The Gaddafi Foundation says it has reached a compensation deal with the families of Libyan children infected with the Aids virus that would resolve the case of six foreign medics sentenced to death.   Salah Abdessalem, director of the foundation, on Tuesday said: "This accord satisfied all the parties and puts an end to this crisis." He said the deal was reached between the families and the special aid fund for victims set up by Tripoli and Sofia in 2005 under the aegis of the European Union.   Details would be announced in the coming hours, Abdessalem said. There was no immediate comment from representatives of the families.

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The announcement came hours before Libya's supreme court was due to deliver a verdict on Wednesday on an appeal by the five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of infecting the children.   Stalled negotiations   Snezhana Dimitrova, Nasya Nenova, Valya Cherveniashka, Valentina Siropulo and Kristiana Valcheva have been imprisoned along with doctor Ashraf Ahmed Juma since February 1999.  Negotiations had been stalled over financial compensation for the victims' families in an out-of-court settlement that could allow the medics to escape execution.