The Latest Breaking News from New Caledonia

France postpones New Caledonia election amid tensions between settlers and Kanak people, highlighting complexities in overseas territories.

Kanak chiefdoms have unilaterally proclaimed their sovereignty over ancestral lands in New Caledonia, raising concern among some non-independence supporters in the midst of a social and institutional crisis across the archipelago.

Curfew in Martinique after protests over high cost of living while two killed in Pacific island of New Caledonia.

Prosecutor said security forces had been trying to detain about a dozen people allegedly linked to recent riots in the French territory

French police have shot and killed two men in New Caledonia during a security operation, as the territory remains gripped by unrest over a proposed constitutional reform. Tensions around the reform, which reignited the independence debate, have simmered for months, especially in the stronghold of Saint Louis.

Recent fatalities in New Caledonia amid unrest over French rule and voting reform, sparking tensions and arrests.

Security forces in New Caledonia killed two men during an overnight operation, the public prosecutor said Thursday, taking the death toll to 13 after months of unrest in the French Pacific territory.

Two men were killed during a French security forces operation in New Caledonia overnight, raising the death toll to 13 after four months of unrest. Clashes continue in Saint Louis, a stronghold of the independence movement south of Noumea, as tensions persist in the French Pacific territory.

The French government has paid out €130 million in additional aid to businesses and public services in New Caledonia in a bid to deal with the crisis that erupted in mid-May.