Italian cabinet to meet near deadly shipwreck site

ITALIAN Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will hold a cabinet meeting today near the site of a deadly shipwreck, as a debate rages over whether the right-wing government’s migration policies cost lives.

Meloni is expected to pay homage to the victims of the February 28 disaster, in which at least 72 people died when the overcrowded boat they were travelling on sank in stormy weather just off Calabria.