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The European Union is partly to blame for deaths of migrants taking boats across the Mediterranean due to unanswered distress calls, obstruction of humanitarian rescue efforts, and so-called “pushbacks” to ...

Tents have been erected at Ayios Nicolaos fishing shelter in Protaras for 102 irregular migrants from Syria who disembarked on Tuesday, five days after their boat arrived in the Cape Greco ...

Eighty more irregular migrants were spotted off the coast of Cape Greco on Thursday as the 97 who arrived on Wednesday made their way to Pournara migrant reception camp. Police said ...

A vessel with around 100 migrants was spotted off Cape Greco on Wednesday afternoon. The boat was spotted at around 2 pm around 14 nautical miles off Cape Greco. A vessel of the ...

At least 57 migrants drowned in a shipwreck off Tunis as they tried to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy and 33 were rescued, humanitarian organisation Tunisian Red Crescent said on ...

Fifty-six irregular migrants aboard a boat spotted off Cape Greco on Sunday afternoon were denied entry to the Republic of Cyprus and have returned to Lebanon, the Cyprus News Agency ...

Europe’s top human rights watchdog has urged Greece to end pushbacks of asylum-seekers on its borders, a practice that Athens denies carrying out. In a letter to Greek ministers ...

The increased flow of migrants and asylum seekers into Europe, which has become an issue especially relevant for Cyprus, was discussed by the bloc’s interior ministers on Tuesday, including ...

Sixty-three irregular migrants arrived by boat on Tuesday afternoon in Larnaca. The group arrived in a large wooden boat at around 3.50pm at the fishing harbour area in Larnaca. It ...

The United States this week will reunite four migrant families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border during the Trump administration, U.S. officials said, a small step toward fulfilling ...

Some residents of Akaki, outside Nicosia, were up in arms Thursday after they discovered that access to their homes and properties had been restricted by the installation of razor wire ...

Three Syrian migrants were spotted in Liopetri on Tuesday afternoon after passing into government-controlled areas from the north police said. Police arrived on the scene after Liopetri residents spotted the ...

Nine migrants, all male, arrived on Tuesday early afternoon in Protaras, police said. Their vessel was spotted at around noon off Cape Greco. A marine police vessel escorted their boat, ...

Ten Syrian men arrived on Friday afternoon by boat to Protaras, police said. The group was first spotted off Cape Greco at around 10.30am by a police patrol vessel that ...

Eight irregular migrants from Syria in a small boat were spotted off Cape Greco on Wednesday afternoon by the marine police. According to police, the boat was spotted at about 6.20 ...

A five-year-old Syrian migrant boy stranded in the north by himself for 45 days was this week reunited with his parents. The boy’s 27-year-old father has lived in Cyprus for ...

Parliament has voted to bolster the law against people smugglers and educational institutions which facilitate “sham” students’ entry into the Republic. Perhaps the most notable change is that now people ...

Dozens of children gathered on Friday afternoon outside the Phaneromeni school in the old part of Nicosia protesting against plans for the relocation of the University of Cyprus’ architecture department ...

Greece accused Turkey on Friday of trying to provoke it by attempting to push boats carrying migrants into Greek waters. Greece and Turkey disagree on a range of issues, including ...

A total of 7,036 new asylum applications were submitted in 2020 in Cyprus, raising the year’s backlog to nearly 20,000, Unhcr Cyprus reported on Thursday. The statistics were updated based on figures ...

The placing of a razor wire fence along a segment of the buffer zone is not, nor can it be construed as, erecting a border, the interior ministry said Thursday ...

To fight the flow of immigrants from the north, the interior ministry decided to install barbed wire along the buffer zone, along an 11km stretch from Astromeritis to Nicosia airport. ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris visited a migrant and refugee camp Samos on Tuesday, during his two-day visit in Greece. The minister was accompanied by Asylum Seekers Reception General Secretary Manos ...

There are more than 17,000 children whose mother language is not Greek in the state education system, education minister Prodromos Prodromou said on Friday as he unveiled new programmes to boost ...