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Italy commandeers ship carrying 500 migrants
A group of migrant minors rescued by Italy’s operation Mare Nostrum.
The Italian coastguard has commandeered a merchant ship off the southern coast of Italy after receiving an emergency call that it was carrying 500 illegal migrants.
Italian coastguard personnel boarded the vessel when it was sailing some 90 miles off the coast of Reggio Calabria on Tuesday.
Authorities then sailed the ship to the...