Europe-wide deal on migrants breaking apart over stranded migrant ship

Migrants gather on the deck of the Ocean Viking (Vincenzo Circosta/AP)

A deal for Europe to jointly help asylum-seekers was breaking apart on Thursday amid a French-Italian feud over a ship floating in the Mediterranean with its passengers and crew desperate for land.

The crew of the Ocean Viking had been trying to dock since Italy’s right-wing government refused to take in people aboard last month.