Italian police clashed with hundreds of campaigners for housing rights in the streets of the capital on Thursday, with officers firing tear gas as protesters tried to tip over a riot van.

Six people were lightly wounded during the clashes, including four policemen, and several protesters were hauled off by police in riot gear.

Zimbabwe's top court has rebuked state prosecutors for abusing the country's controversial insult laws by bringing frivolous cases against critics of veteran leader Robert Mugabe, rights lawyers said Thursday.

The Constitutional Court judge Luke Malaba "admonished" the prosecution authority against "prosecuting matters in which statements were uttered in drinking halls and other social places".

A priest at the head of an association helping survivors of immigrant shipwrecks in the Mediterranean on Thursday claimed mediators working with Italian police were in fact spies of the Eritrean regime.

Don Mussie Zerai, who runs the Habeshia organization, told journalists in Rome that some of the Eritrean translators and intermediaries working with Italian authorities to identify survivors of a deadly shipwreck in October were working for Eritrean President Issaias Afeworki's regime.

The International Criminal Court on Thursday postponed Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta's trial on charges of crimes against humanity trial by three month to February next year.

Kenyatta is accused of masterminding some of the 2007-8 post-election violence in Kenya that left over 1,000 people dead and several hundred thousand displaced.

Spanish secret services regularly share large amounts of intercepted data with their U.S. counterparts, including details of telephone calls, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

The report by leading Spanish daily El Pais supported allegations by U.S. spy chiefs and officials that European intelligence services collected information from telephone communications to hand to U.S. services.

The Colombian government and the leftist guerrilla group FARC said Thursday they were extending their latest round of peace negotiations, signaling progress on a key issue in the year-old talks.

The sides agreed to talk until Monday "with the objective of advancing the discussion and building an agreement on the second point of the agenda," FARC representative Marcos Calarca said.

Indonesia said Thursday it was summoning the Australian ambassador after a report that his embassy in Jakarta was being used for surveillance as part of a U.S.-led spying network.

Ambassador Greg Moriarty will face questions at the foreign ministry Friday over the "totally unacceptable" activities reported in the Sydney Morning Herald, the ministry said.

Four domestic Chinese flights were diverted on Thursday after bomb threats were received, state media reported, days after an attack rocked Tiananmen Square in the capital.

The official Xinhua news agency reported that an unidentified suspect had been arrested in connection with the false threats, which affected four flights to or from Changsha in the central province of Hunan.

Ethnic minority Kachin leaders in Myanmar's war-torn far north on Thursday hailed a government decision to allow them to form a political party as a step towards finding elusive peace.

The former junta barred several Kachin parties from taking part in controversial polls in 2010, denying the ethnic group any genuine representation in what was the country's first election in two decades.

U.S. security leaker Edward Snowden is set to start a new job at a major Russian website, three months after the fugitive was given asylum in Russia, his lawyer said Thursday.

"Edward Snowden will start working at a big Russian company on Friday, November 1. His job will be to support and develop a major Russian website," lawyer Anatoly Kucherena told Interfax news agency.