Leaders consider life after Arafat
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RAMALLAH, West Bank - Senior Palestinian officials, seeking to fill the void left when Yasser Arafat dies, reached out Saturday to Islamic fundamentalists who remain the wild card in a post-Arafat era.
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IF ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat dies, a joint team made up of Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qurie and his predecessor Mahmud Abbas is likely to take the reigns of power, Palestinian officials said today.
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JERUSALEM - Many Middle East observers believe the word opportunity describes the situation in the region after the death of Yasser Arafat.
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Since Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat&#39;s health deteriorated dramatically last week, Marwan Barghouti, 45, has been among the names being floated to take over the Palestinian leadership in the event of Arafat&#39;s demise.
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Q. Many say that Yasser Arafatâs death is a turning point in the Middle East. Do you see it that way? A. Arafat was a symbolic leader for the Palestinian people.
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Senior Palestinian leaders flew to Paris Monday to assess the health of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. They had hesitated briefly after Arafat&#39;s wife launched a tirade
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A decline in Yasser Arafat's health puts focus on future leadership.
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Yasser Arafat&#39;s death raises considerable speculation about who will ultimately succeed him as leader. On paper, the Palestinian transition of power is quite clear: the speaker of the parliament - Rawhi Fattouh - temporarily becomes president.
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Yasser Arafat continues to fight for his life as Palestinian leaders gather to discuss who might succeed him if he dies.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, reportedly in a coma and lingering between life and death in a French hospital, was on the hearts and minds of several Palestinians as they left the North
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Yasser Arafat was remembered in Canada on Thursday as a Palestinian leader who made great strides for his people or as a man whose death may bring a new chance for peace in the war-torn area.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat attends a PLO executive committee meeting at his office in the West Bank town of Ramallah, in this Sunday, Aug. 8, 2004 file photo.
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Ironically, as he was dying, world leaders and the media were rediscovering the importance of Arafatâs leadership. The sustained media coverage of him focused world attention on the Palestinian Question once again.
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Leaders from various parts of the world have started arriving in the Egyptian capital Cairo to pay their last respects to the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who died on Thursday morning.
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LONDON: Thousands of Palestinians poured onto the streets to mourn Yasser Arafat on Thursday while world leaders praised him as an icon of his people whose death could nonetheless pave the way for a new Middle East peace drive.
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Palestinians are moving toward a new generation of leadership, while US and Israeli leaders consider their legacies.
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JERUSALEM -- Former US envoys say that the passing of Yasser Arafat would open up new opportunities for Mideast peace, especially if new, pragmatic Palestinian leaders emerge.