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The court hearing for the 13 men on trial in connection to the racist riots in Limassol in September was postponed again on Monday and will resume on November 22. A number ...

More than 500 migrants were rescued in the Atlantic Ocean off Spain’s Canary Islands, the Spanish coastguard said on Saturday, as the number of people arriving on the archipelago so ...

A 56-year-old man found guilty of assisting third country nationals to enter the Republic illegally was sentenced to 24 months in jail on Thursday. Famagusta district court also found the man ...

Personnel at Pournara migrant reception centre will be increased to accelerate the asylum application processing time, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Monday. In a statement issued after a meeting ...

Cyprus has reached out to the EU for help including requesting items such as tents, after 194 migrants arrived to the island’s shores, it emerged on Sunday. The interior ministry ...

Ten men arrested on suspicion of a people smuggling ring were released on Wednesday after Paphos district court rejected a police remand request. They had been arrested on Monday as ...

Scores of riot police officers surrounded Limassol criminal court on Wednesday, as 13 suspects linked to the racist violence against migrants last month arrived for their hearings. The date of the ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Tuesday warned developments in Israel and Gaza could impact Lebanon’s ability to monitor its shores, raising the risk for an increased influx of migrants ...

Ten people were arrested on Monday as the result of a coordinated operation into a people smuggling network facilitating the illegal entry of migrants into Cyprus. The wide-scale operation, involving ...

Paphos court is to announce sentence against the 47-year-old Syrian man who threatened to “turn Paphos upside down” in relation to the Chlorakas incidents during the summer on October 30. The 47...

Migrants living in a condemned apartment building without electricity or water has been cleared after the Paphos mayor intervened and expressed his outrage over the situation. “It’s situations such ...

At least seven people were killed and more than a dozen others injured when a suspected human smuggler lost control of a van carrying migrants, German police said on Friday. ...

As the number of voluntary returns of failed asylum seekers continues to rise, the interior ministry on Friday told the Cyprus Mail the country that has seen the most is ...

Lakatamia should be consulted before a potential decision is made by the government to house migrants at a former school within its municipal boundaries, its mayor said on Tuesday. Fotoula ...

Faster processing times of asylum applications have received a boost with the recruitment of 25 additional examiners, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Monday. “The recruitment of new staff is a ...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has written to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz telling him she learned with “astonishment” of a German government initiative to finance migrant charity groups operating in ...

Immigrants who maintain close links with Turkey are reportedly on a list of monitored foreign nationals confirmed by police, it emerged on Monday. Police confirmed reports on Sunday that security ...

Pope Francis was moved as he was shown a picture of a migrant child by Reuters photographer Yara Nardi during his flight to a Church conference on Mediterranean issues in ...

Ten irregular immigrants from Syria were picked up by an Italian frigate off the coast of Cyprus and were later transferred to Pournara late on Thursday. The ten were picked ...

International human trafficking “is a global phenomenon which requires our immediate attention”, Justice Minister Anna Procopiou said on Tuesday. Speaking at the CrimEx and EMJnet meeting of the Euro-Mediterranean justice ...

After the racist attacks seen on the island recently, Iole Damaskinos speaks to one Syrian family who feel welcomed Life as a displaced person has never been easy for 41-year-old ...

The owner of the condemned apartment building in Chlorakas, from where dozens of migrants and refugees were evicted last month, on Friday said they were only trying to shelter the ...

A couple of weeks after the violent anti-migrant protest, we asked a selection of people on the streets of Nicosia for their views on the migrant issue.

A total of 118 migrants arrived in Ayia Napa on Wednesday morning, the police said, after which they were taken to safety at the Pournara reception centre in Kokkinotrimithia. According to ...