Arafat in Coma, Row Brews Over Burial Site
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Yasser Arafat lay in a coma "between life  and death" on Friday as a row brewed between Israelis and  Palestinians over a likely burial site.
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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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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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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has been in a coma for several hours and now in critical condition, Arafat&#39;s senior aides said on Thursday.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Surging frenzied crowds  forced a hasty burial of Yasser Arafat on Friday, preventing  mourners like student Deya Jamal from paying their last  respects to the charismatic Palestinian president.
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Some reports from Paris say Arafat has slipped into a coma. There have been other reports through the day that Arafat&#39;s still unexplained condition has become worse and he is in the ICU.
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Gravely ill and comatose, Yasser Arafat clung to life in a French hospital Friday as Israeli officials vowed to prevent the Palestinian leader from being buried in Jerusalem, stoking
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A spokeswoman for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Leila Shahid, denied that he was brain dead, but said that the 75-year-old was &quot;between life and death&quot; and in a reversible coma in his hospital near Paris.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat suffered  a brain hemorrhage on Tuesday and aides said he had died at a  French hospital, but confusion over his fate grew as officials  insisted in public that he still clung to life.
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On his deathbed in a French military hospital, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat remains at the center of controversy -- this time, over the future of the volatile Middle East without this larger-than-life leader.
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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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While Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat lingers in a coma, the world contemplates what his death will mean to the Middle East&#39;s future.
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The fate of Yasser Arafat was mired in  confusion on Tuesday as Palestinian officials insisted in  public he was clinging to life even as aides said privately the  veteran leader had died at a Paris hospital.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank - Yasser Arafat was buried Friday in the place where he spent his last years as a prisoner, buried in a huge and chaotic outpouring of grief for the man who embodied the Palestinian people&#39;s dream of statehood.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank,  - The screaming, whooping hordes surged forward as an Egyptian helicopter bearing the body of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat touched down at his Muqataa compound in Ramallah.
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Yasser Arafat remained in a critical condition as uncertainty mounted over who might succeed him and where he might be buried should he die.
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Yasser Arafat's condition deteriorated dramatically overnight as his coma deepened, a hospital spokesman said today, and top Palestinian officials met with his medical team.