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Arafat 'may have been poisoned'

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned to death in 2004 with radioactive polonium, his widow Suha said after receiving the results of Swiss forensic tests on her husband's corpse.

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Forensic team call for inquiry into Yasser Arafat's death

The Swiss investigators who detected enough polonium in the body of Yasser Arafat to kill him say there should be an inquiry into how the former Palestinian leader died.

Many Palestinians agree, but Israel has dismissed the idea as a conspiracy theory.

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