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A New Migrant Caravan Moves North

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10/17/2018

10/17/2018

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A New Migrant Caravan Moves North

Top News: A new migrant caravan, reportedly including up to 2,000 people, left Honduras on Saturday, arriving in Guatemala on Monday. Three people, including an organizer of the caravan, were detained in Guatemala on Tuesday, and all three will reportedly be returned to Honduras.

This caravan follows another high-profile group that reached the U.S. border in May of this year. Organizers told CNN that the caravan formed spontaneously. Many of the migrants are fleeing widespread insecurity in Honduras.

U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to halt foreign aid to Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador if the group does not return, and various government officials from the United States and Mexico have cautioned the group to turn back. On Tuesday, the Honduran foreign ministry called the caravan an “irregular mobilization.”

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AFRICA

•  The U.S. military announced that Friday’s airstrikes targeting al-Shabab in Somalia had killed 60 militants.

•  Cameroon’s constitutional court heard appeals from opposition candidates who claim the country’s presidential election was fraudulent. Results are expected before Sunday.

•  Nigerian former politician James Ibori has lost his appeal of a U.K. conviction for laundering public funds through British banks.

AMERICAS

•  Ecuador has given Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who has lived in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for six years, an ultimatum—to take care of his cat’s “well-being, food and hygiene,” or the pet may be confiscated.

•  Venezuela will use the euro, yuan and other currencies besides the U.S. dollar in currency auctions going forward, as financial sanctions continue to impact the country’s banking sector.

•  Canada has legalized recreational marijuana, joining Uruguay, as well as several other countries that have decriminalized the drug.

ASIA

•  China’s president Xi Jinping will likely attend the opening of the controversial Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge, but will not visit Hong Kong.

•  A Chinese vaccine manufacturer, charged with having distributed defective rabies vaccines and falsifying inspection and production reports, has been hit with a $1.3 billion penalty.

•  South Korea denied refugee status to 339 Yemeni asylum seekers in Jeju, granting them temporary permits to remain for one year.

EUROPE

•  Pierre Kompany, the father of the Belgian soccer star Vincent Kompany, has been elected as the first black mayor in Belgium.

•  British Prime Minister Theresa May will address EU leaders today as Brexit negotiations continue to stall over the issue of the Irish border.

•  A new provision in Hungary’s constitution has penalized homelessness.

MIDDLE EAST

•  Israeli fighter jets struck 20 targets in the Gaza Strip in response to a rocket fired from Gaza hit a house in Beersheba, in southern Israel, the Israeli military said Wednesday.

•  Nearly 300 Syrian “White Helmets,” volunteer rescue workers, have left Jordan for resettlement in other countries after being granted asylum.

•  Iran’s former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has left many Twitter users bemused after tweeting Tupac Shakur lyrics on the anniversary of the U.S. Black Panther Party’s founding.

- By Elizabeth Miles

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