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

French President Emmanuel Macron’s personal vaccine passport QR code has been leaked, raising privacy concerns about the system.

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

Tony Blair said the government should begin vaccinating nursery age children and begin imposing vaccine passports to stop another lockdown.

(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.

TORONTO, Canada: Populist People’s Party of Canada (PPC) leader Maxime Bernier is confident his party will win seats in Canada’s federal election on Monday and said the PPC will force other parties to a debate on freedom.

Pope Francis extolled the importance of human freedom Monday, insisting it must be “fought for every day.”

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

The British government will not mandate vaccine passports for nightclubs, cinemas, and other large public venues in England, Sajid Javid said.

Former Conservative Party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith had begged his government to stop and reconsider what it would mean to introduce domestic vaccine passports, questioning whether it would be a “criminal offence” to go to a football match without one.

The government of Sweden announced all remaining coronavirus restrictions will be lifted this month, following a similar plan from Denmark.

“What a load of rubbish!” a lockdown-sceptic Tory MP replied when Vaccine Minister Nadhim Zahawi defended the introduction of domestic vaccines passports for nightclubs and claimed that it was not discriminatory.

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

The UK will to introduce vaccine passports for nightclubs and other large venues this month, the government’s vaccines minister confirmed.

Boris Johnson’s official spokesman confirmed on Tuesday that the government intends to go ahead with the plan to introduce vaccine passports. 

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.

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

(AFP) — Hundreds were arrested after violent clashes between anti-lockdown protesters and police in Australia’s two largest cities Saturday as the country recorded its sharpest rise in daily Covid-19 cases since the pandemic began.

Elections Canada has threatened to turn away voters who show up in person to vote without a mask ahead of the national election on September 20th.

British police want to trawl gun owners’ social media for wrongthink after the Plymouth ‘incel’ shooting. Gosh, what could possibly go wrong?

(AFP) — Australia’s biggest city announced tighter Covid restrictions including heavier fines and tighter policing on Saturday as authorities battled to contain a Delta outbreak and said they were seeing the “most concerning day of the pandemic” so far.

A leading lockdown-sceptic Conservative MP has branded “disproportionate” plans being considered to pressure nightclubs to use vaccine passports during ‘covid surges’ as the price for staying fully open.

Times columnist Hilary Rose has praised Friends star Jennifer Aniston for dropping actual friends and acquaintances who will not disclose their vaccination status, saying: “Hear, hear, Jen, and respect for speaking out.”

Greek healthcare staff have until September 1st to be fully vaccinated against the Wuhan coronavirus or face indefinite suspension from their jobs.

Spanish populist party VOX has threatened legal action in Madrid if the government implements a so-called health pass that would require vaccination or a negative coronavirus test to enter certain businesses.

A Labour Party shadow minister has said it would be a “great idea” to pay young people to be vaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – Australia’s second-largest city, Melbourne, went into a sixth lockdown on Thursday, with a state government leader blaming the nation’s slow COVID-19 vaccination rollout.

A man died in police custody as the German force launched a crackdown of Sunday’s anti-lockdown protest, in which 600 people were arrested.

Footage of police helicopters flying over beaches and parks in Australia to enforce draconian coronavirus lockdown measures is circulating on social media. 

Anti-lockdown protesters have been banned from gathering in Berlin over the weekend by judges who argued they may spread the coronavirus.

The movement against vaccine passports in France grew to over 150 cities on Saturday, with with 150,000 protesting against health passes.

Scuffles broke out in the Italian parliament on Thursday as members of the national conservative Brothers of Italy (FdI) protested the passing of the coronavirus “health pass”.

Reform UK leader Richard Tice has criticised as “blackmail and coercion” the government proposal of vaccine passports.

National Rugby League (NRL) players and their families have been banned from their balconies and ordered to tape them shut to stop Covid in parts of Queensland, Australia.