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Donald Trump has retweeted a woman from Lanark convicted of forgery, in the latest example of the president’s unpredictable social media behaviour.

A Conservative MP has been accused of “trivialising” the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein while on a fact-finding visit to Iraq.

Exports of Scotch whisky to Russia could be hit by the worsening diplomatic row between Russia and the UK, senior figures in Moscow have warned.

Barbara Bush, the former US first lady and literacy campaigner, has died at the age of 92.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi starts a visit to the United Kingdom today in a landmark trip that will strengthen bilateral political and economic ties.

A federal investigator has said that one person died after a plane with engine failure made an emergency landing in Philadelphia.

Alex Salmond has questioned whether the Bashar al-Assad regime was responsible for the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria.

Theresa May has hit back at accusations that she ordered military action against Syria on the “whims of the US president”, telling MPs: “We have not done this because President Trump asked us to do so.”

Russia has hacked into millions of computers across Britain, including home terminals and internet routers, and may be preparing for a widescale cyber attack, US and UK security chiefs said in an unprecedented warning last night.

Protests are planned at a Philadelphia Starbucks where two black men were arrested after store employees called 911 to say they were trespassing.

Former FBI Director James Comey says he thinks Donald Trump is morally unfit to be the US president.

Theresa May has bowed to intense pressure from the SNP for parliamentary scrutiny of British airstrikes in Syria, with the Prime Minister set to go before the House of Commons this afternoon to justify the UK’s military intervention.

Hundreds of thousands of Catalan separatists rallied in downtown Barcelona yesterday to demand the release of high-profile secessionist leaders being held in pre-trial detention.

Myanmar says it has repatriated the first family of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh, despite the UN warning it is not safe to return.

The head of Starbucks has said he wants to personally apologise to two black men who were arrested while sitting inside one of the chain’s coffee shops in Philadelphia.

There was something bleakly comical about Diane Abbott’s response to the question. Asked repeatedly by the BBC’s Nick Robinson on Friday’s edition of Radio 4’s Today programme whether there were any circumstances in which the Labour Party would consider supporting military action, the shadow home secretary answered “the Second World War”.

The images of children foaming at the mouth after two alleged chemical attacks on the then rebel-held enclave of Douma earlier this month stood as a rebuke to the international community – just like the one almost exactly a year ago on the town of Khan Shaykhun, and another near Damascus in 2013.

Nicola Sturgeon has said UK foreign policy should be set by Parliament and not Donald Trump after the US, UK and France launched missile strikes against Syria.