France blocks migrant train from Italy

A train carrying Tunisian immigrants from Italy was halted at the French border today in an escalation of an international dispute over the fate of North African migrants fleeing political unrest for refuge in Europe.

A spokesman for the Italian rail company, Maurizio Furia, said the train carrying migrants and political activists who support them was not being allowed to pass into Menton, France, from the border station of Ventimiglia.