The Cyprus News Digest
A hard-hitting look at events making the news in Cyprus and around the world with one of Cyprus' leading English language broadcast journalists, Rosie Charalambous.
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Experts say Cyprus should have its own Natural History museum; 2000 animals are at risk of abandonment if the Paphiakos animal shelter is forced to close; gender based violence was the topic at several events held in Nicosia this week.
Despite the teachers' strike, will the proposed new evaluation system pass through Parliament - or be mired in yet more discussions? We meet the speaker of an upcoming lecture on how fossil fuels shape conflict, inequalities and violence in the Middle East.
The director of the European Environment Agency emphasises the vital role that nature plays in ensuring our wellbeing; there's serious pollution at the protected Akrotiri wetland, and we discuss the multiple earthquakes that struck Cyprus this week.
Panellists at the Economist 21st Cyprus Summit discuss 'The path from crisis to peace in the Middle East': we talk to two former Egyptian Foreign Ministers about the prospects for peace and the creation of a Palestinian state.
The invasive Asian Tiger mosquito has arrived in Cyprus: it's a voracious biter; MPs discuss the role of assistance dogs and support for people with disabilities.
Will the election of a new Turkish Cypriot leader bring renewed impetus to negotiations for a solution to the Cyprus problem? The national health service is advising the over 60s to get a shingles vaccination.