Late on Monday night, a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reportedly declared 2025 “the year of the establishment of an independent Palestinian state”. The comment by Deputy ...

French judges investigating claims that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was murdered have closed ... that were given to his widow after his death, and found "abnormal levels of polonium." ...

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A defiant Yasser Arafat emerged from his shattered headquarters today at the end of a month-long Israeli siege, flashing a V-for-victory sign to cheering supporters. The Palestinian president ...

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Washington's Middle East envoy met Yasser Arafat on Friday under the guns of ... Bush pressed Israel to end its fierce, one week-old campaign. The death toll mounted, with 10 Palestinians killed ...

He succeeded the late Yasser Arafat. In 2007, the world changed when ... In 2020, the earliest known U.S. death linked to the novel coronavirus took place in Kansas. The case wasn't identified ...

Earleen Fisher, an editor and writer whose career across five decades with The Associated Press gave her a front-row seat to ...

The death threats, as well as heated rhetoric ... a peace accord with the Palestine Liberation Organization led by Yasser Arafat. “The fact that because of a democratic process, public officials ...