Former Palestinian Authority head Yasser Arafat may have died of radioactive poisoning, Al Jazeera is reporting. Reuters said Palestinian leaders had agreed to allow his body to be exhumed to perform ...

An Al-Jazeera documentary suggesting that former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was killed by radioactive polonium was enough for French authorities to open a murder investigation after the late ...

Days after an Al Jazeera investigation found traces of radioactive polonium in the belongings of former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, this conspiracy theory has jumped into legitimate, ...

Tests reveal that Arafat’s final personal belongings – his clothes, his toothbrush, even his iconic kaffiyeh – contained abnormal levels of polonium, a rare, highly radioactive element. Those personal ...

Suha Arafat, the widow of Palestinian Authority head Yasser Arafat, will file a legal complaint regarding her husband’s unexplained death. Suha Arafat will file the suit in a French court; she lives ...

Among the few authorized uses of polonium 210 is an industrial application: removing static. A tiny amount of the radioactive compound is seated in a device attached to steel machinery spinning ...

Yasser Arafat lived in ambiguity and died under circumstances shrouded in mystery and rumor. Should it come as any great surprise that the outcome of a scientific inquiry into the cause of his demise ...

Scientists in Switzerland who performed the first forensic tests on the remains of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat found found higher-than-normal levels of polonium-210, deepening suspicions he ...

Nothing in the appearance of the four-story building with a Hyundai dealership downstairs suggests that it is particularly special in the commercial section of Lausanne, Switzerland. But on its secure ...

He may have been dead for close on eight years, but former PLO leader Yasser Arafat can’t be said to be resting in peace. After months of renewed speculation over the circumstances of his passing, ...

The remains of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat were exhumed and quickly reburied today as scientists removed samples from his body in the hopes of learning whether or not he might have been ...