Italy impounds German NGO migrant rescue boat

Italian authorities on Wednesday impounded a German NGO's migrant rescue boat on suspicion of facilitating illegal immigration, police said.The Iuventa, operated by the Jugend Rettet organisation, was "preventatively" impounded on the Italian island of Lampedusa on the orders of a prosecutor based in Trapani, Sicily, the state police force said in a statement."Enquiries begun in October 2016, and conducted with the use of sophisticated techniques and investigative technology, have produced circu