#migrants

The body of a young Syrian man has been found in Poland near the border with Belarus, Polish police said on Saturday, amid mounting international tension over a migrant crisis ...

Twelve police officers were suspended pending investigations into the departure without permission on Thursday evening of a boat with 61 migrants that was being held at the Kato Paphos harbour, reports ...

The vessel with 61 irregular migrants which was intercepted a day earlier, departed Kato Paphos port late on Thursday without a departure permit, authorities said. According to the spokesman of the ...

The group of 61 irregular migrants who arrived at Paphos port on Wednesday day spent the night on the boat, authorities said early on Thursday. The group consists of 11 women, 22 men ...

The European Union accused Belarus on Wednesday of mounting a “hybrid attack” by pushing migrants across the border into Poland, paving the way for widened sanctions against Minsk in a ...

A new group of irregular migrants arrived at Paphos port on Wednesday morning. The group consists of 61 migrants, including 11 women, 22 men and 28 children between two and 16, reportedly Syrian and Lebanese ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis angrily defended his government’s migration policy in a heated exchange with a journalist who accused him of “narcissistic abuse” during a news conference with ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Saturday President Nicos Anastasiades will chair a meeting in the coming week to discuss migrant flows. The meeting has been scheduled to get the ...

The House human rights committee on Tuesday underlined its support for shelters to house unaccompanied teenager migrants, calling for the programme to be strengthened. So far 57 teenagers have made use ...

Three migrants, who were illegally staying in the republic, have agreed to voluntary return to their country, police said on Monday. The group concerned a 35-year-old man from Georgia, a 55...

The interior ministry denied on Sunday a damning report published by daily Politis which pointed directly at Interior Minister Nicos Nouris for overstepping boundaries in practises described as akin to ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said Saturday more than 1,800 irregular migrants had arrived in the Republic in October, the vast majority coming from the north through the buffer zone. Speaking after ...

Two women, 25 and 29, were remanded for eight days on Wednesday on suspicion of assisting third-country nationals enter the territory of the republic illegally. The pair was arrested after officers received ...

Three migrants drowned on Tuesday while trying to cross from Turkey to Greece after a boat carrying about 27 people sank, the Greek coast guard said. Greece is one of the ...

A total of 41 migrants, including 10 minors, arrived in Kato Pyrgos Tyllirias, police said early on Friday. The migrants were spotted in two vessels in the sea off Kato Pyrgos Tylirias ...

Two issues: the status of the buffer zone and the failure to return rejected asylum seekers to countries designated as safe The interior minister this week called for “drastic measures” ...

President Joe Biden’s administration is taking steps to restart by mid-November a program begun under his predecessor Donald Trump that forced asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for U....

Cyprus is “forced” to adopt drastic measures to curb illegal migration through the Green Line, from where some 800 irregular migrants crossed to the government-controlled areas in the last 10 days alone, ...

Great efforts are being undertaken to tackle illegal migration, MPs heard during Parliament’s ad hoc committee on demographics and migration on Tuesday while concerns were also expressed over “the ...

Three migrants have died in southwest France after being hit by a train while they were lying on the tracks, a police spokeswoman said on Tuesday. She said four migrants ...

Seventeen potential victims of human trafficking were identified in Cyprus following a Europol-supported investigation into labour exploitation in the agricultural sector in seven countries. In an announcement on Tuesday, the ...

Nicosia hopes the EU can soon agree a new common migration and asylum pact, relieving the island of some of the pressure from migrant flows, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris on Tuesday waved off demands made a day earlier for a Syrian asylum seeker to be reunited with her family, saying it might open the floodgates ...

U .S. border agents began expelling plane-loads of mostly Haitian migrants from a large makeshift camp they had set up after wading across the Rio Grande separating Mexico and the ...