Thirty-one migrants picked up in Kato Pyrgos
A group of 31 Syrian migrants were picked up near Kato Pyrgos late Monday. Despite the bad weather, their vessel had docked in occupied Limnitis
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Thirty-seven refugees picked up in Kato Pyrgos
Thirty-seven refugees, 35 men and two underage girls, were picked up by police in Kato Pyrgos in the early hours of Sunday, state radio reported.
Girl dies after being detained by U.S. Border Patrol
A 7-year-old girl from Guatemala died of dehydration and shock hours after she was taken into U.S. Border Patrol custody, the Washington Post reported on
Justice minister highlights improvements in human rights
Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou on Monday praised the progress Cyprus has made in terms of human rights in recent years by pointing to what he
Forty migrants picked up in Kato Pyrgos
Forty migrants, 38 men, a woman and a child, who arrived in Cyprus late Saturday have been taken to the Kokkinotrimithia centre in Nicosia. Police
Police find latest migrant boat, abandoned (updated)
After launching a search, the police on Sunday morning announced they had found a boat believed to be the one that brought eight Syrian men,
Mexico to deport migrants who ‘violently’ tried to cross the U.S. Border
Mexico will deport migrants from a group of 500 who on Sunday tried to “violently” and “illegally” cross the U.S. border, the Mexican Interior Ministry
News podcast: Migrants in Cyprus, are they treated fairly?
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Zygi accused of racism over young migrant centre protest
The Pancyprian Peace Council (PPC) condemned on Friday what it described as the outbreak of racism and xenophobia displayed by Zygi residents opposed to the
Central American migrants trek north to seek a better life
Cradling a baby in his arms, the Central American man looks up fearfully as he scrambles away from a wall of Mexican police in riot
New group of refugees lands in Limnitis (Updated)
A new group of Syrian refugees who arrived on the beach at Limnitis on Wednesday morning were transferred later in the day to the Kokkinotrimithia
Outraged Zygi residents halt work on unaccompanied minors centre
Residents of Zygi and nearby villages obstructed workers from the department of public works from conducting a record of the buildings located in an abandoned
Italy’s Salvini condemned for moving migrants from “model” town
By Gavin Jones Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini on Sunday defended his decision to move hundreds of migrants out of a southern Italian town widely
Four dead, 30 missing as migrant boat sinks off western Turkey
Four people died after a migrant boat sank off the western coast of Turkey late on Tuesday, the Turkish interior ministry said on Wednesday, adding
Italy will close airports to unauthorised migrant flights -Salvini
Italy will close its airports to unauthorised planes carrying migrants from Germany, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said on Sunday, ratcheting up a dispute between the
More migrants found in Limnitis (updated)
Thirty three migrants – 25 men, two women and six children – were found walking between the villages of Limnitis and Pyrgos after having entered
Cyprus tops list of first-time asylum applicants per capita
The highest number of first-time asylum applicants relative to the population across the EU in the second quarter of the year has been registered in
18 migrants towed to shore
A boat with 18 migrants was towed to shore in the Ayia Thekla area of Sotira on Tuesday afternoon, police said. Eleven men, four women
IRC warns of mental health crisis on Lesbos
Greece moved another 400 people from its biggest migrant camp on Tuesday as the International Rescue Committee (IRC) charity warned of a mental health emergency
Anastasiades accused of ‘wrong-speak’ by using term ‘illegal immigrants’
By Lizzy Ioannidou Interior minister Constantinos Petrides has come to the defence of President Nicos Anastasiades who was recently accused of racist impropriety for the