Italy to pick up migrants, impound German charity ship
By Steve Scherer and Angelo AmanteROME (Reuters) - Italy appeared to relent on Thursday after at first refusing to accept 226 migrants on board a German charity rescue ship, saying later in the day it would take them in but would impound the vessel.Anti-immigrant interior minister Matteo Salvini initiallysaid the Dutch-flagged ship Lifeline should take the people it plucked from the Mediterranean to the Netherlands and not Italy."We will assume the humanitarian generosity and responsibility to s
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