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Malta Lets Rescue Ship Dock After EU States Agree to Take Migrants

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According to Reuters, Malta said on Tuesday it would allow the Mediterranean rescue ship Aquarius, to dock after five European Union countries agreed to take in 141 migrants on board. The boat, run by the SOS Mediterranee and Doctors without Borders (MSF), had been at the center of the latest continent-wide controversy over how to cope with the arrival of seaborne migrants. The migrants, rescued off the coast of Libya, will be distributed among France, Germany, Luxembourg, Portugal and Spain.

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