EU says it won't reply to Italy's 'threats' over migrants
The European Commission has dismissed Italy's threat to withhold funding to the bloc next year unless other member states accept migrants currently held on a ship moored in Sicily.
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Italy bars its own Coast Guard ship from allowing migrants to disembark
Hardline Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini is refusing to give permission to an Italian Coast Guard ship to disembark 177 people it rescued off the island of Lampedusa last week.
Eight dead in boat sinking off Libya coast believed to be migrants
Eight people died and 84 people were rescued after a boat sank off the coast of Libya, the Italian Coast Guard said.
