Arafat Prays as Israel Prepares for his Death
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Ailing Yasser Arafat performed Muslim prayers before dawn today, but his condition remains serious and a team of doctors flying in from Arab countries will decide whether he needs to be transferred from his compound to a hospital.
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Tens of thousands of people are expected to throng the West Bank city of Ramallah today for the interment of Mr Yasser Arafat, the 75-year-old Palestinian leader who died early yesterday in Paris, writes ...
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ANXIOUS Palestinians braced themselves for a future without Yasser Arafat last night as the father of their stateless nation lay dying in a Paris hospital.
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PARIS, Nov 18  - Family members of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat are preparing a request to obtain medical files detailing his illness and cause of death, which France will grant, the French defense ministry announced Thursday.
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Israeli FM says his country&#39;s aim is to be ready for the day after Arafat who is suffering from mysterious illness. JERUSALEM - Israel must prepare for the death of veteran Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Dead Palestinian leader  Yasser Arafat's body will be flown to Cairo for a ceremony  Friday and then to the West Bank city of Ramallah for burial  the same day, a former aide said Thursday.
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Egypt, where Yasser Arafat began his  political life and where biographers say he was born, on  Thursday prepared a funeral for the Palestinian president, who  was declared dead in Paris in the early morning.
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Thousands of mourners converged on Yasser Arafat's compound in chaotic scenes on Friday before their revered leader was to be buried in the place where Israeli forces trapped him until his final days.
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Ramallah, West Bank -- In the West Bank, preparations began Tuesday for Yasser Arafat&#39;s funeral, even though Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath told a Paris press conference that the Palestinian leader was &quot;very much alive&quot; and discussion of his
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RAMALLAH, West Bank: Palestinians were planning Sunday for a smooth transfer of power in the event of Yasser Arafat&#39;s death at a series of high-level political and security meetings while the veteran leader battled for life in a French hospital.
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RAMALLAH, Nov. 11. - Yasser Arafatâs funeral will take place in Cairo tomorrow before he is buried on the same day at his West Bank headquarters, a top aide said today.
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Yasir Arafat was laid to rest in a marble-and-stone grave today in Ramallah, on the West Bank, after his flag-draped coffin was carried through a crowd of chanting Palestinians
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Palestinian officials hoping to see  Yasser Arafat arrived at a French military hospital on Tuesday  where their 75-year-old leader was in a deep coma.
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Palestinians reacted with tears and tributes to the death of their leader Yasser Arafat on Thursday.
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Yasser Arafat will get a military funeral in Egypt on Friday before burial in the smashed West Bank compound where he spent his final years encircled by the Israeli army without realizing his dream of a Palestinian state.
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Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told the Israeli Cabinet on Sunday that security officials have completed preparations for Yasser Arafat to be buried in the Gaza Strip, meeting participants said.
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The following dignitaries are expected at Yasser Arafat's funeral in Cairo on Friday, according to Palestinian and Egyptian planners and other officials.