Italy takes in stranded migrants after Malta refuses

ROME (Reuters) - Italy on Wednesday allowed 102 migrants who were stranded on a tanker in the Mediterranean to disembark on the Sicilian coast after Malta refused them entry for three days despite European Union calls for it to help on humanitarian grounds. The migrants, mainly from north Africa, were rescued from a boat 24 miles off the Libyan coast on Sunday by the Liberian-registered tanker ...