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The 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck close to Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on the morning of 8 Oct. has caused widespread devastation, wiping out entire towns and villages. The quake, the worst in Pakistan's history, also affected India and Afghanistan.
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The U.S. State Department has announced that registration for the 2007 Diversity Visa Lottery, also know as the Green Card Lottery, will begin at noon local time on October 5, 2005. Persons seeking to enter the lottery program must register online through the designated Internet website during the registration period. Applications will be accepted from noon October 5, 2005 through noon December 4, 2005.
Several hundred African would-be immigrants, October 3, stormed a barrier on the border of the Spanish enclave of Melilla in Morocco.
At least 200 people managed to get over the border when the fence collapsed but many were arrested and taken away in buses. It was reported that some of the migrants and several Spanish officials were injured during the clash and still for hours after, make shift ladders, shoes, shirts and other pieces of clothing dangled from the barrier.
Six new schemes aimed at helping refugees fully integrate into UK society were launched October 3 in Leicester, Nottingham, Portsmouth, Southampton, Brighton and London by Immigration Minister Andy Burnham.
The Time Together Project, run by the national charity TimeBank, will pair volunteer mentors with refugees, for five hours a month, to help them achieve their goals in education and employment and to integrate with the communities in which they live. They aim is to assist 2550 refugees across the lifetime of the projects.
Increased immigration gave Canada the second highest rate of population growth among G8 countries over a 10-year period, according to Statistics Canada.
The country's population jumped by 2.98 million people between 1994 and 2004, second only to the U.S., the agency reported yesterday.
But, while U.S. growth was driven mainly by natural increases and a high fertility rate, the bulk of Canada's increase resulted from immigration. Most newcomers arrived from Asia (1,337,437 people, or 61 per cent) and Europe (402,935 people, or 19 per cent).
