&#39;Some corruption&#39; in Palestinian Authority, admits Arafat
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The chairman of the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat, today offered a rare admission that he had made mistakes, but his vague contrition angered Palestinian politicians who have been calling for reform and tougher anti-corruption measures.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Yasser Arafat&#39;s nephew says the former Palestinian president&#39;s death may have been &quot;unnatural,&quot; fueling speculation in the Arab world that he was poisoned.
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Palestinian officials have admitted that leukemia specialists have examined frail Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, to find out whether he has the blood cancer.
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Ramallah - Former prime minister Mahmud Abbas appears in pole position to grab the lion&#39;s share of power from Yasser Arafat, taking temporary charge of the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian leader&#39;s Fatah faction during his enforced
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PARIS Offering a solution to a diplomatic problem, the French authorities said Thursday that they would release Yasser Arafat&#39;s medical records to his nephew, a Palestinian Authority representative, who then could resolve questions about the cause of
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Over the years, Yasser Arafat was the subject of some pretty bad jokes. When he returned to the Gaza Strip in triumph in 1994 after the PLO signed the Oslo peace accords with Israel, Palestinians
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M ahmoud Abbas may have done more for the Palestinian people in a few weeks than Yasser Arafat did in four decades -- or, at least, four years.
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Palestinian senior official has accused Israel of deceiving the whole world by its Gaza withdrawal plan. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat&#39;s top aide Nabil Abu Rudeineh told
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is suffering from a brain haemorrhage,  a top aide says in Ramallah.
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CLAMART, France: A senior aide to Yasser Arafat said Saturday that the ailing Palestinian leader had undergone further medical tests and that results were expected within days.
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Yasir Arafat personally controls several billion dollars for the Palestinian movement, and no one else knows where it all is.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Yasser Arafat admitted making &quot;mistakes&quot; and promised to rein in corruption, but lawmakers complained that a long-awaited speech by the Palestinian Authority president on Wednesday fell short of expectations. Critics said he offered ...
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A lot of false cliches have recently been uttered about Yasser Arafat, including by commentators and politicians supposedly familiar with the history of the conflict.
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Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, issued an unprecedented mea culpa yesterday, admitting that he had made mistakes and promising to rectify them.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank In a televised speech, Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian president, admitted Wednesday that he and his Palestinian Authority had made serious mistakes, but Palestinian legislators pressing for reform said that his comments were too vague ...
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Doctors said Thursday that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has a low platelet count. There are a variety of factors that could account for the condition.
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Yasser Arafat yesterday made the unusually frank admission that he had made mistakes and that there had been &quot;unacceptable practices by me and many others&quot; within the Palestinian Authority.