French medical sources confirm Arafat in coma
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CLAMART-France: Yasser Arafat is in a coma on life-support equipment in the intensive care unit of a Paris hospital, French medical sources said Thursday as confusion heightened over the Palestinian leader&#39;s condition.
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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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France: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is &quot;not unconscious and not in a coma,&quot; his top aide Nabil Abu Rudeina told AFP on Thursday, amid swirling rumors about Arafat&#39;s precarious health.
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Doctors at a French military hospital near Paris say Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat remains in a coma, in critical but stable condition.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was Thursday &quot;brain dead&quot; and breathing only thanks to artificial life support systems, a French medical source said after conflicting reports as to whether he was alive or dead.
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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.
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Yasser Arafat is in a coma between life and death, a senior Palestinian official said on Friday, and some of the Palestinian president's powers have been transferred to his prime minister.
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French doctors are checking Yasser Arafat for viral infection after tests ruled out leukaemia and any other life-threatening illness, aides to the Palestinian leader said today.
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Palestinian officials acknowledged Friday that Yasser Arafat was in a coma and struggling to survive, while Israeli officials issued blunt warnings
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Paris, Nov. 5 (NNN): Amid growing speculation and conflicting reports on Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat&#39;s health, doctors at the Paris hospital where he is being treated denied that he was dead.
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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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NPR.org, November 6, 2004 Â· Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat remains in critical condition at a hospital outside Paris, said to be in a coma.
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PARIS, Nov 4  - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is in a coma and in an &quot;extremely bad state&quot;, French medical sources told AFP on Thursday.
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Palestinian President Yasser Arafat has  been officially announced dead in a Paris military hospital,  Arab broadcaster Al Jazeera said on Thursday.
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PARIS (France): French authorities have handed over the medical file on late President of Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat to his widow Ms Suha Arafat, who is studying it, her lawyer said in a statement.
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France says the condition of the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, remains unchanged in the military hospital near Paris where he has been in a coma since Wednesday.
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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.