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Another balcony collapsed at noon on Saturday in a building on the central Posidon Avenue in Kato Paphos, near the municipal baths, CNA reported. The debris fell on the pergola ...

One of the barbed-wire metal gates installed in Peristerona has been destroyed as the local authorities remain puzzled as to what exactly happened. A police source from the larger and ...

Cyprus is “flooded with migrants”, director general of the interior ministry Costas Constantinou told the House ad hoc committee on demographics on Tuesday. “Our country’s capacity to host migrants ...

The ambassadors of France, Germany and the Netherlands visited Pournara reception center on Monday in what was seen as acknowledgement of the problem facing Cyprus and of the need for ...

The European Union’s top migration official told Greece on Thursday to stop “violent” deportations of migrants or risk losing funds. After becoming one of the main destination points during ...

The interior ministry has sought to reassure the public following a parliamentary committee heard that over 1,000 migrants at Pournara were diagnosed with transmissible illnesses, ranging from HIV/AIDS and hepatitis ...

The death toll from a human trafficking incident on Monday in which migrants suffered under extreme Texas heat inside a truck rose to 50 on Tuesday, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez ...

Cyprus is at the forefront of a shifting pattern of illegal border crossings on the Eastern Mediterranean route, an EU agency for Asylum report said on Tuesday, confirming the pressures ...

The bodies of 46 dead migrants were discovered inside a tractor-trailer on Monday in San Antonio, Texas, city officials said, in one of the most deadly recent incidents of human smuggling ...

A boat carrying irregular migrants was spotted in the sea area west of Limassol on Monday morning. The incident was confirmed by the British Bases of Akrotiri which was monitoring ...

Limassol authorities took action on Tuesday after a group of migrants was found living under the docks of the pier. Photos circulating in the media showed the young migrants living ...

A 50-year-old man was arrested in the early hours of Thursday for allegedly aiding the illegal entry into the Republic of ten migrants. A police statement said that on Wednesday ...

Residents of the Kokkinotrimithia area are at the end of their tether because of growing problems caused by asylum seekers from the nearby facility, Christakis Meleties, community leader of the ...

The eastern Mediterranean migratory route was the third most active on the external borders of the European Union during the first five months of 2022, according to preliminary calculations published by ...

The government was to blame for the high number of migrants on the island as it had created welcoming conditions for asylum seekers, the chairman of the House committee on ...

By Andrea Charalambous More than 7,000 people have been helped at Migrant Centres operated by the University of Nicosia, Tepak and Cardet in the 18 months they have been operating, they announced ...

Police on Monday said they are “sparing no effort” in locating missing persons while many resources are being given to locate the 14 unaccompanied minors who disappeared from the facilities in ...

The “all-seeing” 24-hour monitoring system along the Green Line is to be operational by the end of September and will limit illegal smuggling, Defence Minister Charlambos Petrides said on Tuesday. ...

The independent union of Cyprus’ public employees (ASDYK) and its police branch on Monday called for the recruitment of permanent officers instead of the proposed recruitment of 300 special constables on ...

A school shooting at Kokkinotrimithia lower secondary school was prevented in November, MPs heard on Tuesday at parliament’s ad hoc committee on demographics and migration. The allegations were presented ...

A 44-year-old man was remanded for five days on Sunday by the Famagusta District court after being caught allegedly bringing illegal migrants into the country. According to the police, at 6.20 ...

Two women, aged 21 and 19, were arrested late on Thursday in Larnaca for illegal entry into the government-controlled areas. Police said they found the suspects accompanying a 40-year-old woman with her ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris visited a Ukrainian refugee reception centre in Slovenia on Saturday during an official visit in the country at the invitation of his Slovenian counterpart Ales Hojs. ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris on Tuesday called on the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) to start monitoring flights and ferries arriving in the north to stop the irregular ...