Arafat succession defined by constitution
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President of the Palestinian National Council Selim Zaanoun denied Thursday that a three-man committee had been formed to succeed the ailing Yasser Arafat.
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In a pace-setting adventure next January that could herald a new beginning in the Middle East or spell disaster for all is the election of a Palestinian successor to the charismatic Yasser Arafat and a new Baghdad regime that could bring to an end the
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PARIS -- A leading Palestinian Muslim cleric rushed to Yasser Arafat's bedside yesterday, reading passages from the Koran as the Palestinian leader clung to life. Government officials here and in the West Bank pressed ahead with funeral plans.
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Ramallah - The race to succeed the late Yasser Arafat as Palestinian leader formally kicked off on Saturday, with the opening of the registration period for potential presidential candidates.
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The key events in Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's life and career.
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The Palestinian parliament speaker will become temporary president of the Palestinian Authority in the event of Yasser Arafat's death, PLO leaders decided Wednesday.
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (09/12/04) - Israeli and Palestinian officials agreed yesterday on the logistical means of holding elections next month to replace late Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat, who died last month.
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By the News-Register. Clearly, the Palestinian people need to select a new leader, replacing Yasser Arafat. In doing so they have an opportunity to achieve something that Arafat himself has blocked for many years - peace with Israel.
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Elections to choose a successor to Yasser Arafat will be held on 9 January, the interim president announces.
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Yasser Arafat is in a coma between life  and death, a senior Palestinian official said on Friday, and  some of the Palestinian president's powers have been  transferred to his prime minister.
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The man most Palestinians would like to see succeed late President Yasser Arafat may run in upcoming elections despite five life prison terms handed down by Israel for orchestrating murders, his lawyer says.
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Abu Mazen e' il grande favorito alla successione di Arafat
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Lâerede di Arafat sarÃ  Abu Mazen, il Primo Ministro di Arafat allâInterno dellâAutoritÃ  Palestinese. Il comitato centrale di al-Fatah ha scelto il suo rappresentante alla presidenza per le prossime elezioni.
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Yasser Arafat dominated the politics of the Middle East for four decades, and his death comes at a moment when the way ahead for this most intractable of conflicts has rarely looked so uncertain.
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BEIRUT: As Yasser Arafat&#39;s health deteriorates in a suburban Paris hospital and he fades away from the political scene, his legacy for Palestine and the Arab world offers important lessons
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Jerusalem: The Fatah Party has approved the candidature of reformist leader Mahmoud Abbas for Palestinian presidential elections to choose a successor to Yasser Arafat amid expectations that jailed uprising leader Marwan Barghouti may enter the fray as an
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French authorities have handed over the medical file on recently deceased Palestinian Authority ( news - web sites ) president Yasser Arafat ( news - web sites ) to his widow Suha, who was now studying it, her ...