Iceland Offers Asylum to Jailed Fischer
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TOKYO, Dec. 16 -- Iceland has agreed to offer asylum to Bobby Fischer, the former chess champion who is being held in a Japanese jail while fighting extradition to the United States, Iceland&#39;s Ambassador to
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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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Mordechai Vanunu of Israel, jailed for 18 years for allegedly relating the country's atomic secrets to a British newspaper, is seeking asylum in either Norway or four other countries.
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It may be hard for some to understand why Iceland would offer a residency permit to Bobby Fischer, the surly former chess champion now detained in Japan and wanted in the United States.
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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.
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US chess genius Bobby Fischer asks Japan to let him travel to Iceland, where he has been granted residency.
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A German court has blocked the extradition to Denmark of a former member of the Nazi SS wanted in the Scandinavian country for the assassination of a journalist in 1943, it said Monday.Comment
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A Rwandan accused of inciting murder, extermination and genocide pleaded for the right to stay in Canada on Wednesday lest he be killed or tortured if the Supreme Court of Canada sent him back.
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Bobby Fischer is still living the quiet life in Iceland, the home he adopted after being held in Japanese custody for nearly a year.
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TOKYO Aug. 24, 2004 - Japan&#39;s Justice Ministry on Tuesday rejected former chess champion Bobby Fischer&#39;s demand for protection as a political refugee, issuing an order to deport him.
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Iceland is to begin exporting whalemeat, which campaigners say breaches wildlife trading rules.
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Japan has decided to deport former world chess champion Bobby Fischer, who is wanted in the United States for defying sanctions on Yugoslavia, an immigration official said on Tuesday.
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Former chess champion Bobby Fischer demanded Friday that the Japanese government release him from immigration detention and allow him to travel to Iceland &quot;as soon as possible.
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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 chess  great.
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Fugitive chess master Bobby Fischer, who is fighting deportation to the United States, on Friday asked Japan to allow him to go to Iceland, which has offered him a home.
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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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Japan has decided to deport former world  chess champion Bobby Fischer, who is wanted in the United  States for defying sanctions on Yugoslavia, an immigration  official said on Tuesday.