New Caledonia

President Emmanuel Macron said Friday France will build an ice-capable vessel as part of a billion-euro plan to boost polar research.  Issued on: 10/11/2023 - 20:47 1 min…

According to a report published by French feminist organisation En avant toute(s), life is particularly harrowing for survivors of sexual abuse and gender-based violence in French overseas territories like Martinique, Mayotte…

France's President Emmanuel Macron stripped off his suit jacket Friday to wander the wild forests of Papua New Guinea on a green-tinted charm offensive in the South Pacific. Issued on: 28/07/2023 -…

Last Updated: July 27, 2023, 08:38 ISTMacron -- on the first visit by a sitting French leader to an independent Pacific state -- sought to underscore France's importance in a region over which China and the United States are competing.…

French President Emmanuel Macron called for some straight talking Wednesday as he met with the bitterly divided pro- and anti-independence camps on France's overseas Pacific territory of New Caledonia.…

President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that France needed a "return to authority at every level" in response to recent riots sparked by the fatal police shooting of a teenage driver.  Issued on:…

Issued on: 19/05/2023 - 07:10 New Caledonia has ordered an evacuation of coastal areas after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Friday in the Pacific Ocean southwest of…

People wearing face masks at a supermarket in Suva, Fiji, April 23, 2021.Xinhua News Agency | Getty ImagesCountries all over the world have seen Covid-19 cases surge since the emergence of the highly transmissible omicron variant, with new…

SYDNEY: Final results of an independence referendum in the French territory of New Caledonia show almost two-thirds of voters abstained or returned blank or null ballots, after a call for a boycott by supporters of independence. The…

NOUMEA: Voters in the French island territory of New Caledonia chose overwhelmingly Sunday to stay part of France, in a referendum boycotted by pro-independence forces and closely watched around the South Pacific. Separatist activists had…