Funeral held for Egyptian writer
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The funeral of Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, who has died aged 94, takes place in Cairo.
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Yasser Arafat will get a military funeral  in Egypt on Friday before burial in the smashed West Bank  compound where he spent his final years encircled by the  Israeli army without realizing his dream of a Palestinian  state.
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Egypt has agreed to host a funeral in  Cairo for Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, who is in a  Paris hospital where he suffered a brain hemorrhage, Egyptian  and Palestinian officials said.
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A funeral procession for a couple and their two daughters slain last week drew hundreds of mourners Monday, and some in the crowd blamed the deaths on religious tensions in the Coptic Christian family's native Egypt.
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A plane carrying the coffin of late  Palestinian President Yasser Arafat arrived in Cairo from  France on Thursday, ahead of a military funeral to be held the  next day, witnesses said.
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Yasser ArafatÂ¿s formal military funeral in Cairo was a sombre and dignified occasion.
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High-ranking Egyptian officials attended the funeral of the billionaire son-in-law of former president Gamel Abdel Nasser in Cairo on Monday despite his mysterious death amid reports he spied for Israel.
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Pakistani security forces are braced for protests as the funeral takes place of a leading Baloch nationalist.
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CAIRO, Sept 14  - The funeral of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, who was killed in a weekend helicopter crash off the coast of Greece, will be held in Egypt on Wednesday, church officials said.
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A large funeral was held yesterday afternoon for Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan al-Nahyan, late president of the United Arab Emirates, who died on Tuesday evening at 86 year old of which he had spent 33 years as a president for the country.
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Arafat&#39;s funeral is to be held Friday in Cairo. He will be buried at his West Bank headquarters on Saturday. By Ben Lynfield | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor.
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The body of Yasser Arafat arrived in the Egyptian capital Thursday night for a memorial service to be attended by a group of men he managed to inspire and antagonize over
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ELEANOR HALL: But first to Egypt, where preparations are underway for the funeral of the man who for almost half a century was one of the most dominant figures in Middle East politics.
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YAROUN, Lebanon  - Hizbollah held a funeral on Tuesday for one of its Lebanese fighters who was also an American citizen, witnesses said.
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The body of late Palestinian President  Yasser Arafat arrived in Cairo from Paris on Thursday for a  military funeral which presidents and other dignitaries from  around the world are due to attend.
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Egypt is holding a military funeral today for Yasser Arafat as US President George W. Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair discuss the status of the Middle East peace process after the Palestinian leader&#39;s death.
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Naguib Mahfouz, who became the first Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novels depicting modern Egyptian life in his beloved, millennium-old corner of Islamic Cairo, died Wednesday, his doctor said. He was 94.