Aides say Arafat in charge
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Palestinian President Yasser Arafat is gradually recovering from serious illness after a weekend of treatment and tests at a French military hospital.
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Reformist former Palestinian Authority prime minister Abu Mazen will temporarily take over chairman Yasser Arafat&#39;s authority, Palestinian sources said.
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Yasser Arafat was in a critical but  stable condition on Friday as a row brewed over where he would  be buried and questions loomed about who might succeed him.
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PARIS -- Yasser Arafat&#39;s coma deepened and his condition deteriorated dramatically yesterday according to the Palestinian leadership, who visited him at a Paris hospital and then returned to the West Bank to declare that his life was now &#39;&#39;in the hand of
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In a recent interview with foreign reporters, Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat was asked who would succeed him in the case of his demise.
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As Yasser Arafat enters his fourth day of treatment at a hospital in Paris, France, the Palestinian leader&#39;s aides will say his condition is improving, but not what ails him.
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Palestinian leaders decided in the absence of President Yasser Arafat on Sunday to carry out a plan to restore law and order in the West Bank and Gaza, a government minister said.
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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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A top Palestinian official says Yasser Arafat is breathing on his own and &quot;his brain is not damaged.&quot;. Conflicting reports have flown for the past day, after the Palestinian leader took
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New York: Yasser Arafat personally controlled billions of dollars with which he ran the Palestinian Authority but no one knows their whereabouts, Palestinian and Israeli officials said.
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With Arafat gravely ill, Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia and his predecessor, Mahmoud Abbas, were chosen to temporarily assume the Palestinian leader's duties.
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Ailing Palestinian President Yasser Arafat&#39;s powers have been temporarily passed to two veteran associates -- both have served under him as prime minister -- until he recovers or dies, officials say.
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It will be a long time before a new Palestinian leader commands the public admiration and political power that Yasser Arafat did. This power enabled him to make concessions that no previous Palestinian leader would have considered.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank, Sept 28  - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has ordered his security services to help secure the release of a CNN producer kidnapped by Palestinian militants in Gaza, his office said Tuesday.
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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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With Yasser Arafat gravely ill in a French hospital, some of his powers were formally transferred to other Palestinian officials yesterday, as Israel readied plans to stem potential unrest in the event he dies.
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THE Palestinian Authority is to set up an official commission of inquiry into Yasser Arafatâs death amid increasing rumours among the Palestinian public that he was poisoned by Israel.