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Libya slams Bulgaria over release of Aids medics

Libya on Saturday denounced a decision by Bulgaria’s president to pardon six medics from life jail terms in an Aids case as a ”betrayal” and illegal. ”The detainees should have…

Libyan death-row medics not guilty of slander

A Libyan court acquitted five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian medic on Sunday of charges of slandering police officers by protesting that their confessions had been extracted…

Gadaffi blames Arabs for coma rumours

Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi joked with journalists and bounded up a flight of stairs to dispel rumours about his health after a report he was in a coma suffering a blood clot…

Benghazi Six await fate ‘with anguish’

Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of spreading HIV/Aids among children in a Libyan hospital will on Tuesday know whether they will finally be freed or face a…

Prosecution witnesses heard in Libya Aids trial

The Tripoli criminal court heard testimony from prosecution witnesses on Tuesday as the re-trial of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of infecting Libyan…

Judge calls for speedy trial of ‘Aids’ nurses

The retrial of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of contaminating hundreds of Libyan children with Aids reopened on Tuesday with the judge calling for the…

Nurses in Libya Aids case face retrial

The retrial is due to start on Thursday in Tripoli of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who have been held in jail since 1999 on charges of infecting Libyan children…

Libya hosts Western stars to remember US raid

Basking in its two-year-old rapprochement with the West, Libya boasts that this year its commemorations of Washington’s deadly 1986 air strikes on its main cities will be joined…