Ships bring thousands of migrants to ports

ROME — Italian rescue ships brought migrants by the thousands to the country’s southern ports, including a baby born aboard a navy vessel, as crowded shelters in Sicily and on the mainland struggled Monday to find room for them.

Some politicians based in northern Italy vowed their regions wouldn’t take in any of the Mediterranean Sea migrants. In a three-day period ending Sunday, 6,771 survivors were rescued in the seas north of Libya from overcrowded rubber dinghies and unseaworthy fishing boats.