NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cypriot authorities have transferred 83 Syrians who were towed into the east Mediterranean island aboard a boat with no captain to a reception center, a police spokesman said Friday.
Spokesman Michalis Ioannou told the Associated Press the Syrians said they set off from Mersin, Turkey late Wednesday, paying an average 2,000 euros ($2,177) per person for a spot on the boat.
The refugees included 37 children. One family paid as much as 10,000 euros for the trip, Ioannou said.
They will remain at the reception center until their status is determined, he said.
The passengers said the captain abandoned the boat during the journey after being picked up by another vessel.
Cypriot authorities spotted the ungoverned boat and towed it to a small harbor on the island’s northwestern coast early Friday.
The police spokesman said some Syrians expressed a desire to leave for the European continent, while other said they wanted to stay in Cyprus.
Cyprus lies around 100 miles (160 kilometers) off Syria’s Mediterranean coast but has not seen the large of inflow of refugees that Greece has.
Ioannou said this was the fourth boat of Syrian refugees that has reached Cyprus‘ northwestern coast in the last three months.
NICOSIA - You don’t mess with trying to claim the name Halloumi for the prized Cypriot cheese that’s one of its most important exports and an Indian firm that tried to do so was blocked there in a case brought by the Cypriot government.
FALMOUTH, MA – The police in Falmouth have identified the victim in an accident involving a car plunging into the ocean on February 20, NBC10 Boston reported.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. George Santos of New York is facing a critical vote to expel him from the House on Friday as lawmakers weigh whether his actions, fabrications and alleged lawbreaking warrant the chamber's most severe punishment.
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — After a record-breaking start as Tottenham manager, Ange Postecoglou is experiencing the other side to life in a job that has proved too much for some of the biggest names in soccer.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted on Friday to expel Republican Rep.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, an unwavering voice of moderate conservatism and the first woman to serve on the nation’s highest court, died Friday.
He wasn’t the first one to think about it but a humor columnist for POLITICO suggested - ironically, of course - that if Greeks want back the stolen Parthenon Marbles in the British Museum that they should just steal them back, old boy.
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