The Latest: Panama pulls migrant rescue boat's registration - News Summed Up

The Latest: Panama pulls migrant rescue boat's registration


MADRID — The Latest on Europe’s migrant crisis (all times local):8:10 p.m.Panama says that it has withdrawn the registration of the only private migrant rescue boat still operating in the central Mediterranean after complaints from Italy, which is cracking down on migrant arrivals. Right-wing Interior Minister Matteo Salvini won’t let private rescue boats dock in Italy. Aquarius 2 rescued 58 migrants off Libya in recent days. Police said Sunday that a border police patrol discovered 37 migrants in southern Macedonia, near the frontier with Greece. The service says it pulled 447 people from 15 small boats intercepted by its rescue craft on Saturday.


Source: National Post September 23, 2018 18:11 UTC



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