Bulgaria requests medics' return
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Bulgaria asks for six medics convicted of infecting Libyan children with HIV to be returned.
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Brussels - Belgian authorities on Sunday appealed to a Thai man who smuggled two bird flu-infected Asian eagles into Brussels airport to make contact, and urged passengers who took the same flights to seek medical help.
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Libya wants full diplomatic ties restored with the EU in exchange for freeing six jailed medics, diplomats say.
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Romania demanded the return to the country of a US Marine for questioning in the investigation of a suspected drunk driving accident that cost the life of a prominent Romanian rock musician.
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Thousands of people demonstrated across  Bulgaria on Friday to call for the release of five Bulgarian  nurses and a Palestinian doctor condemned to death for  infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV.
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Top news: 5 December 2004, Sunday. Libya is ready to discuss the possible repealing of the death sentences of the five Bulgarian nurses but only after Bulgaria offers financial compensations.
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Thousands of people demonstrated across Bulgaria on Friday to call for the release of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor condemned to death for infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV.
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"I am calling for calmness and a little bit more patience, Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev said. "We are taking and will be taking all steps to bring this whole case to an end as soon as possible and see our compatriots very soon on Bulgarian soil."  By Anna MudevaSOFIA  - Bulgaria and the European Union called on Libya on Wednesday to transfer six foreign medics to Sofia, after Tripoli lifted their death sentences for infecting hundreds of children with the HIV virus.The five Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor, who have spent more than eight years in jail, could be pardoned by the Balkan country's president if they are sent to Sofia under a 1984 prisoner exchange agreement with Libya.Following hectic diplomatic talks and payment of hundreds of millions of dollars to the families of 460 HIV victims, Tripoli commuted the death sentences against the six to life imprisonment late on Tuesday, paving the way for their release. Read more
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President Nicolas Sarkozy, his wife and EU officials pressed for the release of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to life in prison in Libya for allegedly infecting children with AIDS, the president's office said Monday.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria, June 11 -- President Bush pledged to help U.S. ally Bulgaria win the release of five Bulgarian nurses held in Libya since 1999 on charges of infecting Libyan children with the virus that causes AIDS.
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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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The European Union has asked Russia to explain the bloody end to the school siege, which resulted in a huge loss of life. In a statement in the name of the presidency of the 25-nation EU, Dutch Foreign Minister
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Politics: 12 September 2004, Sunday. Representatives of Bulgaria's ruling party have addressed business people in the country, extending a call for election support.
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Bulgaria in Brief: 8 November 2004, Monday. A Slovakian parliamentary delegation headed by Speaker Pavol Hrusovsky met in Sofia with his Bulgarian counterpart Ognyan Gerdzhikov.
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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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Politics: 18 November 2004, Thursday. Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov is to meet Thursday members of the Bulgarian community in Hungary within his official visit to the country.
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Politics: 22 October 2004, Friday. The outgoing European Commission President Romano Prodi has talked several times to the Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi about the fate of the five Bulgarian medics sentenced to ...