Aid ship captain slams EU for outsourcing migrant rescues

BRUSSELS (AP) — The captain of a humanitarian rescue ship who was arrested for docking in an Italian port without authorization is taking aim at the European Union for outsourcing the handling of desperate migrants crossing the Mediterranean to conflict-ravaged Libya.
Carola Rackete told EU lawmakers on Thursday that “EU member states have engaged in a policy of externalization of their responsibilities and a practice of pushbacks and omissions of rescue, delegating interventions to