European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 2, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 18 stars and stripes Mideast edition july 2007 British smoking ban goes into effect London smoking was banned from sunday in All Public buildings in including movie shopping malls and even Buckingham England was the final part of the United kingdom to broadly prohibit with Wales and Northern Ireland instituting such a ban in april and Scotland last the Republic of Ireland made the move three years International travellers were warned As their flights landed of the new rules in effect and of the Fine for failing to the message was repeated on on posters and in to Cyprus searching for missing Diplomat Cyprus police were searching for an american Diplomat reported missing on the Mediterranean authorities said Thomas has not contacted the embassy in three a police statement neither the police nor the embassy specified his role at the pm but a Thomas Mooney is the embassy military the embassy has posted a Mes Sage on its web site with photos of Mooney and his urging any one with information that might be helpful in locating him to con tact 3 2 injured in France helicopter crash Paris a helicopter making roundtrip Between the French formula one circuit and a hotel killing three people and seriously injuring two the prefecture of the Lievre Region said the cause of the crash around 10 saturday was not immediately five people were aboard the which crashed near the prefecture the five were travelling from the Magny Cours race track to a hotel in the it China adopts new standards for water Beijing China adopted a tougher National Standard for drinking water sunday that health officials said will be a step toward providing Safe drinking water to the hundreds of millions of citizens who currently go with the previous drinking water Standard did not adequately protect and the new Standard will raise the Quality of tap health ministry official Zhang Chengyu the health ministry announced sunday it will add 71 new benchmarks to the 35 required under the previous Stan which was adopted in Beijing recorded the worst air Quality for june in the past seven missing benchmarks for cleaning up the Beijing municipal Bureau of environmental Protection said saturday on its web Beijing filthy air is one of the biggest concerns of the International olympic committee and 2008 olympic who worry the performance of elite athletes will be from the associated press Iran defends Gas rations Hasan an iranian Man pumps Gas into his car at a Gas station in on by Ali Akbar Sareini the associated press Iran Iran top leaders defended a new fuel rationing plan saturday that sparked violence last say ing it will free up funding for development projects and make the country state run television the government began fuel rationing driving angry iranians to smash shop win Dows and set fire to More than a dozen Gas stations in the capital Tehran and several other with armed guards protecting Gas the country calmed Down the next but iranians have continued to criticize the new prompting Satur Days gasoline rationing is among issues that the government decided and implemented Iran supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quoted As say ing saturday by state run Televik Iran is one of the worlds big Gest Oil but it Doest have enough so it must import More than 50 percent of the gasoline its people the rationing is part of a government attempt to reduce the Bil Lions of dollars it spends each year to import fuel that is then sold to iranian Drivers at far less than to keep prices if this huge amount spent on imported gasoline is gradually re definitely it will be spent on Peoples in construction of schools and said Hartline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said saturday that reduced Reliance on imported Gas Oline would make the country less vulnerable to International pres at a time when Iran is at Odds with the West Over its nuclear file edit View co window help delete reply reply All Forward print from Westey subject Auto reply to k Daft out of office Auto reply currently patrolling off the Southern coast of 111 be Back on