Leader lies in deep coma `between life and death&#39;
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PARISâPalestinian leader Yasser Arafat lies in a deep coma &quot;between life and death,&quot; says the Palestinian envoy to France.
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Zhao Ziyang, the former Chinese  Communist Party chief who was purged for sympathizing with the  Tiananmen pro-democracy protests, lay in a deep coma Sunday and  could die at any time, a source close to his family said.
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Some reports from Paris say Arafat has slipped into a coma. There have been other reports through the day that Arafat&#39;s still unexplained condition has become worse and he is in the ICU.
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Former Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit, a political force for nearly 50 years, remained in a coma on life support for a second day Wednesday following treatment for a stroke, his hospital said.
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The rapid decline of the 75-year-old Palestinian leader&#39;s health, the refusal of his wife and authorities at the French military hospital where he died last Thursday to release his medical
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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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Yasser Arafat lay in a coma "between life  and death" on Friday as senior Palestinian officials met to  consider a future without him.
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CLAMART, France - Having lapsed into a coma, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was clinging to life on Saturday at a French military hospital as aides voiced increasing concern about the lack of improvement in his condition.
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The fate of Yasser Arafat was mired in  confusion on Tuesday as Palestinian officials insisted in  public he was clinging to life even as aides said privately the  veteran leader had died at a Paris hospital.
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TAMPA, Fla. -- He lies flat, unseeing eyes fixed on the ceiling, tubes and machines feeding him, breathing for him, keeping him alive. He cannot walk or talk, but he can grimace and cry. And he is fully aware of what has happened to him.
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PARIS, Nov. 4 -- Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat remained critically ill at a military hospital near here late Thursday night after slipping into unconsciousness on a day dominated by rumors, confusion and false reports that he had died.
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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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Yasser Arafat is hovering âbetween life and deathâ in a coma, Palestinian and French officials say. There was still no official public diagnosis yesterday to explain the Palestinian leaderâs critical condition.
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Yasser Arafat's condition worsened  overnight and his coma has deepened, the French military  hospital caring for the Palestinian leader announced on  Tuesday.
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Former Indonesian dictator Suharto was conscious but being kept alive by machines and breathing with difficulty Thursday, doctors said.
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Yasser Arafat was hovering ``between life and death&#39;&#39; in a coma Friday, no worse but also no better than he was a day earlier, according to Palestinian and French officials.
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Medical sources in Paris have confirmed to this correspondent that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is in a state of &quot;cerebral death.