Italy's far right coalition refuses migrant rescue boat with 629 on board

Matteo Salvini says all Italian ports are now closed to the rescue boat in display of hardline policy The new Italian populist government has announced it is closing its ports to migrants from Libya, leaving more than 600 rescued migrants stuck on board a rescue ship waiting to see if Malta would instead allow the boat to dock and disembark. In the first evidence of the new government’s hardline approach, the interior minister and leader of the far right League, Matteo Salvini, said all It