GAZA (Reuters) – Hamas arrested three Palestinians who fired rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip on Thursday, a militant faction said, in the first such detentions since the Islamist group and Israel agreed a truce last month.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia suspects a diplomat at Britain’s embassy in Moscow is working as a spy, Interfax news agency quoted an unnamed source in Russia’s intelligence services as saying on Thursday.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Ministry of Defence has agreed to pay nearly three million pounds ($6 million) in compensation to a group of Iraqi civilians beaten and tortured by British troops in southern Iraq in 2003.