European Union nations agreed on Thursday to launch a new air and naval mission in the Mediterranean, to monitor the UN arms embargo in Libya, with Greece agreeing to take in any migrants rescued at sea and the bloc sharing the harbor costs.

The so-called "Operation Irini", will start patrolling off Libya's coast in April, replacing the "Operation Sophia", which had been suspended in summer 2018, when the Italian government aligned with other anti-immigrant EU governments that were also seeki...