Panama’s ex-strongman Manuel Noriega on looks set return home — and go straight into custody there — after more than two decades in foreign prisons.

A French court on Wednesday sentenced Panama’s former dictator, Manuel Noriega, to seven years in jail for laundering drug money.

Manuel Noriega, the former Panamanian dictator extradited from the United States to France, is to be detained in one of Paris’s most famous prisons.

The United States extradited former Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega to France on Monday to face money-laundering charges.

Out of sight and mind for almost two decades, inmate number 38699-079 completed his sentence on Sunday an older, frailer figure than the world remembered. Manuel Noriega served…

Panama’s former dictator, Manuel Noriega, can be extradited to France for a money-laundering trial after he completes a lengthy jail sentence in Miami next month, a United States…