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 ...

In the port city of Calais in northern France, tensions are running high. At night, groups of desperate migrants try to cross through the 31-mile tunnel under the English Channel by vaulting over ...

The Côte d’Opale is a stretch of coastline with big skies, rolling fields, and chalk cliffs that can feel almost unreal in ...

The ship was targeted after a demonstration in Calais in support of migrants The port of Calais was temporarily closed on Saturday and services were disrupted after a group of migrants briefly boarded ...

Empty, barren and bleak: this wasteland is all that remains of the Jungle migrant camp in Calais. Bulldozers have flattened the vast shanty town, which was home to thousands of people hoping to reach ...

Storm clouds are gathering over Calais. In the drizzle, a ferry bound for Dover, England, slowly motors out of the port, its horn reverberating through the streets of this small French city. I wonder, ...

Scores of migrants in the French port of Calais have tried to force their way onto a ferry bound for England, officials and witnesses say. Passenger John Bailey told the BBC that the migrants had ...