MOSCOW: Russian forensic experts studying the remains of YasserArafaton Thursday said the Palestinian leader died a natural death, ruling out radiation poisoning. "We have completed all the studies," said the head of Russia's Federal Medical-Biological Agency (FMBA) Vladimir Uiba. "The person died a natural death and not from radiation," Uiba was ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - A majority of Palestinians believe Israel poisoned their late leader Yasser Arafat, according to poll published Tuesday. The poll, released by Ramallah-based Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, showed 59 percent of respondents believe Israel fatally poisoned Arafat, while 21 percent "believe that a Palestinian ...

Acting Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas has called for an international investigation into the death of former leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasser Arafat. "We demand an international inquiry like the one France demanded for (the murder of Lebanon's former premier) Rafiq Hariri to discover who killed Yasser Arafat,...

The Israeli regime has denied any connection to the death of Yasser Arafat, the late leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization. "There is no Israeli connection to this in any way," Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman, Yigal Palmor, said on Wednesday. The remarks came after Swiss forensic scientists investigating Arafats death said in a report ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) A Swiss forensic report published on Wednesday revealed that tests on Arafats exhumed remains and possessions support the proposition that the death was the consequence of poisoning with polonium-210, a highly radioactive substance. Yasser Arafat's official medical records say he died in 2004 from a stroke resulting from a blood ...

A report by one of the worlds leading medical journals has supported earlier findings that Yasser Arafat, the late leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was poisoned to death nearly a decade ago. According to British journal the Lancet, Arafat was poisoned with the radioactive element polonium 210. The journal published a peer review ...