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Obituary: Alex ‘Efty’ Efthyvoulou

Alex Efthyvoulou, a veteran foreign correspondent who worked throughout most of his career for the Associated Press, died on Monday. He was 97. After graduating from the English School in Nicosia and serving in the Cyprus Regiment during World War II, Alex ‘Efty’ Efthyvoulou’s journalistic career saw him cover the most important events in the recent history of Cyprus, from the 1950s to his retirement five decades later. He was a roving reporter initially for major Fleet Street newspapers and later for the international news agency, often at the front line of breaking news events in the Middle East, such