

Jonas, it was striker Kevin Gameiro who came on as a replacement for midfielder Thiago Motta.

“I hesitated between Beckham and Gameiro but I preferred Gameiro to add offensive energy and then use Clement Chantome as a defensive midfielder,” Ancelotti told a news conference.

Beckham, who made his Champions League debut in the 1994-95 season when PSG last reached the last eight, is looking to make an appearance in Europe’s top club competition with his fourth team after playing for Manchester United, Real Madrid and AC Milan.

He has made three appearances for PSG, starting one game, a 2-0 French Cup win against arch-rival Marseille at the Parc des Princes last week.

Competition in midfield,

however, is fierce at PSG, who have Marco Verratti, suspended on Wednesday, Italy’s Thiago Motta and Chantome as well as France international Blaise Matuidi.

“Matuidi is one of the best midfielders in Europe right now,” Ancelotti said.

“At the 75th minute, he asked me to be substituted after he took a knock. I said no, you stay on the pitch,” the Italian added with a smile.

Cash-strapped Valencia meanwhile have little time to waste wallowing in self-pity after Wednesday’s elimination and must focus on qualifying for next season’s edition of Europe’s lucrative elite club competition.

“We hope the fans will get behind us between now and the end of the season so we can return to the Champions League,” Jonas told reporters.

JUVENTUS, traditionally one of Europe’s biggest clubs, are back in the last eight of the Champions League but coach Antonio Conte does not want them seen in the same light as Barcelona or Bayern Munich.

Conte has recognised that the 28-time Italian champions and twice European champions cannot compete financially with clubs from Spain, Italy or England, even if results on the field have been just as good, if not better.

Conte himself won a Champions League medal with Juventus during his 13-year playing career with them, and they also finished as runners-up three times while he was at the club.

Having bounced back after the Caliopoli match-fixing scandal, which saw them stripped of their 2005 and 2006 Serie A titles and demoted to the second tier, Juventus now face a different reality on their return to the quarter-finals following a seven-year wait.

Twice European champions, five-time runners-up, Cup Winners Cup victors on one occasion and UEFA Cup champions three times, they no longer find themselves mentioned in the same breath as Barcelona, Real Madrid or Bayern.

“When I played, there were not so many wellstructured clubs, and there were more opportunities for Italian teams to be successful,” Conte told reporters after Juve beat Celtic 2-0 on Wednesday to complete a 5-0 aggregate win in the last 16 tie.

“Now, for a variety of reasons, mainly financial, teams such as Barcelona and Bayern Munich are stronger.

“We must be humble, be aware that we can no longer bridge that economic gap. We are three or four steps below them but it doesn’t mean we can’t compete with them.

“At the end, it’s about two teams with 11 players, a pitch and a referee.”

Juventus are not Europe’s most stylish team but Conte, still in only his second season in charge, has turned them into a formidable outfit, who hassle the opposition incessantly in midfield and break forward at breakneck speed when they win possession.

Conte habitually fields a three-man defence and a five man midfield where the majestic Andrea Pirlo, whose role as a deep-lying playmaker makes him a rarity in modern football, pulls the strings.

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Blues’ Europa hopes facing tough hurdle Rusescu penalty gives Steaua advantage

Chelsea’s Torres (left) fights for the ball against Steaua’s Chiriches in Bucharest last night

Steaua Bucharest 1 Chelsea 0

By Matt McGeehan End of the road? Wayne Rooney cuts a dejected figure as he walks off the Old Trafford pitch, following Sir Alex Ferguson’s decision to leave him on the bench

Rooney fighting for future as Fergie ‘fed up’with star WAYNE Rooney is facing a desperate fight to save his Manchester United career as manager Sir Alex Ferguson continues to harbour grave doubts about his fitness and attitude.

Ferguson stunned football by dropping the England forward to the bench for Tuesday night’s Champions League defeat against Real Madrid at Old Trafford.

The United manager believes Rooney has failed to get on top of the weight and fitness issues that have dogged him since the start of the season and is fed up with waiting for an improvement.

With Rooney, 27, entering the final two years of his contract this summer, Ferguson knows he has a decision to make about his future.

As it stands, the Scot will not rule out selling him at the end of the season if the club can attract a bid of more than £20 million.

Sources in both camps have said that the relationship between the pair has been tense for some time and shows no signs of getting better. Senior players say privately that they can sense it at the training ground on a daily basis.

Rooney acknowledges that he and Ferguson have not been on the best of terms for much of this season but disputes suggestions that he has not looked after himself.

Super-rich Paris Saint-Germain have an interest in Rooney, while United’s neighbours Manchester City would take the former Everton player in an instant if they thought their rivals would sell to them. City tried to buy Rooney in the autumn of 2010, prompting United to raise their wage ceiling to keep him.

Meanwhile, UEFA have charged United for failing to fulfil their media obligations after Tuesday night’s 2-1 defeat that put them out of the Champions League.

Not only did Ferguson not attend the press

conference after the game, United also failed to provide two players for postmatch interviews, as mandated under UEFA rules.

Nani, who was sent off by referee Cuneyt Cakir with United leading 1-0, will definitely be banned for one European game at least.

His case, and United’s, will be heard by UEFA on March 21. It will not be known if players like United defender Rio Ferdinand will face sanction for their actions after the game until Cakir files his report.

According to the Daily Mail, Nani broke down in tears after he was sent off. It is understood Nani was distraught in the United dressing room at full time and later made an emotional phone call home to a long-term mentor in Portugal.

“Nani was inconsolable,” a source said.

“He was on the phone to Portugal sobbing, asking people if they thought he had done anything wrong.”

Nani has had an up-and-down season as he has become involved in a protracted contract wrangle at United but has the full support of his team-mates in the wake of Tuesday night’s game.

It has also emerged that Real manager Jose Mourinho was left feeling flat by a game that turned his way on a referee’s decision.

The former Chelsea boss told friends he hadn’t particularly enjoyed the game and had left Old Trafford disappointed his side had not shown their true selves.

Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored the winner, felt similarly. The former United player said: “I went into the dressing room to speak to all the players, the coach, the president, to the Glazers.

“On one side I feel happy for Madrid to go through, the other side I feel a little bit sad because it is not easy to forget this home.”

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afael Benitez’s Chelsea suffered a lacklustre defeat to Steaua Bucharest in their Europa League last-16 first-leg clash at the National Arena.

In the first of two games in four days and the Blues’ 50th game of a turbulent season, last season’s Champions League winners went behind after 34 minutes when Ryan Bertrand was penalised for pulling back Raul Rusescu, who converted the spot-kick.

Just like Sunday’s opponents Manchester United, Chelsea warmed up for the FA Cup quarter-final with a European defeat, but at least their rivals were defeated by Real Madrid. The result in the Romanian capital will only serve to increase the pressure on interim manager Benitez.

Chelsea began the season in contention for seven trophies and the Europa League is the unexpected eighth after their embarrassing Champions League group stage exit which prompted Benitez’s unpopular appointment.

Two chances of silverware remain, but chief executive Ron Gourlay this week insisted a top-four place in the Barclays Premier League and Champions League football next term is the priority.

It is just as well, as now they must beat United and overturn a deficit to Steaua in next week’s return to keep their trophy hopes alive.

John Terry would not have expected to be playing a key role in the second-tier continental competition this term, but in Bucharest the captain was brought in as one of five changes to the side which beat West Brom.

Steaua, 12 points clear domestically, had shown their ability by overcoming a firstleg deficit to beat Ajax on penalties and Chelsea needed

to start better than in the previous round.

The hosts refused to be intimidated, while the Blues sat deep and were attempting to play on the counter-attack, with Oscar through the middle, Hazard on the left and Yossi Benayoun on the right behind lone front man Fernando Torres.

At one point Torres latched on to Petr Cech’s long clearance on the right flank, skipped by his marker on the byline, before tackling himself as he prepared to cross to his arriving team-mates.

Chelsea’s first corner came after 24 minutes - with Branislav Ivanovic heading Frank Lampard’s set-piece wide.

Thereafter left-back Iasmin Latovlevici crossed with the outside of his right foot towards Rusescu, whose attempts to reach the ball were thwarted by a pull from Bertrand.

Referee Sergey Karasev booked the left-back, and Rusescu sent the resulting spot-kick under Cech.

The Blues had a chance for an equaliser within five minutes following neat interplay between Benayoun and Haz-

ard, but the Israeli’s shot was turned around the post by Ciprian Tatarusanu.

The goalkeeper saved a Torres effort on the turn and John Obi Mikel had to be alert to stop Chipciu on the counter.

In the second period, a lofted Lampard pass would not drop for Torres in the area, before Juan Mata replaced Benayoun.

Hazard volleyed over after a hopeful Lampard cross fell to him at the back post, before the Belgian was replaced by Marko Marin.

Tatarusanu saved from Marin after he cut inside on to his right foot and Luiz fired a 30-yard free-kick over soon after.

Terry’s role as an auxiliary striker ended when he committed a foul challenging the goalkeeper - and he finished the contest on the defensive.