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Protesters blockading the Leonardo UK factory on Wednesday morning

Pro-Palestine protesters blockade Leonardo UK factory

Rachel Millward, Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales. Picture: Press Association

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Noam Bettan from Israel performs the song "Michelle" during the dress rehearsal for the first semifinal of the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna on Monday

Israel have no place in the Eurovision Song Contest line-up - Steve Cardownie

Police officers at the scene in Golders Green, north-west London, after two men - one aged in his 70s and another in his 30s - were stabbed on Wednesday morning

Antisemitism and anti-Israel-ism not the same - Bruce Whitehead

Bruce Whitehead

Time to check provenance of your avocados - Bruce Whitehead

Fuel prices are the first casualty of wars in the Gulf

History has taught us to avoid Gulf wars but we’re not listening - Vladimir McTa...

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Lorna Slater, Scottish Greens MSP

Scotland should not be a staging post for US war - Lorna Slater

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Like Russia, Israel should be barred from European football - Steve Cardownie

Gaza City pictured in 2017. Picture: THOMAS COEX/AFP via Getty Images

Gaza war can be traced back to 1917 promise - Bruce Whitehead

A juggler performs for tourists on the Royal Mile

Councillor's call to address Fringe anti-Semitism

Christine Grahame MSP.

Demonstrators need a change of focus - Christine Grahame

Israeli singer Yuval Raphael came second in the Eurovision Song Contest earlier this year

No place for Israel in Eurovision - Angus Robertson

The march will set off from The Mound in Edinburgh at 2pm on Saturday (September 6) and proceed to a rally at the UK Government headquarters in Queen Elizabeth House

Police issue update ahead of protest over war in Gaza

Protesters march through Edinburgh in October 2024 to mark the first anniversary of the war in Gaza. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images.

Thousands due to march through Capital over war in Gaza

Protesters block factory entrance to ‘disrupt supply' of F-35 parts
Activists blocked the entrance to Edinburgh’s Leonardo building this morning, claiming the company is ‘linked to the ongoing genocide’ in Gaza.
Neil Johnstone

Bruce Whitehead

The first casualty of war is truth - Bruce Whitehead

Gags Army at the Free Festival is an hour of comedy from British military veterans

Gags Army shows power of humour - Vladimir McTavish

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Pressure is growing on Israel over Gaza genocide outrage - Steve Cardownie

Displaced Palestinians receive lentil soup at a food distribution point in Gaza City. Aid groups are warning of surging numbers of malnourished children in war-ravaged Gaza (Picture: OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images)

Focus is on ending horror in Gaza - Ian Murray

Palestinians inspect the site struck by an Israeli bombardment in Muwasi, Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip on Monday (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga)

Gaza deaths written off - Steve Cardownie

Humanitarian aid is airdropped to Palestinians among the ruins of Gaza City on Monday (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

UK out of step with international consensus - Angus Robertson

Relatives of Palestinian child Salem Hussein, 12, killed in an Israeli army bombardment of Gaza, mourn beside his body at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City yesterday. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

We all need to speak up over the IDF outrages in Gaza - Steve Cardownie

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Another Dornan step too far - Sue Webber

Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon with her chief of staff Liz Lloyd

Sturgeon's legacy lives on - Sue Webber

Palestinian youth and children are seen at a tent camp set up amid war-damaged infrastructure in Gaza City (Picture: AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Divestment would send strong signal - Steve Burgess

US President Donald Trump addresses the nation, flanked by vice president JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Picture: Carlos Barria/ AFP via Getty Images

Donald Trump risks Middle East conflict escalating out of control
Donald Trump's decision to bomb Iran's nuclear installations has increased the prospect of the Middle East conflict escalating out of control.
Ian Swanson

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Israel must stop their cruel slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza - Steve Cardownie

A new generation of armed drone

Nato needs to prepare for attack - Angus Robertson

Scottish Green Party co-leader Lorna Slater

Lorna Slater: Made in Britain, dropped on Gaza - the arms trade must end now

Edinburgh premises of Biffa attacked by pro-Palestinian campaigners

Displaced Palestinians return to Rafah, Gaza Strip yesterday, a day after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas went into effect. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Moment of hope in Gaza - Angus Robertson

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to the media prior to talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the Chancellery on October 11, 2024 in Berlin. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Light at end of tunnel for Ukraine? - Steve Cardownie

Take a look through picture gallery to see how St Andrew’s Day has been celebrated in Edinburgh down the decades.

In pictures: St Andrew's Day in Edinburgh down the years

Civil defense workers extinguish a fire caused by a giant diesel tank which ignited, burning more than a dozen cars in a parking lot and damaging a building nearby, in a residential Beirut neighborhood on Saturday. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Important we keep focus on Middle East - Angus Robertson

Donald Trump on election night. Picture: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Trump as president: Be afraid, be very afraid - Ian Swanson

Thousands joined a pro-Palestine demonstration in Edinburgh on Saturday.

Thousands take part in pro-Palestine demonstration in city centre

A Palestinian child boy in the ruins of a building in Gaza City that was hit by a rocket

Stop arms sales to Israel, ceasefire now - Christine Grahame

Reginald D Hunter

Edinburgh police probe 'hate incident' at Reginal D Hunter Fringe show

National Galleries of Scotland is to keep Baillie Gifford on board as one of its main sponsors. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Arts world infested by invertebrates - John McLellan

All the windows of the Barclays Bank branch in the centre of Bristol have been smashed and graffiti sprayed over them in a co-ordinated attack by a group targeting the bank.

Watch: Activists smash up Barclays branches and cover in red paint

bank building targeted in red paint protest over arms for Israel

A man pushes a bicycle along as he walks amid building rubble in the devastated area around Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group. (Photo: AFP via Getty Images)

War remains big business on a global scale - Christine Grahame

Protesters during a pro-Palestine rally in Edinburgh organised by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, calling for a ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Photo: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Pro-Palestine protesters stand in solidarity with Palestinian women

Martyn Day MP for Linlithgow and East Falkirk

SNP MP questions Minister on risk of genocide in Gaza

Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz said that the Israeli army would push deeper into Rafah during Ramadan if Hamas doesn't release all Israeli hostages

The world can no longer stand by as Gaza death count ticks up - Angus Robertson

Martyn Day MP for Linlithgow and East Falkirk

MP Martyn's bid to stop arms sales to Israel

An RAF Typhoon aircraft returns to RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus after joining the US-led coalition conducting air strikes against military targets in Yemen

We must immediately pursue ceasefire in Gaza - Angus Robertson

The four 2024 predictions of French astrologer Nostradamus explained - including a new Pope and a new king. Composite image by NationalWorld/Kim Mogg.

The four 2024 predictions of French astrologer Nostradamus explained

Liberal Democrats won the Corstorphine/Murrayfield by-election, making them the second biggest party on Edinburgh City Council. Lib Dem candidate Fiona Bennett took 56 per cent of first-preference votes

That was the dramatic year that was . . . Alex Cole Hamilton

Councillor Alys Mumford

Councillor has little to say about Hamas slaughter - John McLellan

To celebrate St Andrew’s Day, Edinburgh Castle was lit up with a call to rally Edinburgh’s kind and generous spirit and support #MAKESOMEONESDAY

In pictures: St Andrew's Day in Edinburgh over the years

A Remembrance poppy wreath

Red, white and Greens - John McLellan

A Remembrance poppy wreath

Remembrance Day far is too close - Angus Robertson

A man drives a damaged car through a street ravaged by Israeli bombing in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on November 2 as battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement continue

Israel must call a ceasefire in Gaza now - Tommy Sheppard

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