Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat

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  Israel Behind Yasser Arafat 'Assassination': Palestinian Inquiry

  The head of the Palestinian team looking into the death of Yasser Arafat on Tuesday again accused Israel of assassinating the iconic Palestinian leader in a Paris hospital.

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  What if Israel's Assassinated PM Yitzhak Rabin Had Lived?

  Would Israelis and Palestinians now be living in peace with one another if a Jewish extremist had not assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin 20 years ago?

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  France Closes Yasser Arafat Death Probe Without Charges: Prosecutor

  French judges investigating claims that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was murdered have closed the case without bringing any charges, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

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  French Judges End Enquiry into Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's 2004 Death

  French judges re-examining the evidence surrounding the 2004 death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat have concluded their investigations, the prosecutors office in the Paris suburb of Nanterre said Tuesday.

• From Jail, Palestinian Leader Urges 'Armed Resistance'

  Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghuti urged the Palestinian leadership to give its backing to "armed resistance" against Israel in a letter published on Tuesday as a wave of violence surged.

• Israeli Killings Hike Tensions Ahead of Yasser Arafat Anniversary

  The fatal stabbing of two young Israelis further heightened tensions as Palestinians were set today to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of iconic leader Yasser Arafat.

• Iconic Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat's Death: Natural Causes or Poisoning?

  Did he die naturally or was he poisoned by polonium? A look at 10 years of research since the mysterious death of Yasser Arafat, the Palestinians' iconic national leader.

• Russia says Yasser Arafat died of natural causes

  Former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died of natural causes, not radiation poisoning, the head of a Russian state forensics agency that tested samples taken from his body said on Thursday, according to the Interfax news agency.

• Yasser Arafat's widow to challenge French forensic probe

  The widow of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat pledged Friday to challenge a French inquiry which found his death to have been from natural causes, rather than poison as Palestinians suspect.

• Yasser Arafat did not die of poisoning, French tests conclude

  Yasser Arafat was not the victim of poisoning, French forensic scientists concluded on Tuesday, countering a Swiss report on the 2004 death of the Palestinian leader that found he was probably killed with radioactive polonium.

• Yasser Arafat ingested deadly polonium: Swiss lab

  Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat ingested lethal radioactive polonium before his death nine years ago, and it could not have been by accident, Swiss scientists said on Thursday.

• Israel says did not poison Yasser Arafat

  Israel said on Thursday it did not poison Yasser Arafat, making the denial after the Palestinian leader's widow said Swiss forensic tests had proven he died from radioactive polonium poisoning in 2004.

• Tests point to polonium poisoning in Yasser Arafat death: report

  Swiss scientists have concluded Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is likely to have died from polonium poisoning

• Yasser Arafat was poisoned with polonium, say experts

  Swiss radiation experts have confirmed they found traces of polonium on clothing used by Yasser Arafat which "support the possibility" the veteran Palestinian leader was poisoned.

• 60 samples taken in Yasser Arafat poison probe: Reports

  Around 60 samples were taken from the remains of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for a probe into whether he was poisoned by polonium, a Swiss newspaper reported on Sunday, quoting a lead investigator.