Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat Dies at 75
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Yasser Arafat, the leader for decades of a fight for Palestinian independence from Israel, has died at a military hospital in Paris, according to news reports.
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NEW YORK: Tributes were continuing to pour in at the United Nations for the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Mr Arafat, who passed away in a Paris hospital
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Palestinian Authority President Yasir Arafat died this morning in a French military hospital. He was 75 years old. Arafat spent the last three weeks of his life in France with an unspecified illness, and his last few days in a deep coma.
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&quot;The death of Yasser Arafat is a significant moment in Palestinian history. We express our condolences to the Palestinian people.
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Yasser Arafat's brother has died of cancer  in Egypt, a relative said on Wednesday, less than three weeks  after the Palestinian president died of a mysterious illness.
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Eleven days after Yasser Arafat&#39;s death, a Palestinian official has said that the 75-year-old&#39;s body contained no trace of poison, but declined to categorically rule out that he had been poisoned.
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Tears and gunshots, praise and condemnation marked the death of Yasser Arafat, whose fight for the Palestinian cause made him a towering and controversial figure on the world stage.
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&quot;Yasser Arafat, who died at the age of 75, in France on Thursday, was the standard-bearer of Palestinian nationalism for nearly half-a-century who could not see his dream of an independent state [of Palestine] become a reality.
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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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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat might have reportedly died of cirrhosis, which is caused by liver failure. Popular French newspaper, Le Monde, says that doctors have announced that Arafat died of cirrhosis although he did not drink anything except water.
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WEST BANK (BBC) - Yasser Arafat led Palestinian politics for more than 40 years. World leaders have been sending their condolences following the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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Palestinians looked to their leadership  to lift confusion over Yasser Arafat's fate in a Paris 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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Middle East News, Ramallah, Dec 12 (IANS) A top Palestinian official has said the late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat could have died of poisoning, but there was &quot;no medical or political proof&quot;, reports Xinhua.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat suffered  a brain hemorrhage on Tuesday and aides said he had died at a  hospital in Paris, but confusion over his fate grew as  officials insisted in public he was still clinging to life.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who  rose from guerrilla icon to Nobel peace prize-winner but ended  up isolated and locked in conflict with Israel, died in a  French hospital on Thursday. He was 75.
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Presidents and dignitaries from more than 50 countries say a last farewell on Friday to late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Egypt, his second home and one of his closest allies in years of struggle for a homeland.
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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.