Migrant rescues in Med hit three-year high, new data shows

More than 1,200 migrants arrived in Sicily’s ports on Sunday as the number of winter sea rescues in the Mediterranean between Libya and Italy hit a new three-year high.An estimated 15,000 migrants have arrived in Italy so far this year, a 57 per cent increase from the same time period in 2016, according to newly released data from Italy's interior ministry.Italian navy ships, Frontex border patrol vessels and non-profit rescue boats unloaded the exhausted men, women and children in Po