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Cyprus recorded a notable decrease in irregular migrant applications of 46 per cent and a 66 per cent increase in returns last year, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Wednesday. The minister ...

A 47-year-old smuggler facing manslaughter charges after a child rescued from a migrant ship died, had his remand order renewed for seven days on Friday. With his existing remand order ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou plans to “promote a discussion” on declaring parts of Syria as safe upon his visit to Brussels for an informal meeting of EU interior ministers on ...

Authorities on Monday were looking for a migrant for the second day in a row to no avail, after he jumped into the sea. The Joint Rescue Coordination Center told ...

Two men, who had helped steer boats with irregular migrants last October, were sentenced to two and half years in prison for people smuggling, the Larnaca District Court ruled on ...

Two men, aged 24 and 25, have been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison at Famagusta District Court for smuggling migrants to Cyprus. According to a police bulletin on Friday, the two ...

The European Union reached agreement on Wednesday on new rules designed to share out the cost and work of hosting migrants more evenly and to limit the numbers of people ...

A total of 102 irregular migrants were detected on three separate boats off the coast of Cape Greco on Tuesday. The first boat was spotted at 2:15pm around 10 nautical miles off ...

A wooden boat with 54 irregular migrants on board was intercepted by police seven nautical miles off the coast of Cape Greco on Saturday. Of the 54, 13 were children, seven of whom ...

Five people were issued with eight-day remands in custody at the Famagusta district court on Thursday, accused of facilitating the illegal arrival of 210 people into Cyprus. The five, of whom ...

Over 20 illegal migrants were arrested during a police operation aiming to identify illegal residents in Paphos on Sunday. During the whole operation, 22 persons of various nationalities, who are illegally residing ...

A total of 202 people were deported from Cyprus over the past week, an announcement from the police said on Friday, after the individuals were found to be residing illegally in ...

Sixteen third-country nationals residing illegally in Cyprus were located and apprehended during the weekend in coordinated police operations. Simultaneously, efforts to repatriate third-country nationals to their countries of origin saw ...

Asylum-seekers arriving in Greece face physical violence including being beaten and sent back to sea, Doctors without Borders said on Thursday, calling on Greece to increase migrant search and rescue ...

Another boat with 50 migrants arrived off the coast of Cape Greco on Thursday, with the people on board safely escorted ashore. According to media reports, the police coast guard spotted ...

Coastal authorities were on alert on Tuesday following information that a boat with 95 irregular migrants was the first of an organised wave of hundreds of further arrivals. Interior Minister Constantinos ...

Police on Thursday arrested a 23-year-old boat operator after a vessel transporting 21 irregular migrants arrived on the Famagusta coast. According to police, the 6m long vessel was detected on the ...

A 23-year-old man was remanded in custody on Wednesday in connection with the arrival of a boat carrying 27 migrants. The 23-year-old was brought before the District Court of Famagusta which ...

Police on Tuesday arrested a 23-year-old boat operator, following the arrival of 27 illegal immigrants at Cape Greco. According to police statement the boat was detected by radar in the afternoon ...

The relocation operation of migrants housed in the troubled Ayios Nikolaos apartment complex in Chlorakas has been completed Paphos CID chief Michalis Nikolaou told the Cyprus Mail on Tuesday. The ...

A 58-year-old man was jailed for 24 months on Thursday for people-smuggling after he was found guilty of helping to bring in 23 irregular migrants in May this year in the Famagusta ...

Police identified and picked up two groups of illegal migrants from streets after they landed undetected and were found walking in two coastal areas. According to police spokesman Christos Andreou, ...

The Aliens and migration service announced on Friday that more than 4,000 third country nationals have been repatriated this year so far. According to official figures, this represents more than 85 per ...

Police on Sunday arrested a 24-year-old man for an investigated case of helping third-country nationals to enter the Republic illegally. The case concerns the arrival by sea of 20 people in ...