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Ship Refuses to Leave Italy Port Until All Migrants Are Off
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Another ship with 572 rescued migrants arrived at the port for the same vetting process, but two other ships carrying hundreds of others are still at sea
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Italy closes its ports to rescue ships, leaving 1,100 migrants in limbo
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Ship Refuses to Leave Italy Port Until All Migrants Are Off
Two German-run migrant rescue ships carrying nearly 300 rescued people were waiting off the eastern coast of Sicily on Saturday, one with permission to disembark the most vulnerable migrants while the…
Italian authorities have prevented 35 migrants they did not deem vulnerable from getting off a boat in Sicily. The Humanity 1 was carrying 179 rescued passengers when it was given
Children and sick or vulnerable people are expected to be allowed off a German-flagged rescue vessel by Italy on Saturday but other migrants on board may
Italy allowed a humanitarian rescue ship carrying 179 migrants to enter a Sicilian port and begin disembarking minors early Sunday, while refusing to respond to requests for a safe harbor
Another ship with 572 rescued migrants arrived at the port for the same vetting process, but two other ships carrying hundreds of others are still at sea
MILAN -- Italy allowed a humanitarian rescue ship carrying 179 migrants to enter a Sicilian port and begin disembarking minors early Sunday, while refusing to respond to requests for safe harbor from three other ships carrying 900 more people in nearby waters.
The weeks-old government is allowing only migrants identified as vulnerable to disembark. Humanitarian groups, activists and two lawmakers protested the selection process as illegal and inhumane.
The captain of a charity-operated migrant rescue ship has refused Italian orders to leave a Sicilian port after authorities refused to let 35 migrants disembark. It's all part of the
Italy granted rescue ship Humanity 1 access to a port in Sicily. Of the 179 people on board, only minors and those in need of medical care were allowed to disembark. Ships with 900 people were refused entry to the port.
The captain of a charity-run migrant rescue ship refused Italian orders to leave a Sicilian port Sunday after authorities refused to let 35 of the migrants on his ship disembark — part of directives by Italy's new far-right-led government targeting foreign-flagged rescue ships.
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni’s two-week-old government is allowing only those identified as vulnerable to disembark ships that have rescued migrants at sea in distress.
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