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Vatican audience disrupted by anti-bullfighting activists before pope’s Spain trip

News Desk4th June 20267th June 2026

4th June 20267th June 2026796

Two anti-bullfighting activists were removed from St Peter’s Square in Rome on Wednesday after briefly disrupting Pope Leo’s popemobile during a public audience at the...

Spain’s leading matador ‘stable but in pain’ after goring to groin area in Seville

News Desk21st April 202627th April 2026

21st April 202627th April 20266537

Spain’s leading matador, José Antonio Morante de la Puebla, is ‘stable but in pain’ according to the EFE news agency, after being gored by a...

Spain advances legal reform to ban minors from attending or taking part in bullfighting

News Desk28th January 20262nd February 2026

28th January 20262nd February 20261741

The Spanish government has presented a draft proposal that would prevent children and teenagers from attending or taking part in bullfights and other events involving...

Catalan town halts black cat adoptions amid fears of Halloween ‘rituals’

News Desk16th October 202521st October 2025

16th October 202521st October 20251732

Long associated with superstition, bad (or good) luck and occult symbolism, black cats have been given special protection in a Catalan town that has temporarily...

Guardia Civil bust illegal trafficking ring of protected species in Valencia

News Desk27th August 20252nd September 2025

27th August 20252nd September 20253831

Spain’s Guardia Civil said on Tuesday that it had broken up an illegal network involved in trading wild animals, among them species that are endangered...

One man gored, 7 others injured on second day of Pamplona’s bull-running festival

News Desk8th July 202514th July 2025

8th July 202514th July 20252562

One man was gored and seven others sustained minor injuries on Tuesday, during the second day of the San Fermín festival in Pamplona (Navarra), where thousands pack...

Guardia Civil arrest two people in Mallorca for alleged smuggling of exotic felines

News Desk15th April 202521st April 2025

15th April 202521st April 20252140

Spain’s Guardia Civil police have arrested two people in connection with the sale of exotic felines on the internet. The authorities seized 19 animals, including a...

Spanish farmer gets 15-month jail sentence for letting 170 geese starve to death

News Desk8th April 202514th April 2025

8th April 202514th April 20252005

The criminal division of the Spanish Supreme Court has confirmed a 15-month prison sentence for a farmer from Córdoba (Andalusia) convicted of animal abuse, after...

Woman in Alicante throws two dogs out of 8th-floor window as she was ‘fed up’ taking them out

News Desk25th March 202531st March 2025

25th March 202531st March 20253046

A woman in Alicante has been arrested after throwing her two pet dogs from the eighth floor of her apartment, allegedly because she was ‘fed...

Spain reverses ban on hunting wolves in the north of the country

News Desk21st March 202525th March 2025

21st March 202525th March 20252302

Spanish MPs voted on Thursday to lift a ban on hunting wolves in the northern part of the country, reversing a policy introduced three years...

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