In his book, Jean-Marie Le Pen defends Philippe Pétain, leader of the wartime collaboration regime, and sticks the knife into his ‘pitiful failure of a daughter’ Marine Charles Platiau/ReutersParis The memoirs of Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder and former leader of the National Front, France’s far-right party, have sold out before arriving in bookshops this week. His publisher, Muller Editions, said that they had arranged for a new print run to cope with demand after readers reserved 50,000 copies of the first volume of Fils de la nation (Son of the Nation). (AFP)Disgraced president faces life in prisonSeoul The disgraced former president of South Korea could spend the rest of her life in prison. Prosecutors demanded that Park Geun-hye, 66, serve 30 years in jail for corruption. She was impeached last March and faces 18 charges including bribery, abuse of power, coercion and leaking state secrets.

Source: The Times February 28, 2018 00:04 UTC