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Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki, alleged WikiLeaks whistleblower Bradley Manning, and former President Bill Clinton may be among the hundreds of nominees for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, rights activists say.

Arguing that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has "weakened the organization," a newly organized rival to the website known for leaking official secrets says it will launch Monday.

Visa Europe is suspending all payments to whistle-blowing website Wikileaks ahead of an investigation into the organisation.

Wikileaks struggled to stay online Friday as corporations and governments moved to cut its access to the Internet, a potentially crippling blow for an organization dedicated to releasing secret information via the web....

United States allies slammed the leaking of hundreds of thousands of U.S. diplomatic papers Monday or said they would have no effect on relations, while one of Washington's loudest critics mocked them.

The whistleblower website WikiLeaks is under cyber attack, but even if it goes down, a new cache of leaked U.S. diplomatic cables will still be published tonight, it said via Twitter.

WikiLeaks spokeswoman says she has urged the whistle-blower website's founder Julian Assange to step down, as insiders say his rape charges are disrupting site operations.

Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks publishes a CIA memo examining the implications of the US being perceived as an "exporter of terrorism".

The online whistle-blower WikiLeaks said it will continue to publish more secret files from governments around the world despite U.S. demands to cancel plans to release classified military documents.