Videos of the Day: Migrant Caravan Swells to 5,000, Resumes March Toward US

Thousands of Central American migrants resumed their march toward the United States on Oct. 21, after efforts by Mexican officials failed to halt the advance at the Guatemala–Mexico border.

The numbers jumped to about 5,000 over the weekend, according to The Associated Press, as the throng set off for the Mexican town of Tapachula in a line stretching about a mile.

It isn’t clear where the other people came from, since only about 2,000 were gathered on the Mexican side by the night of Oct. 21, the AP said.

The caravan members marched through Mexico and yelled slogans such as “Si se pudo!”—“We did it!”

Gerardo Hernandez, head of the local Mexican government’s emergency services, confirmed to Reuters that more than 5,100 migrants were registered in three shelters in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Hidalgo.

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US to Quit Nuclear Arms Treaty With Russia

President Donald Trump is suggesting that Washington’s planned exit from a nuclear arms treaty with Russia is meant to bring China to the negotiating table to seal a trilateral deal among the world’s largest nuclear superpowers.

The president told reporters in Nevada on Oct. 20 that the United States will pull out of the decades-old Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with Russia because Moscow had violated the pact, while China wasn’t bound by it.

“We’ll have to develop those weapons, unless Russia comes to us, and China comes to us, and they all come to us and they say, ‘Let’s really get smart and let’s none of us develop those weapons.’ But if Russia is doing it and if China is doing it, and we’re adhering to the agreement, that’s unacceptable,” Trump said.

President Ronald Reagan signed the INF treaty with the Soviet Union in 1987. The deal mandated the complete destruction of all short- and mid-range ballistic and cruise missiles, both conventional and nuclear-capable, and imposed a total ban on the possession and use of these weapons.

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Binge Drinking Deaths on the Rise Among Young Adults

Binge drinking among college students and young adults is on the rise, and so are deaths.

The Centers for Disease Control says the number of 25 to 34-year-old who die annually from alcohol-related liver disease nearly tripled between 1999 and 2016, from 259 deaths in 1999 to 767 in 2016.

That’s an annual average increase of around 10 percent.

Sheep Replace Traffic in the Heart of Madrid

Sheep replaced the usual traffic in central Madrid on Oct. 21, as shepherds steered hundreds of the animals through the Spanish capital to proclaim their right to use ancient migration routes.

Every year since 1994, sheep farmers have paraded their livestock through the city, along a route that once cut through undeveloped countryside on their way to winter grazing pastures in southern Spain.

Sheep farmers pay a symbolic charge in acknowledgment of a 1418 agreement with the city council that set a fee of 50 maravedis—medieval copper coins—per 1,000 sheep brought through the central Sol square and Gran Via street.

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