Latest WikiLeaks cables include 700 from Singapore

WikiLeaks' decision to publish its full cache of more than 250,000 cables as they were - 'unredacted' - drew criticism from its media partners, who said it was the decision of its founder Julian Assange alone. --PHOTO: AP

Some 700 leaked diplomatic cables from the United States embassy in Singapore have been published online this week, revealing confidential correspondence on a range of issues dating from 2003 to last year.

Wikileaks release new Guantanamo files

In this file photo made June 27, 2006, reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, U.S. military guards walk within Camp Delta military-run prison, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. Secret documents about detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison reveal new information about some of the men that the United States believes to be terrorists, according to reports about the files released Sunday, April 24, 2011, by several American and European newspapers. -- PHOTO: AP

WASHINGTON - A CACHE of classified US military documents provides intelligence assessments on nearly all of the 779 people who been detained at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.

WikiLeaks founder warns of huge leak as last resort

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange detailed a plan to release a deluge of secret documents should the whistleblower website be permanently shut down. -- PHOTO: AFP

WASHINGTON - WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange on Sunday detailed a plan to release a deluge of secret documents should the whistleblower website be permanently shut down.

In an exclusive interview with CBS News's 60 Minutes, Assange said his group had a 'system whereby we distribute encrypted backups of things we have yet to publish.'

Assange says he did not encourage leak of secrets

Assange, in an interview with CBS' 60 Minutes scheduled to air on Sunday, denied encouraging anyone to leak the secret US military and diplomatic material. -- PHOTO: AFP

WASHINGTON - WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange says once again he has done nothing wrong in releasing secret US documents, noting he never asked anyone to take the classified material.

Assange, in an interview with CBS' 60 Minutes scheduled to air on Sunday, denied encouraging anyone to leak the secret US military and diplomatic material.

WikiLeaks founder Assange slams Swiss banker arrest

GENEVA - THE founder of whistleblower site WikiLeaks attacked Switzerland on Sunday for arresting a Swiss banker on suspicion of breaching banking secrecy instead of investigating the tax evasion he said he had uncovered.

In an interview published in the Swiss weekly Der Sonntag, Julian Assange, whose website has angered Washington by releasing confidential US diplomatic cables, said Switzerland's actions were drawing renewed international attention to its controversial banking practices.

Whistleblower hands Assange offshore bank secrets

Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer said he wanted the world to know the truth about money concealed in offshore accounts. -- PHOTO: AFP

LONDON - AN OFFSHORE banking whistleblower on Monday personally handed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange two CDs reportedly containing the names of 2,000 bank clients who may have been evading taxes.

Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer, who worked for eight years in the Cayman Islands, a British overseas territory in the Caribbean, said he wanted the world to know the truth about money concealed in offshore accounts.

Assange signs $2.2m in book deals

The founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange speaks to members of the media as he leaves a police station in Beccles, England. -- PHOTO: AP

LONDON - WIKILEAKS chief Julian Assange said in an interview published on Sunday he had signed deals for his autobiography worth more than one million pounds (S$2.2 million) Assange told Britain's Sunday Times newspaper that the money would help him defend himself against allegations of sexual assault made by two women in Sweden.

WikiLeaks Reveals Sudan's Bashir 'stashed $9bn in UK'

Moreno-Ocampo said that the disclosure of the alleged
illegal accounts could turn people against Bashir [AFP]

Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's president, has transferred up to $9bn out of the African nation, with much of it sent to banks in the United Kingdom, according to leaked US diplomatic cables reported in the Guardian newspaper.