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The human rights and environmental activist Carola Rackete is standing at the Dannenroeder Forst (Dannenroeder Forest) in Dannenrod, Germany, Tuesday, Sept.29, 2020. Carola Rackete, who as captain of a humanitarian rescue ship was arrested in 2019 for docking in an Italian port without authorization, has been presented as one of a struggling German left-wing party’s top candidates for next year’s European Parliament election. (Boris Roessler/dpa via AP, File)

German captain in a migrant rescue standoff will run for the European Parliament

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Rescued migrants sit ona coast guard boat in the city of Khoms, around 120 kilometers (75 miles) east of Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Hazem Ahmed)

Aid ship captain slams EU for outsourcing migrant rescues

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

Italian Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, left, is flanked by the Minister For Agricultural Resources ,Gian Marco Centinaio, as he addresses the Lower Chamber in Rome, Wednesday, July 3, 3019. Italy's interior minister has told parliament that a German captain of a migrant rescue ship had no reason to force her ship to an Italian port. Matteo Salvini told the lower house of parliament on Wednesday that the migrants onboard the Sea-Watch ship would have been allowed to disembark anyway soon after captain Carola Rackete defied Italian orders to stay away. (Alessandro Di Meo/ANSA via AP)

Rescue ship ‘bumped’ Italy police boat, in judge’s resizing

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

Sea-Watch 3 captain Carola Rackete, center, from Germany, waves as she arrives in the Sicilian port of Porto Empedocle, escorted by Italian finance police, from Lampedusa, Italy, Monday, July 1, 2019. Rackete has been in custody since Saturday when she defied Italy's anti-migrant interior minister, Matteo Salvini, and port authorities by steering her Sea-Watch 3 ship to Lampedusa's dock so the 40 migrants the ship rescued on June 12 could disembark. (Pasquale Claudio Montana Lampo/ANSA via AP)

Italy judge rules to free captain of migrant rescue boat

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

An Italian Coast Guard boat patrols next to the Sea-Watch 3 vessel, in the Mediterranean Sea just off the coasts of the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, Thursday, June 27, 2019. Carola Rackete, the captain of the humanitarian rescue ship said that Italian law enforcement officials have told them that a resolution is near for 42 migrants rescued at sea that Italy’s populist government has so far refused to allow to disembark. (ANSA/Matteo Guidelli via AP)

The Latest: Judge ends house arrest of migrant ship captain

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Sea-Watch 3 captain Carola Rackete, center, from Germany, waves as she arrives in the Sicilian port of Porto Empedocle, escorted by Italian finance police, from Lampedusa, Italy, Monday, July 1, 2019. Rackete has been in custody since Saturday when she defied Italy's anti-migrant interior minister, Matteo Salvini, and port authorities by steering her Sea-Watch 3 ship to Lampedusa's dock so the 40 migrants the ship rescued on June 12 could disembark. (Pasquale Claudio Montana Lampo/ANSA via AP)

Carola Rackete, Sea-Watch 3 migrant ship captain, freed by Italian judge

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Sea-Watch 3 captain Carola Rackete is seen on board the vessel at sea in the Mediterranean, just off the coasts of the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, Thursday, June 27, 2019. The captain of the humanitarian rescue ship says that Italian law enforcement officials have told them that a resolution is near for 42 migrants rescued at sea that Italy’s populist government has so far refused to allow to disembark. (ANSA/Matteo Guidelli via AP)

Rescue captain remains under house arrest after questioning

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

An Italian Coast Guard boat patrols next to the Sea-Watch 3 vessel, in the Mediterranean Sea just off the coasts of the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, Thursday, June 27, 2019. Carola Rackete, the captain of the humanitarian rescue ship said that Italian law enforcement officials have told them that a resolution is near for 42 migrants rescued at sea that Italy’s populist government has so far refused to allow to disembark. (ANSA/Matteo Guidelli via AP)

The Latest: Italy’s Conte: Merkel asked about rescue captain

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Sea-Watch 3 captain Carola Rackete is seen on board the vessel at sea in the Mediterranean, just off the coasts of the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, Thursday, June 27, 2019. The captain of the humanitarian rescue ship says that Italian law enforcement officials have told them that a resolution is near for 42 migrants rescued at sea that Italy’s populist government has so far refused to allow to disembark. (ANSA/Matteo Guidelli via AP)

Carola Rackete, Sea-Watch 3 migrant ship captain, wins support after ramming Italian police boat

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Sea-Watch 3 captain Carola Rackete is seen on board the vessel at sea in the Mediterranean, just off the coasts of the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, Thursday, June 27, 2019. The captain of the humanitarian rescue ship says that Italian law enforcement officials have told them that a resolution is near for 42 migrants rescued at sea that Italy’s populist government has so far refused to allow to disembark. (ANSA/Matteo Guidelli via AP)

Carola Rackete, Sea-Watch 3 migrant ship captain, meant no harm in ramming police boat, lawyer says

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An Italian Coast Guard boat patrols next to the Sea-Watch 3 vessel, in the Mediterranean Sea just off the coasts of the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, Thursday, June 27, 2019. Carola Rackete, the captain of the humanitarian rescue ship said that Italian law enforcement officials have told them that a resolution is near for 42 migrants rescued at sea that Italy’s populist government has so far refused to allow to disembark. (ANSA/Matteo Guidelli via AP)

Migrant aid ship rams Italian police boat; captain arrested

By ANNALISA CAMILLI and FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Sea-Watch 3 captain Carola Rackete answers reporters' question during a videoconference from her vessel at sea in the Mediterranean, just off the coasts of the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, Friday, June 28, 2019. The German captain of the Sea-Watch 3 ship that is blocked off Lampedusa with 42 rescued migrants aboard said, in a videoconference with the Foreign Press in Italy Association Friday, the migrants are exhausted and not letting them land is like keeping them in prison. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Young German captain takes on Italy’s hard-line minister

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press