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Italy wants to extend migrant rescue curbs to navy ships
Associated Press
ROME (AP) — The right-wing interior minister who closed Italy’s ports to aid groups that rescue migrants in the Mediterranean said Sun- day that he wants to ex- tend the prohibition to for- eign navy ships.
Matteo Salvini said he would bring up Italy’s de- sire to keep navy ships carrying rescued migrants from its ports when Europe- an Union interior ministers meet this week in Austria. Salvini made the statement on Facebook after the Irish navy ship Samuel Beckett arrived in the Sicilian port of Messina with 106 migrants after participating in an EU- sponsored mission. “Unfortunately, Italian gov- ernments over the past five years have signed agree- ments (in exchange for what?) so that all these ships disembark immigrants in Italy,” Salvini wrote. “With our government, the mu- sic has changed and will
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini makes a point during press conference with Vice President
contributed from a variety of countries. Italy’s coast guard coordinates the res- cues and tells Frontex ships where to disembark.
In addition, the EU oper- ates a military operation, Operation Sophia, focused on fighting people smug- gling and arms trafficking; the Samuel Beckett was participating in Operation Sophia, officials said. Italian Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli suggested that Italy would be taking aim at the terms of Opera- tion Sophia. Toninelli said on Twitter that Italy was re- quired to accept the Sam- uel Becket’s passengers un- der a “crazy” agreement negotiated by the previous government that “sold out Italy’s interests.”q
By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY Associated Press
ISTANBUL (AP) — At least 10 people were killed and more than 70 injured Sun- day when a passenger train derailed in northwest- ern Turkey, Turkish authori- ties said. Five of the train’s six cars derailed in a village in Tekirdag province after “the ground between the culvert and the rail col- lapsed” due to heavy rains, the Ministry of Transport said. Health Ministry Un- dersecretary Eyup Gumus put the number of fatalities at 10 and the number of people injured at 73 based on initial reports from the scene, according to Tur- key’s official Anadolu news
agency. The train was heading to Istanbul from Edirne, on the border with Greece, with 362 passen- gers and six crew members on board, the transporta- tion ministry said.
The Turkish prime ministry issued a temporary me- dia ban Sunday night on reporting the aftermath of the accident, citing na- tional security and public order. Before then, an un- named survivor told the private DHA news agency she had been in one of the cars that went off the tracks. “There were deaths immediately, people whose legs were crushed. It was a horrible accident,” she said.q
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of Libyan Parliamentary Council Ahmed Maitig, Thursday, July 5, 2018.
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The EU’s border control force, Frontex, operates a search-and-rescue opera- tion in the Mediterranean using air and sea resources
Associated Press
Turkey: Train derailment kills at least 10, injures 73