Yasser Arafat Poisoning

• 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.

• Old assumptions questioned in Yasser Arafat's mysterious death

  President Yasser Arafat's spartan bedroom remains largely as he left it in 2004, when he flew off to France for treatment for a mystery illness only to return home two weeks later in a coffin.

• 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.

• Experts to exhume Yasser Arafat, seek evidence of poison

  The body of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be exhumed on Tuesday by a team of international experts trying to discover if he was poisoned, as many Palestinians believe.

• Swiss lab to analyse Arafat remains for poisoning: Hospital

  A Swiss radiology lab said on Friday that it will test the remains of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for polonium poisoning after receiving the go-ahead from his widow.

• New Arafat medical file released in death probe

  Former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died after consuming an unknown poison, a Jordanian doctor claimed on Thursday. Arafat's medical reports suggest that he was poisoned by a toxic substance, but it was not examined at that time, Xinhua quoted Abdullah al-Basheer as saying.

• Yasser Arafat's widow wants French probe into his death

  The widow of Yasser Arafat is planning to file a legal complaint in France asking authorities to investigate the death of her husband. Palestinian authorities gave final approval on Monday for the former Palestinian leader's body to be exhumed and asked for an international investigation into his 2004 death in a French military hospital.

• Palestinians agree to exhume Yasser Arafat's body over poison claim

  The Palestinian Authority agreed on Wednesday to the exhumation of Yasser Arafat's body after new allegations that he was poisoned with the radioactive element polonium-210 in 2004.