Arafat Has Liver Failure, Officials Say
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Yasser Arafat lay critically ill with liver failure on Sunday and his condition was getting no better, a Palestinian official said, as Palestinian leaders adopted in his absence a plan to restore order in their areas.
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The condition of Yasser Arafat, in a French hospital for treatment of an unidentified ailment, has deteriorated significantly over the past day, Palestinian officials said early Thursday.
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Yasser Arafat is hovering âbetween life and deathâ in a coma, Palestinian and French officials say. There was still no official public diagnosis yesterday to explain the Palestinian leaderâs critical condition.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian leader Yasser  Arafat, weakened by what doctors think may be leukemia, flew to  France for treatment on Friday from the besieged West Bank  headquarters where he had been pinned for over 2-1/2 years.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank - Yassir Arafat&#39;s failing health is the number one topic in the Mideast today, and sources say his is getting worse.
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Palestinian President Yasser Arafat was  very ill but his brain, heart and lungs were still functioning,  Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath said.
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Ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's condition worsened overnight, hospital officials said Tuesday, and the coma he has been in for almost a week has deepened.
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Yasser Arafat's health deteriorated Wednesday and a team of doctors went to his compound to examine the Palestinian leader, a Palestinian official said.
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Shaath discounted reports that Arafat's organs had failed. "His brain, his heart and his lungs are still functioning and he is alive," Shaath said after he and other Palestinian officials met with Arafat's ...
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Medical sources in Paris have confirmed to this correspondent that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is in a state of &quot;cerebral death.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian leader Yasser  Arafat is "very, very sick" and the ex-guerrilla who for  decades symbolized a struggle for statehood is slipping in and  out of consciousness, officials and medics said on Thursday.
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A Palestinian official, who demanded anonymity, said on Sunday that the Palestinian President Yasser Arafat is suffering liver failure and that his health condition was not improving.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Foreign doctors on Thursday  tended to seriously ill Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who  for decades has symbolized his people's struggle for statehood.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President  Yasser Arafat is suspected to be suffering from Leukemia, a  cancer of the blood that can be fatal, a senior Palestinian  official said on Thursday.
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Palestinian sources tell the Associated Press that doctors who specialize in the blood disease are examining Arafat. The 75-year-old Palestinian leader has been sick for the past two weeks.
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PARIS, Nov 16  - The late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat suffered from cirrhosis of the liver, but his death last week was not caused by alcohol, but a variety of causes, according to Wednesday&#39;s issue of the French satirical weekly Le Canard
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Some sources are saying Yasser Arafat, 75, has the flu while others report that he has gallstones and an intestinal infection. On Saturday some doctors from Tunisia checked him over and said he has the flu.