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Ex-French minister gets jail in Angola arms trial

PARIS (AP) — A Paris court sentenced a former interior minister to a year in prison Tuesday and fined the son of the late President Francois Mitterrand for links to arms trafficking to Angola in a case that involved corruption at the highest levels.

The trial of 42 defendants began last October, after seven years of international investigations into a sensitive, far-reaching case the French...

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