WASHINGTON  - WikiLeaks on Monday launched a searchable archive containing 1.7 million US State Department documents from 1973-76 that had been officially declassified but were not easily accessible to the public.The "Public Library of US Diplomacy" brings together the archived memos - ...

NEW DELHI  - According to latest WikiLeaks revelations, the late Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi may have worked as a middleman for Swedish company, Saab-Scania, which had tried to sell its Viggen fighter aircraft to India in the 1970s. However, Saab-Scania eventually could not seal the ...

SYDNEY (AFP) - Whistleblowing group WikiLeaks unveiled plans Saturday to field candidates in at least three states in Australia’s elections and said it would be “embarrassing” if Julian Assange won but could not take his seat. Assange, Australian-born founder of the controversial ...

FORT MEADE - The trial date for a US Army private accused of passing a trove of secret documents to WikiLeaks has been pushed back from Feb to March next year, a military judge said. The court-martial of Bradley Manning, 24, charged with the most serious security breach in US history, previously ...

LONDON  - Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks website on Thursday started publishing more than 100 US Department of Defence documents including the first prisoner treatment manual for Guantanamo Bay.The latest release by the anti-secrecy site comes as Assange, who faces charges of rape and sexual ...

LONDON - WikiLeaks on Thursday began publishing more than two million emails from Syrian political figures which could shed light on a crackdown that has killed thousands.The whistleblowing website said the first emails from Syrian political figures, ministries and companies were from August 2006 ...

SYDNEY - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is planning to run for election to the Australian Senate, the organisation announced Saturday on Twitter.Assange, an Australian citizen, is on bail awaiting a British court decision on his appeal against extradition to Sweden on sexual assault ...

WikiLeaks on Monday started to release more than 5 million emails written by or to the U.S. intelligence company Stratfor, the whistleblower organisation said.The emails were written between July 2004 and late December, and “show Stratfor’s web of informers, pay-off structure, ...

WASHINGTON - A US military judge has recommended that Bradley Manning, a low-ranking intelligence analyst, face a general court-martial for allegedly disclosing hundreds of thousands of classified military and diplomatic files and reports to WikiLeaks, the Army announced Friday.  Manning, 24, ...

WASHINGTON - A US military judge has recommended that Bradley Manning, a low-ranking intelligence analyst, face a general court-martial for allegedly disclosing hundreds of thousands of classified military and diplomatic files and reports to WikiLeaks, the Army announced Friday. Manning, 24, is ...

WikiLeaks has been recognised in Australia for its "outstanding contribution to journalism", with founder Julian Assange lashing out at "cowardly" Prime Minister Julia Gillard in an acceptance speech. The anti-secrecy website was lauded at the annual Walkley Awards, where winners are chosen by an ...

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange joined protest against corporate greed and budget cutbacks. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange joined about 800 people at a heavily policed rally in London s financial heart Saturday as part of world protests against corporate greed and budget cutbacks. The ...

The latest WikiLeaks cables have revealed that Benazir Bhutto and Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain meeting in a marriage ceremony in Dubai was not perchance. According to a cable which the US ambassador sent on December 29, Chaudhry Shujaat knew that Benazir Bhutto would attend the marriage ceremony of ...

A secret cable of 2006 has revealed some serious problems within the local community being instigated by Mukhtaran Mai's family in her home district of Mianwali. The cable was written by US Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker and sent to Washington on 07-12-2006. The cable by the US ambassador refers to a ...

While the US cleared billions of dollars worth arms sales to Pakistan for the fight against terror, including advanced F 16 fighters, it refused the sale of a crucial advanced missile technology due to concerns that it could be used to target India. A request by Islamabad to procure an advanced ...

The United States feared that consignments were meant for Pakistans nuclear programme. The United States had persuaded Turkey and France in 2008 to stop ships navigating in their respective territorial waters with consignments for Pakistan, claims WikiLeaks. The Turkish government had demanded ...

WikiLeaks released the US diplomatic cables about the pre and post 2008 general elections scenario. A week before the 2008 elections, Asif Ali Zardari was asking General Pervez Musharrafs National Security Adviser Tariq Aziz for advice on who should be prime minister if the PPP were asked to form ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) The Wall Street Journal launched a WikiLeaks rival called SafeHouse on Thursday, calling for online submissions to help uncover fraud and abuse in business and politics. If you have newsworthy contracts, correspondence, emails, financial records or databases from companies, ...

The US State Department has secretly financed Syrian political opposition groups and related projects, including a satellite TV channel that beams anti-government programming into the country, according to previously undisclosed diplomatic cables, a report in the Washington Post said on Monday. The ...

Exactly one year ago this week, Julian Assange and a crew of WikiLeaks volunteers - including Birgitta Jonsdottir, who has since become a critic - assembled in Reykjavik, Iceland, to edit and add subtitles to a video of a 2007 incident in Baghdad that Assange himself would title, 'Collateral ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Egypt's new vice president, Omar Suleiman, has long sought to demonise the opposition Muslim Brotherhood in his contacts with sceptical US officials, leaked diplomatic cables show, raising questions whether he can act as an honest broker in the country's political crisis. US ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - A former Swiss private banker who was one of the first whistleblowers to use WikiLeaks by publishing internal bank documents on the site has pledged to hand over new data on offshore bank account holders on Monday, a newspaper said. Rudolf Elmer, who was fired from Julius Baer in ...

The offshore bank account details of 2,000 "high net worth individuals" and corporations detailing massive potential tax evasion will be handed over to the WikiLeaks organisation in London tomorrow by the most important and boldest whistleblower in Swiss banking history, Rudolf Elmer, two days ...

The US government has subpoenaed the social networking site Twitter for personal details of people connected to Wikileaks, court documents show. The US District Court in Virginia said it wanted information including user names, addresses, connection records, telephone numbers and payment details. ...

NEW YORK - Bank of America has been making preparations to weather a potential storm ever since WikiLeaks Director Julian Assange claimed the whistle-blower website would take aim at a major American bank, The New York Times reported Monday. A team of 15 to 20 people were working on an internal ...

The founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has signed $1.5 million contracts with publishers to pen his autobiography, the Sunday Times said. Assange, whose WikiLeaks website has provoked U.S. rage by releasing diplomatic documents, said the money will help him to defend ...

PORT LOUIS (Agencies) - The prime minister of Mauritius has accused Britain of pursuing a policy of deceit over the Chagos islands, its Indian Ocean colony from where islanders were evicted to make way for a US military base. He spoke to the Guardian as his government launched the first step in a ...

The United States may have emerged as a key partner in counter-terror efforts post-26/11, but it has a very dim view of the capabilities of Indian security forces. It also felt till just a couple of years ago that India was reluctant to have an effective anti-terror partnership because of ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Bank of America on Saturday halted all transactions for WikiLeaks, joining other institutions that refuse to process payments for the website that has exposed a trove of US government cables. "Bank of America joins in the actions previously announced by MasterCard, PayPal, Visa ...

NEW YORK - The United States had evidence of widespread torture by Indian security forces in Kashmir five years ago, diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks say. The disclosure that the US knew about the torture and did nothing about it has dealt a serious blow to its credibility as a champion of ...