Palestinians chart uncertain future after burying their leader
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Even while mourning the loss of Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leadership ordered preparations for new presidential elections to start immediately and appealed to the United States to take an active role in securing a vote in 60
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BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip -- Mohammed Wahdan, a 20-year-old Palestinian farmer, waited until his mother's four-day funeral had ended, until the last mourner had left his family's crumbling farmhouse on the edge of the Gaza Strip.
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While violence was largely over, people worried about how a round of deadly infighting postponed hope for an independent and unified Palestinian state.
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Yasir Arafat was buried in Ramallah in a scene of grief and chaos, with thousands of Palestinians surging around his coffin.
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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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Yasser Arafat was buried on Friday in chaotic scenes of grief and gunfire at the compound where he spent his final years encircled by the Israeli army and powerless to realize his dream of a Palestinian state.
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The Palestinians' likely next President hopes to take on the militants--and Arafat's legacy
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The rapid decline of the 75-year-old Palestinian leader's health, the refusal of his wife and authorities at the French military hospital where he died last Thursday to release his medical records and Israel's threat a year ago to "remove" him have spawned a cottage industry of speculation among Palestinians.
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Yasser Arafat remained in a critical  condition as uncertainty mounted over who might succeed him and  where he might be buried should he die.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank: Palestinians were planning Sunday for a smooth transfer of power in the event of Yasser Arafat&#39;s death at a series of high-level political and security meetings while the veteran leader battled for life in a French hospital.
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YASSER Arafat is dead. A so-called moderate is now chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Elections to choose a Palestinian Authority president are scheduled in the West Bank and Gaza for early January.
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Palestinians prepare for the funeral and burial of their veteran leader as officials warn of his imminent death.
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Palestinians are electing a successor to their late leader, Yasser Arafat.
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Palestinians pray at the grave of leader Yasser Arafat at the Muqataa, Arafat&#39;s destroyed headquarters, in the West Bank town of Ramallah Nov. 15.
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The wailing that attended Yasser Arafat&#39;s burial in the West Bank on Friday was as much for the Palestinians&#39; future as the passing of the man.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Yasser Arafat was buried on  Friday in chaotic scenes of grief and gunfire at the compound  where he spent his final years encircled by the Israeli army  and powerless to realize his dream of a Palestinian state.
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The fate of Palestinian President Yasser  Arafat was mired in confusion on Tuesday as French medical  sources contradicted reports by senior Palestinian officials  that he had died at a Paris hospital.