A thousand police arrived in New Caledonia from France and streets were relatively calm, the French High Commission said on Monday, but roads were blocked and the airport remained shut, stranding tourists on the Pacific island after a week of riots. The activist group organizing the protests in the French-ruled
France's president says reinforcements will stay "as long as necessary", as he visits the Pacific territory.
PARIS >> Police shot dead a man in riot-hit New Caledonia Friday evening, a day after President Emmanuel Macron visited to the French-ruled Pacific island to try to calm tensions, local media said, citing the local prosecutor’s office.
French forces on Sunday launched a major operation to regain access to parts of Noumea and allow the airport to reopenFrench president Emmanuel Macron called a meeting of his defence and security council for Monday to discuss the deadly unrest in the Pacific territory of New Caledonia.It is the third such meeting in less than week, the previous two having resulted first in the decision to declare a state of emergency in the French territory and then to send reinforcements to help government...
The first evacuation flights for French tourists stranded in New Caledonia due to riots in the Pacific territory took off Saturday, the high commission in the archipelago said.
Macron held a defence council on the New Caledonia situation at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Monday
Police officer detained after shooting of 48-year-old man as death toll reaches seven following days of upheaval linked to proposed voting changesPenny Wong, the Australian foreign minister, has said that “282 Australians and their family members have now returned from New Caledonia.”“We are planning further flights from Noumea tomorrow,” she added. Continue reading
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday police reinforcements in New Caledonia would remain as long as required, after arriving in the French-ruled Pacific island trying to end deadly riots triggered by a contested electoral reform. Six people have been killed in riots that have left a trail of looted
By Edward Szekeres and Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — French President Emmanuel Macron is on his way to New Caledonia, a government official has said, after a week of deadly unrest in the Pacific archipelago. Macron was leaving Paris on Tuesday night and will “set up a mission” in the French territory, government spokesperson Prisca
By Edward Szekeres and Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — French President Emmanuel Macron is on his way to New Caledonia, a government official has said, after a week of deadly unrest in the Pacific archipelago. Macron was leaving Paris on Tuesday night and will “set up a mission” in the French territory, government spokesperson Prisca
By Edward Szekeres and Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — French President Emmanuel Macron is on his way to New Caledonia, a government official has said, after a week of deadly unrest in the Pacific archipelago. Macron was leaving Paris on Tuesday night and will “set up a mission” in the French territory, government spokesperson Prisca
Visit by president intended to quell serious unrest over plans in Paris to expand voting eligibility to include more French nationalsExplainer: Why is there unrest in New Caledonia?French security forces will remain in New Caledonia as long as necessary, Emmanuel Macron has said, after France’s president arrived in the Pacific territory in an urgent attempt to calm tensions after more than a week of riots that have left six dead.Macron was due on Thursday to hold a day of talks aiming to turn...