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Vienna - Iran secretly restarted activities that would help it enrich uranium, sparking further concerns among the international community that it intends to build nuclear weapons, diplomats said on Wednesday. Tehran has restarted equipment that produces uranium hexaflouride gas, which can be used to make nuclear warheads, diplomats told the Associated Press. Iran appears only to be testing the machinery, not deliberately making the gas at this point, said the diplomats,. Tokyo - Former world chess champ Bobby Fischer lost a match against Japanese immigration officials late Tuesday when they refused to reverse a decision to deport him to the United States for trying to travel on an American passport that had been revoked. Fischer has until Friday to appeal to the Japanese justice minister in an effort to stay out of his home country, which wants to prosecute him for playing a 1992 chess match in the former Yugoslavia while it was under international sanctions. The 61-year-old eccentric has been living in Asia since that match against Boris Spassky, in which he won about $3-million U.S. Kabul - Doctors Without Borders announced Wednesday that the killings of five of its staff members in June and the danger of further attacks has prompted the international medical relief agency to pull out of Afghanistan.
