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    COUNCILS across Scotland have reduced spending on nurseries and schools, care for the elderly, street cleaning and...

  • UKIP face fresh right-wing row

    UKIP have suffered another blow after it emerged that their by-election candidate in Aberdeen is linked to a group...

  • Galloway attacked for SNP Catholic slur

    THE controversial left-wing MP George Galloway has been attacked by pro-independence politicians and anti-sectarian...

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  • Same-sex marriage bill passed
    19 May 2013

    French President Francois Hollande has signed into law a bill allowing same-sex marriage, making France the 14th country to legalise gay weddings.

  • Abductions spark crossing closure
    19 May 2013

    Egyptian police, angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen, kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again yesterday, stranding hundreds of Palestinians, witnesses said.

  • Merkel echoes Pope's reform call
    19 May 2013

    GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel has met Pope Francis and, apparently responding to his criticism of a heartless "dictatorship of the economy", called for stronger regulation of financial markets.

  • Chief of Moscow CIA base named
    19 May 2013

    RUSSIA has named the alleged CIA station chief in Moscow, following its decision to expel a US diplomat accused of trying to recruit a Russian intelligence officer as a spy.

  • There is no short-term fix to ending Syria's war
    19 May 2013

    Worst sight of the week had to be the Syrian rebel fighter disembowelling a government soldier and symbolically eating the entrails.

  • Motive for missile launches unknown
    19 May 2013

    North Korea fired three short-range missiles from its east coast on Saturday, but the purpose of the launches was unknown.

  • Protests against austerity in Rome
    19 May 2013

    THOUSANDS of people have protested in Rome against austerity policies and high unemployment, urging new Prime Minister Enrico Letta to focus on creating jobs to help pull the country out of recession.

  • Domestic abuse law fails to pass
    19 May 2013

    Afghanistan's parliament has failed to pass a law banning violence against women, a severe setback to progress made on women's rights in the conservative Muslim country since the Islamist Taliban was toppled more than a decade ago.