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  • Second best will have to do these days for Rangers

    A QUOTE was doing the rounds on social media at the weekend which was credited to the former Rangers chairman, John Lawrence.“Rangers cannot, and never shall be, second.”That line came in better times. It will be a relief to Graeme Murty that his team

  • Letters: The battle is on to save our Scottish Parliament

    AFTER reading the right-wing conservative media outlets over the weekend and listening to some ultra-right-wing conservative commentators and MPs, it would now appear there is a definite effort not just to undermine the elected parliament of Scotland

  • Chemical weapons team takes samples from Douma

    CHEMICAL weapons inspectors have collected samples from Douma, two weeks after a suspected gas attack prompted retaliatory strikes by Western powers on the Syrian government’s chemical facilities.The site visit, confirmed by the Organisation for the Prohibition

  • Reporter shot dead at Nicaragua protest

    A JOURNALIST in Nicaragua has been shot dead while doing a live broadcast about anti-government protests.Angel Gahona was reporting on damage at a bank in the Caribbean coast town of Bluefields when a bullet hit him during his Facebook Live newscast.Video

  • Blast leaves 48 Afghanistan voters dead, 100 wounded

    A SUICIDE bomber has struck at a voter registration centre in the Afghan capital, killing at least 48 people and leaving at least 112 injured.According to Afghanistan’s Pajhwok news agency, 21 women and five children died in the attack.General Daud Amin