FILE - Smoke rises during protests in Noumea, New Caledonia, Wednesday May 15, 2024. The French Pacific territory of New Caledonia is shortening its overnight curfew and reopening its international ...

Australia and New Zealand have sent planes to evacuate citizens stranded in violence-hit New Caledonia. Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong confirmed clearance from French authorities for two ...

PARIS -- Violence raged across New Caledonia for the third consecutive day Thursday, hours after France imposed a state of emergency in the French Pacific territory, boosting security forces' powers ...

Authorities in New Caledonia have imposed a two-day curfew and banned gatherings following violent unrest triggered by voting reforms. The French Interior Ministry has also sent police reinforcements ...

NEWCASTLE, Australia — Australia and New Zealand sent airplanes to New Caledonia on Tuesday to begin bringing home stranded citizens from the violence-wracked French South Pacific territory.

Another founding member of the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front has formally split from the indigenous ...

Noumea — France's president held a flurry of meetings with local representatives in the restive Pacific territory of New Caledonia on Thursday, urging calm after deadly rioting, and vowing thousands ...

French President Emmanuel Macron pushed Thursday on a visit to riot-hit New Caledonia for the removal of protesters’ barricades and said police sent in to help battle deadly unrest in the French ...

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron is making a surprise trip to New Caledonia, the French Pacific territory that has been gripped by days of deadly unrest and where indigenous people have long ...

NICE, France — After four months of deadly unrest in New Caledonia, tensions in the French Pacific territory between the pro-independence Indigenous Kanak people and the white settler communities ...