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Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou has highlighted the mounting pressures Cyprus has faced in recent years due to increased migrant and refugee flows. Speaking at the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva, ...

MPs heard on Tuesday that to date some €43 million has been collected through a special levy on immovable property transactions, the proceeds going to assisting refugees facing financial hardship. In ...

Elderly refugees are requesting assistance from the fire service to carry their groceries upstairs due to the absence of elevators, the House refugees committee heard on Tuesday. After the committee ...

Fifty refugee families were almost kicked out of an Ayia Napa hotel they were staying at and put on the street, after their government regulated stay there had expired, and ...

A contract was signed on Tuesday for the demolition of five condemned apartment blocks in the refugee estates in Latsia. They will be demolished within the scope of the government’...

Coordinated action is needed to deal with possible new flows of refugees because of the Hamas-Israel war, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said at the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council ...

By Iole Damaskinos and Tom Cleaver There are now no commercial flights between Cyprus and Israel after Cypriot airline TUS Airways became the last to suspend its services between the ...

Larnaca municipality on Tuesday announced the launch of a humanitarian campaign to aid refugees from Nagorno Karabakh, organised by the civil defence in collaboration with the foreign ministry. An announcement ...

In a speech in the US last week, UK interior minister Suella Braverman floated the idea that the definition of refugee under 1951 Refugee Convention needed to be tightened to stop ...

Migrants picked up at sea by rescue ships must be sent to the countries that support the NGO charities, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Friday, demanding that an ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos has hailed a Council of Europe committee decision to maintain its supervision of the case of property rights of Cyprus against Turkey, noting that more countries ...

Latsia mayor Christos Pittaras told the House refugees committee on Tuesday he could “not rule out” involving the police should refugees living in apartments set for demolition refuse to move ...

The owner of the condemned apartment building in Chlorakas, from where dozens of migrants and refugees were evicted last month, on Friday said they were only trying to shelter the ...

By Jonathan Shkurko and Elias Hazou The government on Thursday decided to set up an interdepartmental team as a focal point for drawing up policies to stem the tide of ...

European leaders are torn between the human rights of refugees and the fear of local people of being swamped by refugees The racist attacks on refugees in Limassol and Paphos ...

The United Nations refugee agency on Monday said it expected over 1.8 million people from Sudan to arrive in five neighbouring countries by the end of the year and appealed for $1 ...

Hundreds of residents of a main Palestinian camp in Lebanon fled on Monday as fighting between mainstream faction Fatah and radical Islamists raged for a third day, residents and security ...

It was obvious refugees could not be deported to Rwanda and that dangerous refugee criminals are eminently deportable but not an elected MEP Refugee decisions from the top courts in ...

The European Union’s top court ruled on Thursday that refugees can be stripped of the protective status in the bloc if they are convicted of a particularly serious crime ...

Increasing figures of forced displacement are a tragic reality for humanity, Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou-Lottides said on Tuesday, in light of World Refugee Day. She stressed the importance of more solidarity ...

Asylum applications have increased by 490 per cent since 2015, the Office of the Law Commissioner said on Tuesday, World Refugee Day. The primary focus of the office in recent months has ...

A large number of Turkish Cypriot properties on the island are currently mismanaged, the audit service said in a special report on Wednesday. The report, available on the audit service’...

Twenty complexes in refugee housing estates have critical stability issues and will need to be evacuated immediately, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Tuesday. He was speaking at a press ...

Mistakes were made in the handling of Turkish Cypriot properties in the south, the interior minister conceded on Tuesday as he pledged transparency and accountability going forward. “It is generally ...