Arab doctors to probe Arafat death

Arab doctors will meet in Jordan to probe rumours that former Palestinian president Yasser Arafat was poisoned, nearly five years after he died of what French medics called a massive brain haemorrhage.

Mr Arafat’s death on November 11 2004 at a military hospital outside Paris almost immediately spawned speculation he had been killed by Israel, which viewed him as an obstacle to concluding a peace treaty.