"The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks says it is suspending publishing classified US diplomatic files to focus instead on fundraising "to ensure our future survival".
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said that as a result of a financial "blockade" mounted by Visa, MasterCard and other companies, it was "now forced to temporarily suspend its publishing operations and aggressively fundraise".
WikiLeaks has enraged US authorities by releasing tens of thousands of classified diplomatic cables.
Many relate to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, while others contain frank and sometimes embarrassing assessments of world leaders made by US diplomats.
Assange said in a statement that since December last year, "an arbitrary and unlawful financial blockade has been imposed by Bank of America, Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and Western Union".
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