UK police on Wednesday charged Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg with a public order offence, following her detention at a protest outside an annual gathering of energy industry figures in London. The 20-year-old activist, a key face of the movement to fight climate change, was among 26 people charged by the capital’s Metropolitan Police, after she was held at Tuesday’s demonstration.

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