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America is changing: Here's why Scotland should care

Scotland played a significant role in shaping America

New Zealand Volcanic Eruption: Alert level raised on Whakaari island

The island was the scene of a tragedy back in 2019.

A car ablaze during demonstrations in Paris at the weekend

We should learn from the French rather than follow in their footsteps

The EU that Andy Burnham wants to rejoin is unrecognisable from the one the UK voted to leave a decade ago

Brian Cox among Scots backing Democrats in US mid-term elections Martyn McLaughlin

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I was tear gassed on a boat trip in Paris in the aftermath of riots

As we sailed down the Seine in a sightseeing boat dozens of black balaclava-clad protesters across a...

In pictures: 10 images of the protests in France

Here are ten images of the protests that continue into the week.

Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Overnight strikes in Ukraine despite Trump's 'energy ceasefire'

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had said he was willing to support a ceasefire if Moscow did - but now reports energy infrastructure has been targeted by...

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UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

UK's 'solidarity' with Zelensky after Trump calls

UK Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has pledged to build a £10 billion air defence system named 'Britannia Shield', which was initially described by party officials as 'in essence, a British Iron Dome' (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: How would a Badenoch government pay for a UK 'iron dome'?

Europe must try to make Trump's favours for Putin a US election issue Scotsman comment

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Firefighters work to extinguish a fire after a Russian drone strike on a shopping centre in Sumy, Ukraine, in July (Picture: Serhii Shapovalov)

Why I choose to raise my kids in a Ukrainian city under Russian attack Iryna Rushetskaya

Ukrainians have lived with relentless Russian attacks on civilian areas for more than four years (Picture: Andrii Khodkov)

Heartbreaking tales of loss from Ukrainians show why we must back them Christine Jardine

Sky's docu-drama The Wargame sees former government ministers, including Michael Gove and Nicola Sturgeon, try to deal with a possible Russian attack (Picture: Justin Downing)

Warning signs of Russia-Nato war are multiplying. Britain must rearm Scotsman comment

Andro Mathewson (left), in Ukraine with Besi Alickaj

The Scot making his 20th trip to Ukraine – to deliver an ambulance

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From left, students Veronica Jafali, Comfort Galimoto and Elida Chithumba outside the Great Hall of the University of Malawi, known as Unima.

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A view of the National Mall in Washington DC in 2024. Picture: Saul Loeb

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Chinese president Xi Jinping toasts blood-soaked Russian despot Vladimir Putin during a visit to the Kremlin in 2023 (Picture: Pavel Byrkin)

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From left, Madalitso, Alefa, two-year-old Iana, and her mother Brenda, at the side of a road in Area Three, Lilongwe. Madalitso sells airtime vouchers for Airtel Malawi, while Alefa and Brenda have a stall selling the essentials of life: maize flour, tomatoes, greens and cooking oil.

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Nelson Mandela, pictured in 2007, won the Nobel peace prize with FW de Klerk 'for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa' (Picture: Leon Neal)

Glasgow's new Mandela statue a lasting reminder of a historic decision Scotsman comment

Ross Greer, of the Scottish Greens, likes to claim the moral high ground but his stance on the Middle East actually harms the Palestinian cause (Picture: Jane Barlow)

Why Greens' stance on Israel is dangerous for the Palestinian people Alistair Carmichael

Wolves may not be the ecosystem engineers of popular imagination, but that doesn't mean we can't love them for who they are (Picture: Matt Cardy)

Wolves did not save Yellowstone. Why were we so eager to believe it? Rogelio Luque-Lora

Activists protest against data centres outside the Scottish Parliament last month (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell)

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Protesters with a giant banner printed with the Preamble to the United States Constitution during a demonstration against the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington in 2010 (Picture: Chip Somodevilla)

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Donald Trump's threat to ban US exports of diesel would have sent prices in the UK and elsewhere soaring even higher (Picture: Aaron Schwartz)

Record diesel price shows why North Sea oil and net zero are vital Scotsman comment

Will Donald Trump's next war be against Cuba? (Picture: Andrew Harnik)

Trump’s stock as global poster boy for hard right looks set to plunge Martin Roche

Canadian premier Mark Carney is taking a stand against US President Donald Trump and the democratic world needs to back him (Picture: Chip Somodevilla)

UK must join Carney's new coalition or face domination by US and China Henry McLeish

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A protester holds a painting of Russian despot Vladimir Putin, showing his head made up of many skulls, during an election-day demonstration outside the Russian Embassy in Berlin, Germany (Picture: Jens Schlater)

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Reza Falahi, left, and Ahmad Ebrahimi gave evidence in the trial of Hamid Noury in Sweden. Noury was convicted of involvement in the mass execution of political prisoners in Iran during the 1980s but then freed from prison after Iran took Swedish citizens hostage (Picture: Jonathan Nackstrand)

Iran's attempt to destroy evidence shows it fears judgment is nigh Struan Stevenson

The Eiffel Tower was at the centre of controversy in France over women's rights (Picture: Riccardo Milani/Hans Lucas)

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney greets European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen after delivering a speech at the European Parliament (Picture: Jean-Christophe Verhaegen)

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Despite rapid advances in the technology, there is still no global regulatory framework governing AI safety (Picture: Hector Retamal)

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Donald Trump, seen at this month's Republican midterm election convention, said he would 'issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000' if the Republicans win in November (Picture: Andrew Harnik)

SNP’s £3,000 'indy dividend for all' about as real as Trump’s $5,000 William Deans

An Israeli flag flies near the settlement of Carmel in the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank (Picture: Tamir Kalifa)

UK's settler sanctions in best interests of Israelis and Palestinians Christine Jardine

Ulrich Siegmund, of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, poses with an election poster reading 'deportations starting minute one' (Picture: Sean Gallup)

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Winston Churchill makes a victory sign outside 10 Downing Street in June 1943 as the Second World War raged (Picture: Daily Express/Hulton Archive)

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A man at a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong in 2020 holds a photograph of the famous 'Tank Man' standing in front of a column of Chinese tanks in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, in June 1989 (Picture: Anthony Wallace)

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