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A Libyan court announced Tuesday that nine police officers and one doctor have been acquitted of torturing five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, who were allegedly forced to confess to deliberately infecting Libyan children with HIV. The six...

The Libyan Supreme Court has postponed until November 15 a ruling on the death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who were convicted in May 2004 of purposely infecting 400 children with the virus that...

Leading Friday's international brief, a high-level source in the cabinet of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has told news agencies in Zimbabwe that the administration has decided to push forward legislation that would nationalize all private...

A federal judge Tuesday threatened to take over the California prison health care system , citing "terrible" medical care that prisoners receive. Judge Thelton E. Henderson cited complaints about bad doctors, wretched facilities, and irresponsible management of HIV...

Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor have appealed death sentences they received in Libya for infecting hundreds of children with HIV. The appeals court hearing the case said it would rule on May 31. The...

The Russian Duma , the lower house of parliament, approved a bill Wednesday which allows the government to ban foreign visitors who show "disrespect" to the country. Anyone found by a court to have offended Russia's...

The French Council of State, France's highest civil court, has banned the broadcast of Lebanese satellite channel Al-Manar due to the Hezbollah-linked station's airing of militant and anti-Semitic statements. French broadcast regulator CSA granted Al-Manar a license in November...

Seif el-Islam Gaddafi, son of Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, has said that the Libyan government will not execute the five Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor who were found guilty by a Libyan court in May of knowingly...

A Milan prosecutor made her closing argument Friday in the corruption case against Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Prosecutor Ilda Boccassini summed up the evidence against Berlusconi, saying that there was more than enough to convict him of accepting...