Word: libya
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...Number of employees that the government of Libya plans to lay off to trim the budget and gin up private enterprise...
Bulgaria's entry into the European Union on Jan. 1 should have been one of its finest moments. But for Foreign Minister and Deputy PM Ivailo Kalfin, that glory has been overshadowed by crisis. Two weeks earlier, five Bulgarian nurses were sentenced to death in Libya for deliberately infecting children with HIV, a charge widely believed to be groundless. Kalfin discussed Bulgaria's highs and lows with Time's Violeta Simeonova Stanicic in Sofia...
What do you think of the death sentences given to the five Bulgarian nurses in Libya? Bulgaria's opinion is that the court overlooked the evidence of international experts, including a letter from 114 Nobel prizewinners and an article in [science journal] Nature that said that the tragedy with the hiv epidemic in the children's hospital did not start with the arrival of the Bulgarian nurses but existed there before that. We are extremely disappointed. The court refused to allow the expertise, to hear the witnesses, offered by the defense...
Since Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi gave up his nuclear program, he has become a friend of the West. Should he be? After years of isolation, Libya is trying to warm up its relations with the international community. Giving up weapons of mass destruction was very important. There are significant interests connected with oil production in Libya and it has joined in the struggle to restrict illegal migration from Africa to Europe. These are real interests to the U.S. and Europe. But for Libya to fit in completely in the framework of normal international relations - which we would also like...
...them freed seems a little bit like a Hollywood movie. What we have in mind is to go through the judicial procedure. Solidarity and attention from the media, the public, ngos and scientists around the world is also extremely important. From now on, it is up to Libya to show how persuasive it can be to its international partners...