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Greta Thunberg, the Swedish climate activist and media darling, will be speaking and protesting at the United Nation’s COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow, Scotland, which begins next week.

As some Italians promise to blockade the country after the vaccine pass deadline for all workers, some fear that protests could turn violent.

The Australian police officers who sprayed an elderly woman in the face as she was on the ground with pepper spray are under investigation.

The public instances of crowds expressing their disapproval of President Joe Biden are continuing to grow not only in the U.S. but across the globe, as demonstrators shout “fuck Joe Biden!” from college football games in the U.S., all the way to protests in Rome. 

The spokesman for Insulate Britain has implied that any deaths caused by ambulances forced to wait in traffic because of one of his protests was like allowing soldiers in World War Two to die in order to keep secret from Nazi Germany that the UK had cracked the code for the Enigma machine, as he had seen in the 2014 film The Imitation Game.

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) decried Saturday leftists harassing her inside a bathroom over the weekend as “wholly inappropriate” and “unacceptable.”

Protesters affiliated with the Jewish anti-ICE group Never Again Action gathered outside the D.C. home of Department of Homeland Security Chief Alejandro Mayorkas on Monday, unfurling a giant banner accusing the Biden administration of carrying out Trump immigration policies.

One-hundred-thirteen senior officials from Tunisia’s opposition Ennahda party resigned on Saturday, protesting President Kais Saied’s increasingly dictatorial rule and their own party leadership’s poor response to it. Thousands of demonstrators rallied in the capital of Tunis on Sunday to demand Saied’s resignation.

London’s Metropolitan Police shut down a peaceful protest against vaccine passports and other coronavirus restrictions on Saturday.

Anti-lockdown protesters faced off with Melbourne police, forcing police vehicles to retreat as they smashed windows and hurled projectiles.

Nigel Farage said that he will not “obey” any future coronavirus lockdowns if Boris Johnson once again backtracks on his freedom promises.

Despite reports of potential violence and beefed up security, including the National Guard and fencing, Saturday’s “Justice for J6” rally attracted a few hundred demonstrators and ended without major incidence.

(AFP) – Officers used pepper spray and made over 200 arrests in Melbourne as several hundred protesters flouted stay-at-home orders and marched through an inner-city suburb.

Parents in North Port, Florida, are planning Friday to protest at Brian Laundrie’s house, the person of interest in Gabby Petito’s disappearance, and encourage him to work with investigators.

The streets of France were flooded for the ninth straight week with protesters against President Emmanuel Macron’s vaccine passport scheme.

Commercial truck drivers in Brazil blocked highways in at least 16 states on Thursday for the second straight day as part of demonstrations supporting Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in his current battle with the country’s judiciary and federal election authorities, Brazil’s Globo News site reported.

A large protest against the Taliban regime, organized and led primarily by women, was violently dispersed by Taliban thugs on Tuesday. Demonstrators were whipped, beaten with clubs, and driven away by gunfire.

Tory MP David Davis called for the “unnecessary emergency powers” given to the government under the Coronavirus Act to be removed.

The Oregon city, where protesters for months attacked police and businesses without consequences, is considering punishing Texas by ending trade with and travel to the state because of its law to protect the unborn from abortion after six weeks gestation.

A rioter who shot at SWAT three times during a George Floyd protest has been acquitted of all counts. Jaleel Stallings of St.Paul, Minnesota, fired at SWAT three times during a George Floyd protest in May 2020, in Minneapolis. The 29-year-old had

A rioter allegedly attempted to set fire to an NYPD van with officers inside amidst a violent protest Friday in the name of 24-year-old Mike Rosado, who died from a gunshot wound after exchanging gunfire with police.

Britain’s NHS reportedly falsified up to 700,000 vaccine passport records since the beginning of the controversial programme.

A British veteran said that many veterans are willing to take a stand against the “tyranny” imposed by Boris Johnson’s government.

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of London, demanding that the government does not implement the proposed vaccine passport system.

Tea Party Patriots Action (TPPA) is holding several nationwide protests Saturday against coronavirus-related mandates — including those for both masks and vaccines — as part of the “Just Say No” campaign.

Dr Gail Bradbrook, the co-founder of the climate change extremist group Extinction Rebellion has admitted to driving a diesel-powered car.

Police took a hands-off approach as Extinction Rebellion shut down London by erecting a giant table, blocking cars, and setting up tents.

For the sixth straight week, hundreds of thousands of people in France took to the streets against Emmanuel Macron’s health pass scheme.

Protesters gathered for a “Free Afghanistan” event in Washington, DC, on Saturday amid growing concern for American citizens and Afghan refugees left in the country after Taliban forces took control of it.

Parents and students in New Jersey protested on Wednesday night against the state’s mandate for masks to be worn in schools.

Fatalities were reported on Thursday after the Taliban opened fire at an Independence Day rally in a regional Afghanistan town where protesters were flying the flag used by the former Western-backed government.

Hundreds of civilians in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, took the streets on Wednesday to protest the replacement of the national flag in public spaces with the emblem of the Taliban, prompting Taliban jihadists to open fire into the crowd.

Hundreds of Afghans gathered in front of the White House Sunday to ask President Joe Biden to act in response to the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Frustrated protesters chanted, “Biden, you betrayed us!”

Protests ignited Friday at the Washington State capitol building over a forced vaccine mandate for local healthcare systems amid similar protests erupting across the nation in the last few days. 

Protests ignited Wednesday in Washington State over Gov. Jay Inslee’s (D) forced vaccine mandate for local healthcare systems, set to take effect August 31.

Protests erupted in Tennessee and Kentucky on Tuesday over school mask mandates and forced vaccinations.