Iceland Considering Fischer Citizenship
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An Icelandic parliament committee debated citizenship for detained former chess champion Bobby Fischer and at least one lawmaker predicted Friday that his petition would be approved.
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Foreign Minister Jan Petersen is attending the Ministerial Meeting of the Arctic Council in Iceland on 24 November. The most important item on the agenda is a discussion of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment.
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Bobby Fischer, America's first and only world chess champion who was once dubbed the "Mozart of Chess", has died in Iceland at the age of 64.
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In a bold gambit worthy of the chess  champion he once was, Bobby Fischer plans to wed a four-time  Japan great in the hope of avoiding deportation home to the  United States, where he is wanted for breaking sanctions.
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Former chess champion Bobby Fischer won a major battle in his fight against deportation to the United States, as a court ruled Wednesday he can stay in Japan until his lawsuit against the deportation order has been heard, his supporters said.
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Voting is due to being in Hungary on a double referendum on citizenship rights and the health care system. Voters are being asked whether to offer citizenship to about 5 million ethnic Hungarians living outside Hungary.
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At least until the last few decades, people in Iceland have tended overwhelmingly to live, marry and die where they were born.
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On Sunday voters rejected government-backed plans to simplify naturalisation procedures for second-generation foreigners. They also turned down a proposal to grant children born in Switzerland to foreign parents the automatic right to a Swiss passport.
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Former chess champion Bobby Fischer has been sitting in detention in Japan for half a year, fighting deportation orders and fleeing criminal charges in the United States.
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Eccentric grandmaster dies in Reykjavik Former US citizen and chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer died yesterday in a Reykjavik hospital aged 64, the Evening Standard reports. The cause of his death is not known, but he'd been ill for some time.â¦
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Maverick US chess genius Bobby Fischer, who faces jail if he returns to his native country, has made a handwritten appeal to Japanese authorities from his detention cell to be allowed to move to Iceland, his lawyers said.
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REYKJAVIK, Nov 22 (IPS) - Since May this year, there has been a huge influx  of foreigners to Iceland. That is quite  striking, considering  that only 20 years ago Iceland was considered almost ethnically  'pure'.
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US-born chess legend Bobby Fischer, whose tortured genius prompted both awe and outrage, has died at the age of 64 at his home in Iceland, a close friend said Friday.
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Bobby Fischer, the chess genius who careened during his life from Cold War hero to eccentric international exile, died Thursday in Iceland, where he has lived since 2005. He was 64.
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Iceland is under U.S. pressure to  drop plans to offer a home to fugitive former chess champion  Bobby Fischer, who is wanted for breaking sanctions against  Yugoslavia in 1992, officials said Monday.
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Bobby Fischer, America's first and only world chess champion, who beat the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky in a blaze of Cold War publicity in Reykjavik in 1972, has died in Iceland at the age of 64.
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TOKYO -- Former chess champion Bobby Fischer announced plans yesterday to marry a leading Japanese chess official and appealed to Secretary of State Colin Powell to help him renounce US citizenship, the latest in a series of moves as he seeks to block attempts to deport him to the United States.