U.S. Court Dismisses Ex-Ukrainian Leader's Suit Against Political Foes

A U.S. court judge has dismissed a lawsuit by former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko accusing her political opponents of running a U.S.-based racketeering enterprise that led to her imprisonment. 

The court said Tymoshenko failed to show that industrialist Dmytro Firtash laundered money in the United States to help pay Ukrainian prosecutors and supporters of Viktor Yanukovych, who in 2010 narrowly defeated Tymoshenko to become Ukraine's president.