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751. Cyprus says migration system under pressure

Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides says Cyprus has exceeded its limits in the numbers of refugees flowing to the island, but he rejected a description in a German publication that drew parallels to the Lampedusa crisis...

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754. Syrian refugees picked up off Cape Greco

A boat carrying seventeen people was spotted off Cape Greco on Monday, with reports suggesting they are all presumptive refugees from Syria...

755. Cyprus worried over migrants cheating the system

The head of the anti-trafficking unit in Cyprus, Rita Superman, says some migrants know how to cheat the system citing past examples of child marriages from Syria and women falsely seeking human trafficking protections...

756. United against racism Germans stage mass protest against far right

757. Impounded minivan in fatal accident catches fire

A minivan that was involved in the fatal accident where two Egyptian men were killed Tuesday caught fire at the police pound around midnight...

758. Syrian refugees land north, head south

A boatload of Syrian refugees arrived in Cyprus on Sunday morning, with 34 asylum seekers reaching dry land in the north and then crossing over to the south....

759. More EU aid to Cyprus to help with migrant arrivals

760. More refugees arrive in Cyprus across the divide

Two boats with Syrian refugees reached Cypriot shores separately on Tuesday, with one ending up in the north and the other apprehended by Republic of Cyprus authorities in the south...

761. Another boatload of refugees reaches Cyprus

Over 30 migrants and refugees sailed to the Republic of Cyprus on Thursday, with state radars picking up their signal off the coast of Protaras just as Nicosia is challenging the European debate on migration...

762. EU migrant relocation mechanism needed says Anastasiades in Salzburg

763. Tusk: EU must end migration blame game

764. Avramopoulos: Cyprus is not alone on Migration

765. EU’s migration Commissioner in Nicosia for talks

The European Union’s top migration official is on a visit to the Republic of Cyprus, where he will hold discussions with a cabinet subcommittee on dealing with the influx of migrants and refugees...

766. OSCE praises Cyprus efforts to combat human trafficking

Following the unprecedented disruption of a sex trafficking ring in Cyprus, OSCE’s Combating Trafficking in Human Beings praised the country for its progress in combating human trafficking and urged agencies to seek ways for even better coordination...

767. Cyprus to take initiative on EU migration policy

Cyprus will be stepping up measures to address a recent increase in the flow of refugees and undocumented migrants to the island nation, including putting heads together with other Mediterranean countries...

768. Lesvos memorial to drowned refugees destroyed

A memorial on the Aegean island of Lesvos erected in memory of the hundreds of migrants and refugees who have perished while attempting the crossing from Turkey to Greece and the European Union has been destroyed by vandals....

769. Latest boatload of refugees prompts Cabinet meeting

Twenty presumptive refugees, mainly women and children, arrived in the Republic of Cyprus on Monday, prompting a partial Cabinet meeting on Tuesday in the wake of recent undocumented arrivals...

770. More refugees picked up in Nicosia and Paphos

About 30 refugees on foot were picked up in the last 24 hours in Nicosia and Paphos, with authorities trying to ascertain the circumstances under which they reached the Republic of Cyprus...

771. Fresh calls for migrants to be moved from Aegean islands

Authorities on the eastern Aegean islands have renewed calls on the central government to relocate hundreds of migrants to the mainland as their population on Lesvos, Chios and Samos has risen to 16,334 from 10,349 this time last year. ...

772. Nicosia ups pressure on EU migration policy

Nicosia is pushing for a single EU migration policy that would make refugee redistribution not only mandatory but also relative to population sizes of member states...

773. Greece agrees to return of asylum seekers, German gov't says

The German government says Greece has agreed to take back migrants who apply for asylum there and later turn up at Germany's border with Austria....

774. Britain’s Cypriot dialect under pressure

London, 1990. Six-year old Skevi, of Cypriot background, was late for class at her Greek community school, which left her unable to find somewhere to sit....

775. The solitary third age of Greek Australians

Thirty-three-year-old Dimitra will lock her door tomorrow morning and breathe in the chilly Melbourne air. ...

776. Pace of migrant arrivals in Greece via land from Turkey quickens

More than 10,000 migrants and refugees arrived in Greece from Turkey through the northern Evros river crossing in the first half of 2018, a non governmental organisation said on Thursday, a quicker pace of arrivals compared to 2017....

777. EU leaders under pressure to curb migration

European Union leaders meet in Brussels on Thursday to agree new measures to restrict arrivals across the Mediterranean as growing popular discontent over immigration puts pressure on governments from Germany to Italy....

778. Nicosia helps refugees gain better skills

Nineteen refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers came together in Strovolos on Sunday, as part of the “Colourful Societies” programme that helps foreigners integrate socially and gain job skills...

779. UK minister visits Cyprus to touch base

British Minister of State for the Armed Forces Mark Lancaster is on a two day visit on the island to help strengthen defence cooperation between his country and the Republic of Cyprus...

780. Syrian refugees arrive in Kato Pyrgos overnight

Another boatload of Syrian refugees came ashore in Kato Pyrgos, carrying 60 men and one woman who said she was coming to reunite with her husband on the island...