Urgent: Paris appeal court upholds guilty conviction of far-right leader Marine Le Pen but softens sentence

PARIS, July 7 (Xinhua) -- The Paris Court of Appeal on Tuesday upheld the Paris Court's ruling which found Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Rally (RN) party in the French parliament, guilty of embezzling public funds to pay ghost European parliamentary assistants, but softened the sentence. ■