A man cuts the hair of another on a railway track near the migrant camp known as the new Jungle in Calais, northern France Tuesday, Nov. There are more than 5000 migrants fleeing conflict zones or poverty at the rapidly growing camp outside Calais. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
3, 2015 the night falls over hundreds of tents stand between bushes in France¿s biggest refugee camp near Calais, northern France. Improvised clinics have appeared from nowhere in the Calais¿ migrant camp, where medical care for an estimated 6,000 souls depends on volunteers from several countries. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
God¿s house has many mansions in the migrant camp at Calais, whose approximately 6,000 residents brighten their often bleak existence by attending religious services organized in tents and shacks. 8, 2015 photo, migrants pray inside a makeshift church of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church at the migrant camp near Calais, northern France. In so doing, they have set aside ethno-religious enmities that often fuel bloodshed in their homelands. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
In this Saturday, Nov. In so doing, they have set aside ethno-religious enmities that often fuel bloodshed in their homelands. 7, 2015 photo, migrant women pray in front of a picture of a saint during a service in a makeshift church of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church at the migrant camp near Calais, northern France. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) God¿s house has many mansions in the migrant camp at Calais, whose approximately 6,000 residents brighten their often bleak existence by attending religious services organized in tents and shacks.
Ali, a 42-year-old Baghdad native who runs three dental practices in Wales, has made the 10-hour, 870-kilometer (540-mile) round trip from Cardiff four times in recent months to mount two-day weekend clinics that stop only when his equipment stockpile is exhausted.
Like most of the thousands camped near Calais hoping to cross the English Channel, he’s tried more than a dozen times to breach security at the nearby ferry port and more distant terminal for cross-Channel trains. He’s already been arrested and held for five days in Calais after nearly boarding one train. Each time, networks of newly constructed 15-foot-high (5-meter-high) razor-topped fences and boosted police patrols have defeated him.
(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) 4, 2015 photo police patrol through the migrants camp near Calais, northern France with their boots covered in plastic bags to protect against the mud. In this Wednesday, Nov.
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Soon, a tray of bloodied forceps and other single-use implements is full, and Ali’s team must find somewhere outside the camp with mains-supply electricity to run their sterilizer. A half-dozen patients who have just witnessed Kurdu’s extraction wait their turn to have abscesses and cavities treated.
4, y8 games 2015 photo Rowan Farrell, an English photographer who helps run the library named ‘Jungle Books’ poses for a photo inside the library at the migrant camp near Calais, northern France . In this Wednesday, Nov. Rowan Farrell runs the library that offers migrants the possibility to read newspapers and books. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
In so doing, they have set aside ethnic and religious enmities that often fuel bloodshed in their homelands. Faiths abound in the migrant camp at Calais, whose approximately 6,000 residents brighten their often bleak existence by attending religious services organized in tents and shacks.
(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) 6, 2015 photo, muslim migrants take off their shoes as they enter a makeshift mosque for Friday prayers at the migrant camp near in Calais, northern France. Muslims hold Friday prayers in a half-dozen tents catering to Sunni and Shiite Arabic speakers, Iranian and Afghan speakers of Persian and Pashto, Syrian Kurds, and Sudanese in both Arabic and tribal tongues.
7, 2015 photo, a migrant walks behind a destroyed tent at migrant camp near Calais, northern France. In this Saturday, Nov. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) Networks of newly constructed 15-foot-high (5-meter-high) razor-topped fences and boosted police patrols defeat many migrants hoping to cross the English Channel.
Networks of newly constructed 15-foot-high (5-meter-high) razor-topped fences and boosted police patrols defeat many migrants hoping to cross the English Channel. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) 6, 2015 photo, a man walks past a shelter with a poster calling for help from Britain’s Queen in the migrants camp near Calais, northern France.
(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) More than 5000 migrants are fleeing conflict zones or poverty at the rapidly growing camp known locally as ¿The Jungle¿, outside Calais. 3, 2015, file photo, migrants play soccer inside the migrant camp near Calais, northern France.