Rights group say men held at Iraqi prison were suspected Sunni Arab insurgents from Nineveh.BAGHDAD – Iraqi men were raped, electrocuted and beaten in a “secret prison” in Baghdad, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday, in a harrowing report reminiscent of the abuses that took place at Abu Ghraib.

NEW DELHI: A female diplomat working in the Indian embassy in Islamabad has been arrested for allegedly spying for Pakistan, officials said on Tuesday.

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) assassinated at dawn Monday a Palestinian resistance fighter affiliated with the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, called Ali Al-Suweiti during armed clashes with him in Beit Awa area, southwest of Al-Khalil city.

A suspected suicide bomber has blown himself up near the convoy of the British ambassador in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, police said.

DUBAI (AFP, Al Arabiya) The armed wing of the Islamist Hamas movement on Sunday broadcast a grim cartoon warning Israel over the fate of the captured soldier for whom it has demanded hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.

Arab nomads have accused former southern Sudanese rebels of killing at least 58 people and wounding 85 others during fighting in the western region of Darfur.

Palestinian protesters and Israeli security forces have clashed after Jewish settlers marched in the Arab neighbourhood of Silwan in East Jerusalem.

Al-Qaeda in Iraq has confirmed the deaths of two senior commanders, a week after US and Iraqi authorities announced they had been killed, according to an intelligence-monitoring agency.

At least 10 people have been killed by tornadoes in several southeastern US states. The state of Mississippi was worst hit, with the governor declaring a state of emergency in 17 counties.

Up to 60 people have been killed and many more wounded in a series of attacks in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, police say.