Palestinians Stress Unity in Arafat&#39;s Absence
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Description: Palestinian officials meet at Yasser Arafat&#39;s headquarters in Ramallah for the first time since the Palestinian president was flown to France for medical treatment.
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Ramallah - All members of the Palestinian security services were placed on a state of alert on Thursday to prepare for a possible outbreak of unrest in the event of Yasser Arafat&#39;s death, Palestinian security sources said.
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Senior Palestinian and Israeli leaders held separate meetings Sunday to plan a path forward in the absence of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who was being examined in a French hospital for an unknown ailment.
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Leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organisation have met for the first time in decades without Yasser Arafat. The executive committee meeting was held in Mr Arafat&#39;s battered headquarters in the West Bank
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RAMALLAH, West Bank, Oct. 28 -- No crowds of well-wishers massed Thursday outside the Mukata, the mostly ruined compound where Yasser Arafat has been confined for the past two years. Only a throng of reporters assembled, peering through the smoked windows of sedans carrying officials to a frail old man who still embodies the national aspirations of many Palestinians.
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Despite Arafat's flaws, area residents say the leader represented struggle of the state.
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Yasser Arafat was in a critical condition  in a French hospital on Saturday and Hamas militants in Gaza  said there was an urgent need for unity among Palestinian  leaders.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank: Palestinians were planning Sunday for a smooth transfer of power in the event of Yasser Arafat&#39;s death at a series of high-level political and security meetings while the veteran leader battled for life in a French hospital.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank - The Palestinian premier was to convene a meeting Sunday of Yasser Arafatâs National Security Council, the latest in a flurry of sessions designed to show that institutions continue to function, despite Arafatâs absence.
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FOR ALMOST a half century, the name Yasser Arafat was synonymous with Palestinian nationalism. Even as his global influence wanes, and his physical health deteriorates, Arafat provides a reed of continuity
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian leaders decided  in the absence of President Yasser Arafat on Sunday to carry  out a plan to restore law and order in the West Bank and Gaza,  a government minister said.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Senior Palestinian officials struggled yesterday to stabilize the financial operations of the Palestinian Authority, as Yasser Arafat lingered at what an envoy termed a &quot;critical juncture between life and death.&quot;
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The sombre official end to mourning for Yasser Arafat on Tuesday contrasted with a new sense of optimism in the Middle East after his death.
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Paris, Nov. 1 (NNN): Ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is feeling better, his aides say, as he undergoes medical examinations in a French army hospital near Paris.
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Palestinian politicians Thursday tried to fill the void left by the death of Yasser Arafat, a lone-style leader who put a nationalist movement on the world map but willed to his successors a fragile, stateless people.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon The militant group Hamas is calling for unity among Palestinian leaders and says it&#39;s setting aside differences with an ailing Yasser Arafat.
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Yasser Arafat is in a stable condition and not in a coma, an aide said on Sunday, while militants pressed for decision-making powers in a unified Palestinian leadership if the president dies.