Italy is blocking men from leaving the ships, and that has prompted at least one standoff at a Sicilian port. MARTIN: We're joined now by NPR's Sylvia Poggioli in Rome.

The captain of a charity-run migrant rescue ship refused Italian orders to leave a Sicilian port Sunday after authorities refused The post Ship refuses to leave Italy port until all migrants are ...

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni’s two-week-old government is allowing only those identified as vulnerable to disembark ships that have rescued migrants at sea in distress.

MILAN -- Italy allowed a humanitarian rescue ship carrying 179 migrants to enter a Sicilian port and begin disembarking minors early Sunday, while refusing to respond to requests for safe harbor ...

The Sos Mediterranee-run charity rescue ship, Ocean Viking, is moored in Bari, southern Italy, Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. The ship was detained by the Italian authorities with the accusation of not ...

Italy allows 89 migrants to leave rescue ship after days being stranded at sea. The vessel had been stranded at sea for days while waiting to be assigned a port . Emily Atkinson.

On August 23, I was aboard the Geo Barents, the rescue ship operated by the humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders or MSF), in the port of Salerno when the ...

The ship entered the port at 7.30am, Italian news agency Ansa reported. The majority of those on board are Bangladeshi ...

ROME (AP) — Italy is transferring the first group of migrants to Albania, the Interior Ministry said Monday, as part of a contentious plan to process thousands of asylum-seekers outside its borders.

The captain of a charity-run rescue ship refused orders to leave a Sicilian port after authorities refused to let 35 of the migrants on his ship disembark.