Arafat refuses to sign anti-corruption legislation
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Ramallah (AsiaNews/Agencies) - Yasser Arafat refused to sign anti-corruption legislation as demanded by Palestinian law-makers. In a long and tense speech to the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), the
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Palestinian Liberation Organization Chairman Mahmoud Abbas Monday denied reports he was named the Fatah candidate for the Jan. 9 presidential election.
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The man most Palestinians would like to see succeed late President Yasser Arafat may run in upcoming elections despite five life prison terms handed down by Israel for orchestrating murders, his lawyer says.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat continues to undergo medical tests in Paris as doctors try to diagnose the mysterious illness that recently befell him.
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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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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - The Palestinian parliament  suspended work Wednesday to press President Yasser Arafat into  ratifying an anti-corruption reform package and get a grip on  spiraling unrest and disorder.
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Yasser Arafat's nephew was in Paris on Sunday to collect the Palestinian leader's medical records, but he faced an objection from Arafat's widow, whose lawyers insisted she had sole legal rights to the file.
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Committee of Palestinian MPs cast doubt on Arafat&#39;s willingness to implement reform, crack down on corruption. By Majeda El-Batsh - RAMALLAH, West Bank.
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JERUSALEM, Oct 28  - Israel will not bar ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat from returning to the West Bank if he were to leave for medical treatment, senior government spokesman Raanan Gissin told AFP Thursday.
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Mahmoud Abbas, newly-named chief of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, denied the shootout in Arafat&#39;s mourning tent in Gaza on Sunday was aimed at him.
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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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BRUSSELS, Jan 11 (IPS) - When Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade  refused to sign a free trade accord put forward by the European  Union last month, he urged that an alternative "partnership  deprived of paternalism and without prejudice" be sought.
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas failed at  talks with militants on Wednesday to win a commitment to end  attacks on Israelis in the run-up to Jan. 9 elections for a  replacement to Yasser Arafat, political sources said.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat attends a PLO executive committee meeting at his headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah in this Sunday, Aug. 22, 2004 file photo.
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PARIS, November 7 (Itar-Tass) -- The condition of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat remains critical and without any changes, official representative of the medical service of the French army Gen.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President  Yasser Arafat, under pressure to enact anti-corruption reforms,  said on Wednesday that some officials had misused their posts  and urged efforts to correct "all the mistakes."
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Lawmakers angered by the  Palestinian leadership's failure to make reforms plan to force  a parliamentary no-confidence vote that could bring down the  government appointed by Yasser Arafat.