{"id":58645,"date":"2020-01-15T16:31:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T08:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58645"},"modified":"2020-01-15T16:31:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T08:31:22","slug":"as-arrivals-rise-cyprus-intercepts-boat-with-101-syrians-on-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58645","title":{"rendered":"As arrivals rise, Cyprus intercepts boat with 101 Syrians on board"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/apicms.thestar.com.my\/uploads\/images\/2020\/01\/14\/492277.JPG\" alt=\"Syrian refugees arrive on a Cyprus coast guard boat to the south-east of the island in the region of Protaras January 14 2020.REUTERSYiannis Kourtoglou\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Syrian refugees arrive on a Cyprus coast guard boat to the south-east of the island in the region of Protaras<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NICOSIA, Jan 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Cyprus intercepted a vessel carrying 101 Syrians off its coast on Tuesday, police said, one of the largest arrivals of refugees from the neighbouring country in recent months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Syrians were loaded at sea onto a coastguard vessel and from there led to a harbour in the south-east of the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There were minors among those on the boat, which appears to have set off from Turkey,&#8221; a police spokeswoman added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The island, the closest European Union member state to the Middle East, has seen a gradual uptick in arrivals of undocumented migrants and refugees in the past 18 months as other routes have become more difficult to cross.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many are refugees from Syria, but there has also been an increase in arrivals of people fleeing upheaval in Cameroon via the unrecognised breakaway state in north Cyprus. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syrian refugees arrive on a Cyprus coast guard boat to the south-east of the island in the region of Protaras NICOSIA, Jan 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Cyprus intercepted a vessel carrying 101 Syrians off its coast on Tuesday, police said, one of the largest arrivals of refugees from the neighbouring country in recent months. The Syrians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58645"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}