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A charity group asked the European Union on Tuesday to find a port where it can dock to disembark hundreds of migrants it has rescued in the central Mediterranean over ...

Twenty-two migrants, including five women and four children, arrived in the Limnitis area, police said early on Tuesday. After the migrants were spotted in Kato Pyrgos Tyllirias around 8am, the ...

A boat with 58 migrants, including 18 children, that arrived at Cape Greco on Thursday has been sent back to Lebanon, police said on Friday. Police said authorities gave the migrants “the ...

A new EU-funded project has been launched in Cyprus to facilitate the integration of migrants in a range of areas including participation, education, cultural and social life, urban planning, business, ...

Authorities are tracking a boat loaded with about 70 migrants off Cape Greco, it was reported on Thursday afternoon. A coast guard vessel was dispatched to rendezvous with the boat, spotted ...

Ten migrants who were attempting to make their way into the Republic from the north were arrested by Turkish Cypriot authorities on Wednesday. The migrants arrived by boat after they ...

Sovereign Base Area authorities have taken delivery of four specialised patrol vehicles that will contribute to efforts to tackle illegal migration and smuggling along its boundaries. The new vehicles take ...

Thirteen Syrian migrants were found on Sunday morning inside a truck from Turkey that had docked at Famagusta port in the north. According to the Kibris Postasi newspaper, the Syrians ...

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 ...