French authorities are this morning moving over a thousand teenage migrants who remain in limbo on the site of the so-called ''Jungle" in Calais. The migrants, who are estimated to number about 1,500, ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Armed with sledgehammers, French workers on Tuesday began demolishing the "Jungle" camp outside the port town of Calais, which has been home to thousands of ...

CALAIS, France — The Calais Migrant camp – or “The Jungle” as it was called – now looks more like a landfill. It’s a stark contrast to the makeshift city that stood here as a staging post for migrants ...

A French court on Tuesday postponed a ruling on the demolition of half the "Jungle" refugee camp in Calais, while Belgium reinstated border controls fearing an influx of migrants from the camp.

The camp has grown to 9,000 people. Calais residents oppose it and want it shut down for good. But when one protester goes there for the first... For One French Woman, An Eye-Opening Visit To Calais' ...

PARIS (Reuters) - French police dismantled a makeshift migrant camp in the northern port of Calais on Friday, removing hundreds of people in one of biggest operations of its kind in recent months.

The notorious "Jungle" migrant camp on the outskirts of the French port of Calais has for years been a key staging post for migrants trying to smuggle across the Channel to Britain on lorries or ...

A migrant runs past a burning makeshift shelters in the "Jungle" on the third day of their evacuation and transfer to reception centers in France, as part of the dismantlement of the camp in Calais, ...

But this isn't the first time this has happened. There have been migrant camps in Calais for almost 20 years. We look at how the camp started and what happened the last time the camp was closed down.

Earlier this month France’s President Francois Hollande announced that the informal camp for refugees and migrants in Calais, the so-called “Jungle,” will be closed in the coming days, with the camp ...