Report by Francesca Albanese says 'torture in detention used on unprecedented scale as punitive collective vengeance'.
Trump says he is not looking for a ceasefire with Iran as mixed messages from US president come amid an escalating war.
Japan sources 90 percent of its crude from Middle East and is heavily dependent on exports transiting the key waterway.
Follow our live build-up, with team news, before our text commentary stream of the Women's Asian Cup final.
An aid flotilla from Mexico is sailing for Cuba as the country suffers under a tightening US fuel blockade.
Millions of people have rung in the ancient Persian New Year, Nowruz, as war grips the Middle East.
Al Jazeera’s Nicolas Haque recorded his journey on the long road from Amman to Baghdad.
Faced with reports that two US prosecutors have opened probes, the left-wing leader denies links to drug traffickers.