Arabs back global probe

Arab officials meeting in Doha have approved an international probe into Yasser Arafat's death, after a report said he may have been poisoned, senior Palestinian official Saeb Erakat said.
Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas "proposed forming an international investigative commission... on the martyrdom of (former) president Arafat" at a meeting of the Arab League's Peace Initiative Committee in Doha on Sunday night, he said.
The committee has approved the proposal.
Earlier this month an investigation by the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera news channel found elevated levels of the radioactive substance polonium on some of Arafat's belongings, reviving suspicions that the veteran leader may have been poisoned.