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Washington - U.S. President George W. Bush said he was sorry Thursday for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers, a day after he stopped short of offering an apology. Standing in the White House Rose Garden alongside Jordan's King Abdullah II, Bush said he told the King "I was sorry for the humiliation suffered by the Iraqi prisoners and the humiliation suffered by their families. I told him I was as equally sorry that people seeing those pictures didn't understand the true nature and heart of America," Bush said. Bush also told reporters Thursday he's sticking by Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld despite calls for him to resign over the Iraqi prisoner affair. Sofia, Bulgaria - A Libyan court Thursday sentenced five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor to death on charges they deliberately infected hundreds of children with HIV. The doctors and nurses had been working at the al-Fateh children's hospital in the northern Libyan town of Benghazi when they were arrested in February 1999. They pleaded innocent, arguing poor hygiene in Libyan medical clinics likely caused the infections. Kabul - UN officials are warning that a plan to disarm warring Afghan militias ahead of planned elections in September is in "serious jeopardy" Observers say the Afghan Defence Ministry has been slow to implement the plan.
