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 ...
Parliament has voted to bolster the law against people smugglers and educational institutions which facilitate “sham” students’ entry into the Republic.
Perhaps the most notable change is that now people ...
Dozens of children gathered on Friday afternoon outside the Phaneromeni school in the old part of Nicosia protesting against plans for the relocation of the University of Cyprus’ architecture department ...
Greece accused Turkey on Friday of trying to provoke it by attempting to push boats carrying migrants into Greek waters.
Greece and Turkey disagree on a range of issues, including ...
A total of 7,036 new asylum applications were submitted in 2020 in Cyprus, raising the year’s backlog to nearly 20,000, Unhcr Cyprus reported on Thursday.
The statistics were updated based on figures ...
The placing of a razor wire fence along a segment of the buffer zone is not, nor can it be construed as, erecting a border, the interior ministry said Thursday ...
To fight the flow of immigrants from the north, the interior ministry decided to install barbed wire along the buffer zone, along an 11km stretch from Astromeritis to Nicosia airport. ...
Interior Minister Nicos Nouris visited a migrant and refugee camp Samos on Tuesday, during his two-day visit in Greece.
The minister was accompanied by Asylum Seekers Reception General Secretary Manos ...
There are more than 17,000 children whose mother language is not Greek in the state education system, education minister Prodromos Prodromou said on Friday as he unveiled new programmes to boost ...
Police in anti-riot gear gathered outside the Pournara migrant reception centre on Monday morning after residents there staged a protest calling for permission to leave the premises.
The migrants said ...
Hundreds of asylum seekers staying in the Pournara reception centre protested on Monday over delays in their application process and what they described as the inhumane living conditions in the ...
THE interior ministry on Tuesday condemned clashes between more than 600 migrants on Monday night at the overcrowded Pournara reception centre outside the capital, which left 35 people injured and caused considerable ...
Three Syrian men arrived in Cyprus in a small boat that came ashore on a beach in Ayia Napa, police said on Saturday.
According to police, a citizen notified the ...
Police said on Friday that a boat with migrants was refused landing while 19 other Syrian refugees were picked up in Peristerona later in the day.
A boat with approximately 25 migrants ...
A boat carrying 26 migrants from Syria was towed to safety amid rough seas in the Famagusta district on Tuesday.
Police said the boat was drifting out of control in rough ...