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UK set to end legal loophole allowing child marriage

London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Britain must scrap a legal loophole allowing child marriage “by the back door”, lawmakers said ahead of the introduction of a bill in parliament on Wednesday to raise the minimum age to 18.  They said the current law, which allows marriage at 16 with parental consent, sabotaged girls’ futures and condoned […]