900 MIGRANTS LEAVE FROM MEXICO CITY

M E X IC O CITY» About 900 Central American migrants headed out of Mexico City on Friday to embark on the longest and most dangerous leg of their journey to the U.S. border, while thousands more were waiting one more day at a massive improvised shelter.

The group that got a head start bundled their few possessions and started off, taking a subway to the northern part of the city and then hiking down an expressway with a police escort.

China warns U.S. to avoid islands it claims in South China Sea. WAS H-

ING TO N » China bluntly told the United States to stop sending ships and military aircraft close to islands claimed by Beijing in the South China Sea, during talks Friday that set the stage for a meeting between President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping later this month.

The U.S. pushed back, insisting it will continue to “fly, sail and operate wherever international law allows.”

Lima thanks crowd at her final Victoria’s Secret show. NEW YOR

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» An emotional Adriana Lima bowed her head in thanks and crossed her hands over her heart as she made her 18th and final runway walk in the annual holiday Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, her long white feather angel wings gently blowing as the crowd cheered.

The show will be broadcast Dec. 2 on ABC and in 190 countries around the world.

Mourners say goodbye to 3 Girl Scouts, mother.

» Hundreds of mourners said goodbye to three Girl Scouts and a mother who were struck and killed while collecting trash along a rural highway in northwestern Wisconsin.

At Chippewa Valley Bible Church on Thursday, mourners filed past tables with children’s drawings and easels filled with photos of Haylee Hickle and Sara Jo Schneider.

Floods kill 9 in Jordan.

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, floods caused by heavy rain across Jordan killed nine people Friday and forced hundreds of tourists to seek higher ground in the kingdom’s ancient city of Petra, the government’s spokeswoman announced.

About two dozen people were hurt and dozens more evacuated from their homes in several locations in the kingdom, as floodwaters rose rapidly.