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CALAIS, France, July 17 (UNHCR) - Locals call it, "The Jungle" - a squalid warren of shanties made out of cardboard, plywood and bits of plastic that has mushroomed among the sand dunes and brambles ...

CALAIS, France, Aug 8 (UNHCR) - It's nearly midnight while Farad*, Yacine* and a dozen other refugees sit around a fire and drink tea in a makeshift shelter in the so-called jungle in Calais. They ...

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, ...

A new settlement named the New Jungle sprouts up near a state-run day centre for migrants established at the site Under pressure from Britain, which sees it as having a "pull" effect on migration, the ...