Removing life support ruled out for Arafat
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Yasser Arafat has suffered brain damage and kidney and liver failure, the Palestinian prime minister said Wednesday, but a top Muslim cleric ruled out any possibility of life support being turned off.
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Details of the funeral of Yasser Arafat were being agreed by Palestinian officials yesterday as their leader clung to life in a French military hospital, after Israel gave permission
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A senior aide to Yasser Arafat said early Sunday the ailing Palestinian leader was not comatose but still in intensive care, adding to the confusion about his fragile health.
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YASSER Arafat seems to have held off one more challenge to his rule. But his latest victory does not answer the question of what will happen when he finally does leave the political scene.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- A medical team was flying Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to France early today for emergency treatment in the clearest sign yet that he is suffering from a severe but still unconfirmed illness that Palestinian officials said yesterday could be life-threatening.
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Palestinian officials said Yasser Arafat remained in stable but critical condition in a coma on Friday and denied reports he's on life support.
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France: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is &quot;not unconscious and not in a coma,&quot; his top aide Nabil Abu Rudeina told AFP on Thursday, amid swirling rumors about Arafat&#39;s precarious health.
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During most of last Thursday Yasir Arafat wouldn&#39;t hear of leaving his West Bank headquarters for medical treatment abroad. Though he&#39;d lost consciousness the day before and couldn
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JERUSALEM, Oct 28  - Israel will not bar ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat from returning to the West Bank if he were to leave for medical treatment, senior government spokesman Raanan Gissin told AFP Thursday.
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JERUSALEM - The first, potentially explosive row of the post-Yasser Arafat era has erupted, even as the Palestinian leader clings to life - apparently thanks to life support machines.
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Yasser Arafat may have only hours to  live, a Palestinian source said after Palestinian leaders  discussed the president's health Tuesday with doctors who are  treating him at a French military hospital.
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F inally, the best thing that Yasser Arafat could do for the Palestinians was to die. In the month since the founder of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and head of the Palestinian Authority died in
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Doctors attending to Yasser Arafat will decide in the next few hours whether to take the ailing Palestinian leader to a hospital. Our correspondent, Jane Hutcheon, says two teams of doctors from Egypt and
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Yasser Arafat was not in a coma but remained in intensive care Saturday after undergoing more medical tests, a senior aide to the ailing Palestinian leader said. Test results were expected within days.
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A mysterious ailment has weakened Yasir Arafat and raised concerns that Palestinian politics could be plunged into turmoil.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was Thursday &quot;brain dead&quot; and breathing only thanks to artificial life support systems, a French medical source said after conflicting reports as to whether he was alive or dead.
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France says it is ready to release the medical records of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to his nephew. French officials have so far denied the files to Palestinian leaders saying only family are entitled to the see them under French privacy laws.