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New York, Oct 7 (EFE).- The quintessential pop culture event that is Comic Com opened in New York on Thursday to an enthusiastic reception from fans of comics, film, television and videogames delighted to have the chance to gather together in person again after last year's fest was canceled due to Covid-19.People from across the United States and the world - and some who looked to have come from distant quadrants of the galaxy - flocked to the Javits Center to show off their costumes and catch a glimpse of their screen heroes in the flesh.Spider-Man strolling with Venom, Ahsoka Tano of Star Wars getting help with her costume from a friend, the Joker taking a selfie with a Star Trek character and a pair of Star Wars Jawas browsing the merchandise constitute a small sample of the wondrous sights. (Camera: JORGE FUENTELSAZ).SHOT LIST: COMIC CON 2021 GETS UNDER WAY AT THE JAVITS CENTER IN NEW YORK, US.SOUND BITES: CHARLES ALLEN, A COMIC CON DEVOTEE; LEX, A COMIC CON DEVOTEE; AND MIKE, A COMIC BOOK MERCHANT.
Vigo, Aug 28 (EFE).- Several people took part Saturday in the first edition since the pandemic of the traditional 'Rapa das Bestas' or 'the Shave of the Beasts' in northern Spain, where participants have to overcome wild horses and cut their mane without using ropes or sticks.Every year, wild horses are captured in the hills and then carried to a farmyard to be branded and have their horsehair cut during a traditional festival. (Camera: JORGE PIÑEIRO). B-ROLL OF PEOPLE PARTICIPATINGIN RAPA DAS BESTAS FESTIVAL IN A ESTRADA, GALICIA, SPAIN.
Brussels, May 29 (EFE) .- (Camera: Leo Rodríguez) Tomorrowland once again displays a spectacular chroma stage this year and records a new virtual edition, although organizers hope the Belgian Government will authorize the live celebration of the famous festival.FOOTAGE OF THE RECORDING OF THE VIRTUAL EDITION WITH SPANISH DJ DANNY AVILA.SOUNDBITES OF DEBBY WILMSEN, ORGANIZATION SPOKESWOMAN.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says that Israel's military campaign in Gaza has turned the territory into the world's "greatest open-air graveyard". Borrell's comment comes as he arrives in Brussels for a meeting of EU foreign ministers. SOUNDBITE
Music rises in the streets of west London as the famous and colourful Notting Hill Carnival returns after two years of Covid cancellation. Started as a children's fayre by local communities to ease tensions in a racially divided 60s London, the Carnival is now a world-reknowned celebration of the British Afro-Caribbean identity. IMAGES
Hundreds of thousands fill the streets of a sun-baked Zurich ready to party in the Swiss city's annual techno Street Parade, after a two-year absence due to the coronavirus pandemic. IMAGES