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AS a foreign correspondent these past four decades, I’ve sadly been no stranger to the horrors of ethnic cleansing and genocide. From the...

SCOTTISH universities have shares worth more than

THE new principal of the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) is "getting used to doing the nightshift".

OFGEM’s decision to lift the price cap on energy bills, which could cost 15 million UK households around £100 each, has been branded “ins...

FINANCE Secretary Kate Forbes has hit back at a London School of Economics (LSE) report which predicting that the impact of independence on...

TODAY is the 73rd Independence Day in Sri Lanka, the country formerly known as Ceylon.

SCOTS could face council tax hikes of 6% in 2022 after Finance Secretary Kate Forbes offered authorities £90 million to freeze the charge in...

TODAY is the 73rd Independence Day in Sri Lanka, the country formerly known as Ceylon.

This report by two London-based PhD students uses wonky methodology and claims to forecast 30 years in the future

THE news over the weekend and since that the military have taken power in Myanmar is nothing short of terrifying for anyone concerned abo...

AROUND 13,000 jobs and turnover worth £3.48 billion were lost in the retail sector during the five years before the pandemic, industry ex...

LOCAL government leaders say they willl continue to press the Scottish Government for more funds despite Kate Forbes’s multi-billion poun...

WARNINGS about a possible coup in Myanmar have been doing the rounds for days. But in a news media so currently dominated by the Covid-19...

AROUND one-third of Scots believe Nicola Sturgeon’s Government in Edinburgh has done the most to support business and the economy through...

MYANMAR’S military has overthrown civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her governing party in a coup.

BOTH the Kremlin and Russian state media are piling on the pressure to stop him and his supporters. He’s a western stooge conspiring with...

THE failure of the Tories to protect the NHS has left it under threat of being “parcelled up” in trade deals, the SNP has warned.

MORE and more Scots are seeking help over power bill debts as the pandemic continues, a lifeline charity network says.

COUNCILS are being urged to green-light civic solar schemes as one local authority approves a landmark power project.

NICOLA Sturgeon has been promoted by Friends actor Jennifer Aniston as one of the women who have been empowered to “change the world”.

KEY policy choices have been at the heart of the new United States administration and also our very own Scottish Government with their Bu...

GOOD to see Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp teaming up with The National to winkle out more converts (We’ll explain the merits of Yes to your undec...

TOO many of Scotland’s key workers will be “left out in the cold” with a real terms wage cut under the proposed Scottish Budget, union le...

THE MP of a Scottish man who could face the death penalty in India has again appealed to the UK Government for action as a major charity...

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