#migrants

Nicosia police were investigating on Thursday after seven people were injured in a brawl involving around 300 migrants at Pournara reception camp overnight. According to a police spokeswoman, the fight started ...

The European Commission is expected to legally define the ‘instrumentalisation of migrants’, next week, though this might not help Cyprus deal with the increasing inflow of migrants to the island. ...

A total of 10,868 asylum applications had been submitted in Cyprus from the beginning of the year until the first week of November, the interior ministry said on Tuesday. In addition, ...

Two 33-year-old men were arrested in Larnaca on suspicion of assisting the illegal entry of migrants into the republic, police said on Tuesday. The arrests occurred during a police operation ...

Thirty one adult migrants, all of Syrian origin, were found in Athienou on Monday, police said. A police patrol located 20 migrants walking on the Nicosia to Larnaca highway in the ...

Ahead of his visit to Cyprus and Greece, Pope Francis said on Saturday his thoughts were with those fleeing wars and poverty who died in the sea or who were ...

French President Emmanuel Macron told Britain on Friday it needed to “get serious” or remain locked out of discussions over how to curb the flow of migrants escaping war and ...

France and Britain sought answers on Thursday on how to deter migrants from trying to cross the sea separating them after 27 people died making the attempt in an inflatable dinghy, ...

Paphos police on Tuesday declined comment on allegations made by Mayor Phedonas Phedonos about an apartment block whose tenants included a drug dealer and a trafficker in migrants. “The police ...

Poland said on Tuesday that groups of migrants had made new attempts to cross over the border from Belarus and it would be premature to say that the worst of ...

The House human rights committee on Monday discussed the increasing numbers of unaccompanied minors arriving in Cyprus from warzones, and measures that should be done to protect them from exploitation ...

Europe must not be blackmailed into accepting thousands of migrants stranded on its border with Belarus, Austria said, after Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko pressed the bloc to let them in ...

A 28-year-old man believed to have helped three migrants enter the Republic illegally, was arrested on Friday, police said on Saturday. This is the eighth such case that has been ...

Seven migrants were killed and eight others injured early on Friday when their vehicle crashed into a toll station on a highway in northern Greece, police said. A preliminary investigation ...

A boat with nine male migrants arrived in Cape Greco on Tuesday afternoon, with one of them arrested as an alleged people smuggler. The boat was spotted around eight nautical ...

The council of ministers on Monday approved a Christmas ‘gift’ for poor pensioners and those on guaranteed minimum income, and the establishment of an interministerial body to handle the increased ...

The independent union of Cyprus’ public employees (ASDYK) and its police branch have called on the police leadership on Saturday to “immediately reconsider” the suspension of 12 officers in connection with ...

The body of a young Syrian man has been found in Poland near the border with Belarus, Polish police said on Saturday, amid mounting international tension over a migrant crisis ...

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 ...

The vessel with 61 irregular migrants which was intercepted a day earlier, departed Kato Paphos port late on Thursday without a departure permit, authorities said. According to the spokesman of the ...

The group of 61 irregular migrants who arrived at Paphos port on Wednesday day spent the night on the boat, authorities said early on Thursday. The group consists of 11 women, 22 men ...

The European Union accused Belarus on Wednesday of mounting a “hybrid attack” by pushing migrants across the border into Poland, paving the way for widened sanctions against Minsk in a ...

A new group of irregular migrants arrived at Paphos port on Wednesday morning. The group consists of 61 migrants, including 11 women, 22 men and 28 children between two and 16, reportedly Syrian and Lebanese ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis angrily defended his government’s migration policy in a heated exchange with a journalist who accused him of “narcissistic abuse” during a news conference with ...