Matteo Salvini

Rome (AFP) - Malta on Friday appeared to have headed off a brewing standoff between a charity rescue ship and Italy's far-right interior minister by offering to take in migrants saved in the Mediterranean. A sailboat belonging to Italian charity Mediterranea…

MEPs elect Italian Socialist as European Parliament president MEPs voted Italian Socialist David Sassoli as the new European Parliament President in Strasbourg on Wednesday. Sassoli won the majority vote after two rounds of ballots. He will lead the assembl…

BERLIN (Reuters) - A spokesman for Germany’s Foreign Ministry condemned as wholly unacceptable the kind of online threats and hate speech that led to the German captain of a sea rescue vessel having to hide in a secret location. Italy’s Interior Minister Ma…

BERLIN (Reuters) - The German captain of a rescue charity ship who provoked the anger of Italy’s interior minister by bringing African migrants to an Italian island has received threats and been moved to a secret location, the charity she works for said. An…

France has accused the Italian government of behaving hysterically over migrants and refugees, earning a furious rebuke from Matteo Salvini, the Italian interior minister. The criticism from Paris came as Mr Salvini said the German captain of a migrant rescu…

AGRIGENTO, Italy (Reuters) - The German captain of a charity rescue ship, arrested for defying an Italian ban on docking with migrants, arrived in a Sicilian port on Monday for her first court appearance. Supporters applauded as Carola Rackete, 31, alighted…

Germany’s foreign minister Heiko Maas has said that the captain of a migrant rescue ship in Italian custody should be released. Maas said on Monday he’d been in contact with Italian authorities to press the case that it is “not acceptable” to criminalize the…

The German captain of a ship that rescued 53 refugees at sea was arrested Saturday after she attempted to dock at Italy’s Lampedusa port. Italy’s far-right, anti-immigrant Interior Minister Matteo Salvini accused 31-year-old Sea-Watch 3 captain Carola Racket…

The captain of the migrant rescue ship Sea-Watch 3, Carola Rackete, might face between three and 10 years in prison after forcing her vessel into Lampedusa port. On Saturday, Rackete's ship rammed a much smaller police boat which blocked its way to the pier.…

Italian police arrested on Saturday the German captain of a migrant-rescue ship at the centre of a standoff with the Italian government after she docked at the port of Lampedusa. The Dutch-flagged Sea-Watch 3, operated by German charity Sea-Watch, has been a…