Italy`s PM: Salvini `obsessed` with blocking migrants at sea
(WorldNews Italy)

ROME (AP) - A humanitarian boat carrying 147 migrants rescued at sea was eventually allowed to let nine persons disembark Thursday night on a tiny Italian island, but the others were stuck aboard for a 15th night, as the drama was swept up in Italy`s rapidly worsening government crisis. With a political standoff exacerbated by the migration issue, Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte rebuked his interior minister for being `obsessive` about closing Italian ports in a migrant crackdown. The Spanish rescue boat Open Arms tweeted that the `urgent` evacuation of five persons was authorized for psychological reasons and four family members were allowed to accompany them. The nine were transferred by...