Arafat in coma, spokeswoman says, denying reports of brain death
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Doctors fought to keep Yasser Arafat alive as anxious Palestinian officials looked for ways to prevent unrest if their 75-year-old leader, said to be in a coma Friday, dies.
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (04/11/2004) - There were conflicting reports of Palestinian President Yasser Arafatâs health on Thursday, as various sources claimed that he had slipped into a coma or was being anesthetized after having lost consciousness three
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A REVERSIBLE coma has left Yasser Arafat between life and death, but he is not brain dead, a senior Palestinian official insisted today.
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Palestinian President Yasser Arafat  lost consciousness on Wednesday evening and it was not clear  whether he had regained it, Israel Radio reported.
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A flurry of contradictory information on President Yasser Arafat&#39;s illness was leaked on Thursday as the Palestinian leader at various times was said to be brain dead or in a coma, in a stable but serious condition, and then dead - until reports of his
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Palestinians looked to their leadership  to lift confusion over Yasser Arafat's fate in a Paris 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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Yasser Arafat lay in a deep coma last night, apparently nearing the end of his fight for life in a French military hospital, but a senior aide ruled out suggestions that his life-support machine might be switched off.
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A top aide to Yasser Arafat says the Palestinian leader is suffering from a brain hemorrhage and is near death in a Paris hospital.
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Palestinian officials said Yasser Arafat remained in stable but critical condition in a coma on Friday and denied reports he's on life support.
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CLAMART, France The mystery surrounding Yasser Arafatâs illness broadened Thursday as the Palestinian leader at various times was said to be in a coma, in stable but serious condition, very critically ill, and then dead - until reports of his death
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The Palestinian Foreign Minister says the 75-year-old Palestinian leader has slipped deeper into a coma and is on life-support, but euthanasia is not being considered.
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Crucial tests to establish whether Yasser Arafat is brain dead have not been carried out by a Paris hospital, a French newspaper reported yesterday, leading to claims that
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PARIS - A hospital official in France on Thursday denied reports that Yasser Arafat had died as the result of an undisclosed illness.
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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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Ramallah, West Bank -- A top Palestinian official said Saturday there is no evidence that Israel poisoned Yasser Arafat, but he called for an investigation into the cause of death of the Palestinian leader.
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Palestinian President Yasser Arafat  has partially emerged from his coma in a French hospital,  opening his eyes and communicating with his doctors, an Israeli  newspaper Web site said Saturday citing Palestinian sources.
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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.