Afghanistan: ‘Travesty everything evaporated so quickly’

Diplomacy and co-operation between the UK and EU could help ensure easier travel, Portuguese MEP Claudia Monteiro de Aguiar has said. Her comments came after German Chancellor Angela Merkel said all member states should quarantine arrivals from the UK considering the dangers of the spread of Delta variant. But the MEP told BBC World News:…

The city of Pompeii was destroyed when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79AD. While much of the site was well preserved, many details about life in the city were lost, including some of the building’s colourful frescoes. Thousands of these fresco fragments are currently in storage at the site’s archaeological park and now a team at…

Israel’s ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, has expressed her concern about the ongoing violence between Jewish and Israeli-Arab mobs in the country. “Jerusalem is a city of peace and a city of co-existence,” she told BBC Hardtalk’s Stephen Sackur. “What we have seen this week is actually the result of a horrible incitement of…

US Vice-President Kamala Harris is due to hold talks with Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Tuesday. Andrew Selee, president of the Migration Policy Institute told BBC World News he thought both sides would be trying to figure out what the framework was going to be for a new relationship. “When Donald Trump was…

At least 120 people have died and hundreds are unaccounted for after some of the worst flooding in western Europe in decades. The acting mayor of Liege in Belgium, Christine Defraigne, told BBC World News that while the river level was now dropping, the city was now facing a “terrible aftermath”. “I think our population…

Security vulnerabilities in two domestic electric car chargers were discovered by researchers.