MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 0.3 percent, while Japan's Nikkei dropped 0.5 percent and Australian benchmark was up just 0.1 percent.
Pilger, whose legendary war reportage in the 60s got him Britain's Journalist of the Year award twice, said Assange was targeted as he refused to be a 'member of the club'.
The singer-actress has filed a complaint about coercion and blackmail along with violation of the Act on Special Cases Concerning Punishment of Sexual Violence Crimes.
Najib faces 32 charges from money laundering to abuse of power and criminal breach of trust over billions of dollars that went missing from state fund 1MDB.
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Astronomers from Columbia University may have found the first exomoon through the data collected by Kepler spacecraft and recorded data by Hubble telescope.