Italy delays law making children of migrants citizens

Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni has said conditions are not right to push through a bill giving citizenship to the children of immigrants. The law would make some 800,000 people citizens and has already taken years to reach the upper house, or Senate.

Right-wing parties hailed the prime minister's delay but migrant groups said they were bitterly disappointed. Mr Gentiloni said it was still a "just law" but he had run out of time and was putting it back until autumn.

He singled out problems with deadlines on the Senate calendar but his main problem has been in securing political support when the migrant crisis is such a hot issue in Italy. More than 88,000 migrants have crossed the Mediterranean to Italy so far this year, and more than a quarter of them arrived in June alone.