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Europe descended into a second night of violent carnage on Saturday amid the return of strict lockdown rules aimed at curbing rising rates of Covid infection. Thousands of people took to Amsterdam's central Dam Square and the Hague on Saturday, a day after the 'orgy of violence' during the Rotterdam riots that saw seven people injured. Police said seven arrests were made on Sunday after youths set streets ablaze and shot fireworks at officers. Video footage from the Hague showed motorists sounding their horns in support as a trio of small explosions could be clearly seen on the main road...

August 31st was a day of freedom protests across Australia in front of government legislative buildings at the state and local level. Some protests also reported in New Zealand. Hundreds at the New South Wales legislative building in Sydney. Police in New South Wales responding to protests at 79 different locations. At least one arrest was made by police outside the Lismore Council Chambers. The police in New South Wales have so far reported more than 150 arrests and more than 570 "penalty infringement notices" imposing multi-thousand dollar fines on the recipients. The protests at multiple locations in New South...

Anyone organizing or planning to attend a second Covid-19 lockdown protest in Sydney has been warned, "you will be arrested" Police Commissioner Mick Fuller revealed authorities had received upwards of 10,000 tip-offs since Saturday when thousands of people marched through Sydney's CBD to demonstrate against the state's lockdown conditions. More than 57 people have been charged for attending the protests and many more fines and charges are expected to be laid as officers trawl through hours of footage to identify more protesters. NSW police said there are still murmurs about a second protest planned for this Saturday despite social media...

The best case for a right to party is in the right of assembly, placed in the Bill of Rights as many deadly diseases threatened the American population.In Alexander Pushkin’s “Feast in a Time of Plague,” an old priest returning from a mass funeral of plague victims catches young people partying, and unleashes a 19th-century rant: “A godless banquet, godless madmen all … Go back now to your homes!” “Be off, old man!” The partygoers yell back in a period version of “OK, Boomer.” Another tells the priest: “Our homes are sad. And youth is fond of joyousness.”Human nature remains...

A Pennsylvania school director resigned Wednesday amid backlash over a Facebook post that said she would “shoot” anyone who came within 6 feet of her without a face mask on. Selinsgrove school director Jennifer Rager-Kay, a physician who last year unsuccessfully ran as a Democrat for Rep. Fred Keller’s state House seat, came under fire Monday after she posted a rant against anti-lockdown protesters that gathered last week in Harrisburg. “I find it interesting that the largest group of those protesting in the anti-lockdown protest and refusing to wear masks in public as they see it as a violation of...