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Lebanese authorities have stopped a boat carrying some 25 Syrian migrants from departing for Cyprus and arrested a Syrian national suspected of organising the journey on Monday. Lebanon’s state security ...

Four people died after a group of migrants attempted to board an inflatable dinghy and cross the Channel from France to Britain, prompting a rescue operation off the coast of ...

Italy’s coast guard recovered the bodies of 19 migrants and rescued 58 survivors from a boat that broke down while trying to cross to Europe from Libya, rescue officials and migrant ...

A model of refugees in a boat, placed on a bonfire in a pro-British town near Belfast, was set alight on Thursday night, weeks after migrants’ homes were attacked nearby. ...

The ministries of justice, defence and migration and international protection stated on Wednesday that they strongly rejected allegations of illegal pushbacks and the use of force against migrants at sea. ...

Autopsies on four of the seven victims recovered from the sea after their boat capsized off Cape Greco confirmed they had drowned, sources said on Wednesday. The examinations were conducted ...

It is increasingly unlikely that more survivors will be found from the boat that capsized off Cape Greco following the retrieval of seven bodies, Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas said on ...

At least five migrants drowned after their wooden boat capsized off Greece’s southern island of Gavdos, the coastguard said on Saturday, and witnesses said many were still missing as ...

Two people were remanded in custody by the Larnaca district court on Tuesday for assisting illegal migration into the country. The two concern a 16-year-old and a 44-year-old man, remanded ...

Two more migrant boats have been spotted on Monday by Cyprus’ port police, it emerged. Authorities said that one boat had 37 migrants on board and was seen off the coast ...

Two men were remanded at Famagusta district court on Saturday, in connection with two boats which reached Cape Greco carrying 147 migrants. During questioning, the migrants identified the two men, aged 19 ...

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 ...

The children rescued from a migrant boat are now in a better condition, though they are still being treated at Makarios hospital, the state health services (Okypy) said on Monday. ...

A total of 86 people were rescued off the coast of Cyprus on Sunday afternoon, according to the Joint Rescue Coordination Center (JRCC). There were 61 men, 6 women and 19 children on a ...

A total of four arrests have been made after two boats carrying irregular migrants arrived in the Cape Greco area on Monday night, with a combined 44 people on board. The ...

Four people suspected of transporting 114 irregular migrants from Syria to the Republic have been arrested, police said on Wednesday as officials seek measures to curb arrivals from the West-Asian country. ...

The coast guard on Thursday morning escorted a new boat of irregular migrants to the safety of the Golden Coast fishing shelter in Protaras. The boat, which had set off ...

Two more boats with irregular migrants were spotted on Thursday off Cape Greco. The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Larnaca received an alert about the two boats around 1.30pm. At ...

Eighteen migrants travelling in a boat off Cape Greco were intercepted by the coast guard, with a man thought to have facilitated their journey remanded in police custody on Tuesday. ...

Police on Monday announced the reinstatement of the 12 police officers suspended in connection with the unauthorised departure of a boat with 61 migrants that was being held at the Kato Paphos ...

Twelve police officers were suspended pending investigations into the departure without permission on Thursday evening of a boat with 61 migrants that was being held at the Kato Paphos harbour, reports ...