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Bruno Senna's Williams car came through the Spanish Grand Prix garage fire relatively undamaged and the Brazilian will use it in Monaco again this weekend, the Formula One team said on Monday.

The car had been in the Circuit de Catalunya garage when the fire broke out as the team posed for a victory photograph following Pastor Maldonado's first Formula One win eight days ago.

Photographs showed it surrounded by charred debris and covered by extinguisher foam but a team spokeswoman said the chassis was fine.

Williams' chief operations engineer Mark Gillan said in a team preview that while preparations for Monaco had been "somewhat hampered" by the fire, the team was ready to go racing.

"The impact of the fire has been mitigated by what can only be described as a Herculean effort by the factory and our suppliers to restock both the damaged equipment and car parts," he said.

"We would also like to thank the generous offers of help from the other teams, highlighting once more the excellent sportsmanship that exists in Formula One and high levels of comradery throughout the pit lane."

Maldonado's win, from pole, in Barcelona was the first for Williams in nearly eight years and made him the fifth different winner in five races this season.

Both the Venezuelan and Senna have strong records on Monaco's tight and twisty streets in the junior GP2 series and will be aiming for another solid points finish in the season's glamour race.

"I am full of confidence after my win at the last race so I go to Monaco with high hopes of getting another strong result for the team," said Maldonado.

Kuala Lumpur, May 22 (Xinhua-ANI): Malaysian opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim, his deputy in the People's Justice Party, Azmin Ali and a party division chief were accused on Tuesday of attending an illegal street protest and instigating protesters to breach the police barricade at the rally.

Anwar said the rally was "clearly politically motivated" to prevent him from running in an election that is expected to come as early as next month.

Anwar, Azmin and Badrul Hisham Shaharin pleaded not guilty to the charges at the Kuala Lumpur high court and their bail was set at 500 ringgit (160.2 U.S. dollars) each.

"This charge by the authoritative instruction of prime minister Najib Razak, is clearly vindictive to stop us from campaigning in the election. The central issue brought up in the rally is to ensure free and fair elections, you can't claim the few hundred thousands of people as criminals. Its a waste of court time," Anwar told reporters at the court lobby.

Anwar, Azmin and Badrul were charged with violating Malaysia's Peaceful Assembly Act by attending a street protest and abetting to incite three protesters to breach the police barrier to the historical Independent Square in downtown Kuala Lumpur where demonstrators had wanted to gather.

The charge was believed to have stemmed from a video on the internet apparently depicting Anwar gesturing Azmin to breach the police barricade.