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An Italian navy ship docked in Albania on Wednesday morning, media reports said, carrying the first group of migrants whose asylum requests are to be processed at new reception centres outside the European Union. The 16 men from Egypt and Bangladesh were Europe-bound when they were intercepted by Italian authorities on the open sea as they crossed the central Mediterranean. As part of a controversial new scheme, they are now being transported to Italian-run asylum centres in Albania until their applications have been processed. Italian news agency ANSA and Albanian broadcaster Klan published i…

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