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A Frontex official praised Cyprus for its “successful strategy” on Thursday for how it manages immigration, during a meeting with Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou. During a visit to the island, ...

Most news scandals are shameful, but the violent riots that took hold of Limassol on September 1 were nothing short of a disgrace. The reasons? Numerous. Take it from the fact ...

The new EU asylum and migration deal was slammed by left-wing party Akel, which has charged that the pact will cement the problem of refugees getting stuck in southern Mediterranean ...

French President Emmanuel Macron faced cracks within his ruling alliance on Wednesday after parliament passed a toughened immigration bill, leaving him needing to find ways to appease left-leaning members. The ...

A group of French lawmakers struck a tentative deal on Tuesday on a contested bill that will toughen immigration laws and has highlighted the difficulties for President Emmanuel Macron of ...

Police on Sunday said it arrested 33 people living in Cyprus illegally, as part of an operation which unfolded in Nicosia. Procedures to deport them are already underway, police specified. In ...

A total of 17 people who were staying in Cyprus illegally were arrested on Sunday, police said. The arrests were made in the Larnaca district. Police say procedures to repatriate all 17 ...

House President and Disy party leader Annita Demetriou has called for Syria to be classed as a safe country, so that Cyprus can send back Syrian asylum seekers. In a ...

Refugees in Cyprus will only be eligible for the Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) once they have continuously lived in the Republic legally for five years, cabinet decided on Wednesday. The ...

Berlin introduces border controls, eclipsing open-door policy Partly due to electioneering ahead of Sunday votes -analysts Authorities struggle with influx as asylum requests up 80% By Sarah Marsh and Riham Alkousaa ...

President Joe Biden’s administration said on Thursday it will add sections to a border wall to stave off record migrant crossings from Mexico, a reversal that embraces a signature ...

Deputies on Wednesday grilled Cyprus’ police chief on institutionalised racism within the force and whether this was a factor in the observer status police took, as mobs attacked migrants in ...

Police were gearing up for an anti-immigrant protest in Nicosia on Wednesday, despite assurances it would be cancelled. Speaking during the House legal affairs committee, police chief Stelios Papatheodorou was ...

Ombudswoman Maria Sylianou Lottides in a strongly worded letter to police leadership weighed in on Friday’s racial violence in Limassol, adding to the growing number of voices denouncing police ...

Concerned pro-migrant activist groups have urged vulnerable minorities to keep a low profile when another anti-migrant protest takes place on Wednesday evening, this time outside the presidential palace in Nicosia. ...

By Tom Cleaver and Andria Kades More than 1,000 people from all over Cyprus descended on Limassol on Monday evening to attend an anti-fascist protest organised by Akel. The protest was ...

The tourists of Arab origin who were attacked during the anti-migrant riot in Limassol on Friday will be offered free accommodation for their next trip to Cyprus. The move was ...

Calls for the resignation of Cyprus’ police chief and justice minister were still on the table on Monday, as the police’s widely condemned failure to deal with Friday’s ...

Limassol’s seafront thundered to the sounds of over 500 people chanting “hands off migrants” on Saturday evening, in a peaceful demonstration showing solidarity to foreign nationals who have been subject ...

Foreign nationals on Limassol’s beachfront may have been targeted for their skin colour on Friday night, but by Saturday morning they pledged they would not let the violence scare ...

Thirteen people have been arrested in connection with the violence that occurred on Friday night in Limassol. Amongst those arrested was the individual believed to be the organiser of the ...

Both Akel and the Limassol mayor Nicos Nicolaides have criticised police for their handling of Friday’s racial violence in Limassol when shops were smashed, Molotov cocktails thrown, migrants chased ...

By Andria Kades and Nikolaos Prakas Over two hundred far-right protesters gathered at the Molos area in Limassol for an anti-immigrant rally, which became an almost war-like scene, as things ...

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 ...