Italy sends rejected migrants to detention centres in Albania

An Italian navy ship approaches the port, as Italian authorities transfer 40 migrants with no permission to remain in the country to Italian-run migration detention centres in Albania (Vlasov Sulaj/AP)

Italian authorities transferred 40 migrants with no permission to remain in the country to Italian-run migration detention centres in Albania.

It appeared to be the first time a European Union country has sent rejected migrants to a nation outside the EU that is neither their own nor a country they had transited on their journey.