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A 28-year-old man believed to have helped three migrants enter the Republic illegally, was arrested on Friday, police said on Saturday. This is the eighth such case that has been ...

Seven migrants were killed and eight others injured early on Friday when their vehicle crashed into a toll station on a highway in northern Greece, police said. A preliminary investigation ...

A boat with nine male migrants arrived in Cape Greco on Tuesday afternoon, with one of them arrested as an alleged people smuggler. The boat was spotted around eight nautical ...

The council of ministers on Monday approved a Christmas ‘gift’ for poor pensioners and those on guaranteed minimum income, and the establishment of an interministerial body to handle the increased ...

The independent union of Cyprus’ public employees (ASDYK) and its police branch have called on the police leadership on Saturday to “immediately reconsider” the suspension of 12 officers in connection with ...

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 ...