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Paris - Yasser Arafat's medical records don't show the cause of the Palestinian leader's death, his nephew said on Monday, but they appear to rule out poison. Toxicology tests conducted ruled out any known poisons, he said. The medical dossier, which consists of more than 500 pages, plus X-rays, offers no clear diagnosis for the death, al-Kidwa said. Arafat spent more than a week in France before he died. Houston - A private jet heading to Houston to pick up former U.S. president George H.W. Bush crashed in thick fog Monday, killing all three people aboard. The Gulfstream jet went down early Monday morning, 2.5 kilometres south of Houston's Hobby Airport, on its way from Dallas. It clipped a light pole, losing part of its wing. Minneapolis, Minn. - Five deer hunters died and three were injured on Sunday in an apparent shootout over who could occupy a hunting platform in a northwestern Wisconsin forest. The exact circumstances of the deadly incident that occurred during the annual hunts opening weekend in southwestern Sawyer County remained unclear Monday morning. Police said a single male suspect was arrested Sunday afternoon. Two hunters were returning to their rural cabin on private land, when they reportedly saw the suspect in one of their tree stands, County Chief Deputy Tim Zeigle said. A confrontation and shooting followed.
