Morning news brief: Julian Assange declared 'a free man'; N Korea faces rare missile test failure; and more

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday (Jun 26) pleaded guilty in a US court to a single count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified US national defence information. In other news,North Korea faced a rare failure in the ballistic missile test on Wednesday, as per South Korea’s military.

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange entered theplea dealat a US District Court on the Northern Mariana Islandswhichended years of legal battles and made him a free man.Under the plea deal, the 52-year-old will be required to destroy information provided to WikiLeaks.

North Korea carried out the testdays after itprotested against the US aircraft carrier's regional deployment which was placed for a trilateral military drill with South Korea and Japan.

Newly released images taken by the FBI during its search of former United States President Donald Trump’s resort in the US state of Florida, Mar-a-Lago, shows the haphazard way in which the Republican had allegedly stored the sensitive information.

United States President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden are believed to have treated their various real estate holdings in Delaware as their personal ATM for years by using them for various mortgages and refinancing themnot less than 35 times, according to a report.

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