Reporting from Calais, France — On a clear day, the white cliffs of Dover are visible from the ferry terminal at Calais, 26 miles across the English Channel in northern France. Calais is Britain’s ...

CALAIS, France, June 17 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency has been sending staff from its Paris office on a weekly basis to Calais, where hundreds of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, are living in ...

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There are bars, restaurants, and nightclubs. There are Mosques, markets and hairdressers. In the so-called Jungle of Calais, France—the camp where nearly 3,000 refugees and migrants from Syria, Iraq, ...

During the 14th century, after King Edward III of England annexed France’s northernmost region, Calais was known as the “brightest jewel in the English crown.” Today, the town’s reputation is a very ...

CALAIS, France — Thousands of migrants lined up at dawn Monday as French authorities backed by armed police began the evacuation and destruction of the vast, squalid camp nicknamed “The Jungle.” ...

The makeshift camp has become home to an estimated 6,500 refugees. — -- Authorities today began evicting immigrants from the cramped makeshift refugee camp dubbed the Jungle in the port city of ...

CALAIS, France — President Francois Hollande said Monday that France will shut down "The Jungle" migrant camp in Calais. "The situation is unacceptable and everyone here knows it," Hollande said on a ...

On a side street in eastern Calais, a local lorry driver with a long goatee is readying for his next drive across the Channel as dusk settles over the port town. Declining to give his name, he speaks ...

French President Francois Hollande says the controversial makeshift migrant camp known as “The Jungle” in Calais will be completely dismantled before the end of the year. During a visit to the ...

Queen Mary, also known as Bloody Mary, the oldest daughter of Henry VIII and the half-sister of Queen Elizabeth, was heartbroken when she received the news, in 1558, that the French had recaptured ...