Arafat Conscious, Days Needed for Diagnosis-Aide
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CLAMART, France  - Doctors will need "several  days" to diagnose Yasser Arafat's illness but the Palestinian  leader was conscious and in good shape when he arrived in  France on Friday, a Palestinian diplomat said.
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Yasser Arafat will undergo a battery of medical tests on Saturday as French doctors try to discover whether the ailing Palestinian leader is suffering from leukemia or some other blood disorder.
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PARIS (CBS) A senior aide to Yasser Arafat said early Sunday that the ailing Palestinian leader was not comatose but still in intensive care.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Yasser Arafat underwent a  minor diagnostic procedure on Monday and doctors found no major  ailment after a week of concerns over the Palestinian  president's health, a cabinet minister said.
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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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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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A top Palestinian official says Yasser Arafat is breathing on his own and &quot;his brain is not damaged.&quot;. Conflicting reports have flown for the past day, after the Palestinian leader took
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Ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's condition worsened overnight, hospital officials said Tuesday, and the coma he has been in for almost a week has deepened.
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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.
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Palestinian President Yasser Arafat was admitted yesterday to a French military hospital near Paris for urgent treatment for what is said to be a potentially fatal blood disorder.
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CLAMART, France - Tests on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat showed problems with his digestion, but he has recovered sufficiently to undergo examinations that could not have been done when he was first rushed to France, an aide said yesterday.
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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. Test results were expected within days.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Ailing Palestinian  President Yasser Arafat's powers have been temporarily passed  to two men -- both who have served under him as prime minister  -- until he recovers or dies, officials said on Friday.
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Yasser Arafat underwent tests for viral infection and other ailments on Sunday after initial checks ruled out leukemia and any life-threatening illness, aides to the Palestinian leader said.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is suffering from a brain haemorrhage,  a top aide says in Ramallah.
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Having ruled out leukaemia, French doctors were trying for a third day to determine what was causing the dramatic deterioration in Palestinian leader Yasser Arafatâs health.
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Yasser Arafat is not in a coma but remained in intensive care after undergoing more medical tests, a senior aide to the ailing Palestinian leader said Saturday.