British and French campaigners have warned about the dangers of migrant Channel crossings after a woman attempting the journey went missing after falling into the sea last week.
The Ocean Viking charity ship plucked 85 African migrants from the sea off Libya Friday, the latest rescue in the Mediterranean as Hollywood star Richard Gere boarded a second vessel to highlight the plight of those stranded.
Humanitarian group SOS Mediterranee has dispatched its new rescue ship Ocean Viking from the French port of Marseille on its first mission to save migrants off the coast of Libya.
A French court has acquitted a British charity worker accused of insulting and assaulting a policeman while helping migrants in northern France, his lawyers said on Friday, in a ruling welcomed by activists.
Human rights group Amnesty International has accused French authorities of harassing, intimidating and even assaulting people offering aid to migrants in the north of France in a deliberate attempt to discourage their work.
Thwarted at every turn in their efforts to reach Britain, migrants in northern France have once again changed
tack, turning to flimsy dinghies to carry them across the Channel.
An Afghan migrant who was living in the infamous Calais "Jungle" camp died on Thursday after being hit by a lorry on the outskirts of the French port, regional authorities said.
An Ivorian teenager aged 17 was rescued from a mountain pass in the French Alps after trying to cross the mountains from Italy dressed only in "casual wear".
They have become an influential presence behind the scenes in France's "Jungle" migrant camp in Calais, but the myth surrounding the shadowy No Borders activist group serves many agendas.
Sets built for British television show Jekyll and Hyde have been shipped to the Calais "Jungle" as shelters for migrants and refugees after the series was cancelled, its creator has announced.
Support has flooded in for a British aid worker facing jail after trying to smuggle a four-year-old into Britain from the 'New Jungle' migrant camp in Calais with around 60,000 people signing an online petition in less than three days.
French train drivers who work for Eurotunnel said on Thursday they were so overcome with fear and anxiety over the deaths of migrants trying to cross to Britain that they could no longer do their job.
An Eritrean man was killed by a freight train near the entrance to the Channel Tunnel in France on Wednesday, a local official said, making him the 13th migrant killed trying to reach Britain since June.
A 20-year-old Iraqi was found dead on Tuesday in a lorry near the French port of Calais, crushed by pallets as he tried to reach Britain, local authorities said.
Germany and France have agreed that the European Union, facing a slew of migrant crises, should impose binding quotas on the numbers member states take in.
UPDATED: Britain and France announced a new "command and control centre" on Thursday to tackle smuggling gangs in Calais, as Europe grapples with its biggest migration crisis since World War II.
France and Britain are to sign a deal on Thursday aimed at alleviating the migrant crisis in Calais, where thousands of people desperate to cross the Channel have gathered in slum-like conditions.
A migrant arrested inside the Channel Tunnel connecting England and France is thought to have walked almost all of the treacherous 50-kilometre (31-mile) undersea rail link, reports said Thursday.
A new "secure zone" will be set up in the French port of Calais to protect Britain-bound lorries from migrants attempting to board them, the British interior minister said on Tuesday.
Three migrants trying to smuggle their way into the Channel Tunnel to reach Britain were burnt by an electric shock, one seriously, local French authorities said on Tuesday.
A brawl broke out in the early hours of Monday morning between Sudanese and Eritrean migrants in the northern French port of Calais, resulting in 24 injuries, 14 of which required hospital treatment.
