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Shots were fired at a planned migrant centre near Calais
Nantes (France) (AFP) - French police were investigating Wednesday after shots were fired at a building set to host migrants evicted from the squalid "Jungle" camp in Calais.The gunshots, fired Tuesday...
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A four-star French general was stripped of his right to wear his uniform over...
Paris (AFP) - A retired French general who took part in a protest against migrants in the northern port of Calais has been stripped of his right to wear his uniform, the defence ministry said...
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France says Britain has 'moral duty' to take in hundreds of minors from...
Paris (AFP) - France on Monday said Britain had a "moral duty" to take in hundreds of migrant children from the Jungle camp in Calais desperately seeking to cross the Channel."I am solemnly asking...
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French asylum chief: Calais migrant camp sheltering thousands 'is finished'
PARIS (Reuters) - Plans to dismantle the "Jungle" migrant camp in northern France where thousands of refugees are holed up will go ahead to "take people out of the slums," France's asylum chief pledged...
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'It looks like someone cares a little bit about us': Refugees begin a new...
MERIGNAC, France (Reuters) - In a dank flat in southwestern France, 23-year-old Nasir stares at a living room wall bare except for a list of emergency numbers and contemplates life for his...
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An interpreter working with French public broadcaster France 5 was raped near...
A 38-year-old interpreter was raped near the Calais Jungle on Tuesday while working on a documentary for French public broadcaster France 5, according to French newspaper Le Figaro.The victim, of...
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Thousands of police officers stage a nearly weeklong protest in France
PARIS (Reuters) - French police staged protests in Paris and other cities for a fifth night on Friday, in a movement showing no sign of abating despite President Francois Hollande's government attempts...
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Theresa May is promising to fight plans to move the border from Calais to the UK
Theresa May's office has strongly rejected the suggestion from French presidential candidate Alain Juppé that the border for migrants could be moved from Calais to the southeast coast of England.Juppé,...
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French police started clearing the 'jungle' migrant camp in Calais
CALAIS, France (Reuters) - Hundreds of migrants carrying suitcases and bundles of possessions started queuing outside a hangar outside Calais on Monday to be resettled as the French government started...
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Dazed migrants recount their traumatising ordeal after the 'Jungle' blaze
Calais (France) (AFP) - Huddled under blankets, migrants in the Calais "Jungle" recounted Wednesday how they fled a fire that ripped through tents and shacks in the night after the death knell had...
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Children left in Calais 'Jungle' as demolition gathers pace
Calais (France) (AFP) - Dozens of migrants, including children, were left wandering Thursday through France's "Jungle" camp after sleeping rough on the edges of the burnt-out Calais...
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Migrants receive chilly welcome from wary French villagers
Forges-les-Bains (France) (AFP) - As the bulldozers clear the remaining shacks at the "Jungle" camp, the thousands of migrants moved out to shelters around France are facing an uncertain welcome from...
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Calais businesses dare to hope for an 'apres-Jungle' boost
Calais (France) (AFP) - A new scent is in the air in Calais called "apres-Jungle", but it is not an exotic aftershave.Rather it sums up the northern French port's hopes and fears for the future...
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The Calais 'Jungle' has become like 'Lord of the Flies,' with 1,500 children...
The Calais 'Jungle' has become like 'Lord of the Flies', with 1,500 children left unsupervised, sleeping in bare containers and free to roam the adjacent camp site, close to heavy machinery being used...
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1 in 3 child migrants have gone missing since the Calais Jungle closed
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nearly one in three migrant children tracked by a refugee charity have gone missing since the "Jungle" camp in the northern French town of Calais was dismantled in...
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The UK had secret plans to blow up the Channel Tunnel with a nuclear bomb if...
Britain had a secret plan to blow up the Channel Tunnel with an atomic bomb in case of Soviet invasion from France, documents from the National Archive reveal.As the vision for the connecting tunnel...
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This British artist travels the world painting 'the stories of those who...
Artist Hannah Rose Thomas is using her talents as a painter to record some of the refugees she has encountered through her charity work over the years.Thomas studied Arabic and History and has led a...
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'Living in hell': New report details police brutality against child migrants...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has released a scathing report outlining, in sometimes gruesome detail, the police brutality against child and adult migrants and asylum seekers in France.In a 40-page report,...
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France's top court just ordered the government to provide water to the...
PARIS (Reuters) - France's highest administrative court on Monday ruled President Emmanuel Macron's government and the Calais region must provide hundreds of migrants with drinking water, showers and...
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'The dream is achievable here': Hundreds of migrants are raising fears of a...
Brussels (AFP) - Hundreds of migrants sleep in the shadow of high-rises in downtown Brussels, raising fears in the EU capital of a new "Jungle", similar to the dismantled camp in Calais.Each night, the...
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