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• Victims of Grenfell remembered

  14-06-2018 23:55 via bbc.co.uk
  Events were held throughout the day to remember the 72 people killed in the Grenfell Tower a year ago.
  
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• U.S. agency asks judge to rule virtual currency is commodity

  14-06-2018 23:49
  The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Thursday urged a federal judge to conclude that an obscure virtual currency called My Big Coin is a commodity subject to its oversight, saying it is no different than precious metals like gold.U.S. Judge Rya Zobel in Boston questioned a CFTC lawyer about the extent the regulator had jurisdiction to pursue a lawsuit against the operators of what it contends was a $6 million virtual currency fraud scheme.Jonah McCarthy, the CFTC attorney, compared t
  
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• Ryanair boss warns of flight 'meltdown' over air traffic control disruptions

  14-06-2018 23:04
  Ryanair and Europe's air traffic control are at loggerheads, with the airline blaming it for more than 1,000 flights cancelled in May.The airline has warned that action is required to avoid a "meltdown" of Europe's air traffic control, claiming that the cancellations were "almost all due to ATC staff shortages and strikes".This is compared with just 43 cancellations in May last year.
  
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• No sellout: Labour Live 'JezFest' ticket prices slashed by 70%

  14-06-2018 22:56
  Labour have slashed the price of tickets for their "Jezfest" event by more than 70% in a last-ditch effort to secure sales.The party is staging its Labour Live festival in north London on Saturday, with headline acts including Clean Bandit, Rae Morris, Reverend and The Makers and The Magic Numbers.Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will make an appearance on stage, along with shadow chancellor John McDonnell, shadow international development secretary Kate Osamor and Owen Jones, a Guardian columnist an
  
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• Theresa May fails to appease Tory rebels on Brexit bill

  14-06-2018 22:19
  Theresa May could yet suffer a damaging rebellion on key Brexit legislation after Tory rebels were left unhappy at ministers' "sneaky" efforts at a compromise.The government tabled an amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill on Thursday following crunch talks with pro-EU Conservative backbenchers.The rebels, spearheaded by former attorney general Dominic Grieve, are demanding a greater say for the House of Commons in the event the prime minister fails to agree a Brexit deal with the EU.
  
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• Latest Windows 10 test build adds SwiftKey and mixed reality options

  14-06-2018 22:15
  Microsoft is giving Windows 10 users a peek at upcoming features, as long as
  
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• Boris Becker claims diplomatic immunity from bankruptcy

  14-06-2018 21:44
  The former tennis star was declared bankrupt in June 2017.Three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker is using his role as an ambassador for the Central African Republic to claim diplomatic immunity from ongoing bankruptcy proceedings in the UK.Lawyers for the former tennis star lodged a claim in the high court in London on Thursday asserting immunity against attempts to enforce bankruptcy proceedings against Becker, which his creditors have applied to extend, citing his role as the Central Afric
  
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• Grenfell housing boss holds BOOK LAUNCH on ANNIVERSARY of tower-block disaster

  14-06-2018 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  A FORMER housing boss turned fashion guru whose tenants perished in the Grenfell Tower fire is hosting a book launch on the anniversary of the disaster that killed 72 people in west London last summer.
  
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• 'Juncker and Barnier THREATENING Britons!' Wetherspoons boss promises Brexit BACKLASH

  14-06-2018 21:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  WETHERSPOONS boss Tim Martin hit out at the European Union’s Jean-Claude Juncker and Michel Barnier for “threatening” Britons as he warned people will eventually stop buying EU produce.
  
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• 'I just don't understand!' Labour MP GRILLED over Brexit policy after mass resignation

  14-06-2018 21:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  LABOUR MP Laura Smith was subjected to a thorough grilling over her party's Brexit strategy after she claimed negotiations with the European Union are "absolute shambles" because of a divided Government – despite having just resigned for disagreeing with her party line.
  
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• UK government proposes three scenarios for parliament vote on Brexit deal

  14-06-2018 20:41
  Britain's Brexit department set out its proposed compromise with pro-European Union MPs on Thursday, outlining three scenarios under which a vote in parliament on its European union exit deal would be triggered."This ensures that in all circumstances parliament can hold government to account, while also allowing government to deliver on the will of the British people as expressed in the referendum," a Brexit department spokesman said.
  
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• May's Brexit compromise hits snag, wrangling to continue

  14-06-2018 20:39
  British Prime Minister Theresa May failed on Thursday to win around pro-EU lawmakers in her party over parliament's role in the Brexit process, raising the risk of defeat in lower house votes next week.May is struggling to unite the Conservative Party around her plan for leaving the European Union, trying to balance the demands of those who want the closest possible ties with the bloc and others who want a clean break.Some lawmakers want greater powers to direct the government's negotiating stra
  
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• 'There’s a plot to stop Brexit!' Hartley-Brewer in HEATED row with Remainer Lord Falconer

  14-06-2018 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  RADIO host Julia Harley-Brewer got into a heated row with Remainer Lord Falconer over the latest plot to derail Brexit.
  
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• Hope for spinal injury patients as paralysed rats 'cured' with gene therapy

  14-06-2018 19:59
  Scientists have "cured" paralysed rats with gene therapy - in a breakthrough that offers hope to people who have suffered spinal injuries.Researchers tested the gene therapy on rats with spinal cords that had been bruised to mimic the typical injury humans suffer in car accidents or falls.Professor Elizabeth Bradbury, who led the research, said the rats quickly regained basic control of their limbs after being injected with the gene, with more precise movements taking a little longer.
  
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• Britons fall silent for 72 seconds to remember Grenfell dead

  14-06-2018 19:55
  Britons fall silent for 72 seconds to remember Grenfell dead
  
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• Britain falls silent to remember Grenfell dead

  14-06-2018 19:55
  Britain falls silent to remember Grenfell dead
  
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• Briton arrested over alleged plot to leak F-35 fighter jet secrets to China

  14-06-2018 19:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  A BRITISH man has been arrested for allegedly passing on top-secret military information on Britain's F-35 jets to China, illegally exposing classified UK military intel to Beijing.
  
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• Rupert Murdoch will be enjoying the hunt for 21st Century Fox

  14-06-2018 19:51
  Rupert Murdoch has been lucky – or, more likely, skilful in his timing.To understand quite how far Comcast is pushing out the boat, look at how much debt the owner of NBCUniversal is prepared to shoulder to get the Fox assets.If the separate offer for Sky in the UK were also to succeed, Comcast would have borrowings of roughly $165bn, an astonishing sum even in a US media market driven to panic by the rise of Netflix.
  
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• Time has stood still for Grenfell bereaved

  14-06-2018 19:43
  The pain and suffering is still so obvious as I join bereaved relatives and survivors at the base of Grenfell Tower to remember the 72 people who died as a result of the fire one year ago.Many audibly sob and shake as the choir sings Bridge over Troubled Water.
  
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• Rees-Mogg warns European Commission could be using UK money to fund fight AGAINST Brexit

  14-06-2018 19:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  BREXITEER Jacob Rees-Mogg said he is “deeply concerned” the European Commission is using UK money to fund the fight to stop Brexit after Tory rebel Dominic Grieve was spotted at the European Commission's Smith Square HQ in London on Tuesday.
  
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• Theresa May fails to appease Tory rebels on EU Withdrawal Bill

  14-06-2018 19:32
  The government could yet suffer a damaging rebellion on key Brexit legislation after Tory rebels were left unhappy at ministers' "sneaky" efforts at a compromise.The government tabled an amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill on Thursday following crunch talks with pro-EU Conservative backbenchers.The group, spearheaded by former attorney general Dominic Grieve, are demanding a greater role for the House of Commons in the event Prime Minister Theresa May fails to agree a Brexit deal with the EU.
  
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• Grenfell Tower victims remembered one year on

  14-06-2018 19:25
  The 72 victims of the Grenfell Tower disaster have been remembered exactly one year since the fire broke out.During a day of mourning, survivors and bereaved families paid tribute to those who died in the blaze on 14 June 2017.Silences were observed across the country by thousands, including the England football team, MPs, the London Fire Brigade and the Royal Family.
  
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• Pro-EU UK lawmaker wants to find way out of row over Brexit meaningful vote

  14-06-2018 19:14
  A pro-EU lawmaker said on Thursday he would now try to find a way around a standoff with British Prime Minister Theresa May over the role of parliament in her Brexit strategy after they failed to agree on a compromise.After rejecting a government proposal to try to solve a row over a so-called meaningful vote in parliament on any Brexit deal, Conservative lawmaker Dominic Grieve told Reuters the plan now "has got to be to try to put it right".
  
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• Fight for women’s equality never ends

  14-06-2018 19:07
  A march in Edinburgh on 10 June 2018 in Edinburgh to mark 100 years since women won the right to vote in the UK.The widening of the franchise in 1918 was even more complex than your recent correspondents suggest (Letters, 12 June).Women had the vote on the same terms as men before the Reform Act of 1832, but very few women held land on terms that allowed them to vote.
  
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• Man accused of raping St Andrews student kept her phone, court hears

  14-06-2018 19:02
  Stephen Coxen arrives at the court in Edinburgh.A man accused of raping a St Andrews University student kept her phone and got his friend to return it to her the next day, a court has been told.Dominic Hurst, 24, from Ramsbottom near Bury in Lancaster, said his close friend Stephen Coxen had kept the phone after going home with a woman known as Miss M during freshers week in September 2013.
  
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• Wolverhampton Stabbing: Three Teenagers Arrested On Suspicion Of Murdering 15-Year-Old Keelan Wilson

  14-06-2018 18:43
  Three teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of the murder of 15-year-old
  
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• Government has changed position on Brexit law compromise - MP

  14-06-2018 18:41
  Pro-EU MP Anna Soubry said on Thursday the government had changed its position after agreeing a compromise deal on handing parliament a "meaningful vote" on any Brexit deal, and that the new proposal had not been agreed by the leading rebel."I understand the government has tabled an amendment that has not been agreed by Dominic Grieve.
  
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• World's rich grow richer as bull markets roar on - study

  14-06-2018 18:13
  Personal financial wealth swelled 12 percent last year to nearly $202 trillion (151.58 trillion pounds), the strongest growth in five years as bull markets and the dollar's weakening against most major currencies boosted global fortunes, a study showed on Thursday.Adjusted for exchange rate swings, global wealth rose 7 percent, the Boston Consulting Group survey found.While residents of North America held the greatest share of personal wealth at almost 43 percent, the fastest growth came in Asia
  
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• May offers pro-EU rebels Brexit compromise - source

  14-06-2018 18:04
  Prime Minister Theresa May has agreed a compromise with pro-EU MPs in her Conservative Party that offers parliament a vote on any future steps in Brexit talks if Britain fails to agree a deal by mid-February, a source said on Thursday.May was forced to quell a rebellion earlier this week when she faced defeat on a vote in parliament over the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill, which will sever ties with the EU.Several pro-EU MPs threatened to rebel over whether parliament should have more control
  
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• Amendment on Brexit bill to be issued just before 1600 GMT - May's spokeswoman

  14-06-2018 18:04
  LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May's government will issue a compromise amendment to her Brexit blueprint just before 1600 GMT, her spokeswoman said on Thursday.
  
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• Man Who Sent WhatApp To His Boss Saying He 'Murdered Someone' Jailed For Life

  14-06-2018 17:44
  A man who sent a WhatsApp message to his boss saying he hadn't turned up to
  
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• Grenfell emergency chiefs speak out about 'chaotic' response

  14-06-2018 17:40
  Flowers cover the ground near the site of Grenfell Tower on the first anniversary of the disaster.Two emergency chiefs who supported Grenfell survivors in the days following the disaster have spoken out for the first time about the chaos of the relief operation following the fire and the failures to learn lessons from it.Rupinder Hardy and Philip Lee-Morris, managers at Ealing council at the time of the fire, were drafted in as part of the Pan-London Emergency Response in the days after the disa
  
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• World Cup 2018: Russia v Saudi Arabia opening match – live!

  14-06-2018 17:30 via theguardian.com
  World Cup 2018 updates from the 4pm (BST) Group A kick-offWorld Cup day one: follow the opening ceremony live!And feel free to email Barry or tweet him @bglendenning 4.30pm BST 27 min: Salem Al-Dawsari tries a shot from distance for Saudi Arabia, but his wild effort is fired high over the Russian crossbar.4.29pm BST 26 min: Cheryshev wins the ball deep inside his own half and runs 60 or more metres with the ball before being disposssessed as he tries to hold it up. Saudi Arabia keep giving the b
  
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• Repression in Iran is getting worse: Trump must share the blame | Simon Tisdall

  14-06-2018 17:16 via theguardian.com
  Since the US reneged on the nuclear deal, hardliners are tightening their grip – as the arrest of human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh showsThe arbitrary arrest and jailing of Nasrin Sotoudeh, a leading Iranian human rights lawyer, is a crude act of state aggression against a courageous individual, and another heavy blow to the rule of law in Iran. It comes amid an intensifying judicial crackdown on dissent, in particular on women protesters who refuse to wear the hijab in public. This, in
  
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• Row over European migration worsens as pope calls for 'change of mindset'

  14-06-2018 17:14 via theguardian.com
  Issue brings political deadlock in Germany and worsening row between Italy and FranceAngela Merkel has come under under intense pressure to tighten Germany’s refugee policies or risk the collapse of her coalition government as an increasingly urgent argument over how to handle irregular migration rattled Europe. While the standoff between the chancellor and her interior minister, Horst Seehofer, continued on Thursday, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and Italy’s new prime minis
  
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• Battling on all fronts: Zimbabwe’s fearless female politicians

  14-06-2018 17:08 via theguardian.com
  Women are seeking to deliver a decisive blow against sexism in the country’s upcoming election
  Female politicians in Zimbabwe are hoping for a breakthrough in the forthcoming polls, despite a “hostile atmosphere” and “resistance” from male politicians. Continue reading...
  
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• Firefighters Are Training With 40st Mannequins To Prepare Them For Rescuing Obese Casualties

  14-06-2018 17:06
  Fire crews across the UK are training with plus-size mannequins weighing up to
  
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• Five teenagers jailed for killing boy in Kent gang rivalry

  14-06-2018 17:01 via theguardian.com
  Kyle Yule, 17, was attacked with knives in Gillingham by rival gang membersFive teenagers have been given prison sentences of between 16 and 24 years for stabbing a 17-year-old boy to death as part of a gang turf war in Kent.A number of tit-for-tat attacks between teenagers in Medway towns unfolded over the course of some months last year, Maidstone crown court heard. Continue reading...
  
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• Opening ceremony: Robbie Williams sings at 2018 World Cup – as it happened

  14-06-2018 16:58 via theguardian.com
  Thousands of delirious Russians let Robbie Williams entertain them as the World Cup got off to a lavishly costumed startRussia v Saudi Arabia – live! 4.19pm BST A Russian MP has encouraged Russians to have sex with visiting foreign football fans, a day after Russian authorities were embarrassed when one of his fellow parliamentarians warned against World Cup sexual liaisons. Related: 'Have sex, make babies': Russian MP tells nation to welcome foreign fans3.58pm BST And with that, I’m
  
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• 'Have sex, make babies': Russian MP tells nation to welcome foreign fans

  14-06-2018 16:57 via theguardian.com
  Comments come after another MP warned Russian women against sex with fans, especially those ‘of a different race’A Russian MP has encouraged Russians to have sex with visiting foreign football fans, a day after Russian authorities were embarrassed when one of his fellow parliamentarians warned against World Cup sexual liaisons.“The more love stories we have connected to the World Cup, the more people from different countries fall in love, the more children are born, the better,
  
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• Grenfell One Year On: How Did Theresa May Manage To Stay In Power?

  14-06-2018 16:57
  "It is not just about the buildings, it is not just about the bricks and
  
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• UK parliament will have meaningful vote on Brexit, says pro-EU lawmaker

  14-06-2018 16:52
  Pro-EU British Conservative lawmaker Anna Soubry, one of a group of rebels pressing Prime Minister Theresa May for concessions over Brexit, said on Thursday parliament would have a meaningful vote on an exit deal, and there would be no "hard Brexit"."Deal or no deal, parliament will have a meaningful vote and to be clear there will be no hard #Brexit when the EUWithdrawal Bill is passed," Soubry tweeted before a 1600 GMT deadline to strike a deal.
  
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• Handcuffed Charlton Athletic footballers in court over 'sex assault' in Ibiza

  14-06-2018 16:50
  Two Charlton Athletic footballers have been taken to court in handcuffs over an alleged sex assault on a British tourist at a hotel in Ibiza.Reeco Hackett-Fairchild and Karlan Ahearne-Grant were both pictured being led by the arm by officers as they were led to the courthouse on the Spanish island.The League One players, both aged 20, were arrested on Tuesday after the parents of a 19-year-old holidaymaker took her to police to lodge a formal complaint.
  
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• Alan Shearer was close to coach accused of abusing boys, court told

  14-06-2018 16:48 via theguardian.com
  Former England striker is not a complainant in trial of Bob Higgins, who denies chargesThe former England football captain Alan Shearer was trained by a coach who is accused of having sexually abused other junior players in the same period, a jury has been told.Shearer, now a respected BBC pundit, was named in court by an alleged victim of the former Southampton FC youth coach Bob Higgins as one of several promising players who were close to him.Continue reading...
  
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• The far right is organised and growing. Those Nazi salutes are serious | Claude Moraes

  14-06-2018 16:46 via theguardian.com
  Tommy Robinson supporters are drawing strength from racist movements in Europe and the persistent popularity of Donald TrumpAbout 15,000 supporters of Tommy Robinson, the former leader of the English Defence League, marched in London last week. Some were aggressive, attacked the police and physically threatened anti-racists who were peacefully protesting against them.Among their number were people raising their arms in Nazi salutes. This is a serious situation that demands attention from everyon
  
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• Northern rail accused of prioritising north-west over north-east

  14-06-2018 16:43
  The Newcastle City council leader complained that ‘passengers in the north-east have seen trains cancelled in order to cover services in Manchester, and increased overcrowding on rush-hour services’.Northern rail has reiterated its commitment to modernise trains in the north-east by the end of 2019 after Newcastle city council’s leader accused the beleaguered operator of prioritising services in the north-west during the ongoing timetable crisis.Passengers across the north of E
  
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• PM May agrees compromise deal with pro-EU MPs on Brexit legislation - source

  14-06-2018 16:41
  British Prime Minister Theresa May has reached a deal with pro-EU MPs over the wording of a compromise on the government's Brexit legislation, a source familiar with the negotiations said on Thursday.
  
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• DNA breakthrough in 30-year-old French child murder case

  14-06-2018 16:40 via theguardian.com
  Police identify four-year-old girl dumped by motorway after matching DNA with her arrested brotherPolice investigating a 1987 murder that mystified France believe they have identified the victim, a four-year-old girl, and have arrested her parents on suspicion of killing her.The girl’s body, bearing signs of horrific abuse including burns from an iron and human bite marks, was found in a ditch alongside the A10 motorway in central France in August 1987. Continue reading...
  
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• Einstein was a genius of physics. But he wasn’t a saint | Philip Ball

  14-06-2018 16:39 via theguardian.com
  The row over racist remarks made by Einstein says more about the pedestals we put great scientists on than the man himselfWas Albert Einstein racist? In pondering the disobliging remarks he made about Chinese and Japanese people in the private diaries he kept about his travels to east Asia in 1922-3, just published by Princeton University Press, it’s not a particularly helpful question. Related: Einstein's travel diaries reveal 'shocking' xenophobiaContinue reading...
  
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• British LGBT campaigner Peter Tatchell detained by Russian police

  14-06-2018 16:38
  British LGBT campaigner Peter Tatchell has been detained by Russian police in Moscow ahead of the opening ceremony of the World Cup.Mr Tatchell was detained for what Russian police described as an illegal protest.Moscow Police have said that he has now been released after being charged with breaking the law on public meetings.
  
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