Fischer accepts responsibility in visa row
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German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer has accepted responsibility for a controversial visa policy said to have been exploited by criminals to bring thousands of illegal immigrants into Germany.
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TOKYO - Miyoko Watai, the fiancee of Bobby Fischer, the imprisoned American chess master, admitted yesterday that Fischer might be using her in an effort to counter his detention by Japanese immigration authorities.
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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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A Japanese court granted an injunction on  Wednesday barring the deportation of former chess champion  Bobby Fischer, wanted in the United States for breaking  sanctions, until it rules on his lawsuit seeking to cancel the  deportation order entirely, Fischer's lawyer Masako Suzuki  said.
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A senior U.S. official on Wednesday   shrugged off EU threats of imposing visa requirements on U.S.   diplomats in retaliation against a U.S. delay in extending a   visa waiver scheme to all EU states.
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WASHINGTON: Bobby Fischer&#39;s plan to renounce his US citizenship and wed a Japanese chess official would not save him from prosecution, the US State Department said yesterday.
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Chess master Bobby Fischer has been offered a new home in Iceland, but it's not clear if he'll be able to make the move from Japan, where he is being detained.
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Former chess champion Bobby Fischer's announcement thathe is engaged to a Japanese woman could win him sympathy among Japanese officials and help him avoid deportation to the United States, his fiancee and one of his supporters said Tuesday.
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TOKYO: Fugitive chess master Bobby Fischer, who is fighting deportation to the US, yesterday demanded that Japan allows him to go to Iceland, which has offered him a home.
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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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US chess genius Bobby Fischer asks Japan to let him travel to Iceland, which granted him residency last week.
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Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer has appealed after a Tokyo court rejected his bid to halt deportation procedures from Japan, a fate he is also trying to escape by the more romantic move of wedding a Japan ...
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US chess legend Bobby Fischer is the latest in a string of problem migrants for Japan.
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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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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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Japan issued a deportation order today against former world chess champion Bobby Fischer, who is wanted in the United States for defying sanctions, but his lawyer immediately filed an appeal, blocking the move.
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TOKYO/REYKJAVIK  - Fugitive chess master Bobby  Fischer has been offered a new home in Iceland, where he won a  classic victory in 1972, but it is unclear whether he will be  able to make the move from his detention in Japan.