CAIRO, Egypt – Egypt made frantic preparations Thursday for Yasser Arafat's funeral service, planning a high-security ceremony at a military club in a northern Cairo suburb, where the Palestinian ...

Yasser Arafat was born in Cairo but the choice of this city as the venue for his funeral has more to do with politics than personal roots: Arab leaders would be loathe to travel to the Palestinian ...

The funeral of Yasser Arafat is underway. A private state funeral was held in Cairo as kings, presidents and heads of state paid their respects to the lifelong Palestinian leader. A helicopter then ...

CAIRO, Egypt – Yasser Arafat's (search) body arrived in a casket in Cairo, Egypt, late Thursday, where a funeral service attended by foreign dignitaries will be held for him Friday morning. Arafat's ...

CAIRO, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Egyptians were unhappy for being banned from paying their last respects to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who was given a state military funeral service in Cairo Friday ...

A delegation of Gush Shalom, took part in Yasser Arafat’s funeral at the Mukata’a in Ramallah. The delegation passed the well-organized Israeli army checkpoint in Beitunia and was conveyed from there ...

CAIRO, Egypt — Intense emotions of both sorrow and defiance were likely to continue across the Middle East today, the day Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is to be honored by international dignitaries ...

Foreign dignitaries from across the globe have gathered in the Egyptian capital for the funeral of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Brief prayers led by Egypt's top Muslim cleric, Grand Sheikh of ...

Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat's death will not only affect the Palestinian nationalist movement internally, but it will also have an impact on the authority's relationship with other ...

JERUSALEM – Israeli officials are planning a funeral – Yasser Arafat’s. The Jewish state has decided to deny the Palestinian leader burial at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, a site holy to both Jews and ...

Arafat, whose life in many ways embodied the decades-long struggle between Israelis and Palestinians and the aspiration for an independent state, died around 3:30 am Paris time of complications from ...

JERUSALEM – Israeli officials are planning a funeral – Yasser Arafat’s. The Jewish state has decided to deny the Palestinian leader burial at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, a site holy to both Jews and ...