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Italy threatens to close ports to boat carrying over 600 refugees
By EUobserver
Italy's new interior minister Matteo Salvini threatened on Sunday to close the country's ports to a migrant rescue ship in the Mediterranean carrying more than 600 people, and has asked Malta to open its doors to the vessel. Malta has refused to take the ship, Aquarius, in, saying in a statement it took the migrants onboard in international waters off Libya, in rescue operations coordinated by Italy.