Prodi Pledges to Keep Pressure on Libya to Free Bulgarian Nurses
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The EU top executive pledged Friday to keep pressure on Libya to free five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor it has sentenced to death on charges of infecting hundreds of children with the AIDS virus.
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The Palestinian-born doctor held with five Bulgarian nurses in a Libyan prison for over eight years has filed a complaint against Libya with the UN Commission on Human Rights, his lawyer said Thursday.
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A top European Commission official and France's first lady have traveled to Libya to seek the release of six medics convicted of infecting Libyan children with HIV, the European Commission announced on Sunday.
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A European Union medical delegation is visiting Libya to assess the plight of some 400 children infected with HIV. In May, five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were sentenced to death for intentionally infecting them.
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TRIPOLI, Libya -- The death sentences for five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV have been commuted to life in prison, Libya's foreign minister said yesterday .
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Italy resumed repatriating illegal immigrants to Libya on Wednesday as Premier Silvio Berlusconi prepared to travel to the North African country for talks with leader Moammar Gadhafi.
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Top news: 23 December 2004, Thursday. The Qaddafi Foundation has vowed to assist for the improvement of living conditions for the five Bulgarian nurses staying in Libyan prison.
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TRIPOLI, Jan 30 (IPS) - "Please, do not leave us, we'll die  here!" Nasya Nenova, the youngest of the five Bulgarian  nurses sentenced to death by a firing squad in Libya on Dec. 19,  2006 shouted out through the bars of her locked cage.
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TRIPOLI, Libya -- A settlement has been reached to resolve the crisis over five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death in Libya for allegedly infecting more than 400 children with the AIDS virus, a foundation headed by the Libyan leader's son said yesterday .
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Libya's parliament vowed to seek compensations from Bulgaria for an AIDS outbreak at a children's hospital and urged execution of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of causing it, a report ...
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ROME -- Italy's president yesterday asked Romano Prodi to stay on as prime minister and face a confidence vote to test his majority in parliament.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says he is determined to keep up Italy&#39;s efforts in Iraq despite the execution of an Italian hostage.
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SIRTE, Libya  - A deal to resolve the case of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death for deliberately infecting Libyan children with HIV may be close, the children's families said on Friday.
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Libya has asked for normalized  relations with the European Union in talks over releasing six  foreign medics jailed for infecting hundreds of children with  HIV, an official source in Libya said on Monday.
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Premier Silvio Berlusconi called for a united front against terrorism and Pope John Paul II led prayers for their release, as Italians expressed outrage over the kidnapping of two female Italian aid workers in ...
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Libya has said it will discuss reversing the death penalty for five Bulgarian nurses convicted of infecting children with HIV if Bulgaria offers compensation.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria -- President Bush said yesterday that it was a high priority for the United States to win the release of five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya for infecting children with HIV.