Britain, France, Germany and the United States on Wednesday asked a U.N. Security Council sanctions committee to investigate Iran's recent missile test, branding it a serious violation of U.N. resolutions.

U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power told the council that the medium-range ballistic missile launched on October 10 was capable of delivering a nuclear weapon.

The CIA accused WikiLeaks of "malicious intent" after the anti-secrecy campaign group published an initial tranche of documents Wednesday it said were from the personal email account of director John Brennan.

The Central Intelligence Agency said that so far there was no indication that any classified information was released, but the leak is nevertheless hugely embarrassing for America's spy chief and WikiLeaks said more files would be published "in the coming days."

The death toll from a ferocious typhoon in the Philippines climbed to 54 on Thursday, as home-wrecking floods shifted downstream to coastal villages, displacing tens of thousands of residents.

Inundations from torrential weekend rains in mountain regions caused by Typhoon Koppu cascaded into coastal fishing and farming villages, submerging them in waters up to three meters (10 feet) deep, officials said.

Police on the Pacific island of Nauru raided Save the Children's offices Thursday for the second time this month, reportedly seeking the source of leaks to Australian media about asylum-seekers.

"A second search warrant was executed by the Nauru Police Force this morning on a Save the Children office in Nauru, involving the seizure of some computers," a Save the Children Australia spokeswoman said.

The family of a U.S. citizen who was killed during a raid by Israeli troops in 2010 on a Gaza-bound  flotilla are suing former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, claiming unlawful death and torture.

Attorneys representing the Turkish family of Furkan Dogan told Agence France Presse that Barak was served papers in the civil case late Tuesday after giving a speech at an event near Los Angeles.

The United States offered Niger two military surveillance planes Wednesday as attacks by suspected Boko Haram extremists continued in the country's south-east region bordering Nigeria.

Two Niger soldiers were killed and several injured Wednesday in a foiled suicide attack by suspected Boko Haram fighters, Defense Minister Mahamadou Karidjo said.

Anti-secrecy campaign Wikileaks boasted Wednesday that it had obtained CIA director John Brennan's personal emails and was about to make them public.

The claim came shortly after it was reported that a teenaged hacker had broken into the U.S. spymaster's AOL account and had taken mails and personal data.

The number of U.S. recruits trying to join the Islamic State extremist group has declined, FBI Director James Comey told the U.S. Congress Wednesday.

But he said there could be multiple explanations for the drop-off, including new recruits leaving the United States undetected.

Sudan on Wednesday began releasing containers of rations destined for international peacekeepers serving in Darfur that had been blocked in a port terminal for weeks, U.N. officials said.

A first batch of 52 containers out of the 190 blocked at Port Sudan were released and the remainder were expected to be cleared for delivery, U.N. officials said.

The Sudanese government said Wednesday it had accepted an invitation from the African Union to attend peace talks with the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North in Addis Ababa next month.

The SPLM-N has been battling Khartoum's forces in the southern Blue Nile and South Kordofan states since 2011, and did not immediately say whether they would attend.