As Arafat worsens, leaders prepare funeral
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PARIS -- Yasser Arafat's coma deepened and his condition deteriorated dramatically yesterday according to the Palestinian leadership, who visited him at a Paris hospital and then returned to the West Bank to declare that his life was now ''in the hand of God.&quot;
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Although he did not live to see Palestinian statehood, Yasser Arafat was given a funeral yesterday worthy of a head of state and attended by kings and presidents from around the world.
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The following dignitaries are expected at Yasser Arafat's funeral in Cairo on Friday, according to Palestinian planners and other officials.
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Yasser Arafat will get a military funeral  in Egypt on Friday before burial in the smashed West Bank  compound where he spent his final years besieged by Israeli  troops without realizing his dream of a Palestinian state.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's body arrives in Cairo, amid preparations his funeral there on Friday.
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ANXIOUS Palestinians braced themselves for a future without Yasser Arafat last night as the father of their stateless nation lay dying in a Paris hospital.
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Palestinian leaders headed to Paris on Monday to see critically ill President Yasser Arafat at a French military hospital despite a scathing attack by his wife who accused them of plotting to &quot;bury him alive.
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Yasser Arafat is in a coma and his condition worsened overnight, a hospital spokesman said Tuesday, as Palestinian officials sought to visit their critically ill leader over his wife's angry objections.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Seriously ill Palestinian  leader Yasser Arafat on Thursday prepared to fly to France for  treatment for a blood disorder as fears grew for the icon of  the Palestinian struggle for statehood.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was buried Friday near his headquarters in Ramallah amid chaotic, emotional outbursts by thousands of grieving
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PARIS -- Yasser Arafat&#39;s coma deepened and his condition deteriorated dramatically yesterday according to the Palestinian leadership, who visited him at a Paris hospital and then returned to the West Bank to declare that his life was now &#39;&#39;in the hand of
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Yasser Arafat is in a coma and his condition worsened overnight, a hospital spokesman said Tuesday, as Palestinian officials sought to visit their critically ill leader over his wife&#39;s angry objections.
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Yasser Arafat&#39;s funeral began Friday with prayers for the Palestinian leader after his wooden coffin, draped in the Palestinian flag, was carried into an Egyptian military mosque.
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JERUSALEM -- The health of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat deteriorated yesterday, and Palestinian doctors were rushed to his Ramallah compound in the West Bank to treat what has so far been diagnosed as a stomach disorder, according to senior Palestinian officials.
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Yasser Arafat's latest health crisis &#151; a severe flu, gallstones, a battery of cancer tests &#151; has exposed how unprepared the Palestinians are for their leader's death, making a chaotic transition period all but inevitable.
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The body of late Palestinian President  Yasser Arafat arrived in Cairo from Paris on Thursday for a  military funeral which presidents and other dignitaries from  around the world are due to attend.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian officials prepared to move the ailing Yasser Arafat (search) out of his sandbagged headquarters to a hospital in Paris Thursday as associates described a Palestinian leader who was too weak to stand, appeared confused