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Thousands of demonstrators marched down Rome’s famous Via Veneto and other streets on Saturday, some smashing their way into a union office and clashing with police as they protested Italy’s new “Green Pass” vaccination requirement for employees to enter their offices. The certification is mandatory beginning on Oct. 15 and applies to public and private workplaces. Both employees and employers risk fines if they don’t comply. Public sector workers can be suspended if they show up five times without a Green Pass. The pass is already required in Italy to enter museums, theaters, gyms and indoor restaurants, as well as...

Heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury has told Boris Johnson to “grow a pair” after seeing Sir Winston Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square repeatedly vandalised at Black Lives Matter protests. The wartime prime minister’s statue has been defaced with graffiti branding him a racist and slogans such as “BLACK LIVES MATTER” and “ACAB” (“All Coppers Are Bastards”) at Black Lives Matter demonstrations in the United Kingdom, which have quickly moved on from protesting the death of George Floyd in the United States to demands for the removal historic monuments and memorials whose activities and views are considered problematic by the standards...

The Democrat debate on Wednesday was the undercard bout. The real Vegas fight — the one that matters — happens Saturday night. Undefeated WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder will face off against undefeated lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury in a rematch of their December 2018 fight, which ended in a thrilling draw. ...President Trump is not expected to attend the fight, though he is in Vegas this week on a four-day swing through the west. But the fight points to a fascinating story about his presidency. Tyson Fury, the “Gypsy King,” is a fan of Trump, and invited him to...

"There is no suggestion that he has broken the law by exercising his right to freedom of expression", read the statement. Cleared: Fury faces no action from the BBBC. Tyson Fury has escaped with just a ticking off from boxing's bigwigs for his homophobic and sexist rants. Fury was interviewed by the British Boxing Board of Control stewards yesterday and they claim they cannot punish the world heavyweight king because of his right to free speech. "In such circumstances, the stewards of the British Boxing Board of Control have been advised that they cannot interfere with his basic human rights....