The first 16 migrants rescued at sea while trying to reach Europe by way of Italy arrived at the Albanian port of Shengjin on Wednesday aboard an Italian navy vessel, marking an extraordinary change in the handling of Mediterranean migration.

A waiter stands as as portrait paintings by artist Helidon Haliti of Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni are seen on the walls of "Trattoria Meloni" just outside a migrant processing camp set up by the Italian government,

An Italian naval vessel delivered the first group of asylum seekers to Albania as part of a controversial deal that raises the stakes in how European Union member states grapple with migration.