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An activist holding a placard with portraits of US President Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a rally condemning the US-Israeli strikes on Iran at a park in Quezon City, suburban Manila on March 2, 2026. (Picture: Ted ALJIBE / AFP via Getty Images)

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Palestinian ambassador: Scotland 'partly responsible' for Gaza deal

Parents should be held responsible if their children are involved in school violence, a reader says (Picture: Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)

Readers' letters: The challenges we face must be tackled head-on

Israel carries out strike on senior Hamas leaders in Qatari capital

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The sun sets behind buildings that were destroyed during the Israeli ground and air operations stand in the Gaza Strip as seen from southern Israel

Swinney brands Gaza City occupation plan 'completely unacceptable'

Rachel Reeves looked visibly tearful as Keir Starmer spoke during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons on Wednesday (Picture: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA Wire)

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Iranian theocratic regime is teetering at the edge of the precipice Struan Stevenson

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Readers' Letters: Ssshh! Don't make historic library into events venue

First-responders gather outside a building that was hit by an Israeli strike in Tehran on Friday

Starmer tells Netanyahu Israel and Iran must pull back from the brink

A girl appears to be in distress after receiving food at Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza City, earlier this month (Picture: Abood Abusalama)

How starvation of Gaza’s children is creating sinister new world order Henry McLeish

A girl holds a container at a food distribution point in the Nuseirat camp for refugees in central Gaza Strip (Picture: Eyad Baba)

Why Israeli PM is wrong about UK. We just want Gaza children to be fed Christine Jardine

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Readers Letters: Trans extremists shut down hopes of reasoned discussion

Displaced Palestinians flee Khan Younis, Gaza, amid the ongoing Israeli military offensive in the area

UK ramps up pressure on Israel over offensive in Gaza and West Bank

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Readers' Letters: Swinney's position on assisted dying is perplexing

Nicola Sturgeon remains defiant on the trans controversy (Picture: Robert Perry/PA)

Readers' Letters: Women won't forget Sturgeon's role in gender controversy

Pro-Palestine protesters hold demo outside Scottish Labour conference

Among the executive orders signed by Donald Trump after become US President was one entitled, 'Keeping Men out of Women’s Sport' (Picture: Anna Moneymaker)

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Readers' letters: It's time the UN packed up and left the United States

US President Donald Trump has been accused of calling for ethnic cleansing

'Dangerous': Swinney leads scathing response to Trump’s Gaza claim

Destroyed buildings in the northern Gaza Strip on January 13, 2025

Gaza ceasefire deal does not stop us being a long way from justice Alexander Brown

An image taken from the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip shows a smoke plume rising from explosions above destroyed buildings in the northern Gaza Strip. Picture: Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images

Israel and Hamas agree to Gaza Strip ceasefire in major breakthrough

An Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut in October.

Swinney, Yousaf call for Lebanon ceasefire to be extended to Gaza

Russian military vehicles drive on Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow In May this year. The May 9 event celebrated the 79th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Warmongering Russia is pushing for a global conflict

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People climb on the debris of an Iranian missile intercepted by Israel, near Arad, southern Israel, on 2 October

Why war between Israel and Iran now looks more likely than ever Paul Wilson

The killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar by Israeli troops has increased the chance of an end to the fighting (Picture: Emmanuel Dunand)

Killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar represents real chance for peace Scotsman comment

A woman reacts at the scene of an Israeli airstrike in the town of Maisara, north of Beirut

Starmer warns Middle East 'on the brink' as UK troops deployed

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Readers' Letters: There's a good reason dial has not shifted on independence

How Iran inches closer to nuclear capability as Israel conflict grows

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18 dead in Israeli air strikes on Gaza after two killed in Tel Aviv stabbing

Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike on a camp for internally displaced people in Rafah. Picture: Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images

John Swinney in Palestine state letter plea as Israel Rafah strikes condemned

An Al Jazeera English correspondent reports live from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Sunday. Israel's Prime Minister said his government has decided to shut down the Qatar-based news channel Al Jazeera, with which his administration has had a long-running feud. Picture: AFP via Getty Images

What is Al Jazeera and why has Israel banned it?

Palestinian Orthodox Christians attend the Easter mass at the church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza City, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the militant Hamas movement. Picture: AFP via Getty Images

Hamas militants attack main crossing point for delivering aid to Gaza

Despite Trump's 'bloodbath' rhetoric, he's ahead of Biden in key states Henry McLeish

Palestinian youths search the rubble of a building hit in overnight Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

Palestinian president expects ground assault on Rafah to start ‘in coming days’

A boy sits atop a concrete barrier in al-Zahra in the central Gaza Strip. Picture: AFP via Getty Images

Israel-Gaza: US demands answers over discovery of mass grave near Gaza hospital

Is UK now complicit in the use of hunger as a weapon of war in Gaza?
After an independent report finds no evidence to support Israel’s claims UNRWA staff were involved in terrorism, the UK should resume funding the aid agency
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British Foreign Secretary David Cameron, who has arrived in Israel today.

David Cameron arrives in Israel for talks over Iran with Benjamin Netanyahu

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Readers' Letters: MSPs must resign after Cass Review on NHS gender services

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak giving a statement to MPs in the House of Commons, London, following the attack by Iran on Israel.

Rishi Sunak warns Iran's nuclear programme 'never been more advanced'

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Why Iran’s miscalculated attack offers an opportunity Scotsman comment

This video grab from AFPTV taken on April 14, 2024 shows explosions lighting up Jerusalem sky during Iranian attack on Israel. Iran's Revolutionary Guards confirmed early April 14, 2024 that a drone and missile attack was under way against Israel in retaliation for a deadly April 1 drone strike on its Damascus consulate.

RAF jets deployed to shoot down Iranian drones heading to Israel

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak bat away criticism over arms sales to Israel.

Rishi Sunak says Israel must 'do more' to ease suffering in Gaza

President Joe Biden should use his influence to bring about a ceasefire in Gaza, says reader (Picture: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Joe Biden must act now to stop Gaza slaughter

James Henderson, John Chapman, and James Kirby

Britons killed in Israeli air strike ‘excellent operators’, says security firm

Photos issued by World Central Kitchen of (top row left to right) Palestinian Saifeddin Issam Ayad Abutaha, Australian national Lalzawmi "Zomi" Frankcom, Polish national Damian Sobol, American-Canadian dual citizen Jacob Flickinger and Britons (bottom row left to right) John Chapman, James "Jim" Henderson and James Kirby

Gaza deaths: Who were the aid workers killed in the Israeli air strike?

James Henderson, John Chapman, and James Kirby

British aid workers killed in Gaza named as global condemnation of attack grows

A car used by US-based aid group World Central Kitchen, that was hit by an Israeli strike (Photo by AFP)

Israel admits responsibility for strike which killed British aid workers

Palestinians carry away a covered body as people gather to inspect the damage at Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital after the Israeli military withdrew from the complex housing the hospital after a two week siege.

Protests continue against Benjamin Netanyahu as military leaves Gaza hospital

Joe Biden can stop the war in Gaza by cutting US aid to Israel Kenny MacAskill

People find their way through a rubble-covered alley, following overnight Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, amid continuing battles between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas. Photo: SAID KHATIB/AFP via Getty Images

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