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Eleanor Beardsley

France imposes a state of emergency in New Caledonia as unrest continues

A view of New Caledonia's capital Nouméa on Wednesday amid protests over a proposed change to France's Constitution that would give voting rights to an increasing number of non-Indigenous residents of the French territory in the Pacific. (Delphine Mayeur/AFP via Getty Images)

PARIS — Deadly violence continued for a third night in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia over a proposed change to France's Constitution that would give voting rights to an increasing number of non-Indigenous residents of the archipelago.

French TV reports showed stores and cars in New Caledonia that were looted and burned, and citizens, some of them armed with rifles and machetes, clashing with riot police. Plumes of smoke from numerous fires rose over New Caledonia's capital of Nouméa.

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