ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte accused the captain of a charity-run rescue ship of taking "unbelievably serious" action this week in deciding to sail the ship into Italian waters in defiance of a ban from Rome.
"This captain ... who has taken this decision, and for 10 days has been keeping people in that situation, has acted in a way which I consider unbelievably serious," Conte told reporters in Japan on Thursday, in comments broadcast in Italy.
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