As matadors face half-ton bulls this month during Madrid's most important annual series of bullfights and Pamplona gears up for its chaotic July bull runs down cobblestoned streets, tensions are building between anti-bullfighting forces and ... Read More
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Fourteen works by Iranian painter Ramin Hafizi are on display at the exhibition entitled “Toward a Wild Beginning”. Speaking to the Persian service of ILNA, Hafizi called bullfighting scenes irritating and said, “We live in ... Read More
As Mexican matador El Zotoluco danced around a bull at the Plaza Monumental bullring in Tijuana, spectators roared with appreciation for his final performance at the arena. The popular bullfighter will retire this year and ... Read More
This weekend marks the climax of Las Fallas, the annual festivities in the Mediterranean city of Valencia made famous by the giant papier-mâché puppets of famous personalities which are paraded through the streets before being ... Read More
Spain's fiesta nacional is on the ropes. This week, the mayor of Valencia — Spain's third-largest city — floated that he might support a Portuguese-style of bullfighting that doesn't end with the matador killing el ... Read More
Sharon Townsend, 41, formerly of Eardley Road, wants people across Bexley to create banners and send snaps of them being waved from March 8 onwards — in demonstration against the dangerous games. She is also ... Read More
The little girl was sitting with her family, making her way through a bag of crisps. It was Sunday afternoon in Ajalvir. The planes from nearby Madrid airport flew above her in the clear skies ... Read More
Lawmakers of the Balearic Islands, an autonomous division of Spain have voted in favour of a proposal to introduce a ban on bullfighting and animal fiestas. As reported by the Human Society International in a ... Read More
A family business in Spain has reluctantly changed the name of its famous El Toro Vega biscuits after customers threatened to boycott the product named after a highly controversial bull lancing event. “Unfair” but the ... Read More
The Suedehead singer is currently on tour in South America and took the opportunity to address the issue ahead of a scheduled concert in Peru's capital Lima. The outspoken animal rights campaigner branded the bloodsport ... Read More