Chris MasonPolitical editor in Aberdeen
PA MediaA year or so ago, the Scottish National Party looked to be in deep trouble.
They had been comprehensively thrashed in the general election,…

Chris MasonPolitical editor in Aberdeen
PA MediaA year or so ago, the Scottish National Party looked to be in deep trouble.
They had been comprehensively thrashed in the general election,…

REIM, Israel — Israelis and Palestinians cried, cheered and gave thanks Monday as Hamas militants released their last 20 living hostages in exchange for more than 1,900 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
It was the first phase of a…

Israel freed almost 2,000 Palestinians from its jails on Monday as part of a Gaza ceasefire deal, prompting emotional scenes of families reunited with loved ones, some of whom had spent decades behind bars.
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The government’s national security adviser Jonathan Powell made no decisions about the content of any evidence provided in the collapsed case against two men accused of spying for China, a minister has said.
Prosecutors unexpectedly dropped…

US President Donald Trump called for a new era of harmony in the Middle East on Monday during a global summit on Gaza’s future held in Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh, urging countries to sign up for the Abraham Accords and trying to advance…

We, the undersigned, welcome the truly historic commitment and implementation by all parties to the Trump Peace Agreement, ending more than two years of profound suffering and loss — opening a new chapter for the region defined by hope,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is declaring Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip over and has already barreled ahead toward far larger goals — arguing that the fragile ceasefire his…