The Latest Breaking News from New Caledonia

President Emmanuel Macron arrived in riot-hit New Caledonia, having crossed the globe by plane in a high-profile show of support for the French Pacific archipelago wracked by deadly unrest and where Indigenous people have long sought independence from France.

He has literally gone halfway around the world. Now what can President Emmanuel Macron do with his surprise visit to New Caledonia? Critics see deadly riots in the French Pacific island as a crisis of his government's own making, with an electoral reform that indigenous Kanaks say dilutes their voice…

French President Emmanuel Macron is flying to New Caledonia in a bid to find a political solution to the riots that have rocked the French archipelago in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, some 16,000 kilometers from metropolitan France

Global nickel prices have been soaring since violence erupted in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia last week

Australia says its military has flown 115 people from the restive French Pacific territory of New Caledonia and would continue to work with France to repatriate all Australians who want to leave

Xavier Decramer and his family made a home in Nouméa but the eruption of violence has prompted them to leave ‘with a heavy heart’

A Singapore Airlines flight from London has been forced to land in Bangkok; scores of Australians airlifted to Brisbane

The arrival of another flight repatriating Australians stranded in New Caledonia after deadly riots means half the people who wanted to leave have arrived home.

French leader to leave for archipelago on Tuesday night with intention of restoring ‘calm and order’

New Caledonia, the French overseas territory in the southwest Pacific, has been rocked by its most violent clashes since the 1980s. While the unrest was triggered by constitutional changes to the voting system, it also highlights frustrations over the long process of decolonisation.

French President Emmanuel Macron is making a surprise trip to New Caledonia, the French Pacific territory that has been gripped by days of deadly violence following protests from the indigenous Kanak population who have long sought independence from Paris.