Two people were killed during a French police operation in New Caledonia on Thursday, according to French media. The police operation took place amid unrest between French loyalists and indigenous ...

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 ...

Protests turned into riots in New Caledonia as pro-independence youth activists clashed with the police in response to a proposed constitutional reform in the French National Assembly which would ...

In New Caledonia, U.N. experts have found France guilty of undermining the rights of Indigenous Kanak people in its plan to expand voter rolls. Earlier this year, a French bill that would allow ...

New Caledonia has been experiencing a severe state of unrest since May 2024, which resulted from a controversial voting law viewed as discriminatory by the local Kanak population, leading to ...

NOUMEA, New Caledonia (AP) — New Caledonia marked the anniversary on Tuesday of France's takeover of the Pacific archipelago with tight security and simmering tensions between the pro-independence ...

New Caledonia’s capital city, Noumea, has endured widespread violent rioting over the past 48 hours. This crisis intensified rapidly, taking local authorities by surprise. Peaceful protests had been ...