President Christofias denies blame for killer blast

2011-09-05

President Demetris Christofias denied any blame for a deadly munitions explosion in July, Cyprus’s worst peacetime disaster, which has triggered calls for him to resign.

He testified on Monday that he was kept in the dark by his own ministers and aides about growing signs that storage of the confiscated Iranian munitions had become dangerous. The arms exploded next to a power station on July 11, killing 13 people.

“I had told my cabinet … the President felt like a cheated husband, who was the last to know,” Christofias told an independent board of inquiry, whose probe is running in parallel with a criminal investigation into the explosion.

The munitions were confiscated by Cyprus in 2009 from a Cyprus-flagged ship sailing to Syria from Iran, in violation of U.N.

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2011-09-05

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Film Review: LARRY CROWNE*

2011-09-05

It’s official: what movie stars crave above all is to be part of a community – not the back-stabbing world of Hollywood but an ordinary suburban community, where neighbours have yard sales and little kids zoom around on bikes in the background. Maybe that explains why Clint Eastwood did that stint as mayor of Carmel – and surely it explains why Tom Hanks co-wrote and directed Larry Crowne, and indeed plays the title-role. He even throws in a shot near the end of Larry posed with all his neighbours, and little kids zooming around on bikes in the background – though it doesn’t really work as a Kodak Moment, because we never really get to know these people.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.