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Spain’s Pamplona bull-running fiesta back with a bang after COVID ban

July 6, 2022414 Views

Thousands of revellers wearing white clothes and red scarves filled the streets of Spain's Pamplona on Wednesday as the bang of a firecracker kicked off the first San Fermin bull-running festival since the COVID-19 pandemic struck. A light rain did nothing to dampen the spirits of a sea of people packing the northern city's Townhall Square, their clothes already drenched with the red wine and sangria that flow freely during the eight-day festival, made famous by Ernest Hemingway's novel "The Sun Also Rises". Revellers gather during the opening of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain, July 6, 2022. REUTERS/Vincent West The annual event was cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to coronavirus restrictions. Animal rights groups want it banned for good. "I've been to San Fermin man...

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Rising temperatures reawakening ‘placid’ Alpine glaciers

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July 5, 2022251 Views

Drone search resumes on Italian glacier after avalanche Glaciers in Europe's Alps are becoming more unstable and dangerous as rising temperatures linked to climate change are reawakening what were long seen as dormant, almost fossilised sheets of ice. Italy has been baking in an early summer heatwave and attention had been focused on the impact of drought on crops on the fertile Po Valley. Punta Rocca summit is seen after parts of the Marmolada glacier collapsed in the Italian Alps amid record temperatures, killing at least six people and injuring several, at Marmolada ridge, Italy, July 4, 2022. REUTERS/Borut Zivulovic Further north in the Dolomites, tragedy struck on Sunday when a glacier collapsed on the Marmolada, which at more than 3,300 metres is the highest peak in the ...

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Rusting Eiffel Tower in need of full repairs, reports say

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July 4, 2022220 Views

The Eiffel Tower is riddled with rust and in need of full repairs, but instead it is being given a cosmetic 60 million euro paint job ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, according to confidential reports cited by French magazine Marianne. The wrought-iron 324-metre (1,063 ft) high tower, built by Gustave Eiffel in the late 19th century, is among the most visited tourist sites in the world, welcoming about six million visitors each year. FILE PHOTO: A woman, wearing a mask, rides her bicycle near the Eiffel tower at Trocadero square in Paris during the nationwide curfew, from 7 p.m to 6 a.m, due to tighter measures against the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in France, April 26, 2021. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes However confidential reports by experts cited by Marianne ...

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Benin Bronzes: Germany ready but Britain reluctant to return colonial loot

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July 3, 2022903 Views

Germany and Nigeria have signed an agreement paving the way for the return of hundreds of artifacts known as the Benin Bronzes that were taken from Africa more than 120 years ago — an accord that Nigerian officials hope will prompt other countries to follow suit. Governments and museums in Europe and North America have increasingly sought to resolve ownership disputes over objects that were looted during colonial times. A British colonial expedition looted vast quantities of treasures in 1897 from the royal palace of the Kingdom of Benin, in what is now southwestern Nigeria, including numerous bas-reliefs and sculptures. The artifacts ended up spread far and wide. Hundreds were sold to collections such as the Ethnological Museum in Berlin, which has one of the world’s largest gro...

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Venice makes reservation and fee mandatory for day-trippers

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July 3, 2022928 Views

Starting in January, Venice will oblige day-trippers to make reservations and pay a fee to visit the historic lagoon city, in a bid to better manage visitors who often far outnumber residents in the historic center, clogging narrow streets and heavily-used foot bridges crossing the canals. Venice officials on Friday unveiled new rules for day-trippers, which go into effect on Jan. 16, 2023. Tourists who choose not to stay overnight in hotels or other lodgings will have to sign up online for the day they plan to come and pay a fee. These range from 3 to 10 euros ($3.15 to $10.50) per person, depending on advance booking and whether it’s peak season or the city is very crowded. FILE PHOTO: A tourist takes a selfie in St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy, Nov. 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Luca...

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Ukrainian beetroot soup is now a UNESCO cultural heritage

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July 2, 20221088 Views

Victory on other front: Borshch declared a protected heritage at risk from Russian invasion Ukraine claimed victory in an age-old culinary dispute with Russia on Friday after the United Nations' cultural agency placed a traditional beetroot soup on its list of protected Ukrainian cultural heritage. Paris-based UNESCO announced in a statement that it had placed borshch, a rich crimson soup packed with vegetables, on a list of cultural heritage in need of "urgent safeguarding" due to the risk posed to the soup's status as an element of Ukraine's cultural heritage by Moscow's invasion. Ukrainian chef Yevhenii Marshal cooks borshch at a traditional cuisine restaurant, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine July 1, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko Ukraine claimed ...

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Traditional Czech village pubs turning off taps as costs soar

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July 1, 2022853 Views

Czechs have long gathered at village pubs to catch up with friends or celebrate special occasions in a nation famed for its beer culture, but soaring costs and belt-tightening by patrons have now left many watering holes fighting for survival. Like other pubs across the country, U Kryslu in the village of Sec, population 318, is suffering from a plunge in income as customers cut back on leisure spending - the latest blow to establishments struggling to rebound from pandemic lockdowns. "In many villages and maybe even in ours the pub will cease to exist," said Sec Mayor Helena Chytra, who is seeking a new operator for U Kryslu, where on a recent visit only one customer was sipping a beer while the bartender checked his phone. A bartender drafts a glass of beer inside the U Kantu p...

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A new museum in Denmark tells the story of refugees

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June 27, 20221073 Views

Denmark’s Queen Margrethe opened a new museum Saturday that tells the story of the generations of refugees who have shaped Danish society, starting with Germans who fled the Soviet advance during World War II. Flugt — Refugee Museum of Denmark was created on the site of a camp in Oksboel, a town in southwestern Denmark, that housed up to 100,000 refugees from Germany in the postwar years. Flugt — which means escape in Danish — also tells the story of immigrants from Iran, Lebanon, Hungary, Vietnam and elsewhere who fled their homelands and found shelter in the Scandinavian country. They tell their stories in their own words on large video screens. The Danish Queen Margrethe and museum director Claus Kjeld Jensen walk during the inauguration of the new museum Flugt, in Oksboel, De...

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Party now, pay later: Glastonbury a break from cost-of-living worries

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June 25, 2022651 Views

Festival-goers are determined to have a blast at Glastonbury and put the rising cost of fuel, food and drink to the back of their minds until they leave Worthy Farm on Monday after a weekend of escapism. A majority of the 200,000 people at the renowned British music festival secured a ticket in autumn 2019, when 'coronavirus' was a word familiar to few outside the science community and inflation was 1.5%. Two and half years later, inflation is 9.1%. Revellers dance at The Park stage at Worthy Farm in Somerset during the Glastonbury Festival in Britain, June 24, 2022. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez Although COVID restrictions are over, the festival scene is not immune to the pressure, with both vendors and revellers feeling the impact. "We're probably going to fork out a lot of mone...

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Schiphol flights to be restricted to cut noise, emissions

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June 25, 2022548 Views

Airlines industry not happy with the decision by Dutch Government Flights from Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport will be limited to 440,000 a year, 11% less than in 2019, to cut noise pollution, the Dutch government said on Friday, drawing praise from green groups but dismay from airlines bosses. The decision follows a move by Schiphol itself, in which the Dutch state is the majority shareholder, to impose a cap on the number passengers it can carry this summer - although that was due to staffing shortages. The government also pointed to the airport's impact on "nature and climate" for the cuts, following criticism from environmental campaigners and the left-wing opposition for its greenhouse gas and nitrogen oxide emissions. The move is intended to restore "the balance between a w...