Rice gets medal for helping to free HIV medics
                   
reuters.com     Jul 9, 2008            

SOFIA (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday received Bulgaria's top honor for helping to free Bulgarian nurses from a Libyan jail. The five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, who had been sentenced to death on accusations of deliberately infecting 460 Libyan children with HIV, were freed a year ago after the European Union brokered a cooperation deal with Tripoli. The United States had made the release of the six, who spent more than eight years in jail, a priority and Rice said she had repeatedly raised the issue with Libyan officials. "I am glad that they are home safe," Rice said after Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov presented her with the "Stara Planina" medal. "It was indeed a terrible ordeal, one that I am very glad has ended". The medal, created during the communist era, was once... [read full story]                    


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