US stays out of Arafat funeral row
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The United States on Friday refused to get involved in a row over ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat&#39;s potential burial and said his death would not change US policy toward resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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CAIRO  - Yasser Arafat&#39;s funeral in Cairo was held in a solemn atmosphere amid tight security, as presidents, kings and princes paid their final respects to the Palestinian leader, while crowds from the city of the veteran leader&#39;s birth were kept
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Declining to step into a war of words between Israel and Syria, the Bush administration said Thursday it was not discussing with Israel any possible military action against Hamas leaders in Damascus.
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WARMER than expected weather in the northern US is acting as a counter-balance in the oil market against fears of Middle East disruption if Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat dies.
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Yasser Arafat lay in a deep coma last night, apparently nearing the end of his fight for life in a French military hospital, but a senior aide ruled out suggestions that his life-support machine might be switched off.
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WASHINGTON &#151; More than two years ago, President Bush cut off all U.S. contact with Yasser Arafat, considering him failed and corrupt. He never invited the Palestinian leader to the White House even as he held out hopes of helping the Palestinians achieve statehood.
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Former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat&#39;s coffin is loaded onto an aircraft for it&#39;s flight to Cairo after being carried by a French military honor guard, foreground, at Villacoublay airbase south-west of Paris, Thursday Nov. 11, 2004.
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A military funeral for the Palestinian President, Yasser Arafat, will be held in the Egyptian capital, Cairo this morning. After the funeral President Arafat&#39;s coffin will be flown by helicopter to Ramallah for burial.
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RAMALLAH, Nov. 11. - Yasser Arafatâs funeral will take place in Cairo tomorrow before he is buried on the same day at his West Bank headquarters, a top aide said today.
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Yasser Arafat remained in a coma on  Friday as a row brewed over where he would be buried and  questions loomed about who might succeed him.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Surging frenzied crowds  forced a hasty burial of Yasser Arafat on Friday, preventing  mourners like student Deya Jamal from paying their last  respects to the charismatic Palestinian president.
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The United States has denied entry to   four Egyptian Muslim clerics sent to Florida to officiate at   religious events during the approaching fasting month of   Ramadan, Cairo airport officials said on Friday.
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TEL AVIV - Israel will not allow Arafat to be buried in Jerusalem in the event of his death, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was on Monday quoted as saying by the newspaper Yedioth Aharonoth.
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PALESTINIAN leader Yasser Arafat, under treatment in a French hospital, is in a coma, but not brain dead. Ms Leila Shahid, the Palestinian envoy to France, strongly denied reports in French and Israeli media
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More than two years ago President Bush cut off all U.S. contact with Yasser Arafat as a failed and corrupt leader. But Bush did not retract his pledge to help the Palestinians achieve statehood.
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Yasser Arafat&#39;s senior aides say medical tests carried out on the Palestinian president have ruled out any life-threatening condition.
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President Bush expressed American condolences late on Wednesday for the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and called it "a significant moment" for the Palestinians in their bid for peace and an independent state.