LAMPEDUSA, Sicily — The German captain of a humanitarian rescue ship with 40 migrants aboard has been arrested after she rammed her vessel into an Italian border police motorboat while docking at a Mediterranean island Saturday in defiance of Italy’s anti-migrant interior minister.

Jeering onlookers shouted “handcuffs, handcuffs” as Carola Rackete, the captain, was escorted off the boat at Lampedusa, which is closer to north Africa than to the Italian mainland.

The migrants, meanwhile, hugged personnel of the German Sea-Watch charity who helped them during their 17 days at sea. Some kissed the ground after disembarking from Sea-Watch 3.

The migrants had been rescued from an unseaworthy vessel launched by Libya-based human traffickers, but Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini had refused to let them disembark on Lampedusa until other European Union countries agreed to take them. Five nations pledged to do so on Friday: Finland, France, Germany, Luxembourg and Portugal.

The humanitarian rescue operation ended dramatically when Rackete decided she could no longer wait for permission to dock given the odyssey of the migrants aboard.

“It’s enough. After 16 days following the rescue, #SeaWatch3 enters in port,” the organization tweeted early Saturday before the ship started heading dockside.

Rackete steered her vessel toward the island before dawn, ramming the smaller police boat, which was blocking Sea-Watch 3’s path to the dock. If convicted, Rackete, 31, risks up to 10 years in prison.

Judge bars Trump from using $2.5 billion to build border wall

OAKLAND, Calif. — A federal judge Friday prohibited President Donald Trump from tapping $2.5 billion in military funding to build high-security segments of his prized border wall in California, Arizona and New Mexico.

Judge Haywood S. Gilliam in Oakland acted in two lawsuits filed by California and by activists who contended that the money transfer was unlawful and that building the wall would pose environmental threats.

Speaking Saturday from the ending of the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan, Trump called the decision “a disgrace” and said it would be immediately appealed.

At issue is Trump’s February declaration of a national emergency so that he could divert $6.7 billion from military and other sources to begin construction of the wall, which could have begun as early as Monday.

Detective who fought for 9/11 compensation fund dies at 53

NEW YORK — Luis Alvarez, a former New York City police detective who was a leader in the fight for the Sept. 11 Victims Compensation Fund, died Saturday at age 53.

Alvarez appeared with former “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart earlier this month to plead with Congress to extend the compensation fund.

Alvarez was admitted to a hospice in Rockville Centre on Long Island within a few days of his testimony.

The bill to replenish the fund that provides health benefits to those who responded to the 2001 terrorist attacks passed the committee unanimously.

Alvarez was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2016. He traced his illness to the three months he spent in the rubble of the World Trade Center’s twin towers after the 2001 terrorist attacks.

From Mexico to India, revelers celebrate at gay pride parades

MEXICO CITY — Tens of thousands of people turned out for gay pride celebrations around the world Saturday, including a boisterous party in the Mexican capital.

Rainbow flags and umbrellas swayed and music pounded as the march along Paseo de la Reforma got underway, with couples, families and activists seeking to raise visibility for sexual diversity in a country still plagued by macho attitudes.

Same-sex civil unions have been legal in Mexico City since 2007, and gay marriage since 2009. A handful of Mexican states have also legalized same-sex unions, which are supposed to be recognized nationwide.

Other LGBTQ celebrations took place from India to Europe, with more events planned for Sunday in New York and elsewhere around the globe.

Trump agrees to delay ‘conscience’ health rule

SAN FRANCISCO — The Trump administration has agreed to postpone implementing a rule allowing medical workers to decline performing abortions or other treatments on moral or religious grounds while the so-called “conscience” rule is challenged in a California court.

The rule was supposed to take effect on July 22 but the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and its opponents in a California lawsuit mutually agreed Friday to delay a final ruling on the matter until Nov. 22.

The agency called it the “most efficient way to adjudicate” the rule.

A federal judge in San Francisco permitted the change on Saturday.

A California lawsuit alleges that the department exceeded its authority with the rule, which President Donald Trump announced in May.

Sudan army issues warning to protesters before rallies

KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudan’s ruling military council warned protest leaders Saturday that they would be held responsible for any destruction or damage by “vandals” and people “with an agenda” ahead of planned rallies demanding civilian rule more than two months after the military ousted President Omar al-Bashir.

The country’s pro-democracy movement called for demonstrations across the country Sunday, despite efforts by the African Union and Ethiopia to bring the generals and the protest leaders back to the negotiating table. The AU and Ethiopia have floated a joint proposal for a transition of power.

The protests are planned to mark the 30th anniversary of the Islamist-backed coup that brought al-Bashir to power in 1989, toppling the last elected government.

In Germany: The government said Saturday that it will return to Italy a painting by Dutch artist Jan van Huysum that was stolen by Nazi troops during World War II.

Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and his Italian counterpart Enzo Moavero will travel to Florence soon to hand the still-life “Vase of Flowers” to the Uffizi Gallery. Its director, Eike Schmidt, had made a public appeal for the return of the oil painting, which had been part of the Pitti Palace collection in Florence from 1824 until the outbreak of World War II. It was stolen by German troops and didn’t surface again until after Germany’s reunification.

It wasn’t clear whether the family that possesses the painting would be compensated.