First Migrants Arrive at Italian Asylum Processing Center in Albania

An Italian navy ship carrying the first group of migrants to be processed in Albania arrived in the city of Shengjin on Wednesday. Rome agreed to build two reception centers in the Balkan nation, which formally opened last week, in the first deal of its kind involving a European Union member state. The ship, named Libra, docked at the former navy port Shengjin and was met by Italian officers. The first group of 16 migrants to be processed under the new arrangement consists of, is made up 10 Bangladeshis and six Egyptians. They were all picked up at sea on Sunday aboard boats that had set sail from the coast of Libya....