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The Lifeline, a rescue boat stranded in the Mediterranean Sea with over 200 migrants docks in Senglea, Malta. A deal was struck between a group of EU states to take them in after the ship was waiting for 6 days at sea without receiving stopover permission from any nearby countries. IMAGES
Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat says the NGO rescue ship Lifeline, which has been stranded for days in the Mediterranean carrying over 200 hundred migrants, will dock in Malta on Wednesday evening. SOUNDBITE
Spanish humanitarian ship Open Arms arrives off the island of Lampedusa with 147 migrants on board, after a judge in Rome suspended far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini's decree banning them from Italy's territorial waters. IMAGES
The first migrants from the Aquarius rescue boat which was turned away by Italy and Malta, sparking a major migration row in Europe, disembarked Sunday in the Spanish port of Valencia, an AFP reporter at the scene said. FIRST IMAGES
The first migrants from the Aquarius rescue boat which was turned away by Italy and Malta, sparking a major migration row in Europe, disembarked Sunday in the Spanish port of Valencia. FIRST IMAGES of migrants disembarking ship