Egypt Agrees to Host Arafat Funeral
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Egypt has agreed to host a funeral in Cairo for Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, who is in a Paris hospital where he suffered a brain hemorrhage, Egyptian and Palestinian officials said.
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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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Kings, presidents and dignitaries from  more than 50 countries said a last farewell to Palestinian  leader Yasser Arafat in Cairo on Friday but the public was  excluded from the military funeral.
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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 encircled by the  Israeli army without realizing his dream of a Palestinian  state.
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RAMALLAH, Nov. 11. - Yasser Arafatâs funeral will take place in Cairo tomorrow before he is buried on the same day at his West Bank headquarters, a top aide said today.
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The French government says it will release the medical files of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to his next of kin.
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Arafat&#39;s funeral is to be held Friday in Cairo. He will be buried at his West Bank headquarters on Saturday. By Ben Lynfield | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Egypt put its security forces on maximum alert and workers spruced up a modest mosque at Cairo's international airport Thursday in preparation for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's funeral, which will include a procession led by a horse-drawn carriage.
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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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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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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who remained in a deep coma and close to death at a hospital outside of Paris Wednesday, will be buried at his battered headquarters
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Presidents and dignitaries from more than 50 countries say a last farewell on Friday to late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Egypt, his second home and one of his closest allies in years of struggle for a homeland.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank Yasser Arafat can be buried at his battered headquarters here as the Palestinians requested, the Israeli government decided Wednesday in a gesture to his likely successor, Mahmoud Abbas.
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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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Earlier, in Cairo, presidents, kings and potentates from across the Arab world and beyond paid their last respects to the Palestinian leader.
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CLAMART, FRANCE - When Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat dies, he can be buried in the Gaza Strip, Israel has decided. Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofax briefed the cabinet on Sunday about security preparations for the Arafat&#39;s funeral.
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GAZA CITY, 12 November 2004 - The world will bid farewell to Abu Ammar, Yasser Arafat, as one of the towering figures of Arab politics embarks on his final journey with a state funeral in Cairo today followed by a solemn burial ceremony in Ramallah.