ROME (Reuters) - Italy on Wednesday gave permission to a Spanish humanitarian organisation to dock and disembark migrants in Sicily after three days of arguments with Malta over who should take in the rescued men.
The dispute underscores Italy's continued isolation within the European Union in dealing with the flow of 600,000 migrants from North Africa - mostly Libya - since 2014.
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