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, 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 ...

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, 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 ...

Yasser Arafat was buried Friday in the West Bank headquarters where he had been held a virtual prisoner. Looking on were tens of thousands of emotional mourners who had swarmed a Jordanian military ...

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 ...

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 ...

CAIRO — A jet carrying the coffin of Yasser Arafat arrived in Cairo today, hours after the Palestinian leader died at a French hospital from an undisclosed ailment. Pallbearers walked along a red ...

Harried preparations for Arafat's grave also were being made in Ramallah, at the Palestinian headquarters where Arafat was a virtual prisoner in his final years. Early Friday, workers raked sand to ...

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 ...

Egypt will host a military funeral for Yasser Arafat in what will be the veteran Palestinian leader's last return to his native country before being buried in his Ramallah compound. Arafat, who died ...

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 ...