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Paris - Record numbers of immigrants are moving to the richest countries in search of jobs and reunifying their families, according to a study released Wednesday by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. The 400-page study, which focuses on legal migration in 2001 to the OECD countries, cited the upward trend in international migration "despite the deterioration in the economic climate in some OECD countries." San Francisco - A retired judge whose long experience with high-profile cases dates back to the sensational 1970s trial of black militant Angela Davis was picked Wednesday to preside at the murder trial of Scott Peterson. Retired Contra Costa County Judge Richard Arnason, 82, was chosen a day after Judge Al Girolami decided to move the trial to the San Francisco Bay area because of hostility toward Peterson in his dead wife's hometown of Modesto. Minneapolis - A federal indictment unsealed Wednesday charged a Somali-Canadian with conspiracy to provide material support to the al-Qaida terrorist network. Mohammed Abdullah Warsame, 30, a Canadian citizen of Somali descent, who had been living in Minneapolis, was charged in an indictment returned Tuesday by a grand jury in Minneapolis. Warsame was a student at Minneapolis Community and Technical College.
