AFP - The retrial of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor held in jail since 1999 on charges of infecting Libyan children with AIDS, has opened but was adjourned for a month after the briefest of hearings.

AFP - The retrial opened of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor held in jail since 1999 on charges of infecting Libyan children with AIDS, an AFP correspondent reported.

AP - Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian made a surprise visit to Libya, an official said Thursday, after he turned down an offer to make a refueling stop in Alaska in an apparent sign of diplomatic pique.

AFP - US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) appealed for the release of a prominent political prisoner in Libya who it said faces a possible death sentence for slandering Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi.

Reuters - With a new production about Libya's colourful leader Muammar Gaddafi, the English National Opera boldly goes where no opera house has gone before.

AP - A senior Pakistani scientist suspected of helping peddle nuclear weapons technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea has been released after two years in detention, the army said Sunday.

Six people are dead after a cargo plane crashed in Cameroon after failing to land at the airport in Ndjamena, capital of neighboring Chad. The Ukrainian aircraft was chartered by Libya to fly food and medical aid to Chad. It...

AFP - The retrial of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, sentenced to death in Libya for having inoculated children with the virus that causes AIDS, will start on May 11, it was announced in Sofia.

AFP - Libya marked the 20th anniversary of a deadly US air attack with a middle-of-the-night public concert featuring 1980s US soul-pop crooner Lionel Richie and Spanish tenor Jose Carreras.

Reuters - Libya on Saturday marked the 20th anniversary of a U.S. bombing raid that killed an estimated 40 people by renewing a demand that Washington apologize and pay compensation.

Reuters - With Muammar Gaddafi's home as a backdrop, U.S. singer Lionel Ritchie jived and rocked for an adoring Libyan audience on Saturday in a concert to mark the 20th anniversary of a U.S. raid on the North African country.

AFP - A senior Libyan official damned the United States and said President George W. Bush was insane, as Libya marked the 20th anniversary of deadly US air raids on the country's two biggest cities.

Reuters - The Pentagon sent experts to study Libya's chemical weapons and determined it would cost $100 million to destroy them, but the United States still must decide whether or how much to help, a senior Pentagon official said on Thursday.

Reuters - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi pledged support for Palestinian militant group Hamas, which faces cuts in Western funding over its refusal to denounce violence against Israel, state news agency Jana said on Friday.

Reuters - The United States is keeping Libya on its list of state sponsors of terrorism, even though the North African country has become a good partner on security matters, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday.

Reuters - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi lectured a U.S. audience on democracy on Thursday and said Libya is the only real democracy in the world.

AFP - Libya is to return properties confiscated in the mid-1970s and pay compensation to their former owners, under a cabinet decree, a Kadhafi Foundation official told AFP.

Julie Farby - AHN Staff Writer Rome, Italy (AHN)—Libyan leader Moammar Kadhafi says ousted leader Saddam Hussein should still be considered Iraq's legal president and the current government illegitimate as it was elected under an occupation regime. According to the AFP report, Kadhafi...

AP - Ex-Israeli fighter pilot Gil Fogiel rarely talked about being a prisoner of war in Syria until he sat across a campfire in the middle of the desert with people he long considered his worst enemies — Iraqis, Iranians and Palestinians.

AP - Ex-Israeli fighter pilot Gil Fogiel rarely talked about being a prisoner of war in Syria until he sat across a campfire in the middle of the desert with people he long considered his worst enemies — Iraqis, Iranians and Palestinians.