Leaks from Edward Snowden have helped America's adversaries and represent the most serious breach of classified information in U.S. history, the CIA's former number-two ranking official said in an interview Friday.

Michael Morrell, who served as deputy director and acting director of the CIA, told CBS television's "60 Minutes" program that the former intelligence contractor's disclosures have damaged efforts to track possible terror threats.

Germany and Brazil are working on a U.N. General Assembly resolution to highlight international anger at U.S. data snooping in other countries, diplomats said Friday.

The resolution would not mention the United States but would call for extending the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to Internet activities.

Pakistan on Friday renewed demands for an end to U.S. drone strikes on its territory as two U.N. experts called for greater transparency in the use of the weapons.

"In Pakistan, all drone strikes are a chilling reminder that reprisal strikes by terrorists are around the corner," Pakistan's U.N. ambassador Masood Khan told a U.N. General Assembly rights committee debate.

Ten South Sudanese soldiers were imprisoned for human rights abuses perpetrated during a 2012 campaign to disarm fighters from warring communities, an army spokesman said Friday.

The soldiers were tried before a military court and will be "imprisoned from two to four years" for their role in abuses committed in the troubled eastern state of Jonglei, said spokesman Philip Aguer, without specifying exact charges.

Lawyers for the five accused 9/11 plotters urged President Barack Obama Friday to declassify a detention and interrogation program used in secret CIA prisons where their clients were allegedly tortured.

Navy commander Walter Ruiz, who represents Saudi suspect Mustapha al-Hawsawi, asks in the joint letter with other defense attorneys for access to details, invoking international law.

Britain said Friday it would complain to Spain about a Spanish research boat that it said unlawfully entered disputed waters off Gibraltar, reviving a simmering diplomatic dispute.

Britain's foreign ministry said the oceanographic survey vessel accompanied by Spanish police boats made unlawful incursions on Wednesday and Friday into waters off the British overseas territory on the southern tip of Spain.

Kenya's president has asked for his crimes against humanity trial to be postponed, citing the "national and international crisis" triggered by a deadly attack on a Nairobi shopping centre, his lawyers said Friday.

Uhuru Kenyatta is due to go on trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) next month on charges of masterminding some of the 2007-8 post-election violence in Kenya that left over 1,000 people dead and several hundred thousand displaced.

A 30-centimeter (12-inch) tsunami hit Japan Friday after a powerful and shallow undersea quake, broadcaster NHK said, although there were no immediate signs of serious damage or injury.

People were being warned to stay away from the coast with the small wave rolling ashore in Ishinomaki around an hour after the 7.1 magnitude quake.

Mexico's Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Meade has met with the U.S. ambassador after summoning him for the second time in less than two months over claims Washington spied on Mexican leaders.

A foreign ministry official said Meade held talks with Ambassador Earl Anthony Wayne on Thursday over a German magazine's report that the National Security Agency hacked the emails of former president Felipe Calderon while in office.

Ecuador threatened Friday to sue Britain in international venues over the status of Julian Assange if it rejects a proposal to submit the matter to a bilateral commission.

The WikiLeaks founder took refuge in Ecuador's London embassy in August 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning in two sexual assault cases.