Clinton: 'Leaks are attack on international community'

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said the leak of hundreds of thousands of secret diplomatic documents is "not just an attack on American's foreign policy interests. It is an attack on the international community".

She spoke after the release of some 250,000 messages from US envoys around the world by the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks.

She refused to comment on the contents of the leaks but said the US "deeply regretted" the release of information which was meant to be confidential.