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CALAIS, FRANCE—France deployed more than 100 riot police to Calais on Wednesday to bolster security as hundreds of migrants have been trying night after night to rush the railway tunnel leading ...
NPR's Eleanor Beardsley has been covering the story in Calais, France, which is the French end of the tunnel. Hi, Eleanor. ELEANOR BEARDSLEY, BYLINE: Hi, Steve. INSKEEP: So there's not exactly a ...
CALAIS, France — Rahmanjan Safy scrambled to salvage ... Migrants in that section would attempt to jump on trucks crossing through the Chunnel, despite barbed wire set up to protect the ...
Britain, angry at the growing problem of refugees using the tunnel, has been pressuring France to step up its security measures. Services from the Frethun terminal, near Calais -- run by French ...
France is boosting security around its entry ... that's called the Eurotunnel in France and the Channel Tunnel, or Chunnel, in Britain. Some 2,000 migrants tried to get into the tunnel Monday ...
CALAIS, France--I'm sitting in a train doing something more than 265 million people have done before--enter the Chunnel for a crossing between France and England. But I've got a seat very few of ...
A group including children was seen boarding at a beach in Gravelines, between Calais and Dunkirk. French authorities were then pictured escorting a small boat. There have not been any arrivals of ...
CALAIS, France >> Migrants rushed the tunnel linking France and England repeatedly for a second night on Wednesday and one man was crushed to death by a truck in the chaos, deepening tensions ...
The history of the port—now a flashpoint for Europe’s migrant crisis—tells the story of the relationship between Britain and France. Calais is the French port closest to England and, since 1994, the ...
Nearly half the car and truck traffic from England to France went via the Chunnel, the 35-minute trip an hour less than the ferry service from the English port of Dover to Calais. Chunnel traffic ...
CALAIS, FRANCE — Passengers and freight trundled again through the tunnel under the English Channel on Saturday, two days after a fierce undersea fire suspended service, injuring 14 people.