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First real taste of austerity unrest Angry protesters storm finance ministry and then the parliament

By Peter Stevenson

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YPRUS saw its first real taste of austerityrelated unrest yesterday when hundreds of casual government workers due to be laid off, stormed first through the finance ministry and then parliament.

A total of 992 seasonal government employees will be out of work starting from today as part of government cuts, about half of whom took to the streets yesterday. The move aims to save €9 million a year.

Inside parliament, Finance Minister Vassos Shiarly was briefing the House Finance Committee on the status of talks with international lenders, the troika.

The first fracas occurred at the finance ministry where protesters had gathered outside waving banners and chanting: ‘No to poverty and unemployment, the rich should pay and not the workers’, ‘Instead of getting rid of foreigners, they’re getting rid of us’. The protesters also called for the ‘greedy thieving bankers’ to be handed over to the people.

Emotions were running high by that time and when the group lunged for the entrance, the hopelessly inadequate police barricade was no match for the pushing protesters.

After managing to enter the main hall of the finance ministry, a group of the protesters started making their way upstairs in an attempt to get to the minister’s office, although he was not there as ministry staff looked on from a safe distance. The angry protesters were stopped by union leaders who convinced them to

continue their demonstration outside the parliament.

Some stayed outside the ministry where they approved a resolution they planned to give to Shiarly and House President, Yiannakis Omirou.

One protester told reporters: “I have seven children and I make €1,100 a month, that’s already not enough to pay my electricity bill or to make the payment on my loan. What are we supposed to do now?

We are imprisoned in our own homes. We can’t even afford to go to a café for a coffee any more.”

Another female protester said: “If they’re trying to eradicate the middle class then they’ve managed it, that’s all I have to say.” A third said: “It’s all right for them [politicians].

They have work. Everyone here has three or four people at home depending on them.”

He also complained about the numerous free benefits offered to Turkish Cypriots.

“What about us [Greek] Cypriots? Or are we only considered Cypriots when they want us for the army?”

When part of the group from the finance ministry arrived at the House, another surge towards the entrance seemed to take police by surprise. They blew their whistles but to no avail as they were outnumbered and overrun.

Part of the angry mob, trying to make their way to the finance committee meeting where the minister was, ended up at the legal affairs committee instead where its chairman Ionas Nicolaou assured them he would take their issues up at his committee as one woman screamed abuse at the top of her lungs, and another was

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Protesters easily push through the thin blue line outside the House during the demonstration yesterday against the laying off of over 900 seasonal government workers as part of austerity measures (Christos Theodorides)

Brits mulled propaganda comics to sway EOKA teens

By Arj Singh COLONIAL officials in Cyprus considered producing adventure comic books and running an essay competition in a propaganda bid to stop young Greek Cypriots rebelling against British rule, previously secret government files have revealed.

Schoolchildren threw petrol bombs, caused disturbances and regularly went on strike from school during the mid-1950s as they sided with the nationalist EOKA movement for

“Enosis” - union with Greece - the Foreign Office files revealed.

In 1956, Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd damned a record of 18 months of disturbance from secondary school pupils.

In a previously secret document, released by the National Archives, he said: “The picture presented by the record is one of indiscipline and defiance of authority on a scale which is not readily comprehensible to those accustomed to the decorum of educational establishments in the United Kingdom.”

The violence prompted the commissioner of Cyprus to ask if it was possible to produce adventure comics to try to sway opinion.

The secret files contained an extract from one of the unnamed commissioner’s letters, which read: “Schoolchildren have been used as a weapon in the nationalist campaign and it is therefore at them that government propaganda should particularly be aimed. “Here again, crude propaganda against

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TODAY: A mixture of sunshine and cloud. Temperatures will reach 22C inland, 23C along the coasts and 14C over higher ground OUTLOOK: Remaining relatively settled and feeling a little warmer YESTERDAY:

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HUNDREDS of people in Cyprus have AIDS and dozens are diagnosed with the HIV virus every year, the health ministry said yesterday.

But Cyprus is subscribing to the United Nations’ goal of zero new infections or AIDSrelated deaths by 2015, Health Minister Androulla Agrotou said yesterday at a news conference for World AIDS Day commemorated tomorrow.

From 1986 until 2011, a total of 735 people have been diagnosed with HIV in Cyprus and 118 have died, according to the health ministry’s epidemiological study.

Up until October, this year 49 people were diagnosed with HIV in Cyprus, 54 people were diagnosed last year and

41 were diagnosed in 2010.

About five people died from AIDS in 2011 and five others died this year, health ministry officials said. Among the Cypriots, only one woman is diagnosed for every seven men and 334 men have been diagnosed versus 50 women.

The gender difference accounts for the fact that 68 per cent or 501 people diagnosed in Cyprus have been men, while only 234 women or 32 per cent were diagnosed.

The infection rate is roughly split between Cypriots and nationals of other countries (349 non-native Cypriots have been infected as of 1986), but the infections have been rising.

However, 256 of those do not live in Cyprus and are foreign nationals who were diagnosed on the island, while over the

years some 23 Cypriots living abroad have been diagnosed with HIV. In Cyprus, almost 68 per cent of all diagnoses have been people from the ages of 20 to 39. Most get HIV through sex, the health ministry said.

Therefore a new programme in high schools across the island has been ongoing this year, hoping to educate students in the first year of Lyceum – most 15 years old – about learning to say ‘no’, or ‘only with a condom’.

The programme aims to get people talking and thinking about HIV/AIDS and how it can be transmitted, as well as getting kids to develop a “healthy attitude” towards sex, health educator Pampitsa Gavriel said. “I’d be nice if you were in the classroom to see what discussions the children have,” she said referring to one

of the questions students get to debate: does girls dressing sexy mean they want to have sex?

“Girls have a different opinion, boys have another and through discussion they reach a compromise in their views,” Gavriel said.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), about 25 million people have so far died of AIDS-related health issues. About 34 million people are living with HIV, with the most affected region, Sub-Saharan Africa, having one in twenty adults with HIV. World AIDS Day is celebrated every year on December 1 to raise awareness and remember those who have died, as well as celebrate the leaps in medical science that have made treating the infection much more manageable.

First taste of austerity unrest hits the island (continued from front page) in tears as she appealed to the committee. Another part of the group did find their way to a room where the finance committee was meeting but were stopped from entering.

The head of the House President’s office, Antonis Koutalianos, who had earlier been heckled when he tried to speak to the protesters outside the House, suggested the demonstrators send a group of representatives to see the House President but they demanded that they all go to see him. This meant that a meeting was not possible.

Eventually the situation calmed down and by noon all of the protesters had left the parliament area while their representatives met with party officials who all assured them that their problems would be raised at various committee meetings and that they would do whatever was in their power to make sure they didn’t lose their jobs. (see editorial page 12)

Angry protesters push their way into the parliament building

(Christos Theodorides)

French oil and gas experts due in Cyprus TEN FRENCH companies dealing with the oil and gas industry are coming to Cyprus next week to meet with Cypriot companies and officials.

The delegation will be in Nicosia on December 4 and 5, having been jointly organised by the French agency for export promotion, UBIFRANCE, the French Embassy in Cyprus, the French Oil and Gas Suppliers Council (GEPAFTP), the French-Cypriot business association, the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce (KEVE) and the President of the French Council on Foreign Trade, with support from Air France-KLM. During the two-day mission, ten companies with expertise and practical experience in the field of oil and gas will share their knowledge to professionals, institutions

and significant players in the hydrocarbons sector in Cyprus.

According to a press release, the aim of the delegation is to engage in constructive exchanges between businesses of the two countries and enhance cooperation between French and Cypriot companies within the framework of developing gas exploitation in Europe’s new zone of hydrocarbon deposits.

The French companies and groups taking part are: Boccard, Bourbon, Bureau Veritas, Cathie Associates, CX Sas Plus, DCNS, Iteco Oilfield Supply, Spie Oil & Gas, Thales, and GEP AFTP. For further information, contact sabine.ghikas@ubifrance.fr or andersson@cci.org.cy.

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energy partner Israel, the Cypriot government said new talks must be held “in a manner that addresses the concerns of the parties, including Israel’s serious security concerns”.

The country, which holds the EU presidency called upon both sides “not to take actions that are not conducive to the immediate resumption of talks, or alter the situation on the ground in a way which is not compatible with the goal of achieving a two state solution”.

Cyprus also expressed hope that the vote, which coincided with the observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, could serve as “the launching pad for a reinvigorated Middle East Peace Process”.

Despite US and Israel opposition to the resolution, as well as threats to the Palestinian Authority of turning off the money taps, more than a dozen EU member states have expressed their support to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, including France, Spain and Greece.

The Czechs said they would vote against, while Britain, Germany, and the Netherlands contemplated before the vote abstaining with Estonia and Lithuania.

According to a diplomatic source, efforts were made “until the very last moment to forge a common EU position, but it was not meant to be”.

Despite the split vote in the EU, it seems unlikely Cyprus’ stance will have any serious impact on IsraeliCyprus relations since the vast majority of UN member states were in favour of the upgraded status.

Cyprus and Israel are currently discussing ways to enhance energy collaboration in the Eastern Mediterranean, with talk of sending Cypriot and Israeli natural gas from the waters between the two countries to Limassol for liquefaction and connecting Europe and Israel with electricity supply lines.

‘The real problem is that Cyprus is dreadfully boring’

By Stefanos Evripidou CYPRUS JOINED a host of EU countries in voicing its support to the Palestinian bid for achieving the status of Non-Member Observer State at the United Nations yesterday.

Just hours before the crucial vote at the UN General Assembly, the foreign ministry released a statement saying Cyprus would vote in favour of the draft resolution seeking implicit recognition as a sovereign state.

The Palestinians attempted to gain full UN membership last year but were thwarted by the US which holds a veto in the UN Security Council. While falling short of full membership, the upgraded status would allow them access to the international criminal court, a serious concern to Israel which fears the prospect of facing charges of war crimes or crimes against humanity.

PRINCIPLES The Palestinian Ambassador to Cyprus Walid Hasan said yesterday he had been informed by President Demetris Christofias and Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou Marcoullis that Cyprus would vote in favour of the resolution. He noted that only 98 votes in favour were needed in the General Assembly, though they expected to get between 130 and 150.

A Cyprus foreign ministry statement said: “This decision is in line with our longstanding principled position on the Palestinian issue...It is also consistent with the call of the international community, including the European Union, for a negotiated solution that would allow Palestinians and Israelis to live side by side, in two states, in peace and security.”

It added: “Cyprus calls, once again, for the urgent resumption of meaningful, direct and result oriented negotiations between the parties.”

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(continued from front page) Greece is useless. The aim should be again to shift the focus off Greece - not necessarily on to Britain but to a broader, more international, outlook.

“This might be done by commissioning a firm in England, if necessary, to print weekly comics with Greek and English captions using adventure stories and the exploits of explorers etc, as material.”

But the director of information services, LG Durrell, said the idea would not appeal commercially to publishers and that the real problem was that Cyprus is “dreadfully boring”.

He wrote: “Nicosia (the capital) is a dreadfully boring town to live in with its glaring lack of amenities.”

Durrell said the lack of a good library, a public swimming pool or a polytechnic college where young people could take courses left children bored and so driven to disturbance.

He went on: “Apart from stadium football matches there seemed to be nothing to do and nothing to look forward to.

“To sum up: as a shortterm propaganda device such an idea might prove effective. But it will not touch the heart of the unrest which is rooted in boredom and for which Enosis provides something exciting to think about.”

John Reddaway, another colonial official, proposed an essay competition to counter EOKA’s challenge for schoolchildren on “Why I Want Enosis”.

In a letter to a Mr Papadopoulos, he wrote: “The enemy thought it was worthwhile to run an essay competition for schoolchildren on ‘Why I want Enosis’. Would it be too crude if we were to take a leaf out of their book and offer a really handsome prize for essays on ‘Why I don’t want Enosis’, suitable

precautions being taken to preserve the anonymity of the authors?”

Mr Papadapoulous said the idea was “frivolous” but recommended an alternative essay - “The Advantages of Self-Government”.

Mr Papadapoulous wrote: “I do not think we can get away with this one without being made to look somewhat frivolous. The noise that is bound to be created over the idea on all sides will be considerable and I can see us being attacked for employing tactics unbecoming a responsible, seriouslyminded government.”

Various other pamphlets and propaganda releases in the documents showed how British officials tried to influence parents to give up their children if they were petrol bombing.

Detective Sergeant G Whitcomb wrote to the Assistant Commissioner of Police, RG Lock, saying: “Past experience has shown that when caught and taken home, the parents cannot be convinced that it is THEIR son, it is always someone else’s son but never their own.”

He recommended an appeal to be broadcast in cinemas. It said: “AN APPEAL TO PARENTS. “Throwing, carrying or making petrol bombs is a serious offence for which the death penalty can be imposed. It is known that the boys of Varosha have been actively engaged in this type of senseless activity.

“As the senior police official responsible for the safety of everyone in this area, I make this special appeal to all parents to take a greater interest in the movements of their sons to ensure that he is not involved in any way.

“By doing so you will be doing a great public service by helping to restore order and a quicker return to happier times.” Cyprus attained independence from the UK in 1960.

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Home CYPRUS TODAY Cyprus lagging behind in the use of e-commerce technology CYPRIOT businesses are lagging behind in electronic commerce, though almost half provide their employees with mobile devices to get ‘online’, revealed a survey released by the Statistical Service yesterday.

According to the annual survey on the use of information and communication technologies in business, only 8.4 per cent of businesses said they accepted orders through the internet, while 18.6 per cent placed orders online.

The survey covered 1,431 businesses with ten or more employees.

According to the survey’s results, 49.2 per cent of businesses provide their employees with portable devices (like smartphones or laptops), given almost entirely for the purposes of accessing work emails.

Almost two thirds of businesses, 63.4 per cent, have a website, with the vast majority of those, 96.7 per cent, offering access to product catalogues and price lists.

A large proportion of businesses, 84.6 per cent, use the internet to interact with public authorities while 30.3 per cent use the Finance Ministry’s Electronic Procurement Systems (e-Procurement).

Disabled slam cuts in benefits as wheelchair budget slashed THE CYPRUS Paraplegic Organisation (CPC) yesterday condemned proposed government cuts to benefits received by people with special needs.

In a statement, the CPC said it believes that the government could make cuts to other services and organisations instead, keeping benefits for people with special needs intact.

The government is planning to reduce the benefit for severely disabled and blind people by 9.0 per cent, reducing the total budget on assistance for buying a wheelchair from €2.7 million to €1 million and also reducing the budget for state sponsored holidays from €300,000 to €150,000.

“During the economic crisis people with special needs and especially those with severe disability, face bigger problems due to their disabilities.

The weight of these measures will affect people with special needs who are living on the poverty line even more,” said the statement.

Port grinds to a halt in two-hour strike in support of Pan European demo LIMASSOL port ground to a halt for two hours yesterday as workers staged a strike as part of Pan European industrial action called by the International Port Workers Council.

“During the two-hour strike, Cyprus port workers are showing their support and understanding towards their Portuguese colleagues,” said Aristophanis Demosthenous, Central Organisational Secretary of PEO SEGDAMELIN in Limassol. “Unfortunately the Portuguese government is trying to pass a bill in parliament with a majority vote that will essentially end the industry,” he added.

Cyprus’ other main union, SEK, which did not take part in the strike, said in a statement through their transport committee that they felt that striking would be detrimental to the economy. Although they are not against strikes for the right reasons, they felt that yesterday’s strike served other causes that did not help to improve Cyprus’ economy.

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Skordelli: my family life is now in tatters Former TV presenter takes the stand in murder trial

By Stefanos Evripidou FORMER TELEVISION presenter Elena Skordelli told the Nicosia Criminal Court yesterday that her family life has suffered terribly since her arrest following the murder of media boss Andis Hadjicostis nearly three years ago.

Skordelli faces premeditated murder charges along with her brother Tasos Krasopoulis, the alleged masterminds, Gregoris Xenofontos, the alleged shooter, and Andreas Gregoriou, the alleged fixer, after Hadjicostis - CEO of family-controlled DIAS media group and Sigma TV – was shot dead outside his home in Nicosia on January 11, 2010.

During questioning by her defence lawyer Michalakis Kyprianou, Skordelli focused on the impact her arrest has had on her family life.

The former TV presenter highlighted that before her arrest, she lived a peaceful and quiet life with her husband and two children, now aged 23 and 18. Her children were much loved and grew up with morals and dignity, she said.

After her arrest, the family experienced very difficult

times, with her children psychologically shattered by the stigma of her arrest. Skordelli told the court that just recently her eldest son spent 15 days in the intensive care unit of the Nicosia general hospital’s cardiology department for an ailment that she was not even aware of, after her family decided not to tell her.

Her second child quit school at 15 after suffering harassment from classmates and teachers following her arrest, said the 43-year-old.

“He did not want to go to school, and quit. He was only 15 years old then. They would not leave us alone. Every day they wrote about us and the children would get upset,” said the accused.

The straw that broke the camel’s back was an article in the school paper ‘Dasoupolitis’ which presented her as a monster, she claimed.

The paper was published as a supplement in the daily Phileleftheros. “After that my son did not want to go to school,” she said. Skordelli pointed out that she has yet to receive an apology from the popular daily for publishing the article.

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Elena Skordelli during a previous court appearance the youngest son a six-month postponement on his conscription as a result of the ongoing trial.

“My children were children like all children of the world.

They had their games and pocket-money. They helped us in our work and were paid normally. We would sit at a table, discuss and exchange views... My children are very upset after my arrest. I cannot talk to them from prison like I could from home,” she said.

Skordelli will continue her testimony in the ongoing murder trial today.

Previously, during her brother’s testimony, her lawyer told the court that his client was being pressured in custody with the intention of breaking her emotionally before her testimony.

Kyprianou said that from the moment Krasopoulis took the stand, Skordelli was being handcuffed during her transportation from the prison yard to her cell.

Police issue warning after spate of scams

By Peter Stevenson POLICE are warning people to be extremely careful of con artists after a spate of scams this past month across the island.

In Limassol a 67-year-old man was the target of pickpockets on Wednesday. The man was walking along Ayios Athanasios Avenue in Limassol when he was approached by a black car.

Inside the car were two men, two women and a child, who asked the man if he could direct them to the hospital. After explaining to them how to get there, one of the women got out of the car, crying and told him that she wanted to thank him for his help. She placed a chain around his neck

and the second woman, who also got out of the car, gave him an antique bronze statue. They returned to the car and drove away. The man then realised he had had his own gold chain, worth €500 taken from around his neck.

According to the man’s description, one woman was around 40 years old, 1.60 metres in height with brown shoulder length hair and was wearing a long white skirt and a long-sleeved shirt. The second woman was around 30 to 35 years old, also 1.60 in height, dark skinned with blond hair.

The male passenger was described as tall, dark skinned with short black hair.

In another case, a 29-year-old conartist struck in Larnaca, scamming the amounts of €210, €210, €140 and €260 from four different people. He promised them

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jobs at Larnaca Airport and Larnaca Port and once he had gotten the money disappeared and no longer answered his phone.

In another case in Larnaca, two supermarket owners claim to have been duped out of €982 worth of goods by a 40-yearold con man during the first half of November. The man claimed to be a builder and said he would pay the supermarket owners back at a later date, something he failed to do.

Police are calling on the public to be vigilant and if they are approached by people matching these descriptions not to trust them. In case they see anybody matching these descriptions they should call the Citizen’s Helpline on 1460 or emergency services on 112 or 199.

PUBLICATION IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF PAPHOS, PROBATE JURISDICTION Application No. 322/12 In the matter of the probate (Re-sealing Law), Cap. 192 and In the matter of ELIAS JOHN GEORGOPOULLOS, late of Scotland, deceased

Notice is hereby given, that on the 11th day of January 2013 at 9.00 o’clock in the forenoon, an application will be made to the above - named District Court for the resealing of the probate of the will of Elias John Georgopoullos late of Scotland deceased, granted by the Supreme Court of Scotland on the 24th of January 2007.

Paul (Pavlos) G. Efthymiou Lawyer of Angela Carmine Georgopoullos

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An uphill struggle before aid arrives maybe in January Shiarly briefs House Finance Committee

By George Psyllides CYPRUS could receive the first tranche of a bailout by the end of January, Finance Minister Vassos Shiarly said yesterday, provided that an agreement is struck with eurozone members by midDecember.

It could be an uphill struggle for Cyprus however, as some countries may raise demands.

After agreement at the Eurogroup, the deal would have to be approved by individual eurozone member-states.

“The procedure at Eurogroup level is not easy and it will be even more difficult in some parliaments of eurozone members which have certain impressions about Cyprus that we need to dispel,” Shiarly told the House Finance Committee. “There are countries, which will have demands.”

Cyprus and international lenders last week struck a preliminary agreement on the terms of a bailout programme but can only be finalised once the interim results of the duediligence into the banks’ loan portfolios are known.

The due diligence results are expected in early December.

Shiarly avoided speculating on the figure that would be needed for the banks.

“Many figures have been speculated, from €5 billion to €15 billion. Let’s wait for the assessment, and even then, that could change,” he said, citing the example of Spain, where recapitalisation assessments have moved significantly lower.

The minister warned MPs that the coming weeks would be hard, and appealed for everyone’s cooperation. “We all have to work together as a group for the good of the

country,” he said.

To make it easier, Shiarly told MPs, some bills would need to be approved before the Eurogroup. The minister said he expected a first discussion on Cyprus to be held on December 3 with another one scheduled around 10 days later.

The entire process, including discussion at national parliaments, is expected to take around six weeks, MPs heard.

The minister said he expected the first tranche of the assistance to be released towards the end of January but did not rule out it being later than that. The four-year programme under negotiation with the ‘troika’ of international lenders envisages heavy spending cuts and targets a primary budget surplus - the balance before deducting debt financing costs - of 4.0 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2016.

INTEREST RATE A finance ministry document submitted to parliament calls for a 6.5 to 12.5 per cent cut in public sector salaries, a twoyear increase in the retirement age for the public sector, an incremental reduction in the public sector workforce by at least 5,000 by 2016 and a suspension of wage indexation.

Shiarly said authorities were discussing an interest rate of 2.5 per cent with lenders, which he described as “very good” under the circumstances.

The government is now heavily reliant on short-term borrowing. It paid 5.0 per cent in a private placement for €240 million in 30-day bills last month, and the equivalent for 13-week treasury bills worth €151.6 million maturing in January.

Shiarly also informed MPs that the island’s gas reserves could generate income (as collateral) no earlier than late 2013. “At this stage, there is no possibility of drawing funds from the exploitation of hydrocarbon reserves,” Shiarly said.

“For the time being, this is purely theoretical, and will only become feasible once the reserves are proved following the completion of appraisal drilling,” he added.

Asked about the reported dispute with the troika on the management of gas revenues, the finance minister said the disagreement had more to do with “semantics than with issues of substance.”

He said the troika has agreed to the government’s proposal that part of the revenues would be diverted to investing in infrastructures, such as an LNG terminal.

Central Bank Governor Panicos Demetriades suggested Cyprus got the best deal under the circumstances.

“It is my conviction that faithful implementation of this agreement constitutes a strong base for the gradual reversal of the negative developments in the Cypriot economy in recent years,” Demetriades told MPs. “Our primary objective is to fully restore the credibility of the financial sector, thus strengthening stability, which will set the foundations for the recovery of the real economy.”

Shiarly yesterday presented the state budget, which does not incorporate all the measures expected to be put in place as part of the bailout.

Finance Committee chairman, DIKO MP, Nicolas Papadopoulos, said the final text could be changed but the aim was to vote on it by December 20.

Limassol buses to go on strike DRIVERS of the Limassol bus company EMEL have called an indefinite strike starting today over their employer’s failure to pay their wages in full.

The company, which is in the red, yesterday proposed that it pay 50 per cent of salaries to people employed on a weekly basis, and 60 per cent to those employed on a monthly basis.

Unions rejected the offer, and drivers will be going on an indefinite strike beginning today.

In mid-September, Limassol bus drivers called off a 24hour strike at the last minute when EMEL agreed to pay up salaries owed to 110 drivers.

Also in September, parliament passed a supplementary budget of €21 million for public transport after government cash for this year ran out.

AGIOS TYCHONAS COMMUNITY BOARD PUBLICATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ARTICLE 15A PROVISIONS OF THE STREETS AND CONSTRUCTIONS REGULATING LAW (DANGEROUS BUILDINGS) Dangerous uninhabited building located on piece 43 Plan 1 – 2125 – 3435, parcel 01 in Agios Tychonas The Agios Tychonas Community Board has declared the building in Agios Tychonas located on: parcel 01, piece 43, Plan 1 – 2125 – 3435, under the ownership of Mr RICHARD MINORU BROWN, dangerous for the neighbouring tangent building and the people domiciled in it, by virtue of the Law regulating streets and buildings provisions.

Mr RICHARD MINORU BROWN is requested to undertake the execution of repairing works the latest within fifteen days from today, in order to restore the building’s roof otherwise the Community Board will have no other option but to act by virtue of the article 15A provisions of the above stated Law and to claim from him the expenses in accordance with the article 15A (b) of the same Law.

FOR THE AGIOS TYCHONAS COMMUNITY BOARD

Finance Minister Vassos Shiarly (left) at the House yesterday

(Christos Theodorides)

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Société d’Investissement à Capital Variable Registered office: 2-4, rue Eugène Ruppert, L-2453 Luxembourg R.C.S. Luxembourg B 120390 (the "Company")

NOTICE OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS OF THE COMPANY Notice is hereby given of the annual general meeting of shareholders of the Company (the "AGM") to be held at 2-4, rue Eugène Ruppert, L-2453 Luxembourg on 20 December 2012 at 11.00 am Central European Time (“CET”) with the following agenda: 1. Hearing of the approved statutory auditor’s report and the report of the directors and approval of the audited financial statements of the Company for the financial year ended 31 August 2012 2. Discharge of the directors 3. Re-appointment of Mr Philippe Hoss, Mr Patrick Zurstrassen, Mr Adrian Wood and Mr William Mussat as directors 4. Remuneration of the independent directors 5. Re-appointment of the approved statutory auditors (réviseur d'entreprises agréé) 6. Any other business which may be properly brought before the meeting Resolutions to be taken on the above mentioned agenda will require no quorum and will be passed if at least a simple majority of the shares present or represented at the AGM and voting (not including abstentions), vote in favour. Each share is entitled to one vote.

A shareholder may act at the AGM by proxy. A form of proxy will be available from the registered office of the Company. The proxy will remain in force if the AGM, for whatever reason, is postponed and for the reconvened AGM (if any).

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Home Hellenic Bank bucks losing trend with small profit Banking

By George Psyllides HELLENIC Bank, the island’s third-biggest lender has bucked the trend, posting a nine-month net profit of €219,000 despite a 27 per cent rise in provisions for non-performing loans.

Hellenic said it recorded a 49 per cent rise in net revenues, to around €248 million while managing to cut expenses by 7 per cent – €119 million.

The lender, the least exposed to Greece from the Cypriot banks, said provisions for impairment of loans rose 27 per cent to €128.6 million.

Excluding the cost of impairment of the Greek government bonds, the profit of the group before

provisions amounts to €136.6 million, recording an increase of 46 per cent compared to the corresponding period last year.

But Hellenic said provisions for non-performing loans were lower for Greece, helping the bank cut its loss by around €6 million.

“Despite the ongoing financial crisis and its negative impact on the real economy and consequently on the quality of the loan portfolio of the branch network in Greece, the loss before taxation was €63.2 million compared to a loss of €69.6 million for September 2011,” the lender said.

“The decrease of the loss is mainly due to a decrease in provisions for impairment of loans and advances.”

On Wednesday, the Popular Bank, Cyprus’ second-biggest, posted a net loss of €1.09 billion on higher provisions as the Bank of Cyprus (BoC) also posted a loss of €211 million for the same reason. Both banks are heavily exposed to Greece and have sought state assistance.

Popular was nationalised earlier this year after seeking €1.8 billion from the state to replenish its battered capital.

BoC is also in the process of receiving state assistance.

“Based on the Group’s capital position as of 30 September 2012, the capital deficit as defined by the European Banking Authority is estimated at €722 million,” BoC said.

Popular Bank had chance to offload its Greek bonds Vgenopoulos, shares the responsibility for their purchase, report finds FORMER CEO of Popular Bank Efthymios Bouloutas primarily, but also former chairman of the board Andreas Vgenopoulos, share responsibility for the purchase of Greek government bonds that went sour with the subsequent Greek haircut, an internal audit by the bank has found.

The confidential memo, which the Cyprus Mail has seen, is dated May 22, 2012 and titled “Internal Audit report on the purchase of Greek Government Bonds.”

It was compiled as a response to an inquiry made by the Central Bank on 29 February.

It points out that “many factors have contributed to the problem. It is not just the high-risk appetite.” But it goes on to list the individuals “whose role was instrumental to our losses”.

According to the memo’s author, internal auditor Costas Constantinou, the “highest degree of responsibility” for the purchase of Greek government bonds (GGB) lies with Bouloutas.

The former CEO is said to have been directly involved “during the acquisition phase,” giving “direct personal instructions to the Greece Treasury staff in April and May 2009 to buy bonds,” and that he was in “direct negotiation with Goldman Sachs for the purchase of €1 billion bond (sic).”

The report notes that Bouloutas’ “subsequent handling of the issue was disastrous; he consistently rejected the idea of cutting our losses when this was really possible. He advocated to the end that we shall avoid the bulk of the losses because of the short-term nature of our holdings.”

Regarding a warning issued by the Central Bank of Cyprus against the pur-

The bank’s internal report lists the individuals ‘whose role was instrumental to our losses’, it says chase of Greek bonds, and the subsequent response

by Popular, the memo says Bouloutas “failed to inform the BoD [board of directors] accordingly.

“However, I do not think that he did this intentionally in this particular case,” the report goes on to say, “because this was the normal way for him to deal with the BoD.” The memo notes that “on the other hand, the BoD and Group Audit Committee members were aware of our holdings and the related losses because of detailed presentations made to them by the External Auditors during the deliberations for the approval of the 2009 results.”

On Vgenopoulos, then executive vice chairman (and later chairman), the report says he “influenced all the decisions, or the non-making of any decision either directly (he spoke to the Cyprus Treasurer and asked her to expedite the pur-

chases of HGP [High Grade Portfolio]) or indirectly by not guiding/coordinating the deliberations of the BoD effectively.

“In fact,” the memo continues, “we had our chances to liquidate most of our GGBs portfolio either late in 2009 (the markets recovered) or early in 2010, particularly during the BoD deliberations for the approval of the 2009 results.”

And the memo finds fault with Demetris Spanodemos, the bank’s Chief Risk Officer, for “continuously underestimating the risk” and for never making “any recommendation to cut our losses by liquidating part of our holdings.

“Had he made a strong recommendation for partial sale of the holdings, even at the time we got the Central Bank letter, today things would have been entirely different. Instead, he played down the associated risks relying on his convictions based on the first ‘mnimo-

nio’ [memorandum], i.e. that after getting €130 billion Greece would honour its obligations.” The leaked memo comes out just a day after Sigma TV aired an interview with Vgenopoulos.

Following the publication by online media of a summary of the report yesterday, Vgenopoulos issued a statement threatening to sue the author and the bank for slander.

The Greek banker called the memo “self-contradictory,” pointing out in particular that it states that external auditors were aware of the bond losses in 2009.

“The only thing the report succeeds in confirming is what I said during my interview, namely, that no commissions were ever paid for the purchase of bonds at Popular,” the statement said.

Vgenopoulos went on to ask why the internal auditor never contacted either him or Bouloutas, and wondered why the auditor did not raise

these questions during the time in question.

In his interview with Sigma broadcast on Wednesday night, the financier insisted everything was done by the book during his tenure at Popular.

He hit out at the former governor of the Central Bank Athanasios Orphanides, rejecting the latter’s claims that he had sounded the alarm about the purchase of Greek government bonds.

Vgnenopoulos went on to accuse Orphanides of staging a “coup” by shackling him and not allowing him to deal with the Greek debt crisis that broke out later.

Bouloutas resigned in early December 2011, with Christos Stylianides taking over as CEO. Vgenopoulos had stepped down as non-executive chairman in November of the same year, citing a potential conflict of interest as a major shareholder in attempts to boost capital levels of the bank.

consultants rubbish deputy’s allegation

By Poly Pantelides A RESTRUCTURING firm auditing Cyprus’ two major banks yesterday set the record straight on a rumour spread by a deputy for main opposition party DISY, which was picked up by the press.

The Central Bank in August hired the professional services and restructuring firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) to look into the Bank of Cyprus and the Popular Bank, which have asked for state aid.

“Recently, it has been mistakenly reported in news outlets and other means that one of our employees, Spyros Martsekis, based outside of Cyprus, has participated [in the investigation],” A&M said.

The media were reporting on an allegation made

by DISY MP Kyriacos Hadjiyiannis. Hadjiyiannis was among the lawmakers in parliament this week making allegations and demanding to be given names of people who may have received preferential treatment in securing loans.

During the intense meeting of the institutions committee on Tuesday, Hadjiyiannis asked whether if a rumour was true that a member of the team auditing the banks’ loan portfolio had worked as an advisor in various bank administrations.

“Prior to joining A&M, Mr Martsekis was affiliated with KPMG where he was part of its corporate finance practice. The allegation that Mr Martsekis participated in matters related to the Cypriot banking system while employed by A&M is in error,” the announcement said.

Hadjiyiannis refused to comment yesterday.

The investigation “is being undertaken by a discreet A&M team sworn to confidentiality, and without disclosure to any other persons outside this group other than the Central Bank. Mr. Martsekis is not, nor has he ever been, a part of this professional service group,” A&M said.

Martsekis currently consults companies in the Balkans and does not offer services to financial institutions, regulators and/or EU member states, A&M said.

In addition to A&M, investing company Pimco is doing an asset quality review of Cypriot banks and co-operative banks.

The Attorney-general Petros Clerides said yesterday that once investigations were concluded, he would decide whether there were any grounds to prosecute bank executives, board members and politicians receiving preferential treatment.

If sound suspicions arise, “then yes, the police will be instructed to proceed with statements with the prospect to prosecute those involved in possible crimes,” Clerides said.

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Britain Landmark energy reforms cushion heavy industry

Cameron rejects press law after hacking scandal Coalition divided over media legislation

By Michael Holden and Kate Holton PRIME Minister David Cameron rejected the idea of a law to regulate the British press yesterday, risking a split in his coalition after an inquiry proposed a watchdog with legal backing to regulate the sometimes outrageous behaviour of the newspapers.

Opposing a legal foundation to an independent regulator will delight the British press ahead of the 2015 election but may raise concern inside the coalition that Cameron lacks the mettle to stand up to media barons such as Rupert Murdoch.

Cameron said he was wary of writing press regulation into law, a snub to the inquiry he ordered after public outrage at revelations that one of Murdoch’s tabloids hacked the phone messages of a 13year-old murder victim.

“The issue of principle is that for the first time we would have crossed the rubicon of writing elements of press regulation into the law of the land,” Cameron told parliament, watched from the gallery by victims of phone-hacking who have campaigned for tougher rules to police Britain’s recalcitrant media.

“I’m not convinced at this stage that statute is neces-

sary,” Cameron said, just hours after Lord Justice Brian Leveson reported on his inquiry which laid bare the cosy ties between British leaders, police chiefs and press barons.

Presenting his nearly 2,000page report opposite the House of Commons, Leveson said he had no intention of undermining three centuries of press freedom but that the press had at times “wreaked havoc with the lives of innocent people” and was sometimes guilty of “outrageous” behaviour.

LAW ‘ESSENTIAL’ Leveson said it was “essential” there should be legislation to underpin a new independent, self-regulatory body for the press that would be scrutinised by the broadcast regulator Ofcom and have the power to impose fines of up to 1 per cent of turnover up to a maximum of £1 million.

“The ball moves back into the politicians’ court: they must now decide who guards the guardians,” Leveson said.

The behaviour of Britain’s tabloid press has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years. While British newspapers were unwilling to report on King Edward VII’s affair with American divorcee

Wallis Simpson in the 1930s, their conduct has since become much less restrained in the battle for readers.

As competition intensified, open season was declared on the private lives of the royal family, culminating in feverish coverage of Princess Diana, hounded by paparazzi as her marriage to Prince Charles collapsed.

At one point in the early 1990s, a government minister warned the tabloid press that they were “drinking in the last chance saloon”. A subsequent inquiry led to the setting up the Press Complaints Commission, a self-regulating watchdog now deemed to have failed.

While Cameron rejected immediate legislation, the leader of the opposition Labour Party said he supported Leveson’s proposals as did Cameron’s coalition partner, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.

“There can be no more last chance saloons,” said Labour leader Ed Miliband.

In a sign of a split at the very heart of government, Clegg said legislation was the only real way to establish a new self-regulatory body for the press.

“Changing the law is the only way to give us all the assurance that the new regulator isn’t just independent for a few months

LEVESON PROBE KEY FINDINGS, RECOMMENDATIONS * The Leveson report states there has been a recklessness in prioritising sensational stories in the industry. * It points to evidence that journalists have targeted actors, footballers, writers, pop stars in a way that affected them and their families negatively, “whether or not there is a true public interest in knowing how they spend their lives”. * It describes a willingness in the industry to use covert surveillance, misrepresentation and deception in circumstances where it is difficult to see any public interest justification. * The existing watchdog, the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) has failed and a new body is required. * The report rejects a proposal from some newspapers for a more robust version of the PCC. Instead, it should be replaced by an independent self-regulatory body whose chairman and board members must be appointed in a transparent way, without any influence from industry or government. * Legislation is essential to underpin the new body. The report stresses it is not proposing statutory regulation of the press. * The proposed legislation would not give any rights to parliament, to government, or any other body to prevent newspapers from publishing anything they wanted. * The report states there is evidence

that, over the last 30-35 years and longer, political parties have had or developed too close a relationship with the press in a way which has not been in the public interest. * It cites a bid by Murdoch’s News Corp to increase its holding in satellite broadcaster BSkyB as an example - including the role of Jeremy Hunt, who as the government’s then Culture Secretary reviewed the bid that failed last year, his Special Adviser Adam Smith and News Corp’s professional lobbyist Frédéric Michel: “I have concluded that there is no credible evidence of actual bias on the part of Mr Hunt. However, the voluminous exchanges between Mr Michel and Mr Smith, in the circumstances, give rise to a perception of bias. The fact that they were conducted informally, and off the departmental record, are an additional cause for concern.” * Police failed to investigate adequately allegations of phone-hacking, adopting a “defensive mindset” which led to making “a series of poor decisions, poorly executed”. * The report says it is important for the government to find a way of ensuring there is a mechanism for protecting media plurality. * It states there are few existing mechanisms to protect plurality and no current option for the government or regulators to step in to protect plurality if it is threatened by organic change in the market.

Lord Justice Leveson (top) presented his nearly 2,000 page report yesterday. PM Cameron (left) and Deputy PM Clegg (right) are at loggerheads over the idea of a law to regulate the press in the wake of the inquiry (AFP) or years, but is independent for good,” Clegg said.

Victims of phone hacking say the raucous media has been given no less than seven chances to reform in the last 70 years.

Leveson heard evidence from a host of celebrities including Harry Potter author JK Rowling, singer Charlotte Church and ordinary people who told the inquiry how they had been harassed, bullied, and traumatised by the press.

Hacked Off, an organisation set up to represent victims of press abuse, said it welcomed the Leveson rec-

ommendations and called for a deadline for implementing the judge’s proposals.

“The inquiry is over. Now is the time for action,” it said.

But many within Cameron’s own party, including senior ministers, and the majority of the press have said they are adamantly opposed to any form of legislation as they see it as an erosion of press freedom.

Lord Black, currently the head of the body which funds the current discredited, self-regulatory system, said there was no need to subject the new body to a statutory regime.

THE government is considering exempting industrial users from extra costs arising from landmark energy reforms announced yesterday, while consumers face higher bills as the country replaces ageing capacity with low-carbon power.

The Energy Bill, introduced to parliament yesterday, aims to ensure the EU’s secondlargest economy can keep the lights on and diversify its energy mix in view of legally binding carbon targets.

“We propose nothing less than the biggest transformation of Britain’s electricity market since privatisation (in the 1990s),” Edward Davey, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, told parliament.

While energy-intensive industries could be spared much of the extra costs arising from reforms to reduce carbon emissions in Britain’s energy industry, consumers will have to pay around £75 more a year by 2020 to fund technologies such as wind farms, nuclear power stations and carbon capture, the energy ministry said.

Household energy bills are estimated to rise 5-9 per cent less between 2016-30 than if no changes were made, delivering a net benefit of £1.3-£7.4 billion up to 2030, it added.

Demand for power is expected to rise by 30 to 100 per cent by 2050, by which time Britain aims to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent.

World Vision is one of the world's leading relief, development and advocacy organizations, currently helping more than 100 million people in almost 100 countries. As a Christian organization, we work alongside communities in their struggle against poverty, hunger and injustice, irrespective of their religious beliefs.

The organization is seeking to recruit a qualified, flexible and highly motivated individual for the following position, who will be based in their regional office in Nicosia: Finance Assistant: This position will provide support to the financial management and reporting of the Regional office, ensuring good stewardship, transparency and accountability.

Ensure timely and accurate processing of inter-office charges, expense reports, payments, reconciliations.

Assist in reviewing, updating and implementing financial policies and procedures.

Qualified candidate must have the following knowledge, skills, and abilities, which may be acquired through a combination of formal schooling, self-education, prior experience, and on-the-job training: CAT or BA qualifications 3 years’ experience in accounting.

Fluent English and Greek.

The position requires interacting with a large and diverse group of stakeholders on a regular basis. The ability to be organized and detailed is essential.

This position requires a self-starter who is willing to take ownership of an assignment and drive it to completion with minimal supervision.

Must have level of independence, show initiative and be highly motivated.

Candidates must be compatible with World Vision’s Christian ethos and core values. Visit our website for more information at www.meero.worldvision.org.

To be considered, please submit your application electronically to meero_recruit@wvi.org by the 30 November 2012.

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Only qualified applicants will be contacted for an interview. All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence.

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Europe EUROPE TODAY Pussy Riot video banned A RUSSIAN court ruled yesterday that video footage of the Pussy Riot punk group protesting against President Vladimir Putin in a church was “extremist” and said it should be removed from websites.

The Moscow court said it had based its ruling on conclusions by a panel of experts who studied the footage, showing band members in colourful mini-skirts and ski masks dancing in front of the alter of Moscow’s main Russian Orthodox cathedral.

Judge Marina Musimovich said the video “has elements of extremism, in particular there are words and actions which humiliate various social groups based on their religion”.

Two of the band members, Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, are serving a two-year jail sentence over the performance last February. A third member, Yekaterina Samutsevich, had her sentence suspended on appeal.

The protest angered many Russian Orthodox Christians but Putin has been criticised by US and European leaders over sentences they regard as disproportionate.

EU, Japan to seek trade deal EU trade ministers overcame resistance from the car industry yesterday and agreed to start negotiations to create a freetrade pact with Japan, Europe’s most ambitious step so far in a strategy to tie up deals with the world’s biggest economies.

Agreement was reached only after France and Italy secured safeguards for carmakers that are already cutting jobs because of falling demand at home and worry a deal could lead to greater Japanese imports and damage the industry.

EU negotiators were told they should pull the plug on the negotiations if Tokyo failed to remove the barriers to trade that Europeans say make it hard to do business in Japan.

Italy centre-left rivals face off on TV ITALY’S centre-left rivals Pier Luigi Bersani and Matteo Renzi went headto-head in a final television debate on Wednesday before a runoff vote to choose who will stand in next year’s election as candidate to succeed Prime Minister Mario Monti.

In a calm discussion with few moments of tension, the candidates reaffirmed plans to continue the budget discipline and economic policy agenda of Monti’s government while also ensuring fairness in society and protection for workers.

“With regards to Monti, I think we all feel we have to go a little beyond this experience, without renouncing discipline or credibility ... but also striving for a bit more fairness and more work,” Bersani said.

Renzi defended the pension reform carried out by Monti’s government, saying that the hike in the retirement age had been a crucial step to ensure a better future for Italy’s younger generations.

Bersani said there was room to improve

the reform to ensure vulnerable people were protected.

Bersani, the 61-year-old leader of the Democratic Party (PD) Italy’s largest centre-left force, will face Renzi, the 37-year-old mayor of Florence, in a runoff vote on December 2 after Sunday’s first round of the centre-left primary ended with no candidate gaining an absolute majority.

UNCERTAINTY The outcome of the second round will remove one major element of uncertainty dogging Italian politics ahead of spring elections to choose a successor to Monti’s government, which took over from Silvio Berlusconi when he stepped down as prime minister about a year ago.

According to an instant online poll conducted after the debate by the Quorum Institute for La Stampa daily, Renzi was judged more convincing by 49 per cent of 1,900 viewers, ahead of

Bersani’s 38 per cent.

About 15 per cent of those polled said the debate might lead them to change their mind on who to vote for.

Renzi has presented himself as a moderniser ready to shake up Italy’s ossified political establishment if he is elected, but career politician Bersani is favoured among traditional PD party supporters who helped him secure the most votes in the first round.

“We’re a bit like the prudent uncle versus the courageous son,” Renzi said in his closing remarks. He said that Italy needed a change and new leaders to pull itself out of a deep recession, while Bersani argued that the country needs his experience.

The centre-left alliance is well ahead in opinion polls for the election, although uncertainty over possible changes to the electoral system makes it unclear whether the centre-left will be able to form a government without seeking allies from centrist parties.

PM Monti’s government took over from Berlusconi about a year ago

Kosovo ex PM cleared of war crimes again

‘German right will not snub Merkel’

Verdict to fuel Serb nationalist bias claims

ANGELA Merkel will not need votes from opponents on the left to get a bailout for Greece through the German parliament, a senior ally said yesterday, despite a growing revolt within the chancellor’s conservative coalition.

Less than a year before a general election in which she will seek a third term, today’s vote on measures agreed by eurozone finance ministers this week to cut Greek debt is widely seen as a test of Merkel’s authority over her own supporters.

Since most opposition Social Democrats and Greens will back the credits, there is no doubt the Bundestag lower house will approve the package; but Merkel would like to contain rebellion in her own ranks, so that she does not need her opponents’ help.

Volker Kauder, parliamentary floor leader for Merkel’s CDU-CSU group, said yesterday that he was confident the chancellor would achieve that, and added that a big, bipartisan majority in the chamber would also be a positive sign for Europe.

“We will have our own majority,” Kauder told ZDF television, It is unclear exactly how many may vote against or abstain from among Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU), their Bavarian CSU allies and coalition partners the Free Democrats (FDP).

By Thomas Escritt and Fatos Bytyci RAMUSH Haradinaj, a former guerrilla fighter in Kosovo who served briefly as prime minister, was acquitted of war crimes for a second time yesterday, clearing the way for his return to mainstream politics but angering Serbia.

The retrial verdict by a United Nations court in The Hague comes on the heels of the acquittal on appeal two weeks ago of top Croatian general Ante Gotovina, fuelling nationalist accusations in Serbia that the court is biased against them.

The verdict, and Haradinaj’s return to frontline campaigning, could undermine a new effort by the European Union to encourage Serbia and Kosovo to mend ties almost five years after the former southern Serbian province declared independence with the backing of the West.

Haradinaj was accused with

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Haradinaj’s second acquittal of war crimes clears the way for his return to politics (AFP) two accomplices of persecuting ethnic Serbs in an effort to drive them out of Kosovo, during a 1998-99 war between guerrillas of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and security forces under late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic.

Judges ruled there was no evidence to support the charges of crimes against humanity.

“On the contrary, the evidence establishes that, when

he heard about the mistreatment of individuals, Haradinaj said no such thing should happen because this is damaging of our cause,” the presiding judge, Bakone Justice Moloto, said.

There were gasps and cheers in the courtroom, and fireworks in Kosovo’s capital, Pristina.

Haradinaj was prime minister for several months in 2005 but resigned when he was first

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charged. He was acquitted in 2008 but appeal judges ordered a partial retrial, saying the prosecution should have been given more time to make its case.

Prosecutors have long been dogged by problems of witness intimidation in Kosovo, where the KLA is still revered and clan loyalties run deep.

Kosovo’s government said the verdict was vindication of the guerrilla insurgency.

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push Egypt draft constitution Palestinians for UN recognition, limits presidential terms regardless of threats Vote ends unlimited tenure of Mubarak era

By Tom Perry and Marwa Awad THE assembly drafting Egypt’s new constitution voted yesterday to limit the president’s term of office to two four-year terms, ending the system of unlimited tenure during the era of ousted president Hosni Mubarak, who ruled for 30 years.

Members of the assembly approved the article in a final vote before the constitution draft is put to a public referendum within 15 days of the president’s ratification.

“The president of the republic shall be elected for four years, which begin on the day following the end of the term of his predecessor. He may be re-elected only once,” the article read.

Voting on the draft constitution was continuing at the time of going to press.

The assembly had began voting on the draft earlier yesterday, a process President Mohamed Mursi was hoping would help end a crisis that erupted when the Islamist gave himself sweeping new powers.

Mursi’s decree last week halting court challenges to his decisions, which provoked protests and violence across the country, will lapse if Egyp-

Members of Egypt’s constituent assembly discuss the last voting session on a new draft constitution at the Shoura Assembly yesterday in Cairo (AFP) tians approve the new constitution. Mursi’s opponents have attacked the bid to finish the constitution quickly as an attempt to push through a text they say has been hijacked by the Muslim Brotherhood and its allies.

In an interview with Time, Mursi said the majority supported his decree but added: “If we had a constitution, then all of what I have said or done last week will stop.”

The president was expected to speak to the nation later yesterday in an effort to ease the crisis, which threatens to derail some early signs of an economic recovery after two years of turmoil.

Two people have been killed and hundreds injured in the protests since last Thursday’s decree, which deepened the divide between the newly-empowered Islamists and their opponents.

The Muslim Brotherhood and its Islamist allies have called for pro-Mursi rallies tomorrow. But officials from the Brotherhood’s party said they would avoid Tahrir Square, where a sit-in by the president’s opponents entered a seventh day yesterday.

The Brotherhood, which backed Mursi for president in June elections, hopes to end the crisis by replacing the controversial decree with an

Clashes in Damascus cut off airport SYRIAN rebels battled forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad just outside Damascus yesterday, restricting access to its international airport, and the Dubai-based Emirates airline and EgyptAir stopped flights to the Syrian capital.

The Internet and some telephone lines went down across Syria. Rebels and the government traded blame for the blackout, the worst communications outage in 20 months of conflict.

Rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad have been making gains around Syria by overunning military bases and have been ramping up attacks on Damascus, his seat of power.

A rebel fighter who identified himself as Abu Omar, a member of the Jund Allah brigade, told Reuters that insurgents fired mortars at the airport’s runways and were blocking the road linking it with the capital.

Speaking from the scene of the fighting, he said insurgents were not inside the airport but were able to block access to and from it.

A spokesman for rebels’ Military Council in Damascus, Musaab Abu Qitada, said an artillery round was fired at a military site inside the airport and that fighting was now less than a kilometre (mile) away from the complex.

“We want to liberate the airport because of reports we see and our own information we have that shows civilian airplanes are being flown in here with weapons for the regime. It is our right to stop this,” he told Reuters on Skype from Damascus.

Two Austrian soldiers in a UN peacekeeping force deployed to monitor the frontier with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights were wounded when their convoy came under fire near Damascus airport, Austria’s defence ministry said. Syria state television said the soldiers were wounded by gunfire when rebels attacked an army position near the airport road.

The Information Ministry later said the highway to the airport was safe after security forces cleared it of “terrorists”. Rebels said fighting in the area was continuing.

Yemen offers reward to catch Saudi diplomat killers YEMEN offered a $25,000 reward yesterday for help in catching the killers of a Saudi Arabian diplomat, a day after he was gunned down in an attack that security authorities blamed on al Qaeda.

The killing on Wednesday of Khaled al-Enizi, a military attache at the Saudi embassy, and his Yemeni bodyguard underscored the challenges

facing the US-allied state since an uprising last year that ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh.

A Yemeni security committee offered a reward of 5 million rials ($25,000) for any information leading to the killers, state news agency Saba said.

Dressed as security officers, the attackers blocked a car carrying Enizi, an aide to the

Saudi military attache, and opened fire, the security committee said in a statement.

The diplomat and his guard died instantly.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack which took place near the diplomat’s house in the capital but a Yemeni security official said authorities were “assuming that al Qaeda was behind it”.

entirely new constitution.

“May God bless us on this day,” Hossam el-Gheriyani, the speaker of the constituent assembly, told members at the start of the session to vote on each of the 234 articles in the draft, which will go to Mursi for approval and then to the plebiscite.

THE U.N. General Assembly was set to approve an implicit recognition of Palestinian statehood yesterday despite threats by the United States and Israel to punish the Palestinian Authority by withholding funds for the West Bank government.

A resolution that would lift the Palestinian Authority’s UN observer status from “entity” to “non-member state,” like the Vatican, was expected to pass easily in the 193-nation General Assembly. At least 15 European states planned to vote for it.

Israel, the United States and a handful of other members were set to vote against what they see as a largely symbolic and counterproductive move by the Palestinians, which takes place on the 65th anniversary of the assembly’s adoption of resolution 181 on the partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states.

Granting Palestinians the title of “non-member observer state” falls short of full UN membership - something the Palestinians failed to achieve last year. But it would allow them access to the International Criminal Court and other international bodies, should they choose to join them.

“The ICC issue is what the

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Israelis are really worried about,” a UN official said on condition of anonymity. “They know this whole process isn’t really symbolic except for that.”

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been leading the campaign to win support for the resolution, which follows an eightday conflict this month between Israel and Islamists in the Gaza Strip, who are pledged to Israel’s destruction and oppose his efforts toward a negotiated peace.

The US State Department made a last-ditch effort to get Abbas to reconsider, but the Palestinian Authority, which exercises limited self-rule in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, gave no sign that it was turning back.

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World Chinese plan to board vessels in sea dispute

Myanmar protest draws riot police

POLICE in the southern Chinese island province of Hainan will board and search ships which enter into what China considers its territorial waters in the disputed South China Sea, state media said yesterday, a move likely to add to tensions.

The South China Sea is Asia’s biggest potential military trouble spot with several Asian countries claiming sovereignty.

New rules, which come into effect on January 1, will allow Hainan police to board and seize control of foreign ships which “illegally enter” Chinese waters and order them to change course or stop sailing, the official China Daily reported.

“If foreign ships or crew members violate regulations, Hainan police have the right to take over the ships or their communication systems, under the revised regulations,” it added.

The Philippines, which also has claims to parts of the South China Sea, said the move could violate international maritime laws allowing the right of passage and accused Beijing of trying to escalate tension in the area.

Water cannon, tear gas used on protesters

By Aung Hla Tun RIOT police fired water cannon and tear gas yesterday to break up a three-month protest against a vast copper mining project run by the powerful Myanmar military and its partner, a subsidiary of a Chinese arms manufacturer.

Activists said at least 50 people had been injured and 23 were in hospital, some suffering burns after incendiary devices were hurled into their camps by police. Media described the devices as “phosphorous bombs”.

After decades of oppression, the Monywa mine has become a test of Myanmar’s reforms as protesters explore newfound freedoms, including a relaxation of laws on protests since July. It also illustrates growing resentment towards Chinese companies that have expanded across the country in recent years.

Witnesses said truckloads of police arrived at six camps near the mine in the Sagaing region in Myanmar’s northwest, where thousands

have demonstrated against a $1-billion expansion of the project and what they call the unlawful confiscation of more than 7,800 acres (3,160 hectares) of land.

Security forces began using water cannon and other weapons from about 3am, Shin Oattama, a Buddhist monk who had helped the villagers, told Reuters by telephone. “They shot some sort of canisters that caused fire at the camp,” he said.

CRACKDOWN Myo Thant, a political activist, said 22 monks were wounded in a crackdown in which some officers fired incendiary devices against protesters. “The stuff from these canisters got caught on the clothes and bodies of the victims. When they shook their robes to remove this stuff, fire started.”

But Zaw Htay, a spokesman for President Thein Sein, said police had used only water cannon, tear gas and smoke bombs to disperse the protesters. “No chemical weap-

ons were used by the police to do their duty,” he said.

Land disputes are a growing problem in Myanmar. Protests were suppressed under a military junta in place until last year but have become more common as Thein Sein opens up the country, also known as Burma, and pushes through reforms including the right to strike.

“This is an example of the skin-deep nature of Burma’s reforms,” said Mark Farmaner of London-based advocacy group Burma Campaign UK. “The new right-to-protest law was hailed as a major reform but it is clear there is still no right to protest in Burma.”

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi offered to mediate between the two sides.

Addressing a crowd of about 10,000 people near the mine, she said she had met company officials. “I’d like to meet with the respective villagers and those who are opposing this project and mediate between the two sides,” she said.

“I would like to ask the people to cooperate with patience.”

Buddhist monks receive treatment at a hospital after a crackdown on a protest against a Chinese-backed copper mine, in Monywa northern Myanmar yesterday (AFP)

‘Rising proof of man-made climate change’ EVIDENCE that global warming is man-made is getting stronger, the head of a UN panel of climate scientists said, in a further blow to sceptics who argue rising temperatures can be explained by natural variations.

Rajendra Pachauri spoke on the sidelines of a conference in Qatar where 200 nations are trying to reach a deal to cut emissions of greenhouse gases to avert floods, droughts, heatwaves and mounting sea levels.

The influential UN climate panel said the probability human activity was the main cause of climate change was “at least 90 per cent” in its last report in 2007.

Pachauri said late on Wednesday he expected the panel would raise the level of that likelihood even higher in its next report, due in 2013.

“We certainly have a substantial amount of information available by which I hope we can narrow the gaps, increase the level of certainty of our findings,” he said. “We will have a lot more information this time around on the melting of Greenland and Antarctica.”

levels, saying they could rise by between 18 and 59 cm (7-24 inches) by 2100.

Rising sea levels pose a particular threat to people living in low-lying areas Rising sea levels pose a particular threat to people living in low-lying areas, from Bangladesh to cities like New York. They open up the risk of storm surges, coastal erosion and complete swamping of large areas of land.

The last report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) gave a wide range for sea

Those numbers did not take account of a possible acceleration of a melt of Antarctic or Greenland ice, due to big uncertainties.

Some scientists and organisations have questioned whether gases released by industry and other human activity are the main causes of global warming, pointing instead to natural climactic variations and events like shifts in the sun’s output.

They have also suggested warming may have flattened out, citing data showing 1998, 2005 and 2010 are tied as the warmest years since records began in the mid-19th century. But a new study backed IPCC projections that temperatures were creeping higher, and sea levels were rising faster than predicted.

Pachauri said the panel would also gain wider understanding of the formation of clouds. The white tops of clouds at low altitudes tend to bounce heat back into space, cooling the planet, while high-altitude clouds often trap heat.

Former US president George H. W. Bush in hospital FORMER U.S. president George H. W. Bush is being treated at a Houston hospital for complications related to bronchitis and is in a stable condition, the hospital said yesterday.

“President Bush has been in and out of The Methodist Hospital in the Texas Medical Centre being treated for complications related to his bronchitis,” Bush’s office said in a statement released by the hospital. “He is in stable condition, and is expected to be released within the next 72 hours.”

The Houston Chronicle reported yesterday that Bush, 88, has been in the hospital for a week.

Bush, a Republican and the 41st president, took office in 1989 and served one term in the White House.

The father of former President George W. Bush, he also served as a congressman, UN ambassador, envoy to China, CIA director and was vice president for two terms under Ronald Reagan.

As president, Bush routed Iraq after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990 and his approval ratings soared to the 90 per cent range. But just 20 months later he was defeated in his re-election bid by Democrat Bill Clinton.

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Business

Inventories boost US econ growth, but trend weak

‘UK banks may lack enough capital’

Third quarter growth raised to 2.7 per cent

THE Bank of England stepped up pressure on commercial banks to shore up their capital yesterday, days after the government chose a leader of the global push for tighter banking regulation to head the central bank.

The BoE’s Financial Policy Committee (FPC), which from next year will take charge of British bank regulation, urged the current regulator to reassess whether banks’ capital properly reflects the risk of loans going sour and future fines for misconduct.

British banks may take an over-optimistic assessment of the risks facing them, it said.

Banks’ true capital position was probably worse than relatively healthy official numbers imply, and this is hurting investor confidence, the BoE said.

“Progress by banks in raising capital has slowed and investor confidence remains low,” the BoE said in its halfyearly Financial Stability Report. “Market concerns are likely to reflect in part uncertainty about bank capital adequacy.”

The FPC has repeatedly urged British banks to raise capital levels, and November’s report marks a stepping up of these recommendations, despite a slight reduction in the risks facing the financial system due to an easing in eurozone tensions.

“UK banks’ capital buffers, available to cushion losses and maintain the supply of credit following realisation of a stress scenario, are not as great as headline regulatory capital ratios imply,” it said.

British bank shares trimmed gains after the Bank of England’s call, saying banks may not have enough in reserve to protect against problems ahead.

By Lucia Mutikani THE U.S. economy grew faster than initially thought in the third quarter as restocking by businesses provided a big boost, but consumer and business spending were revised lower in a sobering reminder of the recovery’s underlying weakness.

Gross domestic product expanded at a 2.7 per cent annual rate, the Commerce Department said yesterday, as export growth also helped to offset the weakest consumer spending and first drop in business investment in more than a year.

While the growth pace was much quicker than the 2 per cent rate the government estimated last month and the best since the fourth quarter of 2011, it was hardly a sign of strength as the lift from inventories will likely be lost in the fourth quarter.

The economy is also bracing for deep cuts in government spending and tax increases early next year, known as the fiscal cliff, which could suck $600 billion from the economy and fuel a fresh recession.

Economists polled by Reuters had expected GDP growth to be raised to a 2.8 per cent pace.

“The bulk of the (GDP) rise is inventory adjustment,” said Omer Esiner, chief market analyst at Commonwealth Foreign Exchange in Washington.

Job seekers stand in line to meet with prospective employers at a career fair in New York City “So I think the market may look past this number, thinking real GDP in the economy is a bit lower. It was also concerning to see consumer spending revised down.”

A separate report from the Labour Department showed initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 23,000 to a seasonally adjusted 393,000, but still staying elevated after superstorm Sandy.

The storm, which ripped through the East Coast in late October, has distorted initial claims data in recent weeks, making it hard to get a clear pulse of the labour

market, whose struggles have underscored the economy’s weakness.

US stock index futures held gains after the data. Prices on longer-dated US Treasury debt pared losses, while the euro held against the dollar.

Business inventories added 0.77 percentage point to thirdquarter GDP growth. They were previously estimated to have subtracted 0.12 percentage point.

Excluding inventories, GDP rose at a revised 1.9 per cent rate, underscoring sluggish demand. Final sales of goods and services produced in the United States had

been previously estimated to have increased at a 2.1 per cent pace.

A smaller trade deficit was also a factor behind the upward revision to GDP as export growth outpaced a rise in imports. But the trend in exports is unlikely to be sustained given slowing global demand, especially in China and debt troubled Europe.

Trade contributed 0.14 percentage point to GDP growth instead of subtracting 0.18 percentage point, as previously reported.

Other details of the report were rather weak. Consumer spending, which accounts

for about 70 per cent of US economic activity, was lowered to a 1.4 per cent growth rate - the slowest since the second quarter of 2011, from the 2 per cent gain previously reported.

Consumer spending increased at a 1.5 per cent rate in the second-quarter.

Business spending was revised to show much deeper cutbacks, which have been blamed on the fears of a tightening in fiscal policy next year.

Business investment fell at a revised 2.2 per cent rate instead of a 1.3 per cent decline.

That was the first drop since the first quarter of 2011.

Iberia crew strikes in December Rates

Iberia is, with British Airways, part of IAG, which said earlier this month it would axe about 4,500 jobs, or a quarter of Iberia’s workforce

SPANISH airline Iberia’s ground and cabin crews will stage a series of strikes in December, disrupting the holiday travel season to protest against massive job cuts.

The around-the-clock strikes will be held on December 14 and the five days from December 17 to December 21, union leaders said yesterday. Company officials and analysts warned the strikes would hit the image and finances of the loss-making airline.

Iberia is, with British Airways, part of International Airlines Group (IAG), which said earlier this month it would axe about 4,500 jobs, or a quarter of Iberia’s workforce, and cut capacity in a bid to make it more competitive.

Iberia has been a drag on IAG as it battles Spain’s economic crisis and labour disputes as well as tough competition from low-cost carriers and the country’s high-speed trains.

Unions said the strikes would affect other airlines because Iberia workers handle baggage at many of Spain’s airports.

Tourism represents 11 per cent of Spain’s economy and Iberia’s plans have divided the government over how much to intervene in the airline sector to protect jobs and key routes.

“Spain cannot allow itself a strike in a strategic sector,” Public Works Minister Ana Pastor said on Tuesday. She said Iberia operates important short- and mid-range flights as well as strategic link-ups to Latin America. Iberia is Europe’s biggest carrier to Latin America.

Spain is in a deep recession and unemploy-

ment is painfully high at 25 per cent. Every week brings news of more lay-offs. On Wednesday the European Commission approved restructuring plans at nationalised Spanish banks that will lead to thousands of job losses.

Protests against job cuts and pay delays are becoming routine. This week, for example, hospital workers in the Madrid region, which includes the capital, walked out over plans to close or privatise some state clinics.

IAG, formed last year by the merger of British Airways and Iberia, posted a 96 per cent fall in operating profit in the January-September period, pulled lower by losses at Iberia.

Iberia Chief Executive Rafael Sanchez-Lozano warned a strike would cause insurmountable damage to the airline.

“The strike at Iberia is like a hunger strike: If you’re successful, you’ll die,” he was quoted as saying yesterday in El Economista newspaper.

Sanchez-Lozano said airlines are heading towards low-cost models and the sector needed to be as profitable as Irish budget carrier Ryanair, which has rivalled Iberia on its European routes from Madrid and Barcelona.

Yet in a fresh blow to Spain’s travel sector, Ryanair is reducing its Spanish flights due to a hike in the country’s airport taxes. The Dublin-based airline estimates its reduced Spanish capacity will affect 648 weekly flights in and out of Spain and 4,500 jobs related to the sector.

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

Buying Selling Pound St

0.8127 0.8047

US Dollar

1.3019 1.2889

Australian $

1.2523 1.2213

Canadian Dol.

1.3009 1.2687

Swiss Fr

1.2111 1.1967

Denmark Kr

7.5535 7.3669

Japan Yen

107.0988 105.8212

Norwegian Kr

7.4298 7.2464

Polish Zloty

4.1558

4.0532

Romanian Leu 4.6018 4.4214 Russian Ruble 40.7531 39.7469 Swedish Kr

8.7202 8.5048

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Opinion

Now government must deal with consequences of nepotistic practice A COUPLE of hundred men hired as casual labourers, on an hourly rate, by the government went on the rampage yesterday after they were informed that they would not be offered work in the future. First they invaded the foreign ministry demanding to see the minister and then they marched to the legislature where they pushed aside the police guard and entered demanding to be seen by the House president.

About one thousand low-paid labourers, hired by the government on a seasonal basis for unskilled jobs, will be without work from tomorrow as they have fallen victim to the government’s cutbacks.

They were protesting against the decision to terminate their employment and demanded that the government and the parties made every effort to ensure it was rescinded.

The anger of the labourers was understandable even though breaking into the legislature and resorting to threatening behaviour was totally unacceptable - a step towards mob rule.

Not surprisingly, deputies who spoke to them promised to look into their demand and try to help them. Not one deputy had the decency to tell them the truth – the state was cutting its spending and there was no provision in the budget for the employment of a thousand casual labourers.

All would try to help, even though they did not say how they would do so; the objective was to get the labourers out of the legislature.

This is what happens when the state acts as an employer of casual labourers. If government did things rationally, the jobs done by these labourers would have been contracted to private companies. Then again these labourers are given seasonal work by the political parties in exchange for their support. Regrettably, this is how the political parties keep their supporters under control, offering them favours and, when possible, government work. So now they have to deal with consequences of their nepotistic practice.

It is ironic that these workers - the lowest paid of the public sector, enjoying none of the benefits of full-time public employees - will be the only casualties of the government spending cuts, while the fat cats of the public service would suffer just a small pay cut. The saving from not offering them work again would be a paltry €9 million a year, which could have been raised by cutting another half a per cent from the wages of top earners in the public service.

We are sure none of the parties, which promised to try to help the labourers, would make such a suggestion. And neither would the government that likes to pose as the guardian angel of the workers, the well-paid and privileged workers, that is.

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The good shepherd in turbulent times I

N GERMANY, election campaigns are supposed to be all about parties, policies and platforms, most definitely not personalities. Now that is about to change. Angela Merkel, at the peak of her political powers, is gearing up to run for a third term and what she hopes will be a place in the history books alongside towering postwar German leaders like Konrad Adenauer and Helmut Kohl.

Next week, her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) will informally kick off the campaign with a two-day congress in the northern city of Hanover that is shaping up as a very un-German affair -- a Merkel-centred love-fest similar in style and spectacle to a US presidential convention.

Seven years into her chancellorship, a point when her predecessors Gerhard Schroeder and Kohl were struggling with poor poll ratings, the 58-year-old Lutheran pastor’s daughter from East Germany is as popular as ever.

Two in three Germans say she is doing a good job, according to surveys, and many now applaud her handling of the eurozone crisis, where she has performed a stunning feat – keeping the single currency intact with one policy concession after another, yet still managing to be seen as a staunch defender of German interests.

Criticised early on for her cautious leadership style, Merkel’s low-key approach is now hailed by many as positive in a time of turmoil.

“The CDU’s main asset in this election is Frau Merkel,” said Environment Minister and party ally Peter Altmaier. “She enjoys a huge amount of trust. She has no rivals and is the most popular politician in the country.”

A close aide to Merkel who will have a role in shaping her reelection strategy was even more clear: “Of course we will focus this campaign on the chancellor.

We’d be stupid not to.”

A heavy dose of adulation has been programmed into the congress in Hanover. Delegates have only one main task, a member of the CDU executive committee told German weekly Der Spiegel: “They are to give Angela Merkel a standing ovation of at least seven minutes after her speech.”

Analysis Noah Barkin Still, it would be wrong to assume total harmony within the party, even if that is the message Merkel and her allies are trying to send.

Since taking power in 2005, the chancellor has pushed her party in an entirely new direction. Not all in the CDU are happy about that.

After fighting for years against a minimum wage, the party now officially supports one. And after condemning the nuclear power phase-out introduced by Schroeder’s centre-left government, Merkel now says it did not go far or fast enough. Last year she shocked her party with her “Energiewende”, or energy revolution, that pushes Germany out of nuclear and into renewables at alarming speed.

On social issues there is also grumbling. The CDU’s approach towards women used to be summed up with three simple words: “Kinder, Kueche, Kirche”, or children, kitchen, church.

Now it is pushing for more childcare spots so that mothers can work and is debating the idea of imposing quotas on businesses to boost the number of women in top positions.

“We need to watch out that in our search for two new voters, we don’t lose three old ones,” says Wolfgang Bosbach, a senior CDU lawmaker who has clashed with Merkel in recent years.

Other controversial social issues, including a divisive debate about tax treatment of gay couples, are being swept under the table in Hanover in the name of unity.

“The truth is that Merkel has no interest in seeing a big debate on the issues. This congress is supposed to show that the party is fully behind the chancellor and her government,” said Frank Decker, a political scientist at Bonn University.

“The CDU is having to appeal to a broader base, to adapt to a changed reality in society, new family structures and a bigger role for women,” he added. “A traditional conservative, Christian party must find answers, it must debate these things.

But Merkel is refusing to allow

ON THIS DAY NOVEMBER 30

Angela Merkel is gearing up to run for a third term this debate to happen, and that breeds resentment.”

In modernising the CDU, Merkel has made it all but indistinguishable from the other big parties, the Social Democrats and Greens. By design or not, this has made the party even more dependent on Merkel for its identity.

So far that has not been a problem. The CDU and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), have a comfortable 10 point lead over the next biggest party, the SPD, 10 months before the federal vote.

Still, it would be wrong to assume Merkel’s re-election is guaranteed.

The eurozone crisis remains perhaps the biggest risk, as the domestic backlash against her latest aid deal for Greece showed this week.

If Greece’s financial problems flare up again before the German election, she is bound to come under fire for cynically delaying a lasting solution to the country’s debt woes until after

the vote out of fears for her own political future.

An economic slowdown at home could also weigh on her popularity. Hit by weakness in its trading partners, the German economy is expected to contract in the fourth quarter of 2012 and data yesterday showed unemployment rising for the eighth month in a row.

Gero Neugebauer, a political scientist at Berlin’s Free University, puts Merkel’s chances of winning re-election next year at just 50-50 because the FDP’s slide has left her without a “Machtoption”, or hope of a majority with her current partner.

Others see it differently. By moving ever closer to the SPD and Greens on policy, Merkel has given the CDU more coalition options, notes Josef Joffe, publisher-editor of German weekly Die Zeit.

“She represents the ‘good shepherd’ in turbulent times.

Somehow, people believe, she will get them through the mess safe and sound.”

WHAT THE MAIL SAID

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25 years ago Wednesday November 30, 1987

The United States and Britain sign preliminary peace articles in Paris, ending the Revolutionary War.

Cyprus has had its first Aids fatality, with the death of 26-year-old singer Dina Constantinou. She contracted the disease two years ago in the USA where she lived with her Cypriot fiancé. But in Cyprus the diagnosis of the disease was made only last October and she has been in and out of hospital ever since.

1936 London’s famed Crystal Palace is destroyed in a fire. The structure had been constructed for the International Exhibition of 1851.

1954 In Sylacauga, AL, Elizabeth Hodges is injured when a meteorite crashes through the roof of her house. The rock weighed 8½-pounds.

1981 The US and the Soviet Union open negotiations in Geneva that are aimed at reducing nuclear weapons in Europe.

1989 PLO leader Yasser Arafat is refused a visa to enter the United States in order to address the UN General Assembly in New York City.

35 years ago Friday November 30, 1977 The President of the Republic Spyros Kyprianou yesterday strongly condemned acts of sabotage which occurred late on Wednesday night at the Dhekelia British base near Larnaca and the Episkopi base in Limassol. Two explosions took place at Dhekelia, damaging two transformers and aerials used by the radio station.

45 years ago Saturday November 30, 1967 President Johnson’s special envoy, Cyrus Vance returned to Nicosia last night for renewed talks with President Makarios, amid speculation about last-minute complications concerning the reported agreement designed to avert the threatened conflict between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus. “I have come for further discussions”, Vance said on arrival at the airport.

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Health

Health

bites

Men with big beer bellies likely to have weaker bones MEN with excessive fat around their abdomen, commonly known as a “beer belly,” are at an elevated risk for heart disease and Type 2 diabetes, and now researchers are adding osteoporosis to the list of potential hazards.

More than 37 million American men over age 20 are obese, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.

While obesity is associated with a host of other health problems - hypertension, high cholesterol, asthma, sleep apnea and joint diseases - it has been widely accepted that overweight men were at a lower risk for bone loss.

“Not true,” said Dr. Miriam Bredella, a radiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and an associate professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School. “Everyone thinks of osteoporosis as a disease of women. Studies all focused on women, and men were always thought to be fine. We

specifically wanted to look at young men.”

Bredella and her team of researchers evaluated 35 obese men with a mean age of 34 and a mean body mass index, a measure of body fat, of 36.5.

The men were divided into two groups: one with mainly subcutaneous fat, which lies just beneath the skin and is spread all over the body, and the other with mostly visceral or intra-abdominal fat, located deep under the muscle tissue in the abdominal cavity.

“What surprised us most was that men with visceral fat had significantly weaker bones than (the subcutaneous fat) group. These are men with the same degree of obesity and who were about the same age,” Bredella said.

Cloudy with a chance of flu NEW research suggests it may be possible to forecast flu outbreaks in much the same way meteorologists predict weather, a potential boon for public health officials and consumers, one of the study’s authors said.

Using real-time US data gathered by Google Inc, along with a computer model showing how flu spreads, the researchers offered a system that could generate local forecasts of the severity and length of a particular flu outbreak.

This kind of forecasting could improve preparation and management of annual flu outbreaks in the United States, said Irene Eckstrand of the National Institutes of

Health.

Influenza kills 250,000 to 500,000 people each year around the globe; the US annual flu death toll is 35,000.

If the forecasts are reasonably accurate, they could help public health officials target vaccines and anti-viral drugs to areas of greatest need, said study co-author Jeffrey Shaman of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.

AIDS fighting spirit flagging THE world has lost momentum in the fight against the AIDS epidemic, with millions of new people infected last year, the ONE foundation said in a report.

The conclusion contrasts with a UN report last week, which found that an end to AIDS was in sight due to better access to drugs.

But ONE says “the beginning of the end of the AIDS” remains out of reach, as the number of people newly infected each year still exceeds those who get treated for the first time.

Global leaders last year committed to the “beginning of the end of AIDS” by 2015.

Progress over the past decade has cut the death toll for the disease, mainly due to better access to drugs that can both treat and prevent the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) which causes AIDS, the United Nations said in its annual report last week.

Smoking causes 270,000 cancers yearly in Europe

Simple formula can predict child obesity risk

IN EIGHT European and Scandinavian countries, 270,000 people are diagnosed every year with cancers caused by smoking, according to a European study.

Smoking is known to be a major contributor to a variety of cancers, including lung, colon and bladder cancers, and understanding how great the burden of smoking is on cancer rates is important for developing prevention strategies, said Antonio Agudo, the lead author of the study.

“These results tell us that (the) contribution of tobacco smoking to cancer is substantial, and that, in spite of substantial efforts put forward to reduce smoking in European countries, the overwhelming importance of cigarette smoking on cancer risk is still a public health concern, and a priority from the point of view of prevention,” said Agudo, a researcher at the Catalan Institute of Oncology in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain.

He and his colleagues, as part of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC), gathered information on more than 440,000 residents of Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

The researchers, whose findings appeared in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, began tracking the participants between 1992 and 2000. None had been diagnosed with cancer.

Over an average of 11 years of follow up, the team found that 14,563 people who were exposed to tobacco smoke developed a type of cancer considered to be fully or partly caused by tobacco exposure. This is equivalent to 270 diagnoses out of every 100,000 people.

Current smokers were 2.6 times as like as those who

A SIMPLE assessment can predict at birth a baby’s likelihood of becoming obese during childhood, scientists said.

The formula, available as an online calculator, estimates the child’s obesity risk based on its birth weight, the body mass index of the parents, the number of people in the household, the mother’s professional status and whether she smoked during pregnancy.

Researchers who published a study of the test in the journal PLOS ONE say they hope it will be used to identify babies at high risk and help families take steps to stop them putting on too much weight before it’s too late.

Childhood obesity is a leading cause of early type 2 diabetes, as well as various types of cardiovascular disease, and is becoming increasingly common in developed countries.

According to data from the American Heart Association, almost 18 per cent of boys and almost 16 per cent of girls aged between two and 19 in the United States are obese.

In England, 17 per cent of boys and 15 per cent of girls aged between two and 15 are obese, according to National Health Service (NHS) data.

“Once a young child becomes obese, it’s difficult for them to lose weight - so prevention is the best strategy and it has to begin as early as possible,” said Philippe Froguel of Imperial College London, who led the study.

“Unfortunately, public prevention campaigns have been rather ineffective at preventing obesity in school-age children. Teaching parents about the dangers of over-feeding and bad nutritional habits at a young age would be much more effective.”

“This test takes very little time, it doesn’t require any lab tests and it doesn’t cost anything,” Froguel said. The calculator is available at: http://files-good.ibl.fr/childhood-obesity/

Statistics should add to efforts to curb the habit

Smokers were 2.6 times more likely than those who had never smoked to develop a tobacco-related cancer had never smoked to develop a tobacco-related cancer and ex-smokers had 1.5 times the risk.

Nearly 4,500 people were diagnosed with colon or rectal cancer, about 3,000 with lung cancer and 1,850 with lower urinary tract cancer.

Other types of tobacco-related cancers were less common but included stomach, cervix, mouth, kidney, pancreas and a form of leukaemia.

Although each of these cancers has been associated with smoking, not all of the

cases were caused by it.

The researchers calculated the “attributable fraction,” or the proportion of cancer cases likely blamed on cigarettes, and determined that, overall, 35 per cent were caused by smoking.

For some types of cancers, such as lung and larynx, the vast majority - more than 80 per cent - were caused by smoking. A smaller proportion of others, such as kidney cancers at eight per cent and pancreatic cancers at 13 per cent, were caused by smoking.

Across the eight countries with data available on both men and women, about 1.5 million new cancer cases are diagnosed each year - half of them tobacco-related.

Given the proportion of those attributable to smoking, the group calculated that 270,000 cancer cases each year in those countries are due to cigarettes - a number that Agudo said was “not far from our expectations.”

Prabhat Jha, a professor at the University of Toronto who was not involved in the

study, said the findings are consistent with estimates of how many deaths are caused by smoking in Europe but said the numbers could be underestimates.

He added that in wealthy countries, such as those in Europe and North American, the rates of smokingrelated cancers and deaths have declined substantially, while cancer rates in China and India are rising.

Nevertheless, “This study should support greater EU efforts” to curb smoking, he added.

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

NICOSIA Lawless (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.35, 7.50 and 10.20pm, weekends also at 3.25pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) at 5.35, 7.50 and 10.20pm, weekends also at 11am, 1.15pm and 3.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Rise of the Guardians (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek, in 3D) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.25pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in English, in 2D) at 5.30, 7.50 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 3.25pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) (in Greek, in 3D) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.20pm and 3.25pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) (in English, in 2D) at 5.30, 7.50 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.20pm and 3.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Killing Them Softly (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.50 and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 7.50 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Frankenweenie (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 5.35pm, weekends also at 3.30pm; KCineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 5.35pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.30pm.

Tel: 7777-8383

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.35, 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 3.25pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) at 5.35, 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 11am, 1.20pm and 3.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Taken 2 (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 8 and 10.20pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Skyfall (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.40 and 10.20pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) at 7.40 and 10.20pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in English, in 2D) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Adikos Kosmos (in Greek) Cine Studio, tonight at 9pm, Sunday at 8pm, Tuesday and Thursday at 9pm, presented by the Friends of the Cinema Society. Tel: 96-420491, www. ofk.org.cy Fish and Chips (in Greek, call for details of subtitles) Eirini Hall (Peace Room) at 7.30pm. Tel: 99-434923

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

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (in Romanian, with English subtitles) Eirini Hall (Peace Room) at 9pm.

Tel: 99-434923

LIMASSOL Lawless (15) Rio 6 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends also at 5.30pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.35, 7.50 and 10.20pm, weekends also at 3.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Rise of the Guardians (K) Rio 4 (in English, in 2D), weekdays at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends at 3, 4.50, 6.35, 8.20 and 10.10pm; Rio 1 (in English, in 2D), weekdays only at 6pm; Rio 2 (in Greek, in 3D), weekdays at 6 and 7.50pm, weekends at 3, 4.50, 6.35 and 8.20pm.

Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek, in 3D) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.25pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in English, in 2D) at 5.30, 7.50 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 3.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Frankenweenie (12) Rio 3, weekdays at 6.10pm, weekends at 3, 4.35 and 6.15pm. Tel: 25-871410; KCineplex (Screen 3) at 5.35pm, weekends also at 3.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Killing Them Softly (18) Rio 3 at 10.30pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.50 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 (12) Rio 1, weekdays at 7.55 and 10.10pm, weekends at 3, 5.15, 7.45 and 10pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.35, 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 3.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Taken 2 (12) Rio 5 7.45pm (weekends 8.15pm) and 10pm. Tel: 25-871410 Skyfall (12) Rio 3 at 7.45pm; Rio 2 at 10pm (weekends at 10.10pm). Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.40 and 10.20pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) Rio 5 (in Greek), weekends only at 3, 4.45 and 6.30pm. Tel: 25-871410 Adikos Kosmos (in Greek) Rio 5, Monday at 8.30pm, presented by the Limassol Cine Club. www.cinelesxi.org

LARNACA Lawless (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.35, 7.50 and 10.20pm, weekends also at 3.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Rise of the Guardians (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek, in 3D) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.25pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in English, in 2D) at 5.30, 7.50 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 3.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383

PAPHOS Lawless (15) Rio 2 at 5pm (weekends only), 7.30 and 9.45pm. Tel: 26207000

Killing Them Softly (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.50 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Rise of the Guardians (K) Rio 4 (in English, in 2D) and Rio 1 (in Greek, in 3D) at 4pm (weekends only), 6, 8 and 10pm. Tel: 26-207000

Frankenweenie (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 5.35pm, weekends also at 3.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Killing Them Softly (18) Rio 5 at 5pm (weekends only), 7.30 and 9.45pm. Tel: 26207000

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.35, 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 3.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Frankenweenie (12) Rio 6, weekdays at 6pm, weekends at 4 and 5.45pm. Tel: 26-207000

Taken 2 (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 8 and 10.20pm. Tel: 7777-8383

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 (12) Rio 7 at 5.30, 7.45 and 10pm.

Tel: 26-207000

Skyfall (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.40 and 10.20pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Taken 2 (12) Rio 3 at 5pm (weekends only), 7.30 and 9.45pm. Tel: 26207000

Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in English, in 2D) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Skyfall (12) Rio 6, weekdays at 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends at 7.30 and 10pm. Tel: 26-207000 Tinkerbell: Secret of the Wings (K) Rio 7 (in Greek), weekends only at 3.40pm. Tel: 26-207000

listings Today Theatre The Elephant Man Theatro Ena presents a play by Bernard Pomerance, translated and directed by Andreas Christodoulides. November 30 until January 27. Theatro Ena, 4 Athinas Avenue, Nicosia. Every Friday through Sunday at 8.30pm. In Greek. €15/12. Tel: 22-348203

Other Events Free Hand Design: Posters from Israel A lecture / presentation by internationally acclaimed Israeli designer David Tartakover. November 30. Unesco Amphitheatre, University of Nicosia.

6.30pm. In English. Tel: 22-841500

Tomorrow Exhibitions Collector’s Room Solo drawing and sculpture exhibition by Japanese artist Chiaki Kamikawa. Opens December 1, 8pm until December 22. Chiaki Kamikawa Contemporary Art, Solonos 10, Paphos T. Tuesday- Friday: 10am-1pm and 4pm-6pm. Saturday: 10am-1pm.

Tel: 99-311225. chiaki@c-kamikawa. com. www.c-kamikawa.com

AAH-OOOH-GAH a Hornlike Sound Signifying the End of the World Solo art exhibition by Nayia Savva.

Opens December 1, 8pm until December 12. the Container space, 6 Australia, Limassol

Music Yiannis Georgiou Solo piano recital by renowned pianist.

December 1. Rialto Theatre, Limassol.

8.30pm. €10/7. Tel: 77-777745 Charity Concert The evening will take the form of a four part concert, Opera, Popular, Musicals and Christmas and there will be a mixture of both English and Greek music. Organised to support a recently orphaned 11-year-old British girl in Cyprus. December 1. Markideio Theatre, Paphos. 7pm. €15. Tel: 99-719163

Theatre Cinderella Annual production of pantomime staged

by ACT. December 1-2 & 7-9. Russian Cultural Centre, Nicosia. December 1. 3pm & 7.30pm. December 2: 3pm.

December 7: 7.30pm. December 8: 3pm & 7.30pm and December 9: 3pm. €12 /6. Tel : 99-924363 Mama’s Marijuana is the Best Play combining elements of realism, exaggeration and comedy. December 1-2. PEO, 29 Archermou Street, Nicosia. 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 22866400/99-592869

Sole and Mouth A hilarious comedy that satirises the contemporary social, political and economic realities of our country.

December 1-2. Antonaki’s Music Hall, 17 Vasileiou Voulgaroktonou Street, Nicosia. €15. In Greek. Tel: 22664697/77-777040. www.soldouttickets.com.cy

Other Events Printmaking Workshop Celebrated engraver and storyteller Hambis, hosts workshop in Platanisteia, where he will talk about his work, offer a printmaking lesson and guide us through the printmaking museum.

December 1. Hambis School of Printmaking, Plataniskia, Limassol.

8am-3pm. Free. Tel: 99-314539. It is advisable to contact readingthelines@ hotmail.com to secure your place. All required material will be provided Europeana 1914-1918 World War One Family History Roadshow Bring your WWI letters, photos, diaries, or other material to the show.

Historians and experts will be on hand to talk about the significance of finds, while staff from the Cyprus Library will professionally digitise the objects and upload them to Europeana website.

December 1-2.The Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture, 27 Ifigeneias, Strovolos, Nicosia. 10am5.30pm. Tel: 22-410064/22-809800

Doggy Style & OLA DJ: Street Party Charity event and electronic bazaar in aid of the Argos Animal Sanctuary, contribute animal/pet supplies, trade electronics. December 1. Katsoni St, Ag Omologites, Nicosia. 11am-5pm. Tel: 99-762490 Sexperience 2 A variety of events taking place in the capital focusing on sexual rights and ideas surrounding sexuality. Your ideas regarding sexuality and what is considered ‘sexy’ can be emailed to sexperience.eu @ gmail.com or posted on: www.facebook.com/sexperience.eu.

Alternatively: twitter.com/Sexperience_eu.

Sexy in the City: December 1-10. What is sexy? An original installation shaped by your own opinion. P.X. Ippokratous 44, old Nicosia.

Sexy, Sexier, Sexperience! December 1.

Workshops on art therapy and performance writing, age 17 and over. Veramand Studio, 16 Aetolians, Ayios Andreas, Nicosia. 9.30am-1.30pm. €15. Prebooking essential. Tel: 22-751093 Sounds Sexy 2 Me: December 6. Concert with Greek artists. Enallax, 16-17 Athinas Avenue, Nicosia. 9.30pm. €15 in support of the Nicosia Family Planning Association. Tel 22-430121 The Nobel Prize for Peace to the European Union Panel discussion dedicated to the memory of Yiannos Kranidiotis. Coordination: Kyriakos Pierides - President OPEK. December1. EU House, 30 Vyronos Avenue. 11am. Greek and English interpretation will be provided. Tel: 22-870500, EPnicosia@europarl.europa.eu

Christmas Fiesta Enjoy a day of fun, with games, painting, building with recycled materials, making Christmas ornaments, Face Painting, clay decoration, taste delicious delicacies and dishes and buy homemade cakes. December 1. EAC headquarters, 11, Amfipoleos Street, Strovolos, Nicosia. 11am-7pm. Tel: 22-446222 Christmas Fair Exhibitors from all over Cyprus in a festive extravaganza of quality and craftsmanship. December 1-2. The Warehouse, Oroklini, Troulo Road.

9am-4pm. Free. www.events100.com

A Christmas to Remember Cancer Patients Support Group Christmas Dinner Dance. December 1. Mayfair Hotel Pari Street, Kato Paphos. 7 for 7.30pm . €27.50 per ticket includes buffet, local drinks and entertainment. Tel: 99-797533 Vikomedy Comedy Show Funny and educational stand-up comedy show. December 1. University of Nicosia UNESCO Hall. 4pm-5.15 pm. 18 years and above. €6. Tel: 99-673508. Email: vikengineering@ yahoo.com Drought Project

Blue Christmas Women’s and men’s accessories, jewellery, original gifts, food and blues and soul music. December 1-2. Art Gallery Events, 53 Archbishop Kyprianou, Strovolos. 10am-10pm. Tel: 96-510238. www.e-limoncello.blogspot.com Falcon Christmas Fun Day Fun day for all ages with: pony rides, bouncing castle, monkeynastics, zoumba, little kickers, football, face painting, stalls of local artists and ex students with lots of food to choose from. December 1. 11am to 2pm. Falcon School.

Entrance is free. Tel: 22-424781 Artists’ Bazaar Meet new artists’ and select unique quality Christmas gifts. December 1.

Leventis Municipal Museum, 15-17 Hippocrates str., Laiki Yitonia, Nicosia.

10am-5.30pm. Part of the proceeds will be used to enrich the Museum’s collections. Tel: 22-661475

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

Center of performing Arts MITOS is celebrating five years of creative activity and presents it as part of the cultural events of the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of Europe.

Theatre performance, art exhibition, book edition, based on the myth of Ariadne. December 1-2 & 5-9. Palio Xydadiko, Limassol. 8.30pm. Art exhibition: opens December 1 until December 9. Open daily: 4pm-10pm.

Tel: 99- 864970

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Do they know it’s Christmas time?

Stocking fillers: unique gifts on sale at the Artists’ Bazaar at the Leventis Municipal Museum. Inset: castt from m local a sati satirical irical show w Patates s Antinahtes Anti t nah will be signing autographs at EAC Headquarters

CHRISTMAS is creeping up on us fast o and there’s nothing like planning early to beat the big crowds at the mall and the downtown shopping areas. d By now, early birds have already crossed out the last name on their lists. But lastminute shoppers have nothing to worry about, bazaars and Christmas fairs are popking for ping up everywhere. Whether you’re looking the usual gift items like clothes and toys, or some unuomething at one sual home décor, you’re bound to find something of this year’s bazaars.

Jot down these schedules – these bazaars are happening this weekend – and check them out before it gets too late. Happy holiday shopping! Avoid the humdrum of the high street and support some of Cyprus’ most talented craftspeople at the Leventis Municipal Museum’s Artists’ Bazaar tomorrow.

The event aims to offer locals a chance to get to know the artists, who despite the financial crisis are trying to keep alive a hub of creativity in the capital. The concept of this year year’ss Artists Artists’ Bazaar is to make a art accessible to everyone and also to emphasise the availability of works of art at affordable prices. Part of o the proceeds will be used to enrich the museum museum’s collections and for the maintenance of new p publications.

From 11am-7pm tomorro tomorrow, The EAC headquarters in Strovolos will be overrun with festive cheer as it hosts its ver very own Christmas Fiesta.

Expect some vibrant e energy that includes plenty of music and d dance acts, food and stalls selling lots of goodies. g Fans of sport will get chance to g get authentic autographed footballs from fr football teams such as APOEL, AEL and Omonia. There will be special guest appearances from the local ‘celeb’ sce scene including the cast of the ever popula popular comedy show Patates Antinahtes, w who will be signing autographs a and mingling with the crowds.

Soak up th the magic of the festive season at the Warehouse Christmas Fair, in Larnaca. Go down for a glass of mulled wine, a spo spot of Christmas shopping and much more.

T The Falcon School will also be hosting a fair that will be especially fun for children. Taking an active approach,

you your kids will have a ball tak taking part in activities suc such as pony rides, a bou bouncy castle, monkey keynastics, zumba, little kickers, football and face p ere will painting. Of course, there be stalls from local artists and ex stud den ents t dis ts ong students displaying their wares, along with llots ots of food to choose from to keep p your energy up. uy If you’re looking for something original to buy your loved ones this Christmas then why nott pop down to the Creart Handcrafts & Arts exhibition at the Navarria e every first Hotel in Limassol. The exhibition takes place Sunday of each month, but in the run-up to Christmas there will be festive treats and gifts galore.

The Art Gallery Events in Strovolos will be feeling blue this weekend, but it’s blue as in the music not the mood.

Get your Christmas shopping in women’s and men’s accessories, jewellery, original gifts for the whole family, Christmas baskets organic products, Christmas ornaments, as well as ornaments for the home and nursery, all at amazingly affordable prices. To keep the winter chills away, drink some tea with cinnamon, enjoy some bites and Christmas delicacies, all accompanied by the musical sounds of blues and soul.

In Any Event are hosting a Christmas Craft fair at the Elea Estate on Sunday with over 40 stalls offering handmade and imported products. There will be a singing and dancing show presented by Alison Roumeliotis and charity raffle in aid of the Friends Hospice. It’s important to note that presents are being collected for handicapped local children, so if you want to play your part and put a smile on a child’s face make sure to contribute.

A Christmas Fair organised to support the One Dream - One Wish charity, an association which helps children with cancer and related diseases, will also take place on Sunday. There will be a puppet show, cup cake making, a choir, face painting, drawing, delicacies to buy, writers of children’s books, art competitions and storytelling. As for youngsters who are too young to ride a bike, micro scooters will be available offering some crazy rides.

Father Christmas will even be making an appearance to see for himself whether your kids have been naughty or nice this year.

Artists’ Bazaar Meet new artists’ and select unique quality Christmas gifts.

December 1. Leventis Municipal Museum, 15-17 Hippocrates str., Laiki Yitonia, Nicosia. 10am-5.30pm. Part of the proceeds will be used to enrich the Museum’s collections. Tel: 22-661475

Christmas C h Fiesta EEnjoy a day of fun, with games, painting, building with recycled materials, making Christmas ornaments, face painting, clay d decoration, taste delicious delicacies d and dishes and buy homemade cakes.

Dece December 1. E.A.C Headquarters, 11, Amf Amfipoleos Street, Strovolos, Nicosia.

11 11am-7pm.

All proceeds will be given to the Cancer Association of Cyprus.

Te 22-446222 Tel: Christmas Fair Exhibitors from all over Cyprus in a festive extravaganza of quality aand craftsmanship. December 1-2.

The Warehouse, Oroklini, Troulo Road. 9am-4pm. Free Falcon Christmas Fun Day Fun day for all ages with: pony rides, bouncy castle, monkeynastics, zoumba, little kickers, football, face painting, stalls of local artists and ex students with lots of food to choose from.

December 1. 11am to 2pm. Falcon School. Entrance is free. Tel: 22-424781 Creart Handcrafts & Arts exhibition Hand-made art and crafts including jewellery, ornaments, house decorations, aromatic candles, and more. December 2. Every first Sunday of each month. Navarria Hotel, Ayios Tychonas, Limassol.

10am-7.30pm. Tel: 25-320855/99-492793 Christmas Craft Fair Over 40 stands with high quality crafts in a fantastic setting.

December 2. Elea Golf Club. 10am-5pm. Ideal for Christmas presents Spotlight Dance Studio will perform at 2pm. Father Christmas at 3pm. Refreshments available – free entry. Tel:99387311or e-mail: mail@in-any-event.biz Blue Christmas Women’s and men’s accessories, jewellery, original gifts, food and blues and soul music. December 1-2. Art Gallery Events, 53 Archbishop Kyprianou, Strovolos (opposite the tavern of Eirinia).

10am-10pm. Tel: 96-510238. www.e-limoncello.blogspot.com One Dream One Wish Christmas Fair Help children’s wishes come true, day includes puppet show, cup cake making, a choir, face painting, drawing, delicacies to buy, writers of children’s books, art competitions, storytelling and more. December 2. Rivergate Bookstore Café, 4 Paphou Street, Latsia. 10am-5pm Tel: 22-572722/22-573370

By Ledha Socratous

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

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Film ES SUMMARIES Lawless (See page opposite)

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Rise of the Guardians (See page opposite)

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Killing Them Softly Markie Trattman (Ray Liotta) runs one of the Mob’s many secret and lucrative poker games – a potential magnet for crooks tempted to cash in on the piles of ready cash on the tables. When two young, opportunistic petty crims, Frankie (Scoot McNairy) and Russell (Ben Mendelsohn), are talked into robbing Markie’s game at gunpoint by local lowlife Johnny Amato (Vincent Curatola), the Mob sends in Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt), one of its hitmen, to find and punish those responsible. Since he knows Amato, he’s reluctant to make the hit himself and suggests they call in the heavy Mickey (James Gandolfini) from New York. Mickey turns up – but Jackie is unimpressed, and has to take matters into his own hands. Also starring Richard Jenkins. Directed

by Andrew Dominik. (Crime drama, 97 mins.)

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 Bella (Kristen Stewart) is enjoying her new life and new powers after the birth of Renesmee, her daughter with vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson).

Soon, however, their family bliss is threatened again, by a new menace. The vampire Irina (Maggie Grace) believes a child like Renesmee could challenge the power and existence of the Volturi. As Irina rallies the Volturi to destroy this potential threat, Bella and the Cullens – together with any allies they can assemble – prepare for a crucial battle to protect their family. Also starring Taylor Lautner and Billy Burke.

Directed by Bill Condon. (Fantasy drama, 115 mins.)

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Taken 2 Four years ago, retired CIA agent Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) stopped at nothing to save his Taken 2

Frankenweenie

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Killing Them Softly

Lawless

A hard-drive listing all NATO operatives undercover in terrorist organisations is stolen, and used to make M (Judi Dench), the head of British Intelligence, look bad.

Though not in peak condition after a near-death experience, secret agent James Bond (Daniel Craig) sets out to recover the drive, which leads him to mystery man Silva (Javier Bardem) – a psycho who’s nursing a grudge, and has a revenge scheme in mind. Also starring Naomie Harris, Ralph Fiennes and Albert Finney.

Directed by Sam Mendes. (Actiondrama, 143 mins.)

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Tinker Bell: Secret of the Wings The little fairy Tinker Bell meets Periwinkle and ventures into the winter woods with her and Tinker Bell’s other friends to find the secret of fairy wings. Directed by Roberts Gannaway and Peggy Holmes. In 3D. DUBBED INTO GREEK. (Kids’ cartoon, 92 mins.)

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Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted

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After unexpectedly losing his beloved dog Sparky, geeky young Victor (voiced by Charlie Tahan) harnesses the power of Science to bring his best friend back to life, albeit with a few minor adjustments. He tries to hide his home-sewn creation, but when Sparky gets out – and Victor’s fellow students try to copy his work with some Frankenstein shenanigans of their own – the entire town learns that getting a new ‘leash on life’ can be monstrous. Also with the voices of Catherine O’Hara and Winona Ryder. Directed by Tim Burton. In 3D. (Animated comedy, 87 mins.)

Skyfall

17-year-old daughter Kim (Maggie Grace), kidnapped in Paris by Albanian kidnappers to be sold into prostitution. Murad (Rade Serbedzija), the father of one of the kidnappers killed by Mills in that operation, has sworn revenge, and takes Mills and his wife Lenore (Famke Janssen) hostage during their family vacation in Istanbul. Mills enlists his daughter to help them escape. Directed by Olivier Megaton. (Action-thriller, 92 mins.)

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Alex the lion (voiced by Ben Stiller), Marty the zebra (Chris Rock), Gloria the hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith) and Melman the giraffe (David Schwimmer) are still trying to get back to New York and their beloved Central Park zoo, but first they need to find the penguins. When they travel to Monte Carlo, they attract the attention of obsessive animalhunter Chantal Dubois of Animal Control after gate-crashing a party, and are joined by the penguins, the monkeys, King Julian (Sacha Baron Cohen) and the rest of the crew. How does such a crazy menagerie travel through Europe without attracting attention? Simple. They join a travelling circus. Directed by Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath and Conrad

Vernon. In 3D. (Kids’ cartoon comedy, 93 mins.)

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Ice Age 4: Continental Drift Scrat’s nutty pursuit of the cursed acorn, which he’s been after since the dawn of time, has worldchanging consequences – causing a continental cataclysm that creates the Earth as we know it and triggers the greatest adventure of all for Manny the mammoth (voiced by Ray Romano), Diego the saber-toothed tiger (voiced

by Denis Leary) and Sid the sloth (voiced by John Leguizamo). In the wake of these upheavals, Sid reunites with his cantankerous Granny, and the herd encounters a ragtag menagerie of seafaring pirates determined to stop them from returning home. Also with the voices of Peter Dinklage and Nick Frost. Directed by Steve Martino and Mike Thurmeier. In 3D. (Kids’ cartoon, 94 mins.)

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Adikos Kosmos Sotiris (Antonis Kafetzopoulos) is a middle-aged Greek police interrogator who’s fed up of trying to wring confessions from criminals, and decides it’s much easier to simply throw their files on top of a filing cabinet and forget about them. However there

is one case, in which he believes an innocent man is being unjustly prosecuted, which he just can’t let go, so he and his partner Minas (Christos Stergioglou) decide to intervene, ending up in a noir-like plot featuring murder, a wad of cash and a curious cleaning lady called Dora (Theodora Tzimou) – with whom Sotiris becomes romantically involved. Directed by Philippos Tsitos. In Greek. (Drama, 118 mins.)

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Un Cuento Chino [Chinese Take-Away] When lonely, embittered and eccentric hardware shopkeeper Robert (Ricardo Darin) goes to the aid of Jun (Ignacio Huang) a Chinese man who’s being thrown out of a Buenos Aires taxi, he is drawn into Jun’s search for his uncle via a tattooed address on Jun’s arm.

Jun speaks no Spanish, so Roberto takes him to the police station, but the cops wants to jail him so Roberto takes Jun in as his house guest for the night. After a series of incidents, a Chinese take-away delivery boy translates for Jun, and Roberto discovers the dramatic event that brought Jun to Argentina.

Directed by Sebastian Borensztein.

In Spanish, with Greek subtitles.

(Drama, 93 mins.)

Our rating: N/A

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Sport

NEW FILMS Lawless Directed by: John Hillcoat Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Guy Pearce, Jessica Chastain US 2012, 116 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.

“If Lawless doesn’t achieve the mythic dimensions of the truly great outlaw and gangster movies, it is a highly entertaining tale set in a vivid milieu, told with style and populated by a terrific ensemble. For those of us who are suckers for blood-soaked American crime sagas from that era, those merits will be plenty.”

David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter (US)

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THE PLOT It’s 1930, and America is in the grip of Prohibition. The Bondurant brothers, timid Jack (Shia LaBeouf), toughas-nails Forrest (Tom Hardy), and psychotic Howard (Jason Clarke), are bootleggers, making ‘moonshine’ whisky which they sell to friends and neighbours – including the local sheriff – in Franklin County, Virginia. Their livelihood is threatened by the arrival of Charlie Rakes (Guy Pearce), a ‘special deputy’ from Chicago who has come to Virginia to stop those who violate the law of the land. What that means is that those who pay a fee are allowed to continue bootlegging while those who don’t are shut down, often by force.

The Bondurants refuse to give in to Rakes, and their stubbornness instigates a war.

WHAT THE CRITICS SAID

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Pro: “After proving to be a problematic fit for the grim postapocalyptic existentialism of The Road, director John Hillcoat is back on more fertile turf with Lawless, a muscular slice of grisly Americana rooted in flavourful Prohibition-era outlaw legend. While a touch overlong and not as distinctive as his last collaboration with screenwriter Nick Cave, the Australian Western The Proposition, the new film is more commercially accessible, fuelled by a brooding sense of dread, visceral bursts of violence, potent atmosphere and some juicy character portraits from a robust cast…

“Without exactly glorifying their outlaw heroes, Hillcoat and Cave definitely keep us in their corner, showing even their most violent actions to be driven by self-protection or payback, never merely by malice. The most memorable of them is somber Forrest, whose dialogue is delivered from somewhere way back in Hardy’s throat, often as barely more than an inarticulate rumble. But from in amongst those animal growls spout occasional pearls of outlaw wisdom, such as ‘It is not the violence that sets a man apart, it’s the distance he is prepared to go’…

Anti: “John Hillcoat’s new film is closer in spirit to his outback western, The Proposition, than the more recent postapocalyptic drama The Road.

Lawless is based on the avowedly true story of the badass Bondurant brothers in prohibition-era Virginia, running illicit liquor and fighting battles with corrupt cops.

“It is a handsome-looking period picture with a reasonably winning lead performance from Shia LaBeouf. But it’s basically an empty exercise in macho-sentimental violence in which we are expected to root for the good ol’ boys, as they mumble, shoot, punch and stab. The final flurry of self-adoring nostalgia is borderline-nauseating …

The violence is gruesome, and perpetual, but the whole thing leaves nothing behind but a moonshine hangover.”

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian (UK)

Rise of the Guardians Directed by: Peter Ramsey With the voices of: Chris Pine, Hugh Jackman, Alec Baldwin, Jude Law US 2012, 97 mins.

In 3D. 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 Jack Frost (voice of Chris Pine) is chosen to join an elite group of superheroes – the so-called ‘Guardians’, namely Santa Claus (voice of Alec Baldwin), the Easter Bunny (voice of Hugh Jackman), the Tooth Fairy (voice of Isla Fisher) and the Sandman, whose job is to protect children everywhere. Jack is an unwilling hero; he’d prefer to roam the world on his own, freezing ponds and causing snow days – but the world’s children are threatened by Pitch (voice of Jude Law), a.k.a. The Boogie Man, who wants to turn dreams into nightmares and banish belief in Santa, Bunny, and Tooth. Jack reluctantly agrees to help and, in the

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process, discovers the true hero within.

WHAT THE CRITICS SAID Pro: “Based on a series of books

by William Joyce, a children’s author with the air of a crackpot uncle … Rise Of The Guardians inhabits a hugely detailed, beautifully designed world. It’s sparing with the cutesy stuff and more redolent of the sinister edge you might find in an old edition of the Grimm fairy tales.

“For a family film it’s surprisingly dense with plot. That’s not to say it’s slow moving – quite the opposite. It squeezes in a quest for a purpose, a death, a child invading a fantasy world, an almost apocalypse and at least three big chase scenes. The only thing it doesn’t do – a near crime when Santa is right there – is make time for Christmas. For packing so much else in, that is forgiven.

“It’s gorgeously designed, deftly written and frequently laugh-out-loud funny. For child or adult, this is a fantasy to get lost in.”

Olly Richards, Empire (UK) Mixed: “When I was 5, I got a tough dose of reality from my friend Mark. ‘There’s no such thing

as Santa Claus,’ he told me.

‘Santa Claus is really your mother’. Learning this was no great tragedy, though it did take me awhile to figure out exactly what he meant. It is every child’s prerogative to believe in nonsense, and every child’s fate to lose at least a portion of that belief.

“The real puzzle is why adults should be so invested in encouraging and protecting the superstitions of children. The young are naturally credulous, imaginative creatures, and the rest of us sentimentalise these cognitive facts by associating them with innocence and wonder.

“The new movie Rise of the Guardians, for example, works so hard at celebrating wide eyes and naïve joy that it comes close to spoiling its own intermittent wonderfulness …

[The film], like so much animated entertainment these days, is by turns silly, maudlin and noisy, with just enough ingenuity to make you wish it were better.

“The premise is that Santa Claus and a bunch of other ecumenically mythical beings – principally the Easter Bunny, the Sandman and the Tooth Fairy – are the guardians of the magical state of childhood …

These affable, boisterous characters are frequently upstaged

by their minions – Santa’s dim elves and hard-working yetis; the Fairy’s hummingbird-like helpers; the Bunny’s footed, faceless eggs – who provide Rise of the Guardians with much of its visual whimsy. The busy, 3D animation relies a bit too much on madcap flight sequences and vast, vaulted spaces, but the character design has real warmth, and the animation is frequently witty and sometimes mesmerising…

“Rise of the Guardians depends on its bad guy, and also on its conflicted hero, Jack Frost (Chris Pine), who is recruited as a guardian, even though kids these days have no idea who he is. More than a mere nose-nipper, he is an exuberant trickster figure, a bringer of slips and slides, blizzards and snowball fights. He also carries a certain amount of baggage, in the form of a haunting (and somewhat confusing) origin story.

“Turning him – and Sandman, Tooth Fairy and the rest – into superheroes is both clever and obvious. If nothing else, Rise of the Guardians is a canny feat of merchandising and a potentially lucrative franchise in the making. It would be childish to believe otherwise.”

A.O. Scott, New York Times (US)

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SNOW is a female lab x hound cross around 10 months old. Snow is energetic and sweet. Best suited to a home with lots of space and older children she can play with.

She will do great in a home with other dog/s. At the Nicosia Dog Shelter, many more dogs and puppies like this one are looking for forever homes ! To provide a temporary foster home or to adopt contact Elena on 99520511

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LARNACA, ALETHRIKO, plots for sale, 525 sqm, 90% building factor, near highway Limassol-Larnaca, 5 min from airport, quiet residential area €109.000. Half registration fees till the 31.12.12. Tel. 99621914 PRIME LAND IS AVAILABLE FOR LONG LEASE IN LIMASSOL. 40, 000 sq.m., zoning Ka7 (80% -45% - 3 stories). Regular amphitheatrical shape overlooking Ladies Mile. Close to New Limassol Hospital with direct access to Limassol – Paphos Highway. Water supply, electricity and telephones are readily available.

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TO LET NICOSIA 3bdrm m/ssa with garden €500, Str/los €400, Acropolis €550, 4 bdrm new house Dasoupolis €1,200, Acropolis g/f €800. 21 PROPERTY FINDER A.M. 627 A.A.108 / E 99474839, 99646822 *****************************

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FOR RENT OR SELL: 2 bedroom flat in Nikis Avn in Nicosia, 80 m. Completely renovated, with electric supplies. Excellent for office or flat. 3 bed-room flat and some furnitures in Nicosia near Central Bank, 140 m.

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LUXURIOUS APARTMENT FOR RENT A luxurious one floor apartment situated in central Nicosia in an area of exceptional Beauty at 3 Museum Street, is available to let. It has been recently renovated and consists of four bedrooms, two bathrooms, big dining and sitting rooms, kitchen and a huge veranda. Approximate covered area 250 sqm. Monthly rent €1400.00 o.n.o. Tel: 99622370. www.parcon. com.cy *****************************

FLATS / HOUSES FOR RENT: studio Aglantzia €350, 1bdrm Ag. Andreas furnished €425, Hilton €400, Strovolos €350, Acropolis €380, Kennedy furnished €400, 2bdrm Ag. Dometios €400, Lykavitos €550, Kennedy €400, Acropolis rear house €300,

MODERN 2 BDRM, first floor flat in attractive building in Anthoupolis, very quiet area between the Grammar School and the European University, also very convenient for Pascal and Highgate Schools and the University of Nicosia. Large front veranda, all appliances, modern fittings, light and bright.

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FOR RENT 3 B/R apartment fully furnished close to Central Bank. 3 W.C., fully air-conditioned extra storeroom, owned covered parking. Excellent condition. Information: Tel. 99621554 *****************************

3 BEDROOMS flat on second floor in a block of six flats, in a nice position at Strovolos area, fully a/c, c/h, covered parking place for one car, recently painted. Rent €650pm. (furnished if required). Tel: 97773358. *****************************

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550sq.m, built in 2 big plots of land, big garden with grass, big swimming pool with extra fence for children and big covered patio with bbq area, big reception areas with marble floor, fire place and bar, big kitchen with all electrical appliances and sitting room with fire place, maid’s room, floor heating, full a/c, blinds on the windows, master bedroom with en suite bathroom and shower, big bathroom for the other 3 bedrooms and extra shower in the 5th bedroom - Strovolos €2500 (H5ST10001-R), (photos in the website).

2. H3AR0004-R, 3 bedr luxury detached house with central heating, full a/c, 3wc, 2 bathrooms, parquet floor throughout the house, big sitting and dining area, big kitchen with family room opening onto the swimming pool which has big covered area with wooden deck, bbq area, covered parking, in a very quiet area behind Apoel football training ground - Archagelos - €1700 (photos in website).

3. 2 bedr fully renovated semi detached house 120 sq. m, a/c for hot and cold, small yard, FULLY FURNSIHED or not, double glazed windows with aluminum shutters, in a quiet area off Nikis behind Burger King - ACROPOLIS €650 (H2ACS0001-R), (photos in the website).

4. 3 bedr luxury semi-de-

tached house with character, 200sq.m, central heating, full ac, sitting and dining room with fire place, big kitchen with cooker and oven, dishwasher and refrigerator, nice mature garden with flowers, trees and small garden with grass, covered parking, 3wc, 2 bathrooms in a quiet neighborhood.

Available middle of January. Agios Andreas - €1200 - H3AAD0001-R (photos in website).

5. 4 bedr new luxury detached house, separate maid’s room, central heating, full Ac, 260sq.m, big kitchen with all the electrical appliances, blinds on all the windows, 4wc, 2 showers, 1 bathroom, 2 covered parking, big garden with grass in a quiet neighbourhood in a dead end near French Ambassador house - Strovolos €1400 (H4ST10045-R), (photos in the website).

6. 3 bedr+big attic room with

shower and wc luxury new house, 210sq.m, central heating, full a/c, 4wc, blinds on all windows, cooker and oven in the kitchen, small garden, covered parking near Alpha Mega supermarket - STROVOLOS €1200 (H4ST10007-R), (photos in the website).

7. 3 bedr detached ground floor house with big garden with grass and covered patio with bbq and bar, central heating, a/c, 230sq.m, FULLY FURNISHED or partially, covered parking, storage room, in a very quiet neighborhood opposite Acropolis park. Acropolis - €1500 - H3ACS0004-R (photos in website).

8. H4LAK0002-R, 3 bedr + office space luxury detached house, built on a big plot, 350sq. m, big swimming pool with cover, garden with grass, big sitting and dining room, separate family room, central heating, a/c, curtains

on all the windows, cooker, dishwasher and dryer, parquet floor throughout the house,3wc, 2 bathrooms, 2 covered parking in a quiet area on the borders of Strovolos with Lakatamia Lakatamia- €1600 (photos in website).

9. 3 bedr upstairs and 2 separate bedroom in the basement luxury detached house(all the bedrooms with en suite bathrooms/ shower), also separate kitchen and sitting room in the basement which has also separate entrance from the house, central heating, full a/c, solid parquet floor all the house, big sitting and dining room with fire place, big fully equipped kitchen with breakfast area and family room, big overfloor, swimming pool with covered patio area with fully equipped bar(bbq, fridge, freezer, cooker), mature garden around the house, 2 parking

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places, alarm system near the Cyprus Conference Centre- PLATY AGLANTZIAS €3500 (H5PAG0002-R), (photos in the website).

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 luxury semi detached house with good size garden with grass, big covered patio with bbq area, central heating, a/c units, 3wc, 2 bathrooms, 2 covered parking, FULLY FURNISHED AND EQUIPPED, in a quiet area in a dead end close to all amenities and schools.

- ANTHOUPOLIS €1300 (H4ANT0002-R), (photos in the website).

12. H4AGZ0010-R, 3 bedr RENOVATED GROUND FLOOR HOUSE with big separate 1 bedroom flat with multi room, big sitting and dining room , separate tv room, big kitchen with family room and fitted cooker and oven, 3wc, 2 bathrooms, very big 5 X 6 bedrooms with solid parquet floor, central heating with petrol independent, a/c units, double glazed windows with shutters, big verandas around the house, in a very quiet

neighbourhood 200metres from FRENCH school and near Athalassas park - Aglantzia - €1300 (photos in website).

13. 3 bedr ground floor house with big separate 80sq,m room with shower and wc for multi use, central heating independent, full a/c, 2wc, 2 shower,1 bathroom, fully furnished, small garden, bbq area, parking, on a small building in a very quiet area near Agios Vasilios church. Strovolos - €900 - H4ST10028-R (photos in website).

14. 4 bedrs new luxury detached house, all the bedrooms very big and all with big bathroom/shower, sitting room upstairs, attic room with shower and wc, office space/maid’ s room with shower and wc, central heating, full AC, 450sq.m, big sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with sitting area and fitted cooker and oven, 6 wc, 2 covered parking’s, big yard with tiles and garden with grass, bbq area in a very quiet neighbourhood near the CYBC ( RIK) station and near a neighbourhood park – Aglantzia €2000(H4AGZ0005-R), (photos in the website).

15. 4 bedr luxury detached house, separate maid’s room, 600 sq.m, central heating, full a/c, 6 wc, 4 bathrooms, big sitting and

dining areas opening on to the garden, big kitchen with electrical appliances, built in 2 big plots of land with huge garden with grass, swimming pool, 2 covered parking, in a quiet neighbourhood close to Alpha Mega supermarket Engomi - €3000 (H4PA20005-R), (photos on the website).

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3. 1 bedr spacious apartment with separate kitchen, 2a/c for hot and cold, big bedroom, covered veranda, NICELY FURNISHED, in the centre behind Cleopatra hotel – Nicosia Centre - € 550 - A1NIC0020-R (photos in website).

4. A1DAS0010-R, 1 bedr luxury spacious apartment with big sitting and dining room, big bathroom, big bedroom with shutters, covered veranda, storage heaters, 2a/c, cooker and oven in the kitchen, covered parking in a quiet area in a small modern building near Acropolis Park. Dasoupolis €400 (photos in website).

5. 2 bedr new luxury modern furnished apartment , central heating ind, 2 a/c, big covered veranda and covered parking in a quiet area behind the Municipal building – Agios Dometios - € 660 - A2ADO0004-R (photos in website).

6. 1 bedr new modern luxury apartment, 50sq.m, 2 a/c for hot and cold, nicely modern furnished, 3rd floor, covered parking, 6 year old in a quiet neighbourhood off Kantaras street. - STROVOLOS €370 (A1ST10009-R), (photos in the website).

7. 4 bedr luxury floor apartment,250sq.m, office, maid’s room, central heating ind, full hidden wall unit a/c,2 showers, 1 bath-

room, 3wc, parquet floor, big kitchen with cooker and oven, bbq on the veranda in the kitchen, big sitting area, roller blinds on all the windows, alarm system, big veranda on a small building off Athalasas avenue near Alpha Mega supermarket and Areteion hospital – Dasoupolis - € 1100 - A4DAS0002-R (photos in website).

8. A1ACS0007- R, 1 bedr luxury spacious apartment with 2 a/c for hot and cold, electrical appliances in the kitchen, big bedroom, covered veranda, blinds, covered parking, in a quiet area near Acropolis park. NICELY FURNISHED. Acropolis €450 (photos in website).

9. 3 bedr new luxury finished PENTHOUSE apartment 150sq.m internal areas+120sq. verandas, solid parquet floor all the flat, big bedrooms, big sitting and dining room, big semi separate kitchen with electrical appliances, home cine ma with big screen, LCD tv, covered parking in a quiet neighborhood near CYTA, Laiki + Hellenic bank headquarters and French school. CAN BE RENTED ALSO expensive MODERN furnished – Dasoupolis - € 1200 - A3DAS0019-R (photos in website).

10. A2AOM0009-R 2 bedr luxury finished apartment in a small building with 4 flats

only, central heating with petrol independent, full a/c, 2 bedrooms with en-suite bathroom/shower, separate guest wc, NICE MODERN EXPENSIVE FURNITURE, big covered veranda, covered parking, storage room, in a very quiet neighbourhood very close to Junior school and the park - Agioi Omologites - € 800 (photos in website).

11. 3 bedr luxury spacious ground floor apartment with separate entrance, big verandas and garden, big sitting and dining room, central heating independent, full a/c, 2wc, very big master bedroom, electrical appliances in the kitchen, aluminum shutters on windows, parquet laminate floor all the flat, covered parking, storage room, in a very quiet neighbourhood in a dead end street, off Athalasas Avenue behind Stephanis near English School €720 (A3ST10030-R), (photos in the website).

12. A2LYK0006-R, 2 bedr penthouse apartment with big veranda 60sq.m, storage heaters, full a/c, 2 bathrooms (one en suite), big sitting room, big separate kitchen with cooker and oven, blinds, covered parking near Agios Antonios market CLOSE TO THE UNIVERSITY. Lykavitos €510 (photos in website).

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LUXURY FLATS: 1. 2 bedr luxury spacious apartment, with central heating independent, 3a/c, big sitting and dining room, cooker and oven in the kitchen, blinds, 2 bathrooms(on en suite), big covered veranda, covered parking, storage room, near Ippokration private hospital. Available end of November – Engomi - € 550 - A2ENG0012-R (photos in website).

2. AINIC0006- R, 1 bedr., fully furnished and equipped apartment, 50sq.m, 2AC for hot and cold, covered verandah, covered parking, nice view, off Makarios avenue between Hilton and DEBENHAMS shop. Nicosia centre, € 450 (photos in website).

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA luxury apartment on the 1st floor of a 2 storey building, with a/c for hot and cold, fully nicely modern furnished, big covered veranda, parking, in a quiet neighbourhood. (no common expenses). Strovolos €600 (photos in website).

14. 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, fire place, covered parking and big overfloor heated covered swimming pool on the ground floor, on a small 3 storey building in a quiet neighborhood near a playground and near Ippokration private hospital Engomi - €2000 - A4ENG0003-R (photos in website).

15. 2 bedrs new luxury apartment, sitting room open plan with kitchen which includes cooker, oven, refrigerator and washing machine, 2 wc, central heating, full AC, blinds on the windows, very big covered verandas, covered parking and storage room in a dead end off Athalassas avenue near Laiki popular bank and Hellenic bank headquarters. - DASOUPOLI €550 (A2DAS0006-R), (photos in the website).

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2 BDRM flat in the centre of Nicosia. Rent €450. For information call 99453663, 99663927. *****************************

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FOR RENT luxury 2 bedroom flat near Alasia hotel very close to Debenhams (Makarios avenue), with kitchen, office room, dining room, big siting room, two wc, a/c, verandas. For further information please call 99465365 *****************************

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BEDROOM HOUSE IN EPISKOPI Split level 4-yearold house detached with central heating, a/c all over the house, lounge dinning room, separate kitchen, utility room, en-suite master bedroom, parking, three wcs. Price 800 euros (negotiable) 25337400

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3 BEDROOM HOUSE IN YPSONAS 3-year-old two storey detached house situated in a private area of Ypsonas with separate kitchen, lounge dinning room,garden, parking en-suite master bed-

TO LET LIMASSOL room a/c all over house. 25 337400 Price 700 euros *****************************

2 BEDROOM COTTAGE FOR RENT IN LANIA VILLAGE in a quiet and peaceful area, fully furnished, storage heaters, a/c, rent €300 per month. Minimum contract 1 year. Info mob 99548855 FOR RENT new ground floor terrace studios for rent in Kouka village (20 minutes from Limassol) in a quiet and peaceful area fully furnished €180 per month minimum contract 1 year. For info mob 99548855

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room apartment with balcony situated in centre of town, semi furnished. Please call 99311152 *****************************

FOR RENT 2 bed, 2 bath, new built apartment, in a quiet scenic location In Alethriko, Larnaca 5 min. to Larnaka, 5 min. to the beach Fully furnished, A/C, communal pool, under covered parking, Long term rent, €350.00 per month For more info pls

call 99639378

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Contact us on 99672466,

FULLY FURNISHED one bedroom flat near Larco hotel Larnaca. Price €370. Tel: 99202543 *****************************

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GROUND FLOOR HOUSE, furnished renovated this year. Laminated parke floor, and big wardrobes in the 3 bedrooms. Rent €590.00 Tel 99497576 99886775 *****************************

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TO LET: 22 Mesopotamias street off Larnaca - Dhekelia Road, (between Lenios Hotel and Galazio Kyma Restaurant) right on the beach. Contains two bedrooms, shower/toilet, large attic, kitchen and lounge on ground floor. Furnished. Tel 99608776 *****************************

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BARGAIN PROPERTY FOR RENT - Moutallos, 3 bedroom first floor apartment, fully furnished, 2 bathrooms, 1 en-suite, balcony, very close to all amenities, euro 350 per month o.n.o tel: 99127195

rent. Lovely quiet complex with pool, private parking, entry phone system & storage room. €350 per month.

2. UNIVERSAL – one bed furnished apartment on 2nd floor, small quiet well maintained complex with sea views. €300 per month.

3. UNIVERSAL – 2 two bed, 2 bath apartments on superb quiet complex, with 3 pools, gym, sauna, jaccuzi & bowling green. 1 apt furnished, 1 unfurnished from €400 per month.

4. TALA – 2 two bed, 2 bath villa style apts on stunning quiet complex with 4 pools, with off road and underground parking. 1 apt furnished 1 U/F from €360 per month.

PLEASE CALL 96203009

2. SEA CAVES, 3 bedroom bungalow, specially fitted for people with disabilities , stunning sea views, free wi-fi, fully furnished with modern furniture, swimming pool, all bedrooms with ensute, utility room, air conditioning throughout, shutters, very green and secluded area euro 1100 p/m o.N.O 3. EMBA, 2 bedroom apartment, 2 bathroom, modern furnished, air conditioned throughout, communal swimming pool, covered parking, close to all amenities, euro 330 p/m 4. CHLORAKA, 3 bedroom furnished villa with pool, amazing views, master ensuite, in cul-de-sac, fully airconditioned with fireplace, euro 700 p/m PLEASE CALL : 99 387842

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PAPHOS €290/month Acropolis Heights (a) ,Chlorakas (b) € 380 /mnth Universal area and Both are 2-bed houses, beautiful locations, in Cul-desacs, 10 years old, 90 sq. mts, Furnished, Open-Plan Lounge/ Kitchen, Front Car-port, Garden, (a) is Ground floor, 1 W.C/ bath. (b) is 2-Floors, 2 W.CS/ Bath and part air-conditioned.

Call 99-632388.’ *****************************

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Long Term Rentals 1. Chlorakas 1 bed ground floor furnished apartment with central heating, communal pool and parking, sky TV. €335 pcm including all bills 2. Tala 2 bed quality furnished apartment. Stunning sea views, large balcony, well kept gardens, communal pool, quiet area. €375 pcm 3. Chlorakas Large 4 bed detached villa, secluded position, large private pool, a/c, and parking. Unfurnished.

Very nice well worth seeing. €800 pcm reduced 4. Peyia Unfurnished 2 bed 2 bathroom house, a/c, ceiling fans, fly screens, storage, satellite TV, private parking, swimming pool, From €350 pcm REDUCED THIS IS JUST A SMALL SELCTION OF PROPERTIES THAT ARE AVAILABLE FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE AND MANY MORE PLEASE CALL EITHER 96 545 174 OR E-MAIL ON info@ unique-consultancy.eu LANDLORDS; WE NEED YOUR PROPERTIES NOW. PLEASE CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY FOR RENT.

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

1. MANDRIA, 2 bedroom apartment, fully furnished with modern furniture, separate kitchen, communal swimming pool, air conditioning throught, 2 balconies euro 375 p/m o.N.O

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CHLORAKAS, 2 bedroom apartment, fully furnished, large veranda, very quiet location, communal pool, Euro 280 – o.n.o Please call: 99699019 /26910140 *****************************

KISSONERGA VILLAGE, St Kononas area, 3 bedroom flat with private parking, private roof garden with barbeque, elevator, full a/c & electrical appliances provided, beautiful sea and mountain views. €400 per month.

Call: 99 553741 *****************************

FOR RENT KATO PAPHOS spacious 2 bed F/F garden apartment. Enclosed garden

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GREAT VALUE STUDIO FLAT FOR RENT, just off Tomb of the Kings, very convenient position, easy walk to harbour, town centre or Kato Paphos. Fully furnished (washing machine etc.) Only Euro 200/month inc. communal charges. Phone 99-493862

TO LET PAPHOS with 2 covered patios next to green area, cul-de-sac setting. AC, SAT TV, comm. pool, bath/shower. Superb location with private covered parking and entrance.

Quiet yet close to all amenities. €400 p/m. Contact 26 911540 or 99955302. *****************************

DT PROPERTY LETTINGS PRESENTS : Chloraka 4 bed Villa fully furnished, 3 bathrooms, 2 lounges, air conditioning throughout, private garage, large garden only €700.00 per month Universal 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom ground floor apartment fully furnished, air conditioning, communal pool and private parking special rate €320.00 Tsada 5 bedroom villa with 4 bathrooms, fully furnished, double garage, very spacious with private swimming pool, fantastic views only €1.600.00 per month neg.

Peyia 3 bedroom villa with two bathrooms fully furnished, air conditioning throughout, communal swimming pool and parking. Nice location close to all amenities €500.00 per month Now available at DT property lettings Many other properties available. Please call: Tel 2683543 or 97675123 *****************************

PEYIA, available now for rent in a most sought after location next to the municipal park, 1 & 2 bedroom apartments with magnificent sea and mountain views, furnished or unfurnished, off street parking, quiet area, for viewing, ring: 99 887251 / 99 025173 *****************************

TO LET PAPHOS A DELIGHTFUL AND SPACIOUS 1 bedroom apartment, F/F, top floor, new, located at a peaceful location just 500 from St. George hotel in Chloraka. A+ quality apt. Within walking distance to amenities, part of a beautiful building with swimming pool, list and other amenities. Only €250p/m Other apts also available near Carrefour in the Centre of Paphos. Call 99403261, 26934650 *****************************

PAPHOS RENTALS SECTION TREMITHOUSA - Very sought after location, Modern 2 Bedroom, F/F, Town House, Lovely Communal Pool, Sea views, Early viewing highly recommended, 400 Euros PAPHOS - Very large 3 Bedroom Apt , Fully Furnished to a very high standard ,Would suit 3 Professionals sharing, Within close proximity to Hospital and Court, Central Heating, 2 Bathrooms, Laundry, 350 Euros.

TALA - Luxurious 4 Bedroom, F/F to a very high standard, 2 bathrooms, 2 en-suite, Swimming Pool, Landscaped Garden and Spectacular Views, 700 Euros.

EMPA - Immaculate, Spacious 2 Bedroom, U/F, House, Large kitchen, Patio, Quiet location, Must be seen, 300 Euros WANTED - 2 bedroom furnished properties MORE PROPERTIES AVAILABLE FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 99862922 *****************************

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TIMI 3 bed modern villa with wood burner, Ac, offered fully furnished. Spacious living areas with 2 sitting areas, big kitchen,3 upstairs bedrooms, master on suite shower, family bathroom, Small private pool, off street parking. Quite location not far from the village amenities. Paphos Town. Ref: 722 price €600 KISSONERGRA A bed luxury villa on its own private grounds, with fantastic views of the sea, private pool, Modem Furnishings, quality appliances, downstairs bedroom, large kitchen, upstairs bedroom with en suite, family bathroom. Ref 0000 Price €950 ANARITA A 3 bed villa offered furnished , with private pool, in nice quiet cul-de-sac, off street parking, AC. quality kitchen, 3 bedrooms upstairs. Ref 855 price €600 PEGEIA A superb character 4 bedroom villa, with beams, fire place, central heating.

Italian kitchen, sitting and dining areas, 3 good size bedroom, with downstairs bedroom with en suite. Outside mature gardens, private pool, fantastic views, peaceful location. Ref: 765

Price €900 Mandria A modern unfurnished 4 bed Villa with private pool. Downstairs bedroom with shower, sitting room with log burner, 3 bedrooms upstairs, master bed with en suite shower room.

Property has private fence and pets are welcome. Ref 1174 price €700 YEROSKIPOU 2 bed furnished apartment with communal pool, gym, under cover parking on modern new complex Apartment is furnished, with bathroom, modern kitchen and blinds + AC Ref: 1164 price €350 ARMOU A 3 bedroom fully furnished bungalow with private pool. Nice clean modern property with log burner, 3 good size bedrooms, master en suite, large family bathroom, garage, fantastic views of the sea. Ref 854 Price €750 MANDRIA Modern 2 bedroom apartment, offered furnished. Property is modern and has a large outside veranda, great views, large communal pool. Not far from all local amenities. Ref: 882 Price €400 Please call for a free viewing on Office 26600450 Mobile: 97614070 many more properties on our website at www.flowron. com - www.paphospropertycyprus.com

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bedroom 2 bathroom bungalow with gas central heating throughout, log burner in living area and real fireplace in bedroom, perfect for those winter months. A fully enclosed pretty courtyard offers stunning views.

Available furnished or part furnished. Pets allowed at owners discretion. Website reference number: rtl_644 3. KISSONERGA €550 modern detached 3 bedroom villa situated in a quiet residential area. Master bedroom with ensuite, separate kitchen, downstairs guest wc. Enclosed garden offering private pool & off street parking. Available unfurnished though can include kitchen appliances. Pets allowed at owners discretion.

Website reference number: rtl_501 4. PEYIA €700 price includes pool cleaning. If you are looking for a villa with breathtaking views & privacy than this property is for you. This modern detached 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom villa is furnished with modern furniture, including satellite tv & electric radiators throughout.

One bedroom & bathroom on ground floor. A spacious enclosed garden with private pool offering stunning sea views. Off street parking.

Website reference number: rtl_401

5. MANDRIA €750 modern detached 4 bedroom villa, master with ensuite. Fully enclosed low maintenance garden offering private pool.

Available unfurnished to include white goods, blackout blinds, curtains, ceiling fans & log burner for those winter months. Immaculate condition. Pets allowed at owners discretion. Website reference number: rtl_633 offers considered.

6. CHLORAKA €750 modern detached 4 bedroom 3 bathroom villa with ground floor bedroom & bathroom.

Beautifully furnished with good quality modern furniture includes sky satellite, fly screens & feature fireplace with modern gas fire. Private pool offering views of the sea. Off street parking.

Situated within walking distance of bus routes & shops.

Website reference number: rtl_611 7. KATO PAPHOS €800 large 4 bedroom detached villa situated in the sought after residential area of limnaria.

Walking distance to the beach and the many amenities of kato paphos. Spacious living accomodation offering an enclosed garden with storage & communal pool. Fully furnished with modern furniture & solar panels. Website reference number: rtl_442

8. TALA €900 a charming detached 4 bedroom villa with character, situated on a corner plot in a quiet residental area with breathtaking sea views. Spacious living rooms with central heating & real fireplace. Separate kitchen & dining room. Good sized garden offering private pool and stone built barbeque area. Undercover parking.

Available fully furnished.

Website reference number rtl_638 TEL: 97790883 OFFICE: 26271858 VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR MANY MORE PROPERTIES www.mrrentpaphos.net Email: info@ mrrent-paphos.net

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PEYIA – 3 bedroom villa with modern quality furniture and finishes. Central heating, sky, alarm, infinity pool and stunnning sea and mountain views €700 per month, call: 99389426 *****************************

BRAND NEW APT, opposite Poseidonio Gym, near Carrefour, F/F, a/c, great quality, 1 bdrm, from €340p.m.Tel 99403261 *****************************

MR RENT PAPHOS, THE LEADING PROPERTY RENTAL AGENCY IN PAPHOS OFFICE: 26271858 (00357) IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY TO RENT WE ARE THE RENTAL AGENCY TO CONTACT OFFERING FULL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT & RENT COLLECTION SERVICE 1. ANARITA €375 modern 2 bedroom 2.5 Bathroom townhouse situated on a quiet peaceful complex with manicured gardens, communal infinity pools & a large indoor gym. Fully furnished with modern furniture & sateliite. Garden with country & sea views. Website reference number: rtl_647 2. TSADA €380 charming 2

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1. MESA CHORIO – 2 bed 2 bath fully furnished ground floor apartment set on an elevated position on this prestigious development.

Open plan living area. Good sized kitchen. 2 double, bedrooms, master with en-

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suite shower room. Family bathroom. Large patio areas with enclosed gardens and lovely sea views. Covered parking and security gates..

Comm swimming pool, and landscaped gardens. Euros 425.00 a month. 2 bed apartment same complex Euros 400.00 a month.

2 MESOGI 3 bed 3 bath furnished apartment in handy location close to the shopping areas. Large open plan living area and dining area..

Fully fitted dining/kitchen with appliances . Guest WC. Utilty room. 3 double bedrooms one with en-suite.

Family bathroom. Balcony & and parking. Euros 500.00 a month. Suit non-drivers!

3. TOMB OF THE KINGS – 3 bed fully furnished apartment in established block.

Own entrance via stairway.

Open plan living area. Dining kitchen. 3 bedrooms and family bathroom. A/C, sat TV. Internet available. Large balcony area. Parking. Euros 350.00 per month 4. KISSONEGA - 3 bed 2 bath unfurnished villa. Set in enclosed gardens the villa consists of open plan living area. Full itted kitchen.

Small utility area. Conservatory room. Ground floor bed room with en-suite. Stairs to two double bedrooms and family bathroom. Pool and off street parking. Euros 600.00 per month 5. STROUMBI – 2 bed fully furnished stone bungalow set in quiet location. Open plan living area with working fireplace. Spacious dining kitchen. 2 double bedrooms and family bathroom with corner bath. Landscaped

gardens, swimming pool and covered parking. Realistically priced Euros 500.00 per month or close offers only 6. UNIVERSAL AREA. 2 bed fully furnished apartment.

Living area, fitted kitchen. 2 double bedrooms and family bathroom. A/C, Enclosed garden area, comm. Pool and parking. Euros 375.00 a month or offers. 1 & 2 bed apartments available on Universal starting at 250 euros per month.

7. CORAL BAY - 3 bed, 3.5 bath furnished/unfurnished villa situated very near to the centre and within easy walking of beaches and restaurants. Open plan living area with fully fitted kitchen.

Doors out to garden and pool. Ground floor bedroom with ensuite. Separate guest WC. Stairs to 2 double bedroom both with en-suite and balcony areas. Private pool, gardens, BBQ area and covered verandahs. Central location.Euros 650.00 per month or close offers.

8. STROUMBI– 3 bed 2.5 bath large unfurnished villa in quiet village area. Spacious open plan living area with feature fireplace and dining space Good sized fitted kitchen and breakfast area. Guest WC with storage area.3 double bedrooms.

Master with en-suite bathroom. Family bathroom.

Enclosed gardens, pool and off street parking. Realistically priced Euros 550.00 per month. OVNO FOR FULL LISTINGS OF A PA R T M E N T S / T O W N HOUSES AND VILLA PLEASE CALL FOR DETAILS. ALL TYPES OF PROPERTY URGENTLY REQUIRED FOR LONG TERM RENTAL LANDLORDS/OWNERS PLEASE CALL PLEASE CALL 97648440 or email:inforentals@aol. com

- Two Traditional stone village houses, large common courtyard in picturesque village of Lysos, Paphos.

10min from Latchi.

- 5017m2 Land with 10% building rights, in Lysos village on main road to Stavro Tis Psokas.

- 8362m2 Land with 10% building rights in Lysos village on boarder of housing zone which is to be extended.

QUICK SALE FOR SERIOUS OFFERS EURO 800,000 Tel : 99452241/99848757

FOR SALE Well kept detached bungalow on the edge of Pano Kivides. Quiet location with open view. Kitchen/diner 5.55m x 3.75 Separate lounge of similar size. Two bedrooms, with A/C, fitted wardrobes.

Good size bathroom. Mains drainage. Entrance hall, used as an office. Gas CH. All new double glazed windows. Conservatory 7.26m x 2.46m. Outside, plot in excess of 700 sq. m.. Large covered area including brick built workshop 5.3m x 4.8m . Hot tub. Car port, TITLE DEEDS. Euros 198000. Private sale. No agents. No VAT. Why pay for a building site with no services when you could move into a comfortable home, with no hassle, but lots of potential, for less?

Tel. 99995906 or 99995992.

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REFURBISHED stone-built village house located in Kili Paphos. Consists of 3 large rooms 1 small. Traditional wood burnt fireplace, fully tiled secluded yard and garage. Tel: 99210610. *****************************

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UNIVERSAL AREA, 3 bedroom detached villa, covered area 122 sqm, master bedroom en-suite, air conditioned throughout, all white goods, solar panels, garden irrigation, plot size 273 sqm, communal pool, euro 165.000 o.v.n.o. – title deeds available Call : 99682644no agents *****************************

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FOR SALE PAPHOS erga, 3 bdrm flat with title deeds, in a block of 4 flats only, fully renovated, 2 baths, 146 sq.m closed area, c/h, a/c, covered parking, excelent view of sea and mountains, half registration fees titll 31.12.12 reduced to €135.000 or rent €450 per month. Tel. 99621914. *****************************

FOR SALE special offer, €79, 000 first floor apartment in Protaras, fully furnished with 2 bedrooms and a swimming pool. Walking distance to the beach of Ayia Triada and all amenities. Tel: 97 608941. *****************************

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1.AYIA NAPA, Studio for sale, 38 sqm, furnished and fully renovated,. with title deed, in licensed complex, 5030m from Nissi Beach €49.000.

Tel. 99621914. LARNACA

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NICOSIA, FLAT FOR SALE: 2 bdrm flat with title deeds, 110 sq.m., fully renovated, best central area, 800m from the European University, excellent view, €99.000. Tel. 99621914. *****************************

FOR SALE PENTHOUSE between Armenias Str and Hilton Hotel. 3 bedroom, main bedroom with shower, c/h, fireplace, large verandas. For more information please call: 99467596.

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PROPERTY SALE BLOCK BUY INVESTMENT - House (detached) 3-Bed, 2 Bath, on ½ plot, Koloni, Paphos in cul-de-sac. Near amenities, highway and airport. 5 min from sea.

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HOSPITALS ........ 1400

Nicosia ........................22 802 020 Limassol ......................25 805 050 Larnaca .......................24 804 040 Paphos ........................26 806 060 Famagusta ..................23 803 030

Nicosia General .............22-801400 Nicosia Makarios ...........22-405000 Limassol Old ................25-305333 Limassol New ................25-801100 Larnaca Old...................24-630312 Larnaca New .................24-630300 Paphos ..........................26-821800 Famagusta ....................23-821211

Drug Law Enforcement Unit ......................................... 1498 (Confidential Information) Rescue Co-ordination Centre ............................. 1441 (Immediate Response Service for Aeronautical or Maritime Accident & Incidents) Game Fund Service: (Wildlife and hunting) Central offices (Nicosia): 22867786, 22-867897 Nicosia: 22-664606, 99-445697 Limassol: 25-343800, 99-445728, Larnaca/Famagusta: 24-805128, 99-634325 Paphos: 26-306211, 99-445679 Forest Fires ..................... 1407

Narcotics Helpline ......... 1410 (Outside hours.............. 22-304160) AIDS Advisory Bureau ................................ 22-302826 Domestic Violence Centre .......................................... 1440 (Emergency Centre for Victims) Drug Info & Poison Control ............... 1401 Cyprus Samaritans ... 77777267 Police Duty Officer ......... 1499 (Confidential Information) Airports Larnaca ..........................77778833 Paphos ...........................77778833

Friends for Life Limassol Hospice Care Appeal Reg no 2423

Annual Christmas Fair 8th & 9th December 2012 at The Atlantica Miramare Beach Hotel Potamos Yermasoyia Limassol Buy all your Christmas Gifts under one roof with 700sq metres of Exhibitions: Dolls Houses and accessories to suit all from 3 years to the young at heart- Exquisite Beadwork- Mosaics- Aromatherapy –Soaps - Beautiful Candles - Fun with Encaustic Art-Jewellery - Denise with Hair Clips and an exciting new product -Patchwork –Woodcraft - Felted items – Knitwear – Cards –Books - Hand Painted Glassware - Chutneys and Jams - Helen’s Indian Treasures -Handmade accessories Numerous other gift ideas.

Kiddies Korner with Santa Lucky Dip / Magic / Face Painting / Friends for Life / Cake Stall / Bric Brac / Books / Art Exhibition Limassol Theatre Arts School will be performing on Saturday 8th December at 11:45 a.m.

"Limassol Theatre Arts School (LTAS) is a dynamic Stage School which nurtures and inspires young performers.

Under the expert guidance of a team of experienced professionals and ex West End performer, LTAS provides high quality training in Musical Theatre, Dance, Singing and Drama/Acting. LTAS prepares its students to be the stars of the future!"

Tombola – Grand Draw Excellent Car parking with Wheelchair & Pushchair access Open 11am – 7pm Entry Adults €2, including Free Tombola Ticket - Children Free Entrance Door Prize kindly donated by the Atlantica Miramare Hotel Further details contact Anne on 99269016 or 25632446 All Proceeds to the Limassol Hospice Care Appeal

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Advertiser FOR PAPHIAKOS ANIMAL WELFARE SOS HELPLINE, 24 HOUR MEDICAL EMERGENCY SERVICE - CALL 99655581 CONTACT DETAILS FOR PAPHIAKOS. Paphiakos & C.C.P. Animal Welfare Education/Information Centre, No. 12 Dedalos Building, 8049 Kato Paphos PO Box 61272 8132 Kato Paphos Web. www.cyprusanimalwelfare.com www.facebook/paphiakos Email info@cyprusanimalwelfare.com Larnaca Emergency Service - The contact point for animal emergencies in Larnaca is Maria at the Paphiakos Animal Welfare Charity Shop, telephone 24623494 or 99325897 STOP, SHOP AND GIVE TO THE ANIMALS! ALL DONATIONS ARE WELCOME AT OUR CHARITY SHOPS! PAPHIAKOS & C.C.P. ANIMAL WELFARE Registered Charity No 1529 Contact our shops and we can take your clutter The Charity Shops are located at: Shop No.1 Agapinoros Street, Kato Paphos Tel 26910325 Shop No.2 Ap Pavlou Avenue, Kato Paphos Tel 26942894 Shop No.3 Gr. Afxentiou Avensia Court 3 Larnaca 24623494 Shop No.4 9 Ayiou Ioanni Street 3061 Limassol 25561695 Peyia Information Centre & Shop & T Rooms 26622828 Polis Information Centre & Shop & T Rooms 99223572 Book Exchange Shop Trimithousa 99771763 Our shops are always happy to receive your unwanted goods!

NOW YOU CAN HELP BY COLLECTING YOUR ALUMINIUM CANS AND HANDING THEM IN AT ANY PAPHIAKOS CHARITY SHOP OR THE CLINIC. SAVE AN ANIMAL AND SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT!!

PAPHIAKOS CAR BOOT SALE EVERY SATURDAY at the Ambassador Restaurant and outside in the grounds at Paphiakos. Free parking. Sellers from 7am, buyers from 8am. For information & bookings please call MIKE on 96702600.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS FOR PAPHIAKOS CHARITY NO. 1529 WORLD ANIMAL DAY. On Thursday October 4th Paphiakos will be micro chipping pets for only €20 including all the paperwork. For further information telephone 26953496.

To celebrate World Animal Day on Thursday October 4th Paphiakos will be offering free spaying/neutering for all feral and unwanted animals as they do throughout the year. Contact 26953496 for further details.

PAPHIAKOS SHELTER OPEN DAY The Open Day will be held on Sunday October 7th between 10am and 3pm. It will be a Family Fun Day out with a lot of different activities. There is car parking, toilets and refreshments on site so enjoy and join in the celebration of animals and what they bring to our lives. Entrance is €2 CHARITY HAIR CUT. On Thursday 4th October 09.30-17.30 without an appointment Andri at Atlantic Bay Hotel (2nd Floor) will be charging €5 for a haircut with all proceeds going to Paphiakos. Telephone Suzanne on 99151996 or Andri on 99604783.

PAPHIAKOS CHRISTMAS BAZAAR. Saturday November 24th 9am – 3pm at the Crazy Spoon Restaurant. For further details contact 99151996. Stalls, Santa’s Grotto, Donkey Rides, Pirate Pat and many more.

AYIA NAPA and DHERYNIA (Anglican Church in S.E Cyprus) Sunday Worship 9.30am Morning Prayer every Sunday morning at St Constantinos & Eleni Chapel, Dherynia (near Hospital in Dherynia) 11am at Scandinavian Church, off Nissi Avenue (opp Tassia Maris Hotel), Ayia Napa nd 6pm at St Constantinos & Eleni (2 week) Chaplain : Revd Simon Holloway M.A. Tel: 97 839349 www.angsecyp.org Visitors especially welcome

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Television CYBC 1 06.45 08.15 11.00 11.30

Proti Enimerosi Kali Sas Mera Kaftes Piperies (rpt) Istories Tou Horkou (rpt) Local comedy series, which happens to be the longest-running show on TV.

12.00

Apo Mera Se Mera Current affairs programme.

15.30 16.00 18.00 18.15

Entehnos Mazi Sto CyBC News Kaftes Piperies

18.45

Paizoume Kypriaka

Live cookery show.

CYBC 2 07.00 08.00 16.30 17.00 18.00 18.50 19.00 19.10 20.00 21.00

22.00

Moiraia Fengaria

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

22.00

Greek FILM: O Anthropos Pou Girise Apo Ti Zesti

23.00

00.15 00.45

News Moiraia Fengaria (rpt) Entehnos Repeats

Criminal Minds Fifth season. ‘Parasite’.

The BAU is called in to investigate the mental decline of a con artist, whose schemes have become so complicated that he has turned to killing the people involved in them.

Comedy. 1980.

23.35 23.55

Top Gear Fourteenth season.

Episode 2. The presenters try to impress Oxford residents by building an electric car, and refuse to let an unenthusiastic response deter them from sitting in on the machine’s crash-test before handing it over to the Stig’s environmentally friendly cousin. Actor Michael Sheen is the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car, and Jeremy Clarkson pits the Corvette ZR1 against the Audi R8 V10.

New local drama series inspired by Maro Kranidioti’s book ‘Otan i Moira Apofasizei’.

20.00 21.15

NRG Zone Kids’ TV FIFA World Cup 2014 Magazine Great Teams Of European Championships (rpt) Biz/Emeis News In English News In Turkish Kati Psinetai (rpt) NRG Zone Why Poverty?

A series of documentaries devoted to global deprivation.

New season of local game show, asking questions having to do with Cypriot dialect.

19.20

ANTENNA

00.00

Repeats

06.20 06.50 07.00 08.20 09.10 09.40 10.20 12.10 13.00 13.20 14.00 14.50 16.00 16.50 17.45 19.20 20.20 21.20 22.20 23.15

MEGA

Proini Enimerosi Me Agapi Kai oi Pantremeni Ehoun Psihi (rpt) Englimata (rpt) Oi Men kai oi Den (rpt) Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) O Polemos Ton Astron (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) News Mera Mesimeri Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) Tin Patisa (rpt) Tihi Vouno (rpt) Eva Luna Aiyia Fuxia (rpt)

06.00 06.30

19.20

Eftyhismenoi Mazi (rpt)

With News at 18.00.

20.20 21.15

News Klemmena Oneira

Niose Me News Proedrikes 2013 To Amartime Tis Mitros Mou Private Practice

07.00 08.00 10.00 12.45 14.00 15.00

Local investigative show.

16.00

Yia Sena

18.00 18.20

News Eisai To Tairi Mou (rpt)

Local talk-show.

Greek comedy series.

Greek comedy series.

02.30 03.20 04.10 04.30

News Sports News Ola 13 Kai Oi Pantremenoi Ehoun Psihi (rpt) Tmima Ithon (rpt) News To Kafeneio (rpt) Deal (rpt)

06.10 07.00 08.20 10.20 11.10 12.00 14.20 15.20 18.00 18.05 18.30 19.30 20.20 21.20 22.20

22.20

Porta Kleidomeni Local drama series.

23.10

FILM: American Crude A man meets a prostitute, an ex-convict and a porn king when he throws a bachelor party for his best friend. Comedy drama, starring Raymond J. Barry. With News at 00.00.

01.00 03.00 04.00 05.00

Yia Sena (rpt) Charlie’s Angels Enimerosi Tora (rpt) Proino Mou (rpt)

The Del Monte Heirs (rpt) Protoselido Eleni Vasiliki (rpt) 7 Ouranoi kai Synnefa Alites (rpt) Mesimeri Kai Kati Aspra Balonia (rpt) Magazino News Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama The Del Monte Heirs 7 Ouranoi kai Synnefa Alites News Oikogeniakes Istories FILM: Seduced By Lies A successful businesswoman discovers someone is watching her every move.

Psychological thriller, starring Josie Davis and Marc Menard.

2010.

New season of Greek drama series.

Grey’s Anatomy spinoff centering on the life of neonatal surgeon Addison Montgomery.

00.10 00.15 00.30 01.40

I Dipsa (rpt) Emeis Ki Emeis (rpt) Koinonia Ora Mega Nea Mera Proino Mou Enimerosi Tora Kelmmena Oneira (rpt) Eheis Meson

SIGMA

00.00 00.05 01.00

News CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 24 Ground-breaking realtime drama series, starring Kiefer Sutherland as a government agent out to stop terrorists wreaking havoc across America.

01.40 02.30 03.00 03.30

Epistrofi (rpt) Mila Mou (rpt) Allou Ximeromenoi (rpt) Eleni (rpt)

PLUS TV 06.45 07.20 07.50 09.00 09.30 10.55

Star News Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Mila Best Of Nistikoi Praktores (rpt) Cookery show, with helpful tips on eating well and nutrition.

Hosted by Dina Nikolaou.

11.50 12.30 13.00

Kids’ TV Star News Mesimeriani Meleti Showbiz news and gossip show hosted by Eleonora Meleti.

15.30 17.15 17.50 19.40

Kids’ TV Exelixeis Stin Showbiz Fotis Maria Live Mila Discussions about various issues based on woman’s life (men, relationships, sex, kids etc.) with showbiz guests. Hosted by Tatiana Stefanidou.

21.15 22.00

CAPITAL 08.15 08.45 09.25 10.00

17.30 18.15

Magikos Kosmos S’Agapo (rpt) Akti Oneiron Ston Asterismos Tis Imeras Kouzina Me Apopsi Remington Steele Milagros Kids’ TV Top Models S’Agapo Sabrina, To Koritsi Tis Agapis Akti Oneiron Pacific Blue

19.15 19.50 20.05 21.00

News Sports Time Rubi FILM: The Suspect

11.00 11.30 12.30 13.25 15.05 15.55 16.40

With News at 18.30.

A woman tries to prove she did not murder her husband by uncovering the real killer - but even her own stepdaughter does not believe her claims of innocence. Thriller, starring Jamie Luner.

2005.

22.45

Exelixeis Stin Showbiz La Bomba Sportshow

An undercover cop infiltrates a gang of small-time IrishAmerican hoodlums led by one of his childhood friends. Gangster thriller, with Sean Penn, Ed Harris. 1990.

Satirical show focusing on the sports and news.

23.00 00.30 01.30 02.00

Pantahou Paron LTV Sports News Star News Repeats

FILM: State Of Grace

01.15

FILM: Critical Assignment Thriller, starring Cleveland Mitchell.

2004.

Thor (Novacinema1, 19.00) ons League Lithuania 01:30 Motorsports: Gta Road To Dubai 01:45 Ski Jumping: World Cup Finland 01:00 Tribal Wives 01:55 Born And Bred The Inspector Calls 02:45 EastEnders 03:15 Doctors My Girl Lollipop 03:45 Doctor Who Confidential Send In The Clones 04:00 Waking The Dead Sins 04:50 Waking The Dead Missing Persons 05:40 Last Man Standing Wolof Wrestling 06:30 My Family: Xmas Special 2005 Part 1 07:00 Tellytales Dancing Rose 07:10 Boogie Beebies 07:25 Teletubbies Colours - Pink 07:50 Balamory Bed Time 08:10 Tellytales Dancing Rose 08:20 Boogie Beebies 08:35 Teletubbies Colours - Pink 09:00 Balamory Bed Time 09:20 Garth And Bev Eyeglasses 09:30 Buzz & Tell 09:35 Keeping Up Appearances 10:05 Mastermind 10:35 The Weakest Link 11:20 EastEnders 11:50 Doctors My Girl Lollipop 12:20 Ray Mears’ Wild Foods Coast 13:10 Tribal Wives 14:00 Mastermind 14:30 Keeping Up Appearances 15:00 The Weakest Link 15:45 EastEnders 16:15 Doctors My Girl Lollipop 16:45 Ray Mears’ Wild Foods Coast 17:35 Tribal Wives 18:25 The Weakest Link 19:10 Big Cat Diary 19:40 Doctors Father of the Man 20:10 Robin Hood The Enemy Of My Enemy 21:00 Lead Balloon Shoddy 21:30 Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps Croppity Crops 22:00 Tribal Wives 22:50 ‘Allo ‘Allo! 23:25 Live At The Apollo 00:10 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 00:55 Michael McIntyre: Hello Wembley!

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 Track Me If You Can 22:00 Curiosity 23:00 How We Invented The World 00:00 Curiosity 01:00 Nothing Personal 01:55 Track Me If You Can 02:50 Curiosity 03:50 How We Invented The World 04:50 Curiosity 05:45 How Do They Do It? 06:10 Overhaulin’ 09:30 Biathlon: World Cup Sweden 10:30 Ski Jumping: World Cup Finland 11:30 Football: Next Gen Series 12:30 Biathlon: World Cup Sweden 13:30 Cross-Country Skiing: World Cup Finland 15:00 Football: Next Gen Series 16:00 Biathlon: World Cup Sweden 17:00 Winter Sports: Ski Pass 17:15 Ski Jumping: World Cup Finland 19:45 Alpine Skiing: World Cup Usa 21:30 Alpine Skiing: World Cup Canada 22:45 Winter Sports: Ski Pass 23:00 Equestrian: European Masters Paris 00:30 Strongest Man: European Champi-

05:40 Private Practice 06:25 Castle 07:10 Modern Family 07:35 Happy Endings 08:00 Once Upon A Time 08:50 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 09:40 Private Practice 10:25 Castle 11:10 Modern Family 11:35 Happy Endings 12:00 New Girl 12:50 Glee 13:40 Once Upon A Time 14:30 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 15:20 Private Practice 16:05 Castle 16:50 Modern Family 17:15 Happy Endings 17:40 Once Upon A Time 18:30 Donna Hay: Fast, Fresh, Simple 19:20 Private Practice 20:10 Castle 21:00 New Girl 21:50 Glee 22:40 Modern Family 23:05 Happy Endings 23:30 New Girl 00:20 Glee 01:10 Castle 02:00 Private Practice 02:45 Modern Family 03:10 Happy Endings 03:35 Rita Rocks 04:00 Once Upon A Time 04:50 Donna Hay: Fast, Fresh, Simple

07:00 Pawn Stars 6 07:30 Storage Wars 2 08:00 UFO Hunters 09:00 Patton 360 10:00 Pawn Stars 6 10:30 Storage Wars 2 11:00 Ancient Aliens 3 12:00 Ice Road Truckers 6 13:00 Ax Men 14:00 Patton 360 15:00 UFO Hunters 16:00 Ice Road Truckers 6 17:00 Ax Men 18:00 Pat-

ton 360 19:00 UFO Hunters 20:00 Pawn Stars 6 20:30 Storage Wars 2 21:00 Ancient Aliens 3 22:00 Soviet Storm: WWII In The East 2 23:00 Mankind: The Story Of All Of Us 01:00 Ancient Aliens 3 02:00 Mankind: The Story Of All Of Us 04:00 UFO Hunters 05:00 Patton 360 06:00 Ancient Aliens 3

07:30 Phenomenon (1996) 09:40 Wallis & Edward 11:20 Passed Away 13:10 Bloodlines 14:45 Revolutionary Road 16:45 Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil 19:30 Hollywood Buzz 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Machete 23:00 Red (2010) 01:00 Hustler TV 02:30 Strictly Sexual 04:15 Hollywood Buzz 04:45 Adam 06:30 LTV Sports News

07:00 Chowder 07:25 The Mar-

velous Misadventures Of Flapjack 07:50 The Tom & Jerry Show 08:15 Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue! 08:40 Loonatics Unleashed 09:05 Superman: The Animated Series 09:55 The Looney Tunes Show 10:20 Tak & The Power Of Juju 10:45 Fanboy & Chum Chum 11:10 The X’s 11:35 Ni Hao, Kai-Lan 12:00 Dora The Explorer 12:25 Spongebob Squarepants 13:15 The Mighty B! 13:40 My Life As A Teenage Robot 14:05 Hey Arnold! 14:30 ICarly 15:20 Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue! 15:45 Justice League Unlimited 16:10 Legion Of Super Heroes 16:35 Young Justice 17:00 PBA All-Star Shootout 17:30 Planet Speed 18:00 Barclays Premier League World 18:30 NBA Action 19:00 La Liga World 19:30 Copa Del Rey 2012-13 21:30 A’ Division Cyprus Soccer Championship 2012-13 23:30 Barclays Premier League Preview 00:00 La Liga Show 2012-13 01:00 Barclays Premier League Review 02:00 La Liga Review 2012-13 03:00 Friday Night Fights 05:00 K9 Nation 05:30 NBA 2012-13

07:15 Aliens In America 08:00 Eastbound & Down 08:35 The Closer 09:30 Harry’s Law 10:30 Chuck 11:15 Supernatural 12:45 Hawaii Five-0 13:30 Aliens In America 14:15 The Closer 15:15

Harry’s Law 16:05 The Big Bang Theory 16:30 According To Jim 17:15 The Mentalist 18:00 C.S.I. New York 18:55 Strike Back 19:45 Gossip Girl 20:30 Entourage 21:00 NCIS: Los Angeles 22:30 Curb Your Enthusiasm 23:20 Sons Of Anarchy 00:10 Bronco Billy 02:10 Beauty And The Beast 03:50 The Big Bang Theory 04:15 According To Jim 04:35 According To Jim 05:00 The Mentalist 05:45 C.S.I. New York 06:30 Strike Back

07:15 Deception (2008) 09:15 His Way 10:45 Easier With Practice 12:45 Friday After Next 14:15 Romancing The Stone 16:15 Scooby-Doo 17:45 All The King’s Men 20:00 1408 22:00 Things That Hang From Trees 00:00 Daring!

TV 04:00 Takers 06:00 Todos Tus Muertos

05:10 Starsky & Hutch 06:50 All Good Things 08:30 Just Go With It 10:30 Cine News 10:50 The Romantics 12:30 The Conquest 14:20 Mad On Novacinema 15:00 Love Stories 17:05 Abduction 19:00 Thor 21:00 Ncis 22:00 Bad Teacher 23:40 Cheri 01:20 Cine News 01:50 The Change-Up 03:45 The Skin I Live In

06:05 London 07:40 Gnomeo & Juliet 09:10 The Sweetest Thing 10:45 Cine News 11:35 The Family Stone 15:25 Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes 17:15 Spotlight On 17:50 Edward Scissorhands 19:40 Sling Blade 22:00 Melancholia 00:15 The Producers 02:25 Sin City 04:30 Elephant White

21:00 The Adjustment Bureau 01:00 Cine News 01:30 Adult Zone 03:10 Dead Man Running 04:45 Gone Baby Gone

19:15 Mean Girls 2 21:00 Sundays At Tiffany’s 22:35 Bloodworth 00:20 Pay It Forward 02:30 The Woman Who Dreamed Of A Man 04:05 Music Of The Heart

07:00 Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The 09:30 Shoes of the Fisherman, The 12:05 Wings of Eagles, The 13:50 Interrupted Melody 15:40 2001: A Space Odyssey 18:15 Where the Spies Are 20:05 Mogambo 22:00 Rhapsody 23:55 Diner 01:45 Bad and the Beautiful, The 03:40 Elvis on Tour 05:15 Penelope

By Preston Wilder

Sling Blade (Novacinema2, 19.40) Is it Global Cutting Implements Day? Sharp-eyed viewers can cut to the chase (sorry) with a trio of films with blades in the title, starting with Edward Scissorhands at 17.50 then Machete [see below] at 21.00. In between is Sling Blade, a must-see even without the sharp-implements link - and I don’t care how cool you are, you haven’t lived till you’ve seen Billy Bob Thornton scrunching up his face and talking about “French-fried potaters” [sic] in this Oscar-winning drama, which BBT also wrote and directed. He’s simple-minded Karl, an amiable hulking figure who’s just come out of the “nervous hospital”, having been committed years before for murdering his mother

and her lover - but Karl is harmless now (or is he?) and befriends a young boy (Lucas Black) who takes him home to his rather dysfunctional household. The setting is a small Arkansas town, and the dark languid atmosphere is entirely magical. Some may stick the knife in by calling it slow-paced, but they can keep their cutting remarks to themselves. Made in 1996.

Machete (LTV, 21.00) “Machete don’t text,” snarls Machete (Danny Trejo). He don’t kill innocent bystanders either, making this less sadistic than the same director’s Once Upon a Time in Mexico - though it’s a lot more violent, reaching some kind of demented peak when our tough-guy Mexi-

can hero doesn’t just kill a thug but also slashes his stomach open, pulls out his intestines and uses them as a rope to escape through the window! It sounds gross - and it is - yet it’s not offensive, partly because the film is so cartoonish; trouble is, it’s seldom very memorable after the first half-hour (the prologue is excellent), bogging down in tired plot - Machete framed and forced on the run after an assassination gone wrong - and repetitive violence. “I was ready for a lot of gore but it was all done in such a hilarious way that I hardly noticed how disgusting it was,” chuckles a man from Poland at the Internet Movie Database.

“In fact, I was still laughing 5 minutes after I left the cinema”. Machete don’t laugh. Made in 2010.

Machete

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Showbiz Adele’s 21 sells 10m, Rihanna leads Premiere US event for movies made outside major studios Billboard

Women’s stories dominate 2013 Sundance film festival

By Christine Kearney

By Piya Sinha-Roy

THE Sundance Film Festival, the top US film festival for independent cinema, yesterday unveiled its lineup for 2013, with films centred on female characters dominating the American fiction film competition.

The 113 feature length movies, including both narrative films and documentaries, cover a range of topics, but more than half of those chosen for the US dramatic competition focus on stories about women, including several about females exploring sexual relationships.

That includes May In The Summer, director Cherien Dabis’s new film about a bride-to-be forced to reevaluate her life when she reunites with her family in Jordan that is one of 16 films in the US dramatic competition.

It will kick off Sundance on January 17 as one of four first-night screenings that will comprise of one feature and one documentary from each of the US films and world cinema sections - movies made outside the United States.

Overall, 4,044 feature films from around the world were submitted for the festival that is backed by Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute for filmmaking and is the premiere US event for movies made outside Hollywood’s major studios.

Indie films from Sundance festivals that have gone on to critical success include last year’s winner, Beasts of the Southern Wild, as well

BRITISH singer and Grammy darling Adele reached the 10 million sales mark in the United States yesterday with her heartbreak album 21 becoming the first by a British woman to reach the milestone, Nielsen SoundScan said.

21, released in February 2011, produced the hits Someone Like You and Rolling In The Deep and became the top-selling album of 2011. Earlier this year, Adele swept the Grammy Awards with six, including song, record and album of the year.

21 became the third album to cross 10 million in 2012, along with Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory and Usher’s Confessions. But it is the only album to reach the milestone in less than two years in the last decade, Nielsen said.

“What an incredible honour,” Adele said in a statement. “A huge, huge thank you to my American fans for embracing this record on such a massive level.”

21 will receive the diamond certification from the Recording Industry Association of America, marking its 10 million milestone, joining the ranks of albums by artists such as Michael Jackson, The Beatles and Madonna.

“Adele’s unique talent is a gift to music fans, and her success is certainly cause for a celebration of Diamond magnitude,” Cary Sherman, RIAA’s chairman & CEO, said in a statement.

Adele, 24, is enjoying the success of her latest single Skyfall, the official theme song for the James Bond film of the same name. It has sold more than 2 million copies worldwide. The singer also gave birth to her first child earlier this year.

On the Billboard 200 chart this week, R&B star Rihanna scored her first No. 1 album with Unapologetic, selling 238,000 copies.

She held off new entries from American Idol winner Phillip Phillips, who landed at No. 4 with his debut album The World From the Side of the Moon, and country-rock singer Kid Rock, who rounded out the top five with his latest album Rebel Soul.

May In The Summer, director Cherien Dabis’ new film about a bride-to-be forced to re-evaluate her life when she reunites with her family in Jordan, will kick off Sundance on January 17 as The Sessions, and Little Miss Sunshine and An Inconvenient Truth.

Other features about female journeys include writer director Lynn Shelton’s Touchy Feely, about a massage therapist unable to do her job when she suddenly has an aversion to bodily contact.

“There are a lot of women’s stories, and interestingly enough, a lot of those stories exploring sexual re-

lationships,” the festival’s programme director Trevor Groth said in an interview, noting it was a natural extension of an increase in female directors.

“We have had some over the years that have been from a male gaze looking at sexual politics and sexual relationships, but this year we have got a wave of films doing that from a female perspective, which is intriguing and exciting.”

Those include Afternoon Delight, a dark comedy about a lost L.A. housewife who takes in a young stripper, Concussion, about a woman in a lesbian relationship who becomes a call girl, and The Lifeguard, about a reporter who quits her job in New York and moves back home to Connecticut.

Stories from the male perspective include C.O.G., the first film adaptation of

comic writer David Sedaris.

Adapted from a short story from Sedaris’ best-selling 1997 essay collection, Naked, Sedaris has co-written the screenplay about a cocky man travelling to Oregon to work on an apple farm.

Overall, this year’s festival will feature movies from 32 countries and 51 first-time filmmakers. The festival begins on January 17, 2012 and runs through January 27.

Homeland in, Boardwalk out Mary J. Blige sued over $2m loan in PGA television nominations

By Jill Serjeant EMMY-WINNING dramas Homeland, Mad Men and British period piece Downton Abbey will compete for the annual Producers Guild Awards for the top shows on US television, organisers announced yesterday.

But last year’s winner - HBO’s lavish Prohibition-era gangster drama Boardwalk Empire - failed to make the cut this year with the Producers Guild of America, one of the leading professional guilds in Hollywood.

Instead, the producers of popular fantasy drama Game of Thrones and drug underworld show Breaking Bad round out the nominees for the top PGA prize in television.

COMEDIES The PGA also nominated the producers of comedies Modern Family, The Big Bang Theory, Louie, 30 Rock and Larry David’s wry Curb Your Enthusiasm as contenders for its 2013 awards on the small screen.

In the reality genre, singing contest The Voice will go head to head with fashion show Project Runway, Top Chef, Dancing with the Stars and Emmy darling The Amazing Race.

Hollywood’s guilds represent professionals in their respective industries, and recognition by peers can go a long way toward boosting a producer’s career.

The PGA will announce nominees in its closely watched movie category in early January, and hand out its awards for film and television at a ceremony in Hollywood on January 26.

The R&B singer and her husband are accused of defaulting

R&B star Mary J. Blige was hit with a lawsuit yesterday alleging the Grammy winner and her husband defaulted on a $2.2 million bank loan.

According to court documents filed in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan, Signature Bank is seeking to recoup the original loan plus $58,000 in interest.

Blige, 41, who has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide, and her husband Martin Isaacs took out the loan in October 2011 and defaulted in July 2012, the suit alleges.

The lawsuit is the latest financial headache for the New York City native. The Family Affair singer’s charity, The Mary J. Blige and Steve Stoute Foundation for the Advancement of Women Now Inc, was accused earlier in this year of mishandling funds and cheating scholarship students.

Blige acknowledged the problems in a June interview.

21 became the third album to sell 10 million in 2012

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CRYPTIC 2250

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13 … dog I had found in the Foreign Office (4) 14 Woolly creature found in the cortége (3) 15 Plushest part that’s rich and juicy (4) 16 And in France coming and going after quite unusual ceremony (9) 19 Girl e.g. confused with Lana (6) 20 Submit examination paper in Spanish and in English (4,2) 21 Felt bad on one side (4) 22 Cured fish, penny each, fifth-rate, the young child held (8)

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Answers to crossword 2249

Rating EASY

QUICK: Across – 1 Digest; 4 Abacus; 9 Pantaloon; 10 Man; 11 Comment; 13 Aloft; 14 Flirtatious; 18 Widen; 19 Tableau; 21 Rio; 22 Harbinger; 24 Entire; 25 Skinny. Down – 1 Depict; 2 Gun; 3 Spate; 5 Bengali; 6 Composure; 7 Senate; 8 Portraiture; 12 Maladroit; 15 Rancher; 16 Swerve; 17 Quarry; 20 Brink; 23 Gin.

Rating HARD

CRYPTIC: Across – 1 Pay-off; 4 Osiris; 9 Concourse; 10 Joe; 11 Litotes; 13 Third; 14 Odds and ends; 18 Media; 19 Tendril; 21 Lav; 22 Committed; 24 Martyr; 25 Mysore. Down – 1 Pickle; 2 Yon; 3 Frost; 5 Sheathe; 6 Rejoinder; 7 Steady; 8 Present time; 12 Tided over; 15 Starchy; 16 Emblem; 17 Sludge; 20 Noisy; 23 Two.

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sion (4) 3 Lady loses her head to a nobleman (4) 4 Do not tell people how to save electricity (4,2,3,4) 5 Be in control of a drunken crew aboard? (3,1,5,4) 6 Going no distance on the river first for a medicinal plant (8) 7 Make more compact for

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1 Buying (8) 6 Oil pit (4) 8 Get (6) 9 On the beach (6) 10 Racing dog (9) 13 Ban (4) 14 French silver coin

2 American tramp (4) 3 Dramatic perform-

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(3) Whirlpool (4) Calculating device (5-4) Decapitate (6) Physically energetic (6) What a pity (4) Farm worker (8)

ance (4)

4 Scottish islands (5,8)

5 Not limited by rules (2-2-3-6)

6 Educated (8) 7 Pickle (8) 11 Surprised expression (4,4)

12 Benevolence (8) 17 Western US state (4)

18 Declare (4)

ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

Venus and Mars forge an absolute beauty of a link still today, one which can enable you to express yourself in a really well-balanced way. This is just as well, because Saturn has taken some of the shine off the love planet this week.

What Mars adds, is to help you to overcome financial worries by redoubling your focus and determination.

You are going to have a much jollier time in the next month, more so than for many a year. Therefore, if you are asked to cover someone’s shift or provide any other kind of practical help, just go with it. After all, you are one of the most generous of signs, and such a deed even to provide childcare within your circle or family, will create real goodwill.

Investments or savings which haven’t looked so promising, perhaps due to the stagnation in the world’s economy, can actually show signs of revival for you. Perhaps you have been too cautious in what your assets have been worth. Then again, someone can surprise you with a wonderful gift. A mystery admirer may also be keeping a watching brief.

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

Relationships, or one in particular, may have taken on a very serious vibe on the back of the Lunar Eclipse this week, and your ruler Venus’ tangle with the potentially repressive energies of Saturn. Yet what this may have taught you is that you have to lead your life to the drumbeat of your own values, not of anyone else’s. Respect your position.

If you have kept thinking about something you want, some kind of personal dream, don’t believe it will never come to you. If you start to visualise this event, your own kind of cosmic ordering, you are setting in train the possibility, simply by connecting to your hopes. Your personal expression is heightened, and it can create some magic.

Not everyone may have seemed to have understood your position this week, but this is not a numbers game, it is about quality, and the people that are on-side can show it wholesomely today. You may even discover that someone you thought was distancing you has actually had some genuine issues to deal with, and it was nothing to do with you.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

If you share an abode as well as a relationship, you are probably wanting some kind of parity around the housework, domestic chores or child care - or is someone demanding this of you? Either way, try to see the circumstances of this in the whole. Picking out small slithers to justify or to get angry about, may be totally unhelpful.

It maybe that you can’t quite get the funds together to do something you are keen to achieve, but that doesn’t mean it won’t happen. Think again. Someone may be able to help, perhaps even a family member, or you may be able to do something more creative with your own financial circumstances. It’s not the amount that is at issue, but the method.

If you want the extra responsibility, or greater personal profile, it can happen for you. In fact, something you have worked tirelessly towards achieving over a long period of time, could come to fruition now. Alternatively, you may start to acknowledge that you have many more skills than you had previously credited yourself with. Take a bow Aquarius.

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

There has been a terrific amount of intensity around your relationship sector this week, and though this may have created some skirmishes, equally it has taught you a lot about what you need, and who is capable of delivering on it to you. And today, you can discover the upside to all this. In fact, even if there have been words, the making up can be sultry!

One of the strengths of your zodiac sign, is your immense passion. It doesn’t matter whether you are talking about a much loved film, book, play or album, people can understand the quality of the experience simply because you own your view of it so well. You can find yourself having this kind of discussion today, and can mean what you say.

The exchange of ideas becomes a bigger and bigger theme. And linking up with people who can help you to learn new expertise, or you guiding folk through your knowledge, is a definite possibility. If you feel your life is stagnating, this can be the moment to go on the front foot, to be bold, and not let any inner doubts prevent you branching out.

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Sport Australia’s Ponting calls time on career

IN BRIEF FIA: Vettel has no case to answer

Desperate to win final Test against S. Africa

By Nick Mulvenney AUSTRALIA’S Ricky Ponting announced his retirement from international cricket yesterday, telling a stunned news conference he would be calling time on his glittering 17-year career after this week’s third Test against South Africa.

The former Australia captain has scored 13,366 runs in 167 Tests - the second highest haul in the long history of the game - and stands behind only the great Don Bradman in the ranks of Australian batsmen.

“A few hours ago I let the boys know of my decision to make this test my last,” Ponting, who turns 38 next month, told reporters.

“It’s a decision I thought long and hard about. It was based on my output and my results in this series so far. It hasn’t been what I expect of myself and certainly not the level required of a batsman in the Australia team.

“I’ve said all along that I would continue to play as long as I could continue to make a contribution to wins, and I think over the last couple of weeks my performance has not been good enough to do that.

“I’ve given cricket my all, it’s been my life for 20 years, there’s not much more I can give.”

Ponting, who stood down from the test captaincy last year and retired from one-

day cricket in February, has scored nought, four and 16 in his three innings so far in the series against South Africa.

He stressed the decision had not been prompted by the selectors and said it was not hard to miss out on one final Ashes contest next year because he realised he was not good enough to get there.

Ever the arch-competitor, Ponting said the time to look back over his career would come after the Perth match, which starts on Friday and where he will equal Steve Waugh’s Australian record of 168 tests.

Victory for Australia would see them leapfrog South Africa to return to the top of the test rankings - a position they enjoyed for so long with the gritty Tasmanian in the team.

“It’s a great opportunity.

We’re going into what I believe to be almost a Grand Final,” Ponting said.

“As I said to the boys this morning, I’m hungrier than ever and I want this win probably more than any other game I’ve played.

“If we get back to the top of the tree, to the top of the world, there’s no better time for me to bow out.”

Ponting made his test debut at the age of 20 against Sri Lanka at the WACA a week shy of 17 years ago, making 96 in his one innings as Australia won by an innings and 36 runs.

“Ricky is always uncom-

promisingly straightforward and leads from the front - he has made a decision that he believes is best for him, his family and his team,” said Cricket Australia Chairman Wally Edwards said.

“On behalf of Australian cricket, I congratulate him for his outstanding achievements as a batsman, captain and, after he stood down as captain, leader by example.”

The whole Australia team and Ponting’s family had filed into the weights room under the stands at the WACA, to the great surprise of the journalists gathered for Michael Clarke’s scheduled captain’s news conference.

“I’ve got a few months of cricket yet and I’ll enjoy that for what it is,” said Ponting, who will play out the season withTasmania.

“This is my new team here,” he added, pointing to his wife Rianna and daughters Emmy and Mattise.

After a rousing round of applause, an ashen-faced Clarke finally had his say and admitted that his predecessor and mentor’s announcement had come as a surprise.

“Ricky spoke to me after the Adelaide test match, and made his decision over the last little while,” he said.

“The boys are obviously hurting at the moment. He’s been an amazing player for a long time.

“That’ll do for me today,” he added after a long pause as he struggled unsuccessfully to contain his emotions.

The former Australia captain has scored 13,366 runs in 167 Tests - the second highest haul in the history of the game

Recovered Carter starts for All Blacks against England

By Patrick Johnston

Dan Carter is the standout flyhalf in world rugby

FLYHALF Dan Carter has recovered from a calf injury and will start for New Zealand in their final Test of the year against England at Twickenham tomorrow.

Carter, the standout flyhalf in world rugby, missed the 33-10 victory over Six Nations champions Wales in Cardiff but was named in the starting lineup to face England by coach Steven Hansen yesterday. Deputy Aaron Cruden drops to the bench.

The World Cup-winning All Blacks, undefeated in 20 Tests, swatted aside the Welsh with ease on Saturday and with Carter returning to the side a similar result is expected at Twickenham against a stuttering England.

England have not beaten the All Blacks since 2003 but New Zealand coach Hansen is wary of the opposition, who have suffered narrow

losses to South Africa and Australia in consecutive weeks.

“There is huge motivation within the team to finish the season off on a high and real excitement ahead of this weekend, with a packed house at Twickenham always a great occasion,” Hansen said in a statement.

“We know that the English will lift themselves for their final match of the year, especially following their two recent narrow defeats and we need to be prepared to match them in all facets.”

England’s traditional strength has been the power of their pack and Hansen made two changes to his forwards yesterday to combat the threat.

Brodie Retallick was preferred in the second row over Luke Romano, who scored a try in the win over Wales, while Keven Mealamu was named at hooker in place of Andrew Hore, who was banned for five weeks for striking Welsh lock Bradley

Davies on Saturday.

“He has a couple of games off the bench and he has got a big motor and goes all day long and we just think that this game will suit him,” Hansen told New Zealand media of the switch of locks.

“England are big men and they are probably one of the biggest packs that we will come up against.

“They will bring a physical, combative game, there is no question about where they are going to come. They will have one-off runners and two runners round the corner so they are going to come straight at you.”

Mealamu, Carter and prop Tony Woodcock had all been injury concerns for Saturday but Hansen said they were ready.

“They got through training the other day and we are comfortable to name them at this stage,” the coach said.

Captain Richie McCaw will start his 116th Test and lead the vastly experienced side for the 79th time.

FORMULA 1’s governing body the FIA believes world champion Sebastian Vettel committed no offence during the Brazilian Grand Prix.

Ferrari had written to the FIA asking for clarification of whether the German’s overtake of Toro Rosso’s Jean-Eric Vergne was legitimate.

Vettel could have faced a potential penalty that would have made Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso champion.

However, 25-year-old Vettel’s third successive world title is set to stand.

The situation was complicated because the track-side warning lights and flags and Vettel’s dashboard display appear to have contradicted each other.

Vettel, the youngest ever three-time champion, pulled off the pass on lap four of the race before he reached a green flashing light indicating that the yellow caution zone - in which overtaking is not allowed - had ended. And his dashboard display showed the yellow-flag warning sign throughout.

However, on-board videos of the incident appeared to show a marshal waving a green flag on the inside of the track.

It has emerged that the incident was not investigated during the race because a green flag was being waved at a marshals’ post after Turn Three.

Vettel only began his move after passing that flag.

That means the move was viewed at the time as legitimate.

Keravnos thrashed NIKITA Balashov netted 18 points and Omar Thomas added 16 as Krasnye Krylia used a punishing second half to sink Keravnos Strovolos 82-51 in the fourth round of the FIBA EuroChallenge Group B on Wednesday night at the Kostas Papaellinas Arena in Nicosia.

Keravnos began brightly as they aimed to pull off the upset, but they could not keep it going much beyond the first quarter before the Russians’ quality began to show.

After this defeat Keravnos are third in Group B and their next game against Joensuun Kataja in Finland could prove to be crucial for their European campaign as both teams are tied at 2-2 with two game days remaining.

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Barca’s Vilanova delighted with the return of ‘The Kid’ Villa passes 300 goals for club and country

By Brian Homewood

By Iain Rogers THERE were plenty of reasons for Barcelona coach Tito Vilanova to be satisfied after his side secured a spot in the last 16 of the King’s Cup on Wednesday night but David Villa’s double probably comes near the top of the list.

The prolific Spain striker, sidelined for eight months after breaking his leg at the Club World Cup last December, netted twice in a 3-1 victory at the Nou Camp that eliminated third-tier Alaves 6-1 on aggregate.

The goals were his seventh and eighth in 16 appearances since his return from injury, the first a magnificent freekick, and took his career tally for club and country to 301.

Known as ‘El Guaje’, or ‘The Kid’ in his native Asturian, Villa looks to be back to something near his best at a crucial time for Barca, who are top of La Liga and through to the last 16 of the Champions League.

“Every day he looks better,” Vilanova, in his first season in charge after stepping up from assistant coach to replace Pep Guardiola at the end of last term, told a news

Scolari back to lead Brazil’s World Cup campaign

The prolific Spain striker, sidelined for eight months after breaking his leg at the Club World Cup last December, netted twice in a 3-1 victory at the Nou Camp that eliminated third-tier Alaves 6-1 on aggregate conference.

“It was a complicated injury and he has worked a great deal over the summer,” he added.

“He is a player who has the scorer’s gift and it is important to have him in the squad.”

Villa, who turns 31 on Monday, joined Barca from Valencia at the end of the 2009-10 season after stints at Sporting Gijon and Real Zaragoza, where he scored 40 goals for

each club.

After netting 128 times for Valencia, he now has 40 for Barca, plus another 53 in 85 games for Spain, making him the world and European champions’ record scorer, nine ahead of former Real Madrid striker Raul.

With Barca leading 3-0 from the first leg against Alaves, Vilanova was able to rest regulars including Lionel Messi, Xavi, Andres Iniesta and Sergio Busquets on

Wednesday and gave promising youngsters including Jonathan Dos Santos, Sergi Roberto and Gerard Deulofeu a run out.

He also handed a senior debut to 21-year-old left back Carles Planas, who Vilanova said had been rewarded for some good performances for Barca’s B team in Spain’s second division.

“He is a player who has quality and he is perfectly capable of playing with us,”

Vilanova said.

“With Adriano and (Jordi) Alba in the squad it’s not going to be easy for him but this Wednesday it was the right time.

Turning to 18-year-old striker Deulofeu, Vilanova added: “Not all footballers can step up to the first team at the age of 17 or 18.

“We have to keep challenging him. He has a lot of talent but also a lot of things still to improve.”

The rich take on the resourceful in MLS Cup Final

By Simon Evans

The David Beckham era comes to an end in Major League Soccer when the L.A. Galaxy face the Houston Dynamo in the MLS Cup final tomorrow, aiming to defend their crown

THE David Beckham era comes to an end in Major League Soccer tomorrow when the L.A. Galaxy face the Houston Dynamo in the MLS Cup final, aiming to defend their crown.

With Beckham their star attraction for the past six seasons, the Galaxy have been by far MLS’ highest profile team, with Ireland’s Robbie Keane leading their line and the US’s all-time top scorer Landon Donovan as their main creative force.

The salaries of the Galaxy’s ‘Big Three’ are more than some entire MLS squads, and the chances are that more money is to be splashed on a high-profile foreign replacement for Beckham.

But Saturday’s opponents, at L.A.’s Home Depot Centre, are proof that success in North American football can also come from astute use of limited resources.

Houston coach Dominic

Kinnear has proved that point twice before with MLS Cup triumphs in 2006 and 2007 and he took his team to the final last year - where they lost to the Galaxy.

Kinnear, who moved to the US from Scotland as a small child, has managed to produce well-organised, tactically-disciplined and hardworking teams that crucially hit peak form just in time for the MLS play-offs.

It may puzzle outside observers that the Dynamo finished ninth out of 19 teams in the regular season standings but are now 90 minutes away from being declared champions.

However, with MLS following the tried and tested approach of North American sports leagues, rather than the traditions of international football, Kinnear has again played it smart.

Because once you are in the play-offs, no-one cares what you did during the sevenmonth-long regular season.

The Dynamo secured a sin-

gle game ‘play in’ win at the Chicago Fire and that followed up with two-leg victories over the top seeds from the Eastern Conference Sporting Kansas City and DC United.

Certainly Houston look a stronger proposition than a year ago, when they lost by a single goal in the final.

But the Galaxy, coached by the experienced, former U.S. national team coach Bruce Arena appearing in his sixth MLS Cup final, start as clear favourites.

In the Western Conference final, Galaxy crushed Seattle Sounders 3-0 at the Home Depot and Dynamo keeper Tally Hall says that shows L.A. are in prime form.

“Watching their playoff run, they’re firing on all cylinders. They have good one-twos and effective attacks. I look at them and think that’s a team that’s on the same page. But I want to beat them and I want to beat them at their best”.

LUIZ Felipe Scolari took over as the coach of 2014 World Cup hosts Brazil yesterday, returning for a second stint to lead his country’s bid to win a sixth world title on home soil in little more than 18 months’ time.

The man known as Felipao (Big Phil), who led Brazil to their fifth and last World Cup win in 2002, was officially presented by the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) at a news conference, replacing Mano Menezes who was sacked last Friday.

Carlos Alberto Parreira, who led Brazil to their fourth world title in 1994, was named as technical director as the CBF attempted to turn back the clock.

Scolari, 64, said he was ready for the challenge of dealing with the pressure and expectation of his 190 million compatriots.

“I feel more motivated, younger, I feel I’m capable,” he told the news conference.

“We have the obligation to win the title; we are not favourites at the moment but we intend to become favourites during the competition. Third or fourth place is no good for a country that has won five World Cups.”

The unveiling of Scolari and Parreira comes two days before the draw for the next year’s Confederations Cup, also to be hosted in Brazil, in Sao Paulo.

Scolari’s first game in charge is scheduled to be a friendly away to England in February.

Parreira has huge experience at World Cups, having led Brazil on a second occasion in 2006, Kuwait in 1982, United Arab Emirates in 1990, Saudi Arabia in 1998 and South Africa in 2010.

Brazil’s vast and fickle army of supporters always expect them to win the World Cup and the pressure will be even greater as the country hosts the event.

Their failure to win on home soil in 1950 still rankles and the members of that team were never wholly forgiven for losing the decisive match to Uruguay.

‘Big Phil’ led Brazil to their last World Cup in 2002

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Balotelli scores but no ‘Super Mario’ for Mancini

By Justin Palmer

The Italian scored his first Premier League goal this season

MANCHESTER City manager Roberto Mancini said he remained unimpressed with Mario Balotelli despite the Italian striker scoring his first Premier League goal of the season against Wigan Athletic on Wednesday.

Balotelli, who has started just six out of 14 league games in this campaign, broke the deadlock on 69 minutes at the DW stadium as unbeaten City won 2-0 to stay a point behind leaders Manchester United.

The striker, who bagged 13 league goals last season to help fire City to the title, followed up to score at the second attempt after his first shot was blocked

by Wigan keeper Ali-Al-Habsi, who had allowed him the chance after failing to hold Gareth Barry’s low strike.

Mancini, though, opted not to dip into his bag of platitudes.

“I think Mario can do better. He scored one important goal but can continue to improve,” he told reporters.

“For me, he did not play very well.”

Earlier this month Mancini said the striker, who scored two superb goals for

Italy in their Euro 2012 semi-final defeat of Germany, could become one of the best players in the world.

“He could be like Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi if he worked harder in training.”

Balotelli’s only other two goals for City this season came in the League Cup and Champions League.

City’s win came at a cost with James Milner, who scored a fine second goal, picking up a hamstring injury.

“I was happy for James but it was a second hamstring injury for him and I hope he’ll be back in 10 days,” Mancini said.

Benitez: we can win the league Chelsea in another bore draw with Fulham

By Simon Stone

By Ben Rumsby RAFAEL Benitez yesterday declared Chelsea are still capable of winning this season’s Barclays Premier League despite seeing them sleepwalk to another bore draw and slip seven points adrift of top spot.

Benitez’s first two matches in charge of the European champions have now ended without a goal as they made it six league games without a victory against Fulham on Wednesday night.

A team that looked champions elect under Roberto Di Matteo little over a month ago now appear incapable of scoring, never mind winning, and their title challenge is floundering by the game.

But Benitez insisted Chelsea had the quality to overhaul Manchester United and Manchester City, who both won again.

“Why can’t we?” Benitez said defiantly.

He added: “It’s still a long way to go. We have to keep going. We’ll have chances.

“Remember, last season when City were ahead and it was ‘easy’.

“Then they needed to win their last game. It’s a long, long competition.”

Interim manager Benitez acknowledged Chelsea were

Fergie aware of tussles ahead

Striking difference: neither scored but Fulham’s Dimitar Berbatov (left) was much more effective than Fernando Torres lacking confidence after a run of two wins in 10 that threatens to wreck their season.

He added: “The main thing is to win games. If we do, we’ll be there and we can win competitions.

“We need to start doing that and the confidence will come back.”

No-one exemplifies Chelsea’s plight more than Fernando Torres who, barring a fluke goal, has not found the net for almost two months.

“It wasn’t easy for him, or Eden Hazard or Oscar,” said Benitez.

“We were on top of Fulham, regaining the game higher up the pitch, and might have won it in the last minute.”

For all their pressure, Chelsea barely tested the opposition goalkeeper as they record two straight goalless draws for the first time since Roman Abramovich bought the club.

“You cannot be satisfied

when you haven’t won these games,” said Benitez, whose two games in charge have been watched by the Russian.

“City are a top side, a team with a lot of options.

“Today, I saw a lot of positive things, sustaining the attacks and regaining the ball very high.

“I didn’t like the two chances we gave away on the counterattack, and when we didn’t move the ball too quickly, but

it’s a question of time.

“We’ve only had a few training sessions. We need more time.”

Chelsea were sorely missing some creativity tonight after resting Juan Mata, who eventually joined the fray.

Benitez said: “We have too many games now, so we have to manage the squad.

“We cannot play the same team every time. We have West Ham, Japan, too many games.”

Moyes bemoans penalty decision against Arsenal

By Carl Markham EVERTON manager David Moyes was left to bemoan referee Mike Jones decision not to give them a penalty in the 1-1 draw at home to Arsenal.

The Toffees had recovered from conceding a goal to Theo Walcott after just 52 seconds with Marouane Fellaini scoring his seventh Barclays Premier League goal of the season.

And when Steven Pienaar went down under a challenge from former Everton midfielder Mikel Arteta in the second half Moyes was convinced Jones got it wrong in awarding only a corner.

“It was a penalty. We played Arsenal, who are a really good team, but we also had very few decisions go for us,” he said.

“Sometimes referee’s decisions change the games: in some games something might go in your favour but we were never going to get that.

“We got nothing whatsoever and anything we were going to get we had to earn on our own because we were not going to get a jot.

“There was an incident when the ball got chipped into the box later on and he gave a push on Fellaini.

“I’ve had a chance to see it and it was never anything like it. I found that one as mystifying as any really.

“We found it a difficult night from that point if view but the players played really well throughout.”

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger was pleased to leave Goodison Park with a point despite his side dominating the last 10 league meetings, winning eight and drawing just two.

“It was a game of big physical intensity, we had a good start and after that I felt Everton came back into it and their direct game was always a threat,” he said.

“There are regrets on the goal we conceded but 1-1 is a fair result and it is a good point here.”

Everton’s Marouane Fellaini was impressive again

MANAGER Sir Alex Ferguson has predicted a long season ahead after Manchester United secured a nervy win over West Ham at Old Trafford on Wednesday night.

Robin van Persie scored the only goal after just 33 seconds, his 14th of the season, which proved enough to keep the Red Devils ahead of Manchester City at the top of the Premier League.

It was not pretty though and Carlton Cole could easily have snatched a point in the latter stages.

“We got a great start,” said Ferguson.

“You hope to go on from a start like that and some of our football was very good but we never quite finished them off.

“We have played with the diamond quite a few times this season and done very well so I don’t think that is an excuse.

“But we have got the three points and are still ahead in the league.

“With Chelsea drawing it draws us away from them a little bit further.

“But of course, City are on our tails so it is going to be a long season.”

While not exactly unfortunate, with a little bit more composure West Ham could easily have gained a share of the spoils.

But, as boss Sam Allardyce pointed out, in players like van Persie, United have extra class.

“Manchester United have lots of players who will have good spells and can come up trumps when they need them to,” said Allardyce.

“Robin van Persie is a quality player and we have largely kept him quiet.

“But he will score 20 goals for Manchester United, maybe 30. In the end that is normally the difference.

“What chances did Manchester United create?

None really. We went right to the very end but couldn’t quite make it.

“Whether they played to their potential or not doesn’t matter does it?

They still won. They have a nasty habit of doing that.”

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Messi, Ronaldo, Iniesta up for Ballon d’Or BARCELONA’S Lionel Messi and Andres Iniesta and Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo were named on the shortlist for FIFA’s Ballon d’Or award yesterday at a news conference in Brazil.

Argentine Messi has won the award, formerly known as World Player of the Year, for the past three years and is favourite again after more goal-scoring exploits.

Messi and the equally prolific Ronaldo often divide opinion over who is the superior player and this year has been no different as they appear to push each other to even greater heights on a

weekly basis.

Ronaldo’s manager at Real Madrid, Jose Mourinho, recently said it would be a crime if his player did not win the Ballon d’Or for a second time, after comments from Barcelona’s coach Tito Vilanova describing Messi as the “greatest player in the world, by a long way”.

“If Messi is the best on the planet, Ronaldo is the best in the universe. It would be a crime if Ronaldo did not win the Ballon d’Or,” Mourinho said in October, shortly after the Portugal international became the first player to score in six consecutive ‘Clasicos.’

Messi scored 50 goals in La Liga last

season, four more than Ronaldo, and has scored 82 in the calendar year so far, three short of the record of 85 by Gerd Mueller in 1972.

However, 2008 winner Ronaldo was instrumental in Real Madrid’s Spanish league title last season and helping Portugal reach the semi-finals of the European championship.

Iniesta is the only one of the three candidates to have won a World Cup as well as two European championships with Spain.

Should Messi win the award in Zurich on January 7 he would become the first player to win it four times.

(left to right) Andres Iniesta, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are in contention for the prestigious FIFA award

Amazing Bale could leave Spurs, says Villas-Boas Welsh wing wizard is valued at £50 million

By Josh Reich

T

OTTENHAM Hotspur manager Andre VillasBoas admits the scintillating form of Gareth Bale may make it difficult for the Premier League club to hold on to their prize asset.

The Wales winger was at his inspired best in the 2-1 victory over Liverpool at White Hart Lane on Wednesday night, a result that lifted the hosts into fifth place in the Premier League table.

The 23-year-old set up Aaron Lennon for Tottenham’s first goal, galloping 50 yards and beating four players before teeing up his team-mate after seven minutes having already tested Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina with a dangerous free kick.

Reina then had no answer just after the quarter-hour mark when Bale’s expertly placed free kick took a small deflection off the wall to double his side’s advantage.

Bale unwittingly let Liverpool back into the match on 72 minutes when Lennon’s goal-line clearance rebounded off his head into the net and he was also booked for diving, although it appeared Liverpool defender Daniel Agger did make contact with him.

Bale’s form, however, has made him one of the most feared players in the Premier League and one of the most sought after despite the club reportedly valuing him at 50

Gareth Bale has become one of the most feared players in the Premier League, and tore Liverpool apart in the early stages of Spurs’ 2-1 win at White Hart Lane on Wednesday night million pounds.

“At the moment he is performing extremely well for Spurs and we are amazed at what he can do for us. He is on to a great career,” VillasBoas told reporters.

“Obviously Tottenham as a football club want to keep him here for as long as we can but we understand players like this have propositions and a market which is the nature of the game.”

Villas-Boas said Bale’s ability to take free kicks com-

pared favourably with the likes of Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo.

“Players learn through what they see. With Ronaldo we saw that you can almost hit under the ball and it gains an effect where it drops and changes direction. Bale has the power to do that. He keeps on practising this technique and we are pleased to have it.

“He’s scoring more than last season by this stage. He is more free, getting more of

the ball, the team is creating conditions for him to appear more. He is enjoying himself on the pitch.

“His physical freshness, his motivation towards playing, what he does offensively and defensively. He takes over the whole of the left wing. He helps the full-back so much.

It’s never-ending. His pace, it’s electric.

“This is a player who was captain for 90 minutes against Lazio, played 90 minutes against West Ham, Liverpool,

he keeps on going. Him and Lennon down the channels have been absolutely amazing this season.”

Bale, who signed a new fouryear contract in June, has scored six goals in 14 Premier League appearances this season after netting nine in 36 matches in 2011-12.

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers meanwhile was fuming after his side were denied a penalty for a near “assault” on Steven Gerrard but believes the Reds will reap a raft

of spot kicks in the second half of the season.

Liverpool, who have yet to be awarded a penalty in their 14 games so far this season, saw their eight-match unbeaten streak in the Premier League come to an end at White Hart Lane.

Rodgers was incensed after referee Phil Dowd turned down penalty appeals for challenges on skipper Gerrard and Luis Suarez and said Liverpool had been getting the raw end of decisions all season long.

“Gerrard’s was nearly assault, how was that not a penalty?” he asked. “Second one, Suarez spins and William Gallas swings his left foot and he goes down.

“We know we need to be more clinical but to arrive at this stage of the season and not have had a penalty - I don’t know what the players have to do.

“It racks up the points and I hear people and pundits say it evens itself out over the season - so the second half of the season we’re going to get a lot of decisions.”

Rodgers praised Liverpool’s performance on the night and predicted improvement from their current 12th place in thePremier League, though he cautioned that it would take time to build a squad capable of challenging for titles.

“The performance level and our tempo and rhythm were relentless. If we keep playing like that, we’ll climb up the table,” Rodgers said, adding that fans should not expect the club to solve all their problems in the next transfer window.”