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ROME: Italian far-right leader Matteo Salvini is to stand trial on charges of illegally detaining migrants at sea, after senators voted on Wednesday to strip him of his parliamentary immunity. A court in Sicily recommended that former interior minister Salvini stand trial for blocking migrants from disembarking from a coast guard boat last July. But ministers cannot be tried for …

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