Japan Issues Order to Deport Ex-Chess Champ Fischer
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Japan issued a deportation order on Tuesday 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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Mr. Fischer, one of the greatest chess players the world has ever seen, settled in Iceland after renouncing his American citizenship.
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Bobby Fischer remains in Japan Tuesday night thanks to a last-minute appeal by his lawyers against a deportation order issued just hours earlier.
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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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Japan issued a deportation order on  Tuesday against former world chess champion Bobby Fischer, who  is wanted in the United States for defying sanctions on  Yugoslavia, an immigration official said.
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Former chess champion Bobby Fischer announced plans Monday to marry a leading Japanese chess official and appealed to Secretary of State Colin Powell to help him renounce U.S. citizenship, the latest in a series of moves as he seeks to block attempts to deport him to 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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A marriage between former chess grandmaster Bobby Fisher and a Japanese woman, that would help the American avoid being deported to the United States, is in limbo due to a legal snag, his lawyer has said.
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Russia released a detained Japanese fishing boat captain Thursday because of a chronic medical problem, a week after his boat and three others were seized in waters claimed by both countries, Japan's Foreign Ministry said.
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Japan has made last-ditch efforts to secure the release of a Japanese hostage facing execution in Iraq. A Japanese government official says efforts are still being made to free Shosei Koda, 24, but there have been no reports of any progress.
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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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A Tokyo court on Friday rejected a  request by former world chess champion Bobby Fischer to have  Japanese authorities halt procedures to deport him, Kyodo news  agency reported.
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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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A Tokyo court on Friday rejected a request by former world chess champion Bobby Fischer to have the Japanese authorities halt procedures to deport him, his lawyer said.
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A court in Japan rejects former chess champion Bobby Fischer's request to halt  his deportation to the US.
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A Tokyo court on Friday rejected a  request by former world chess champion Bobby Fischer to have  the Japanese authorities halt procedures to deport him, his  lawyer said.