Calais / AFP With only hours to go before workers begin to demolish France’s “Jungle” migrant camp on Monday, officials are racing to process as many young people as possible to be transferred to Britain. The pace is therefore brisk at the camp outside Calais: young migrants are shown into a container where British Home Office officials have set up ...

  Port-au-Prince / AFP At least 172 inmates escaped a Haitian prison near the capital Port-au-Prince during an armed mutiny, killing one guard and many escaping with police weapons, local media reported. Le Nouvelliste newspaper quoted Arcahaie prison manager Heurtelou Paul Colson on Saturday as saying a guard was shot dead and two other police officers were wounded. One prisoner ...

  Tokyo / AFP One person was killed and at least two injured by twin near-simultaneous blasts in a Japanese park on Sunday, the local fire department said. The explosions occurred at a park in Utsunomiya, some 100 kilometres north of Tokyo, shortly after 11:30 am, a fire department spokesman said. It was not immediately clear what caused the blasts. ...