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A team of investigations from the United Nations have arrived in Tripoli, Libya to investigate allegations of human rights abuses in the strife-torn country since the civil war erupted over two months ago, according to reports.

Habib el-Adly, the former interior minister in the regime of Hosni Mubarak, is currently undergoing trial on charges he ordered state security forces to shoot unarmed protesters during the uprising a few months ago.

Wael Ghonim, the Google executive’s whose voice helped launch a revolution, has announced he is moving on from the tech giant.

Hosni Mubarak, the deposed president of Egypt, will soon be transferred to a military hospital in Cairo from a facility in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, after a doctor determined he was well enough to be moved.

Human rights groups have demanded that the government of Bahrain put a stop to committing human rights violations against protestors and halt the practice of detaining patients and doctors suspected of either having participating in protests or being sympathetic with them.

Protests in Syria against the autocratic rule of the Assad regime took a grave turn on Friday as security forces killed over 75 people to control the mass uprising.

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An Egyptian court has decreed that the names of deposed President Hosni Mubarak and his wife Suzanne should be removed from all public places.

A prominent former official of the Syrian government said he thinks that President Bashar al-Assad will eventually be overthrown as a result of the regime’s brutal crackdown on demonstrators.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said he had no plans to crack down on the Internet ahead of 2012 elections, seeking to play down concerns over recent hacker attacks on a blogging website.

A court in Tunisia has dropped charges against a policewoman whose dispute with a fruit vendor inadvertently sparked a crisis that ultimately led to the downfall of the nation’s dictator and spread the seed of revolution across the Arab world.

The United Arab Emirates reportedly plans to stop individuals and small businesses from using certain BlackBerry messaging services, but the government says that no customers will be affected.

Following are highlights of comments by financial leaders attending the International Monetary Fund and World Bank spring meetings on Saturday.

Russia is looking to the experience of other countries, including China, to regulate Internet use, though Moscow has no plans to broaden web censorship, a government spokesman said on Saturday.

An Egyptian supreme administrative court has dissolved the former ruling organization of deposed president Hosni Mubarak.

The defense minister of France has indicated that in order to remove Moammar Gaddafi from power in Egypt, a new resolution would have to be drafted by the UN Security Council.

Hosni Mubarak, the former president of Egypt, could face execution if he is convicted of charges that he ordered his security forces to kill anti-government protesters during the unrest earlier this year that eventually toppled his regime.

In Tunisia and Egypt, Facebook vied with Down with the regime on graffiti-filled walls -- so central were social media to mobilizing mass protests that overthrew their authoritarian rulers.

The international “contact group” that is meeting in Qatar to discuss the crisis in Libya has agreed to establish a temporary “trust fund” that will be used to move financial assistance to rebel groups seeking to topple Moammar Gaddafi.

A cell phone network called Free Libyana, brain child of a Libyan-American telecom executive Ousama Abushagur, is allowing rebels to communicate using a hijacked portion of the Libyana network.

Egypt’s former president Hosni Mubarak is in intensive care in a hospital after reportedly suffering a heart attack, according to state-run media.