Arafat reportedly in a coma
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ILL HEALTH -- Under a portrait of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia talks to journalists after an emergency Fatah Central Committee meeting at Arafat&#39;s headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Thursday.
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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 their fight for statehood. 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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Yasser Arafat lay in a deep coma last night, apparently nearing the end of his fight for life in a French military hospital, but a senior aide ruled out suggestions that his life-support machine might be switched off.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank : Doctors were rushed to the bedside of ailing Yasser Arafat at his West Bank headquarters as a top official said the 75-year-old Palestinian leader was in a critical condition.
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Palestinian President Yasser Arafat&#39;s health has worsened sharply and he is slipping in and out of consciousness at his besieged West Bank headquarters, officials and medics said Thursday.
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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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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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An ambulance was called to Yasir Arafat's compound amid unconfirmed reports that he had lost consciousness at least once.
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Palestinian President Yasser Arafat has partially emerged from his coma in a French hospital, opening his eyes and communicating with his doctors, an Israeli newspaper Web site said Saturday citing Palestinian sources.
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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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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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The Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, was in a serious condition last night after a sharp deterioration in his health, Palestinian officials said.
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Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat collapsed yesterday evening, was unconscious for about 10 minutes and remained in a &quot;very difficult situation,&quot; Palestinian officials said.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat&#39;s health reportedly deteriorated Wednesday night, the BBC reported. Arafat has been under treatment at a Paris military hospital for an undisclosed
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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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Yasser Arafat lay in a coma "between life  and death" on Friday as a row brewed between Israelis and  Palestinians over a likely burial site.
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A spokeswoman for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Leila Shahid, denied that he was brain dead, but said that the 75-year-old was &quot;between life and death&quot; and in a reversible coma in his hospital near Paris.