In today's episode, President Nikos Christodoulides is in a “position of strength” ahead of his informal dinner with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Monday.

Meanwhile, ongoing and unacceptable dangers faced by their staff are a grave issue, nurses’ union Pasyno said, laying the blame with the ministries of labour and justice as well as the police and state health services.

Elsewhere, a school facility in Larnaca intended to be used as temporary accommodation for foreign nationals fleeing from Lebanon was hit by racist vandals.

All this and more in the Cyprus Beat briefing brought to you by the Cyprus Mail.