Rome, Dec 4 (AFP/APP): Italy authorised the arrival of two charity ships carrying more than 100 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean, under the terms of an agreement with other EU countries, the interior ministry said late Tuesday. “The European Commission has started the procedure of distributing the 61 migrants on the Alan Kurdi and the 60 aboard the Ocean Viking,” the ministry said in a statement. “Some European countries, including Germany and France, have offered to accommodate some of these migrants,” it said. German charity Sea-Eye’s Alan Kurdi — named after a Syrian child whose drowning in the Mediterranean in … Continue reading Italy authorises arrival of two ships carrying rescued migrants