* Plane carrying Arafat&#39;s coffin takes off from French military ...
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* Israel seals off West Bank and Gaza Strip to prevent violence. Militant group Hamas vows to keep up attacks. * Israeli soldiers kill four Palestinians.
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Helicopters landed in Yasser Arafat's West Bank compound on Friday to fly out the ailing Palestinian leader for medical treatment in France, witnesses said.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Ailing Palestinian leader  Yasser Arafat flew out of his West Bank compound in a Jordanian  helicopter on Friday, bound for treatment at a French hospital,  witnesses said.
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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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A ceremony is held at a French airport as the body of Yasser Arafat heads to the Middle East.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian leader Yasser  Arafat, weakened by what doctors think may be leukemia, flew to  France for treatment on Friday from the besieged West Bank  headquarters where he had been pinned for over 2-1/2 years.
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After the emotional fury of Yasser Arafat&#39;s funeral quiet has descended on the occupied territories as Palestinians step cautiously into an uncharted future.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Yasser Arafat, badly  weakened by what doctors believe may be leukemia, was to fly to  Paris for treatment on Friday, leaving his besieged West Bank  headquarters for the first time in more than two years.
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VILLACOUBLAY, France  - A French military jet believed to be carrying ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat landed Friday afternoon at an airfield outside Paris, witnesses said.
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Paris, Nov. 9 (NNN) : Top Palestinian officials have arrived in the French capital, hoping to visit Yasser Arafat in hospital, after having earlier considered calling off the trip amid a row with Arafat&#39;s wife.
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Mourners filed past Yasser Arafat&#39;s tomb in Ramallah Saturday as Palestinian soldiers kept watch over what had been a chaotic scene just hours before.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Dead Palestinian leader  Yasser Arafat's body will be flown to Cairo for a ceremony  Friday and then to the West Bank city of Ramallah for burial  the same day, a former aide said Thursday.
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A military funeral for the Palestinian President, Yasser Arafat, will be held in the Egyptian capital, Cairo this morning. After the funeral President Arafat&#39;s coffin will be flown by helicopter to Ramallah for burial.
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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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The medical file of the deceased Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is done and is expected to be handed over to his legal assignees &quot;without delay&quot;, French Defense Ministry said on Friday, while one of Arafat&#39;s nephews is heading for Paris.
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Ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was en route by plane to a French military hospital outside Paris for urgent medical treatment of what is said to be a potentially fatal blood disorder.
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ABIDJAN, Cote D&#39;Ivoire (Ivory Coast) -- France began evacuating its nationals and other Europeans from violence-torn Ivory Coast Wednesday, when an Air France Boeing-777 took off from Abidjan airport for Paris with 270 people on board, French military