<span style="color: #222222;">Italy today allowed a charity rescue ship to sail to a tiny southern island so that 82 migrants aboard could be transferred to shore. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Shortly before midnight, all the migrants had been transferred off the Ocean Viking after remaining stranded for several days at sea prior to being given permission to sail to Lampedusa island.<br />'' <br />'' The Norwegian-flagged ship, which had appealed for days for a port of safety, is operated by two humanitarian groups.<br />'' <br />''<br />''The Italian news agency ANSA said Germany, France, and Italy were expected to take about 24 migrants each, while the other 10 would go to Portugal or Luxembourg.</span>