France's top court upholds Sarkozy's second conviction

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France's highest court ruled against ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday over illegal financing of his 2012 re-election bid, the second definitive conviction for the former head of state. The Court of Cassation upheld the ruling of an appeals court last year and said Sarkozy, a one-term president from 2007 to 2012, was therefore "definitively convicted". The appeals court had ordered him to