Migrants rest on board of NGO Proactiva Open Arms rescue boat in the central Mediterranean Sea at the Italian port of Taranto, November 26, 2019. REUTERS/Juan Medina
ON BOARD THE OPEN ARMS (Reuters) - Migrants danced and burst into song as a rescue ship brought them into the Italian port of Taranto at dawn on Tuesday, days after they were found drifting in a rubber dinghy in the Mediterranean.
The 62 mostly West and Central Africans packed up their bedding as they celebrated the end of a political tussle over their fate - Italy had initially refused to take them and only relented at the weekend.
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