Leaders Attend UAE President&#39;s Funeral
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The United Arab Emirates appointed Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan as its president Wednesday, hours after burying his father in a funeral that attracted thousands of mourners and nine heads of state to this desert nation on the Arabian Peninsula.
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Ramallah, West Bank -- In the West Bank, preparations began Tuesday for Yasser Arafat&#39;s funeral, even though Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath told a Paris press conference that the Palestinian leader was &quot;very much alive&quot; and discussion of his
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ISLAMABAD: President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz expressed shock and condoled the demise of the president and founding father of United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan al-Nahayan.
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New Delhi: India condoled the death of UAE President Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan describing him as an &quot;outstanding&quot; leader of Islamic world and recalling his contribution to cementing Indo-Emirates ties.
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Bulgaria&#39;s Vice President Anguel Marin will attend the funeral of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died at 3:30 am Paris time on Thursday.
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Up to 30,000 people attend the funeral of a Bangladeshi opposition politician killed in a grenade attack in Dhaka.
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Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has extended condolences to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the demise of its president Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahayan, the official IRNA news agency reported Wednesday.
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The eldest son of the late leader of the United Arab Emirates has been elected successor to his father, official sources told CNN.
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DUBAI  - The death of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan, president of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates (UAE), is not expected to have a major impact on already climbing world crude prices, experts said.
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Thousands of mourners have attended funeral prayers for two of the victims of Sunday&#39;s blast at a Shia mosque in the Pakistani city of Lahore.
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Palestinians reacted with tears and tributes to the death of their leader Yasser Arafat on Thursday.
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The flag-draped body of President Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan was carried Wednesday into a capital mosque, where dignitaries and relatives gathered for funeral prayers for the ruler who transformed his desert
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The funeral of Palestinian President  Yasser Arafat began on Friday when Egypt's top Muslim cleric  said prayers over his coffin at a military base in Cairo.
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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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World leaders on Thursday expressed their condolences over the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who died earlier in the day at a French military hospital outside Paris
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CAIRO -- 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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Tens of thousands of people gather for funeral procession of the former Indonesian dictator