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Tens of thousands of protesters filled the streets of downtown Bilbao late Saturday to call for an amnesty that would allow ETA prisoners to serve out the remainder of their sentences in the Basque region, rather than in jails further afield.
Hundreds of peopled tested their bravery and speed by dashing ahead of six fighting bulls in a fast and clean final running of the bulls at this year's San Fermin festival in northern Spain.
For your average daredevil, risking your life once at the San Fermin Festival is enough. Then there are the veterans, who return year after year to run with the bulls, unable to kick their fix.
A new Basque separatist party concluded years of intense debate among ETA-linked groups on Wednesday, becoming the first party linked to the Basque pro-independence group to officially reject violence in an effort to enter local elections.
Nine thrill-seeking runners were injured, three by goring, in a dangerous last running of the bulls at Spain's San Fermin festival, officials said Wednesday. It was the bloodiest run of this year's festival.
Chinese director Lu Chuan's film "City of Life and Death" has won the top prize at Spain's San Sebastian Film Festival.
The final chapter in this year's running of the bulls in Spain left four people injured with fractured bones and a head blow Tuesday, but no one was gored.
A Socialist leader who has vowed to fight the armed separatist group ETA took the oath of office Thursday as the Basque region's first non-nationalist president.
About 100 demonstrators who were formerly jailed as members of the violent Basque group ETA protested in northern Spain on Saturday calling on the government to begin talks to end the region's long-running separatist conflict.
Spanish police on Tuesday detained four alleged members of the armed Basque separatist group ETA who are suspected of planning an attack in the country's north, the Interior Ministry said.
Four bombs exploded in northern Spain on Sunday — including one outside a bank — causing damage but no injuries, officials said. A caller earlier warned about the explosives, saying he was speaking on behalf of Basque separatists.
A pack of steers and fighting bulls injured five people on their last run through the streets of Pamplona Monday in a relatively safe end to the weeklong San Fermin festival.
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