Israeli Arabs march in symbolic Arafat funeral
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Several thousand Israeli Arabs have marched through the streets of Nazareth in a symbolic funeral for Palestinian president Yasser Arafat.
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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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The coffin of Yasser Arafat, draped with the Palestinian flag, was bound for Ramallah in the West Bank Friday, following a formal funeral on a military compound near Cairo.
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PALESTINIANS at home and abroad wept, waved flags, and burned tyres in an eruption of grief over the death of Yasser Arafat, the man they consider the father of their nation.
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The somber official end to mourning for Yasser Arafat on Tuesday contrasted with a new sense of optimism in the Middle East after his death.
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In a ceremony isolated from the Arab throngs that loved Yasser Arafat best, kings and diplomats, presidents or proxies from more than 50 countries paid tribute Friday to the man who personified the Palestinians' aspirations for statehood.
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Even though Palestinian officials say they have an orderly succession plan to replace leader Yasser Arafat, Arabs and Israelis agree that a power vacuum
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Yasser Arafat's funeral will begin Friday inside a military compound on the outskirts of Cairo, in what will be a brief and solemn ceremony attended by scores of world leaders but closed to the public.
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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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Foreign dignitaries paid a last tribute to Yasser Arafat at a solemn funeral on Friday in Cairo, the city where the leader was born and fashioned as the founding father of Palestinian resistance.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank Palestinians at home and abroad have been weeping and shouting in the streets over the death of Yasser Arafat.
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Gaza City - With Yasser Arafat fighting for his life in hospital and Israel firmly opposed to a Jerusalem burial, many Palestinians see the Gaza Strip as a fitting alternative place of rest for their leader.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Thousands of Palestinians  paid tumultuous homage to leader Yasser Arafat on Friday,  surging around the helicopter that flew his coffin home to the  West Bank in a chaotic scene of guns and tears.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair described Yasser Arafat as an icon of the Palestinian movement, as he offered condolences on Arafat&#39;s death Thursday.
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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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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 besieged by Israeli  troops without realizing his dream of a Palestinian state.
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The flag-draped coffin of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has been carried through a crowd of tens of thousands of mourners amid the sound of gunfire.