Migrants rescued from boat in distress off Larnaca coast (Update)
AUTHORITIES on Thursday rescued 12 people from a small boat in distress in waters southwest of the island. Around 1pm authorities issued an alert about...
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Malta agrees to take 90 migrants rescued by Italian coastguard
Malta on Tuesday agreed to accept 90 migrants rescued by an Italian coastguard vessel in its search and rescue zone, defusing a stand-off with the...
Ocean Viking ship with 356 migrants on board to dock in Malta (Updated)
By Pamela Barbaglia and Stephen Jewkes The Ocean Viking ship which has been drifting in the Mediterranean for two weeks with rescued migrants on board...
Ten children aboard migrant boat arriving at Larnaca (updated)
A boat with 33 migrants, including eight infants and two children, arrived in Larnaca port on Tuesday. According to police, the naval department located the...
Spanish NGO boat seeks safe port for 124 people rescued in Mediterranean
A Spanish charity rescue boat sought safe port on Friday after Italy rejected its request to disembark 124 people saved from two migrant rafts in...
Greece and Cyprus to work together on irregular migrants
The interior ministers of Cyprus and Greece on Tuesday announced a a joint initiative on migration to enhance the return policy of irregular immigrants. The...
Sea-Watch captain says hopes for change in EU migrant rules
The German captain of a charity rescue ship, under investigation for aiding illegal immigration, said on Thursday she hoped the new EU Commission would work...
Unhcr: Cyprus should not have to deal alone with asylum issues
CYPRUS, currently receiving more asylum seekers per capita among European countries, should not be left alone to deal with this situation, said Unhcr Cyprus Representative...
Koursoumba slams shabby treatment of two disabled children
Children’s Rights Commissioner Leda Koursoumba said that she had found a number of violations of the rights of two children, one with visual impairment, the...
Syrians arriving in the north were sent back to Turkey
Fifty-one Syrians, including a pregnant woman and four children, were sent back to Turkey after arriving in the breakaway north around a month ago, Turkish...
Bombed Tripoli migrant detention centre being emptied
A migrant detention centre in Tripoli, hit by a deadly air strike last week, is being gradually emptied following a decision by Libyan authorities to release...
Migrant situation becoming ‘impossible to deal with’
A total of 3,060 migrants have crossed from the occupied areas into the republic so far this year asking for political asylum, Interior Minister Constantinos...
Seven drown after migrant boat overturns off Greek island of Lesbos
Two children, four women and a man drowned when a boat carrying them overturned off the Greek island of Lesbos on Tuesday, the coast guard...
Nine migrants arrive by boat (updated)
Nine adult migrants arrived in Cyprus by boat on Tuesday and have been taken to a reception centre outside Nicosia, police said. The boat was...
More migrants picked up off Cape Greco
The joint rescue coordination centre (JRCC) on Sunday rescued fourteen migrants who were adrift in a boat south of Cape Greco. At 3.58pm, the JRCC...
Ten migrants found off Cape Greco
A boat with 10 migrants was found in the sea off the coast of Cape Greco near Protaras and towed to shore on Thursday evening....
More migrants arrive from the north
Two groups totalling 37 migrants arrived from the north on Monday evening in Nicosia and the Morphou area, police said. Nineteen were spotted when they were...
Remand for suspected people smuggler after 46 migrants picked up (Updated)
The Nicosia District court on Thursday remanded for eight days, a Turkish man arrested in connection with bringing 46 Syrian immigrants into the republic on...
Three arrested in the north for people smuggling – reports
Authorities in the north have arrested three men, a Turkish national and two Turkish Cypriots, suspected of smuggling Syrian refugees arriving from Turkey to the...
Malta’s army takes control of small tanker hijacked by migrants
VALLETTA, March 28 (Reuters) – Maltese soldiers have taken control of a small tanker that was hijacked by migrants it had rescued off Libya, the...