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RIGA, Latvia --A Latvian girl has been charged with hooliganism for trying to swipe Britain's Prince Charles in the face with flowers during his visit to the Baltic state earlier this month.

A Latvian court said that it would not take any further action against a teenage girl who hit Britain’s Prince Charles in the face with flowers during his visit to the Baltic state last November.