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As Meloni’s Italy Closes Ports to Migrant Ships, Hundreds Wait in Limbo Offshore

Italy’s new conservative government is insisting that countries whose flag the charity-run ships fly must take on the migrants, who have been rescued from perilous sea journeys.

Migrants on the deck of a rescue ship, in the Strait of Sicily, in the Mediterranean Sea, November 5, 2022.
Migrants on the deck of a rescue ship, in the Strait of Sicily, in the Mediterranean Sea, November 5, 2022. AP/Vincenzo Circosta