Former Ukraine PM re-arrested over taxes

Julia Tymoshenko, the jailed Ukrainian opposition leader, was re-arrested on tax evasion charges yesterday – as the EU prepared to send an envoy to Kiev to save a joint summit with the country this month.

The EU wants the former Prime Minister freed after she was jailed in October for seven years for abuse of office, in a case which the EU says was politically motivated. But Kiev has refused to release her.