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image captionNicola Sturgeon comfortably held her seat on Saturday despite a challenge by Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar
The SNP is closing in on a fourth consecutive victory in the Scottish election, but its hopes of winning an overall majority remain in the balance.
Counting is continuing, with 11 constituency and all 56 regional list seats still to be declared.
The SNP has won 53 seats so far, with the Liberal Democrats on four, the Conservatives three and Labour two.
Polling expert Prof Sir John Curtice said it was unlikely but not impossible for the SNP to win a majority.
Scottish National Party wins 4th term just short of overall majority
The nationalist SNP will fall short of a majority but a strong showing by the Greens may set the stage for a second independence referendum. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has long vowed to block any such attempt.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says UK Prime Minister Johnson will have to go to court to block indyref2
The Scottish National Party (SNP) has won regional parliamentary elections in Scotland, but failed to gain and absolute majority.
The win gives SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon a platform from which to launch a second Scottish independence referendum otherwise known as indyref2.
London Court Will Reconsider $6.9B Suit Against BHP Over 2015 Brazil Dam Collapse
LONDON – London’s Court of Appeal will hear a request to revive a 5 billion pound ($6.95 billion) lawsuit against Anglo-Australian mining group BHP over a 2015 dam failure in Brazil, a court order showed.
Judge Nicholas Underhill has agreed to an oral hearing that could help to overturn a previous Court of Appeal decision which denied a 200,000-strong Brazilian claimant group permission to appeal against a judgment to strike out the landmark case.
“I am satisfied that, exceptionally, an oral hearing is appropriate in this case,” the judge said in the order, which was signed on May 4 and seen by Reuters on Thursday.
ABSENCE, they say, makes the heart grow fonder, but not it seems when it comes to Boris Johnson and Scotland. The Prime Minister and self-styled Minister for the Union has happily ventured to Wales and parts of England during the Super Thursday election campaign, meeting voters, giving media interviews and eagerly promoting the blue rosette candidates. Indeed, he has been but 80 miles from the Scottish border on three occasions to bolster the Conservative cause in the Hartlepool by-election. Yet when it comes to Scotland, an integral part of Mr Johnson’s “wonderful Union”, a nation Downing Street insists he “loves”, it has become an electoral no-go zone for the UK’s invisible premier.
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