Arafat NOT Dead, Say French Doctors
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Paris, Nov. 5 (NNN): Amid growing speculation and conflicting reports on Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat&#39;s health, doctors at the Paris hospital where he is being treated denied that he was dead.
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Palestinians looked to their leadership  to lift confusion over Yasser Arafat's fate in a French  hospital on Wednesday as preparations gathered pace to bury the  icon of the fight for a state. Arafat, 75, suffered a brain  hemorrhage on Tuesday at the hospital where he was flown from  the West Bank on Oct. 29 and had lain in a coma. Officials  insisted in public that he was alive, though aides said  privately that he was dead.
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CLAMART, France Doctors in France are awaiting test results to try to determine exactly what is ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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French doctors are checking Yasser Arafat for viral infection after tests ruled out leukaemia and any other life-threatening illness, aides to the Palestinian leader said today.
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Palestinian President Yasser Arafat is slowly recovering from serious illness but could remain in a French military hospital for several weeks, Palestinian officials say.
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Palestinian President Yasser Arafat is not brain dead but is critically ill in a coma, between life and death, Palestinian envoy to Paris Leila Shahid said on Friday.
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PARIS  - Yasser Arafat&#39;s condition has not changed one way or other since a health bulletin was issued Friday, the health department of the French armed forces told AFP.
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CLAMART, France  - Palestinian leader Yasser  Arafat, who doctors say may have leukemia, was conscious and in  "good shape" at a French hospital on Friday after leaving the  West Bank for the first time in more than 2-1/2 years.
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French Health Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy says there is no indication Yasser Arafat was poisoned, although he has not had access to medical files on the death of the Palestinian leader.
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France: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is &quot;not unconscious and not in a coma,&quot; his top aide Nabil Abu Rudeina told AFP on Thursday, amid swirling rumors about Arafat&#39;s precarious health.
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French doctors attending to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at a private nursing home in Clamart, near Paris, have said that he is in good shape, but still not out of danger.
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Yasir Arafat is not brain dead, his spokeswoman said as Palestinian officials met to consider a future without him.
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Yasser Arafat was not in a coma but remained in intensive care Saturday after undergoing more medical tests, a senior aide to the ailing Palestinian leader said.
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AMID speculation over the cause of Yasser Arafat&#39;s death, French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier today said France had nothing to hide concerning the late Palestinian leader&#39;s medical file.
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Palestinian officials say Yasser Arafat&#39;s health has improved since Friday, when he arrived in France for treatment for a still-mysterious illness.
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Crucial tests to establish whether Yasser Arafat is brain dead have not been carried out by a Paris hospital, a French newspaper reported yesterday, leading to claims that
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There were conflicting reports Thursday about the state of Yasser Arafat&#39;s health. There was some speculation that he may have died, but the rumors were quickly denied by officials at the French