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AFGHANISTAN'S president Ashraf Ghani has left the country, say reports which quoted Afghan officials.

‘PLEASE kindly support me and my family for a safe life,” he said. “The Taliban will behead me if they catch me.

NICOLA Sturgeon will open the largest conference in the world on basic income, which is being hosted in Scotland this week.

THEY came streaming over the frontline eastwards from the city of Kunduz in a cloud of dust that day back in November 2001. Barely two month...

‘PLEASE kindly support me and my family for a safe life,” he said. “The Taliban will behead me if they catch me.

A FORMER head of the British Army is calling on Boris Johnson to launch an urgent humanitarian aid operation in Afghanistan amid fears of a...

THE referendum in 2014 transformed independence from little more than a romantic dream into the critical fault line in Scotland’s politics....

CROSS-PARTY MPs want Parliament to be recalled over the escalating crisis in Afghanistan, where Taliban insurgents are closing in on the cap...

WHAT’S THE STORY?

GORDON MacIntyre-Kemp’s column “COP26: The climate crisis is not a drill, we must act now or lose everything” (August 12) is a welcome sign...

CINEWORLD and Picturehouse cinemas have hiked the average price of tickets by more than 40% since screens reopened as Covid-19 restrictions...

THE UK economy grew by 4.8% in the second quarter of 2021, the Office for National Statistics has announced.

THE world needs to start treating the climate emergency as a REAL emergency and not a hypothetical future problem before it’s too late. Net-...

AN employee at the British embassy in Berlin has been arrested on suspicion of spying for Russia, German prosecutors have said.

WHY is it always the least well-off in society that take the hit? First we have the threatened removal of the £20 a week uplift in Universal...

OVER the weekend, the SNP and the Scottish Greens were locked in talks about a deal for unity at Holyrood in the quest for national independ...

OVER the weekend, the SNP and the Scottish Greens were locked in talks about a deal for unity at Holyrood in the quest for national independ...

SCOTLAND is set to host the world’s largest universal basic income (UBI) conference this month.

THE so-called energy regulator Ofgem announced on Friday that it is raising its price cap. This will impact about 15 million people. Those o...

IT is well known that a major factor in the 2008 financial crisis was the reckless behaviour of banks and senior bank officials, combined wi...

THE UK state pension is only worth 28.4% of average income at retirement making it the worst state pension in the developed world. The value...

SCOTTISH soft fruit is being left to rot on bushes and growers are being forced by supermarkets to absorb Brexit-related costs – which may f...

‘DEVASTATING” new trade and welfare stats from Westminster shows why the Union’s not working for Scotland, SNP president Michael Russell say...

ALLIES of Rishi Sunak have insisted he is focused on the health of the economy in his job as Chancellor following reports the Prime Minister...