Yasser Arafat’s medical file showed his body contained no traces of poison, but it still can’t be ruled out, a senior Palestinian official said. “There is no clear diagnosis of the reason for the death and the toxicological tests were made and no known poison was found,” Arafat’s relative, Nasser Al-Kidwa, told reporters in Paris on Monday.
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