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PARIS/LISBON
FRANCE, Portugal, Spain and Germany struck a deal on Tuesday to take in migrants from the Mediterranean rescue ship Aquarius sailing off the coast of Malta, the French government said, after Italy refused to let the vessel dock.
The agreement marks the second such co-operation between European countries since Italy's new anti-establishment coalition started turning away from Italian ports ships carrying migrants rescued in the Mediterranean earlier this year.
Portugal said it had agreed to take 10 of the 58 migrants on board as part of a"response of solidarity to the flow of migrants seeking to reach Europe across the Mediterranean".
Malta said migrants would be transferred to a patrol boat in international waters and taken to the island, which will then send them to four other European Union states.
It was not immediately clear how many migrants Spain and Germany had agreed to take in, though a French government source said France would take 18.
The French PM'S office said the Aquarius would head to Marseille once its passengers had disembarked.
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