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The government is intensifying its efforts to curb illegal crossings through the buffer zone, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Sunday. “For those who do not care, we refer to ...

The House of Representatives on Thursday passed legislation that allows the police force to hire 300 special constables who will be deployed to help stem migrant flows. The special constables, to ...

Fencing along the Green Line unlikely to stop migrants coming in, but sure to cause all sorts of new issues The seemingly endless stream of refugees and asylum seekers – mostly ...

Recognising the need to monitor the buffer zone to avoid the flow of migrants from the north, lawmakers and police on Friday raised questions and serious doubts about plans to ...

Police in the north have remanded four men of African descent for attempting to illegally cross into the Republic. The four men reportedly paid a Turkish national to smuggle them ...

Metal gates are going up across a swathe of farmland along the Green Line, bolstering barbed wire barriers installed last year. According to government plans to combat illegal entries, a ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris will on Monday be discussing the increased migration flow from Turkey with EU officials, and Cyprus’ request for additional EU financing aiming to upgrade the Pournara ...

The buffer zone in old Nicosia is a perfect opportunity for a high impact Confidence Building Measure By Glafkos Constantinides Confidence Building Measures (CBM) are back in fashion, a kind ...

Farmers working near the village of Denia in the buffer zone were on Tuesday threatened by five soldiers from the north, some of whom were armed, according to community leader ...

British army peacekeepers were praised for rescuing eight puppies in the buffer zone on Monday morning, with a video posted online showing a helpless pup being lifted to safety. The ...

Minister calls on EU partners to help finance physical barriers along buffer zone Interior Minister Nicos Nouris on Friday urged his EU counterparts to support Cyprus’ call for the financing ...

The speedy processing of asylum applications has led to a massive backlog in court appeals, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Wednesday arguing there was no other choice but to ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said Cyprus was in a state of emergency as regards irregular migration, mainly coming through the buffer zone from the breakaway Turkish Cypriot state in the ...

Cyprus signed an agreement Thursday procuring from Israel a modern system to be used for the surveillance of the buffer zone. A defence ministry statement said the agreement was signed ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said Saturday more than 1,800 irregular migrants had arrived in the Republic in October, the vast majority coming from the north through the buffer zone. Speaking after ...

Reports on Sunday said two Turkish F-16s had flown over Cyprus in the afternoon ahead of the visit of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday. Speaking to SigmaLive, a ...

Church services to mark the saint’s day of Ayia Marina will be held at the chapel of the same name in the Dherynia buffer zone on Friday and Saturday, ...

The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers has called on Turkey to provide by year’s end additional information on a number of issues concerning the deaths of four ...

Dherynia Municipality is asking the agriculture ministry to allow beekeepers to use land near the buffer zone. This would generate business and help clean up an area that is being ...

Residents of villages in or next to the buffer zone where the government is currently installing barbed wire have held a demonstration against it, saying the wire is affecting some ...

Police investigating the murder of woman have found a suitcase with bloody clothing in a plot near the residence of one of the suspects, reports said on Friday. Investigators received ...

Nicosia district court on Thursday renewed for another eight days the remand of three men held in connection with the murder of a woman whose body was found in a ...

Three men were remanded in custody for eight days on suspicion of murder, police said Wednesday, after the badly decomposed body of an unidentified woman was found in a field ...

The interior ministry is on the defensive following widespread criticism over its installation of barbed wire along rural sections of the buffer zone in Nicosia to deter the uncontrolled crossing ...