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Gladiators fight for their lives in Martigny.

Gladiators have been proving that they can still pull the crowds in Switzerland, 2000 years after their heyday. At a spectacle in the Roman amphitheatre in Martigny, the audience got ready with their thumbs to seal the fate of the competitors. (Julie Hunt, swissinfo.ch)

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