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(AP) PARIS – The widow of Yasser Arafat will file a legal complaint in France asking authorities to investigate her husband’s death, about which she has recently raised new suspicions, her lawyer said Tuesday. Palestinian authorities gave final approval this week for the former Palestinian leader’s body to be exhumed and asked for an international investigation into his 2004 death in a French military hospital. Palestinians may exhume Yasser Arafat’s body for tests That came on the heels of a broadcast last week by Arab satellite TV channel Al-Jazeera, which said it had conducted a nine-month investigation into the leader’s death after his widow, Suha, handed over Arafat’s medical file and what she said was a duffel bag of his belongings. Included in the bag were a fur hat and a woolen cap with some of his hair, a toothbrush, and clothing with his urine and blood stains. Switzerland’s Institute of Radiation Physics detected elevated traces of polonium-210 — a rare and highly lethal substance — on the belongings, but said the findings were inconclusive and that Arafat’s bones would have to be tested to get a clearer answer. That prompted a request to have his remains exhumed; Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gave final approval for that Monday. Arafat exhumation, autopsy OK’d by Palestinian President Abbas If Suha Arafat’s complaint is accepted, it will give French authorities the ability...

(AP) JERUSALEM – Israeli leaders have discussed with visiting American envoys how to manage a Syrian government collapse, an Israeli official said Monday, as Syria made an unprecedented admission of possessing weapons of mass destruction. The reference to the chemical and biological weapons came in a threat to use them in case of a foreign attack. The open admission underlined Israel’s concerns about the rapidly deteriorating regime of President Bashar Assad. Israel and the U.S. are concerned that Syria’s stockpile of chemical weapons could fall into the hands of Islamist militants should the regime in Damascus crumble. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Sunday that his country would “have to act” if necessary to safeguard this arsenal from rogue poachers. Syria: Chemical, biological weapons could be used if there is “external aggression”Jordan aims to ward off Syrian chemical attackWikiLeaks: Western firms boosted Syrian communications network More in After the Arab Spring Syria is believed to have nerve agents as well as mustard gas, Scud missiles capable of delivering these lethal chemicals and a variety of advanced conventional arms, including anti-tank rockets and late-model portable anti-aircraft missiles. Asked if Israel and the U.S. had discussed managing a Syrian collapse, the Israeli government official said on Monday, “You can presume that these sorts of issues came up with American officials when they visited recently in Israel.” He gave no details and...

Updated 8:43 PM ET (CBS/AP) CAIRO – The Egyptian Bedouin who abducted two Boston natives and their guide on Friday vowed he would take more hostages of different nationalities if police do not release his uncle from prison. Speaking to The Associated Press by telephone, Jirmy Abu-Masuh of the Tarbeen tribe in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, said the captives would remain safe, but that more would be abducted if his uncle is not released. “If my uncle gets 50 years (in prison), they will stay with me for 50 years. If they release him, I will release them,” he said of the captives. “Tomorrow I will kidnap other nationalities and their embassies will be notified for the whole world to know.” Abu-Masuh, a 32-year-old truck driver, said the American man, 61, and woman, 39, were treated as “guests” and given tea, 함양출장업소 coffee and a traditional lamb dinner reserved for special occasions in Bedouin culture. He said that the man is a pastor from Massachusetts and that he had been allowed to call his wife. Lissa...