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Salvini tells Germany to take migrant ship heading for Italy
By EUobserver
A ship belonging to the German migrant rescue NGO Sea-Eye was Thursday heading for the Italian island of Lampedusa with 64 migrants onboard it had rescued off Libya on Wednesday. Italy's interior minister Matteo Salvini told reporters during a G7 summit in Paris that he had written to the German government asking it "to take on the problem". The ship headed towards Lampedusa to avoid bad weather in Malta.