Yasser Arafat's brother has died of cancer in Egypt, a relative said yesterday, less than three weeks after the Palestinian president died of a mysterious illness.

Fathi Arafat, the 73-year-old head of the Palestine Red Crescent Society, succumbed after fighting stomach cancer for months in Cairo, his brother-in-law Jareer al-Qidwa said.

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