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Salvini: Ports closed to migrant ship

Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said that Italy was set to deny permission to another migrant-rescue ship to dock at an Italian port after refusing to green-light the arrival of the Aquarius ship carrying 629 people.

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