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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Leigh Thomas and Giuseppe Fonte

Migrant ship docks in France as row with Italy escalates

FILE PHOTO: Crew members of NGO rescue ship 'Ocean Viking' give lifejackets to migrants on an overcrowded boat in the Mediterranean Sea, October 25, 2022. Camille Martin Juan/Sos Mediterranee/Handout via REUTERS

A charity-run ship carrying around 230 migrants rescued at sea docked at a French port on Friday after being turned away by Italy, as a war of words over their fate between the two European Union neighbours intensified.

The French government agreed on Thursday to take in the Ocean Viking NGO ship, sharply criticising the new right-wing government in Rome's refusal to do so and saying it would suspend plans to take in 3,000 migrants already in Italy.

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