Egypt Prepares to Receive Arafat's Body
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Egypt put its security forces on maximum alert and workers spruced up a modest mosque at Cairo's international airport Thursday in preparation for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's funeral, which will include a procession led by a horse-drawn carriage.
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The coffin of Yasser Arafat, draped with the Palestinian flag, was bound for Ramallah in the West Bank Friday, following a formal funeral on a military compound near Cairo.
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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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Israel will allow Yasser Arafat to be buried in the Gaza Strip, the territory occupied by Israeli troops, if the Palestinian President dies.
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Egypt, where Yasser Arafat began his  political life and where biographers say he was born, will host  a military funeral for the Palestinian president on Friday  before he is buried in the West Bank, officials said.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was said to be seriously ill but in stable condition Thursday as a team of international doctors prepared
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Arafat's funeral is to be held Friday in Cairo. He will be buried at his West Bank headquarters.
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CAIRO -- Egypt prepared yesterday for a strictly controlled military funeral for Yasser Arafat where dignitaries from around the world will pay their respects, but where the people -- among whom Arafat was by far more popular -- will be mostly shut out.
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Egypt was preparing to bid farewell to Nobel-winning novelist Nagib Mahfuz, celebrated as one of the greatest writers in modern Arab literature.
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Arafat died on Thursday aged 75 in a Paris hospital. His body has now arrived in Egypt, where a military funeral is expected to be held on Friday.
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Palestinian officials prepared to fly the ailing Yasser Arafat to Paris for treatment after blood tests found he had a low count of platelets, which help clotting.
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Israel has drawn up preparations for Yasser Arafat to be buried in the Gaza Strip, outlining plans to let West Bank Palestinians cross through Israel for the funeral and allow enemy Arab leaders to attend, security officials said Sunday.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian leaders  prepared on Thursday to transfer President Yasser Arafat's  powers to three key figures who will take on the most important  roles he held, officials said.
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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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As the body of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was flown from Paris on Thursday, en route to a funeral in Cairo and burial in the West Bank, Arafat's powers and responsibilities were transferred to four new leaders.
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The following dignitaries are expected at Yasser Arafat's funeral in Cairo on Friday, according to Palestinian planners and other officials.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who remained in a deep coma and close to death at a hospital outside of Paris Wednesday, will be buried at his battered headquarters