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New migrant caravan leaves Honduras in pursuit of American dream

San Pedro Sula (Honduras) (AFP) - Some 3,000 people left Honduras on foot Friday in the latest migrant caravan hoping to find a welcome, and a better life, in the US under President-elect Joe Biden. Seeking to escape poverty, unemployment, gang and drug violence and the aftermath of two devastating hurricanes, the migrants plan to walk thousands of kilometers through Central America. But they will have to overcome a rash of travel restrictions in Guatemala and Mexico long before they even make it to the American border. The quest is likely to end in heartbreak for many, with American authoriti...

New migrant caravans leaving Honduras to pursue American dream

San Pedro Sula (Honduras) (AFP) - Hundreds of asylum seekers are forming new migrant caravans in Honduras, planning to walk thousands of kilometers through Central America to the United States via Guatemala and Mexico, in search of a better life under the new administration of President-elect Joe Biden. A first group of some 300 people set out at dawn on Thursday from San Pedro Sula, the second-largest city in Honduras, headed for Corinto, on the border with Guatemala, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) northwest. Traveling in small groups, some bearing the Honduran flag, most of the migrants wore...

Astronaut on mission to win second Arizona Senate seat for Democrats

Phoenix (AFP) - From the International Space Station to Congress? Astronaut Mark Kelly is leading an unlikely political "mission" to win a second Senate seat for the Democrats in the traditionally conservative state of Arizona.Until recently, few would have thought it possible for the Democratic Party to make major inroads in this southwestern state with a long Republican tradition.But thanks to changing demographics and growing discontent with President Donald Trump among the state's moderate conservatives, Kelly believes he can win the upper-house seat while helping deliver Arizona's elector...