{O/C} {In other news}
Hundreds of migrants who remain trapped on a vessel off Italy's coast have launched a protest.
This, after the Italian government refused them permission to disembark.
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The rescue ship named Geo Barents is carrying 572 migrants in all, of which 357, including minors, families and individuals in need of medical care, were allowed to leave after the ship had docked at Catania.
But the remaining 215 were declared "non-vulnerable", and have since staged a raucous protest from the portholes.
Italy has refused safe port to migrant rescue ships, closing its ports to NGO rescue ships and insisting that the countries who flag the ships carry must take the migrants themselves, unless they are people needing medical care or minors.
The country's only Black lawmaker in the lower chamber, Abourbakar Soumahoro, said shame on the government for refusing rescue vessels safe port.
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