In the U.S., Paul Manafort, the former head of the pre-election campaign of the current U.S. President, has been convicted to a total of seven and a half years in prison for misleading the U.S. government about his foreign lobbying work and for encouraging witnesses to lie on his behalf. American news agency AP reports that on Wednesday, March 13, in Washington, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson rejected Manafort’s…