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A fire rages in the historic Dormition Cathedral in Kyiv following a Russian missile strike last month (Picture: Genya Savilov)

Burnham's first job must be to find enough money to prepare UK for war

The UK government and all Nato countries need to face up to the real danger posed by Vladimir Putin’...

Don’t be fooled by the crowds. Khamenei was a blood-soaked tyrant

A true memorial for Iran’s former Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is to be found in the test...

Benjamin Franklin, left, seen in a depiction of the drafting of the US Declaration of Independence in 1776, is said to have had dinner with Adam Smith during an earlier visit to Scotland (Image: Rischgitz)

Adam Smith's fingerprints are all over US Declaration of Independence

Several of America’s founding fathers cited Adam Smith’s works and found common cause with the philosopher’s ideas

Ukraine war isn't going well for Russia. How serious is it for Putin?Dr Alexander Titov

Happy 250th birthday USA. May you always be great

The United States has long been a bastion of freedom and democracy in the world

Venezuela earthquake appeal: How Scotland can help people in dire need

Amid fears about the spread of disease, people in the earthquake zone need food, shelter, clean wate...

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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and former defence secretary John Healey with a UK Typhoon fighter jet at a military base in Ankara, Turkey, in October 2025.

Scotland on the 'frontline', as Russian tanker seized

The vessel was intercepted in the early hours of Sunday morning and is now anchored off the coast of England.

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EU ramps up sanctions on Iran over Strait of Hormuz

Lev Grinberg shows off the Links Trophy after his seven-shot success in St Andrews

Ukraine-born golfer lands stunning St Andrews success in Links Trophy

Why Donald Trump and Keir Starmer are both failed leaders William Deans

Blairgowrie’s Connor Graham is chasing a second successive Scottish win in the Links Trophy in St Andrews heading into the final 36 holes on the Old Course on Sunday

Graham has Links Trophy leader in sights in St Andrews

Keir Starmer looks at drones as he visits defence contractor Stark in Swindon yesterday (Picture: Alastair Grant/pool)

Labour must ignore the polls when deciding on £18bn defence boost Scotsman comment

How the cost of living is affecting Scottish fish and chip shops

The Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields are off the Scottish coast

Exclusive SNP Aberdeen South candidate backs Rosebank and Jackdaw

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The student took photographs at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. Picture: Boevaya Mashina/Creative Commons

Exclusive Student at top Scots university pleads guilty over US military images

Police and forensic investigators examine the damage after a Russian drone hit a block of flats in Galati, eastern Romania (Picture: Daniel Mihailescu)

Russian drone strike in Romania shows why UK must urgently rearm Scotsman comment

Pictures of dozens of people executed by Iran's dictatorship are displayed during a protest in Paris in October (Picture: Martin Lelievre)

Why executed Iranian hero will be remembered as his country's Mandela Struan Stevenson

Pope Leo XIV attends the presentation of his first Encyclical Letter "Magnifica Humanitas" focused on the rise of artificial intelligence, in The Vatican (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP via Getty Images)

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The Grand Mosque complex in Mecca (Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP via Getty Images)

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Part of the copper plate charter collection at the centre of repatriation calls. Picture: University of Edinburgh

Exclusive Calls for Scottish university to return 'invaluable' treasure to India

This photograph shows a mobile phone that displays a warning of a possible air raid, in Vilnius on May 20, 2026.

Lithuanians flee to shelters over drone alert

Professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe works in a laboratory at the National Institute for Biomedical Research (INRB) in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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The Global Sumud Flotilla aimed to sail across the Mediterranean Sea to Gaza to challenge the ongoing blockade and draw attention to the humanitarian crisis. Picture: Murat Kocabas / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images

Concern for Scots academic on Gaza aid flotilla intercepted by Israel

Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with acting governor of the Bryansk region in Moscow on May 13. (Photo by Mikhail METZEL / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

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Workers from Kanyaruchinya, in Nyiragongo territory, take part in sanitation, renovation, and leveling work at the former Ebola treatment center, in Goma

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Children are being groomed online, manipulated into sharing images and then blackmailed by criminal gangs on an industrial scale (Picture: David Gray)

The hidden epidemic that's harming millions of children Paul Stanfield

Ross Cutmore was convicted in Odesa. Picture: Slidstvo.info

Exclusive Scots spy was ousted from military group in Ukraine over 'discipline'

A British soldier takes part in a Nato exercise in Estonia (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell)

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The American Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776 (Original Artwork: Engraving after a painting by John Trumbull/Rischgitz)

How British loyalists paid a steep price during American Revolution Kimberly Nath

People hold a banner reading 'Globalise the Intifada is a call to murder Jews' at a protest in Golders Green, London, following the stabbing of two people in the area last month (Picture: Justin Tallis)

Why the fight against antisemitism is one all liberals must join Ian Johnston

Madonna arrives at the 2026 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (Picture: Angela Weiss)

Met Gala's displays of wealth make it feel like last days of Rome Stephen Jardine

Philip Kurland's shop in Plains, Georgia, sells US presidential memorabilia but there would be little demand for something similar in Scotland, says Susan Dalgety (Picture: Megan Varner)

The biggest losers in Scottish election are not who you think they are Susan Dalgety

The devastating tsunami wave that hit Japan in March 2011, seen flowing into the city of Miyako in Iwate prefecture shortly after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake (Picture: Jiji Press)

Tsunami 7 times higher than Wallace Monument puts humans in our place Scotsman comment

Winston Churchill waves to crowds gathered in Whitehall, London, on VE Day, May 8, 1945. (Picture: Keystone/Hulton Archive)

Young generation must not forget our WWII heroes and why they fought Scotsman comment

King Charles was warmly welcomed to the White House by Donald Trump (Picture: Andrew Harnik)

In rural America, people are tiring of Trump, his war and his ballroom Susan Dalgety

John Swinney on a tour of Deanston Distillery in Doune yesterday after Donald Trump said he would drop tariffs on whisky (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell)

Why the War of Trump's Ear highlights Scottish politics' big problem Scotsman comment

The UK has too few soldiers, too few ships and too few planes (Picture: Finnbarr Webster)

State of UK's Armed Forces is bordering on a national emergency Scotsman comment

Donald Trump and King Charles walk on the South Lawn of the White House during a state arrival ceremony yesterday (Picture: Chip Somodevilla)

Maintaining the UK-US Special Relationship is vital for the world Scotsman comment

When British troops retook the Falkland Islands, they liberated its people from the control of a brutal dictatorship (Picture: Fox Photos)

Trump administration's shocking Falklands memo suggests historic shift Scotsman comment

Bruce Springsteen has attracted Donald Trump's ire after speaking out against him (Picture: Shirlaine Forrest)

Springsteen rallying Americans to defend the real USA against Trump Susan Dalgety