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Thousands of people have gathered outside Madrid's Las Ventas bullring to protest against Spain's bullfighting tradition.

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San Fermín, the world-famous bull-running festival, returned on Thursday after two years of closure for the pandemic.

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Traditional bullfighting was held in Rawalpindi, Pakistan with the participation of over 100 farmers.

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The coronavirus pandemic has forced the Spanish city to cancel its iconic – and booze-fuelled – bull runs.

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The buffaloes fight in pairs in an elimination contest, the two competitors lock horns for several minutes, sometimes just seconds, before one signals defeat by running away.

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After two years without the tradition on the Spanish island of Mallorca, bullfights have returned to the capital city of Palma. Outside the arena, however, a group of protesters gathered, holding signs and chanting slogans calling the tradition "torture".

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Several French NGOs called out the old Spanish tradition of setting a bull's horns on fire after footage of a bull with his horns on fire went viral on social media.

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Panic on first day of Spanish festival as bulls gore three people

Three people were gored and a further two people suffered head trauma during the first day of Spain's best-known bull-running festival in the northern town of Pamplona on Sunday, the Red Cross said.

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