Arafat has 'brain haemorrhage'
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is suffering from a brain haemorrhage,  a top aide says in Ramallah.
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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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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat suffered  a brain hemorrhage on Tuesday and aides said he had died at a  hospital in Paris, but confusion over his fate grew as  officials insisted in public he was still clinging to life.
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Yasser Arafat was reportedly fighting for his life Thursday at a French military hospital after losing consciousness, as anxious Palestinian officials transferred some of their 75-year-old leader&#39;s powers to Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President  Yasser Arafat's health worsened sharply on Wednesday and he was  slipping in and out of consciousness at his besieged West Bank  headquarters, officials and medics said.
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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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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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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Ailing Palestinian leader  Yasser Arafat is suffering from a low blood platelet count but  does not appear to have leukemia, one of the doctors treating  him said Thursday.
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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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Seriously ill and perhaps fighting for his life, Yasser Arafat ( news - web sites ) was rushed Friday to a military hospital near Paris that specializes in blood disorders.
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PARIS:An ailing Yasser Arafat has arrived at a Paris military hospital for treatment of a blood disorder after leaving his West Bank compound for the first time in nearly three years.
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HEALTH STATUS: Yasser Arafat is in a coma and his condition worsened overnight. Hospital spokesman Gen. Christian Estripeau did not issue a prognosis but suggested the chances of a recovery were poor.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Seriously ill Palestinian  leader Yasser Arafat on Thursday prepared to fly to France for  treatment for a blood disorder as fears grew for the icon of  the Palestinian struggle for statehood.
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Yasser Arafat is in a coma but is not brain dead, his spokeswoman said today, acknowledging the ailing Palestinian leader was ``between life and death.
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Yasser Arafat, deeply comatose after another downturn in his already critical condition, was clinging to life in a French hospital as reports came in late on Tuesday.
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PARIS: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is in a coma in critical condition, a senior Palestinian official says. Arafat has been in intensive care in a French military hospital outside Paris since Wednesday afternoon.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat remained in a coma Friday at a French military hospital as concerns heightened over possibilities for his burial and the future of Palestinian leadership.