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Spain’s bull runs return with thrills, emotion

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Pamplona’s bull pageant, San Fermín, returns after a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The pageant started on July 6 with a lot pleasure and introduced households and mates collectively for the celebration.
Greater than 10,000 folks donned the customary white pants and pink sash and neckerchief and packed the city corridor sq. for its conventional “chupinazo” to start the nine-day festivities.
The pageant kicks off every day with operating bulls every morning at 8 a.m.
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One attendee mentioned he missed the pageant throughout its two-year stoppage resulting from COVID-19.
“Two years with out Pamplona was very, very unhealthy,” he mentioned to the Related Press in Spanish. “How fortunate to be with mates right here this 12 months in Pamplona. Fabulous. Hopefully subsequent 12 months there can be no extra COVID.”
Town of Pamplona’s inhabitants is near 200,000, however San Fermín brings almost 1,000,000 folks to the Spanish metropolis. Many attendees have the pageant on their bucket listing.
“It´s superb environment, superb folks, superb alternative to have fun. We adore it right here,” mentioned 21-year-old Harvey Miller, of Philadelphia, who was making his first journey together with his sisters, Ashlei, 30, and Kayla, 23.
“I believe persons are attempting to make up for misplaced time as a result of two years off, that is some time,” Miller mentioned. “So, everybody goes additional exhausting this time round and the pageant is greater and higher than ever.”
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The pageant reunited mates and households from throughout. Martín Chozas, 76, from Spain attended the pageant for the primary time and plans to remain “so long as the physique places up with it.”
¨That is like going to heaven,” mentioned Chozas.
The spotlight of the pageant is the bull run within the morning the place lots of of individuals, largely males check their power and agility alongside a 956-yard path to Pamplona’s bullring. The bulls are later killed by skilled bullfighters.
As well as, attendees get pleasure from various eating places and tapas bars, spontaneous events and reveals for youngsters to go to.
Whereas the bulls don’t assault until provoked, goring is a risk. Within the seven runs which have occurred up to now, there have been 4 reported gorings. Goring is one thing that attendees embrace, however hope they don’t occur.
Eight folks had been gored over the past pageant in 2019. Sixteen folks have died within the bull run since 1910. The final dying was in 2009. The Spanish Pink Cross medics are on the scene to shortly reply to any accidents that happen through the bull run.
Previous to the pandemic, the pageant was suspended through the Spanish Civil Conflict within the Thirties.
The Related Press contributed to this report.

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Putin rebuffs Trump in call, vows to press on with Ukraine war

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Russian President Vladimir Putin once again refused to end his war in Ukraine until Russia achieves its “goals” despite another direct call between the Kremlin chief and President Donald Trump.
“Vladimir Putin, for his part, noted that we continue to seek a political and negotiated solution to the conflict,” Russian diplomat Yuri Ushakov said in a readout following the call.
“Our president also said that Russia will achieve the goals it has set: that is the elimination of the well-known root causes that led to the current state of affairs, to the current acute confrontation, and Russia will not back down from these goals,” he added.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his address to the nation in Moscow on Mar. 23, 2024. (Mikhail Metzel/Pool/AFP via Getty Images))
In an attempt to justify his invasion, Putin has repeatedly claimed that Ukraine posed a threat as it looked to become a NATO member, and has made clear he wants to overthrow President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and topple the government in Kyiv.
The White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s questions regarding how Trump reacted to Putin’s clear acknowledgment that he intends to continue his war effort.
The call comes two days after the U.S. said it was halting some previously pledged military arms slated for Ukraine, and which were already in Poland, over concerns relating to U.S. stockpiles.
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Ukrainian and German soldiers are seen training on the Patriot air defense missile system at a military training area in Germany in June 2024. (Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images)
While speaking with Fox News Digital this week, experts warned the move could embolden Putin and his war ambitions.
The readout of the call released by the Kremlin did not detail whether this move by the Trump administration was discussed.

Members of the Ukrainian military walk amid debris after a shopping center and surrounding buildings were hit by a Russian missile strike on April 16, 2022 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
The pair also reportedly discussed the conflict in the Middle East, particularly as it relates to Iran and recent U.S. and Israeli strikes against Tehran’s nuclear program.
“The Russian side emphasized the importance of resolving all disputes, disagreements and conflict situations exclusively by political and diplomatic means,” the readout added.
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Ukraine will do 'anything' to advance EU accession despite Orbán veto

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv will do “anything” to advance EU accession talks.
“Nobody can stop Ukraine in this way. It depends on unity. From our side, we’ll do anything. We need support from all other leaders,” he said, speaking at the opening ceremony of the Danish EU Presidency in Aarhus.
Zelenskyy spoke alongside Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, President of the European Council António Costa and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.
Frederiksen vowed to support Ukraine’s accession process to join the European Union.
Denmark aims to use its presidency of the EU Council to put “maximum pressure” on Hungary to lift its veto on Ukraine’s EU membership negotiations.
“Ukraine belongs to the European family and NATO,” Frederiksen said, adding that Denmark is thinking about the “best way forward,” without sharing additional details.
It comes as Russia continues to intensify its attacks on Ukraine, and the United States decided to halt some promised air defence missiles and weapons, which it had already pledged to Ukraine.
When asked about the pause in military assistance, Zelenskyy said he will speak with US President Donald Trump soon, but did not go into further detail.
The Ukrainian President called on the EU to invest more in Kyiv’s defence industry.
Frederiksen said she hoped for continued US military support, but vouched to fill any gaps if necessary.
Speaking at an earlier press briefing alongside von der Leyen, Frederiksen emphasised a need for a change in mindset.
“When we are delivering weapons to Ukraine, instead of thinking it as donations, we have to think of it as a part of rearming ourselves,” Frederiksen said.
“Because right now it is the army in Ukraine that is protecting Europe,” she added.
Von der Leyen added that “financial possibilities are in place to directly support Ukraine,” urging member states to make use of the Security Action for Europe (SAFE), a €150 billion budget introduced at the end of May that will help support member states that with to invest in defence.
“Member states can take this money and either buy military equipment and give it to Ukraine, or they can take this money and invest it in the extremely efficient Ukrainian defence industry,” von der Leyen noted.
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