In today's episode, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou dismissed media reports on Wednesday which downplayed the government’s reorientation on energy as “wrong," stating that energy companies and the government are on the same page. In other news, Nicosia district court ruled that the Republic of Cyprus violated the human rights of former Defence Minister Costas Papacostas during his incarceration in the aftermath of the 2011 blast at Evangelos Florakis naval base in Mari where a large amount of ammunition and military explosives kept in shipping containers self-detonated, killing 13 people. And the passenger ferry Daleela lifted anchor at noon yesterday from Limassol port for its first route of the season to Piraeus, carrying 156 passengers. 

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