Park Geun-hye: South Korea court upholds 20-year jail term for ex-leader

South Korea's Supreme Court has upheld a 20-year jail term for former President Park Geun-hye who was found guilty of abuse of power and coercion. The ruling on Thursday upheld a reduced jail term given to Park in July after she was originally sentenced to serve a prison term of around 30 years. Prosecutors had tried to appeal against that reduction. Park, South Korea's first female president, was toppled from power in 2017 over a vast corruption scandal. The court on Thursday also upheld her fine of 18bn won (£12m, $17m). The former president was her country's first democratically elected leader to be forced from office due to graft in a...