&#39;Some corruption&#39; in Palestinian Authority, admits Arafat
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The chairman of the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat, today offered a rare admission that he had made mistakes, but his vague contrition angered Palestinian politicians who have been calling for reform and tougher anti-corruption measures.
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Palestine&#39;s ailing leader Yasser Arafat was diagnosed with liver failure, according to an unnamed official. He added that the President&#39;s condition was not improving.
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Ramallah (AsiaNews/Agencies) - Yasser Arafat refused to sign anti-corruption legislation as demanded by Palestinian law-makers. In a long and tense speech to the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), the
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RAMALLAH, West Bank In a televised speech, Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian president, admitted Wednesday that he and his Palestinian Authority had made serious mistakes, but Palestinian legislators pressing for reform said that his comments were too vague ...
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Yasser Arafat, admitting to mistakes, promised to rein in corruption, but Palestinian lawmakers complained that their leader&#39;s long-awaited speech Wednesday fell far short of expectations, offering no way out of the chaos plaguing ...
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Yasir Arafat personally controls several billion dollars for the Palestinian movement, and no one else knows where it all is.
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If Marwan Barghouti really wants to be chairman of the Palestinian Authority, he should withhold his candidature at this time and allow Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) to take responsibility for the transition into the post-Arafat era.
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(CBS/AP) 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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Palestinian officials have admitted that leukemia specialists have examined frail Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, to find out whether he has the blood cancer.
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A lot of false cliches have recently been uttered about Yasser Arafat, including by commentators and politicians supposedly familiar with the history of the conflict.
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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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LONDON - Veteran Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said in a newspaper interview published on Wednesday that an independent Palestinian state was more likely if Israel was governed by its hardline finance minister Benjamin Netanyahu rather than Prime
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M ahmoud Abbas may have done more for the Palestinian people in a few weeks than Yasser Arafat did in four decades -- or, at least, four years.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Yasser Arafat made a rare admission of mistakes on Wednesday and urged reforms to end corruption after an unprecedented wave of turmoil.
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CLAMART, France: A senior aide to Yasser Arafat said Saturday that the ailing Palestinian leader had undergone further medical tests and that results were expected within days.
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A REVERSIBLE coma has left Yasser Arafat between life and death, but he is not brain dead, a senior Palestinian official insisted today.
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The Palestinian Authority is sending a delegation to France to get more information about the cause of former PA President Yasser Arafat&#39;s death.