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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

French prosecutors have launched a formal murder investigation into the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in 2004, AFP news agency reported Tuesday. AFP reported that the prosecutor’s office ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...