In today's episode, the interior ministry rejected suggestions it had been well aware of rampant abuse at the online appointment system of the migration department for months, but willfully chose to look the other way.  In other news, President Nikos Christodoulides met with key EU officials where he presented the case for greater EU involvement in the efforts to break the impasse on the Cyprus problem. And the US State Department’s annual human rights report on Cyprus emphasised the challenges faced by asylum seekers while it also singled out overcrowding at the prisons.

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