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Mont-Dore Mayor Eddie Lecourieux has signed a security pact with law enforcement authorities, including the Gendarmerie Nationale and the French High Commission.

Talks on the political and economic future of New Caledonia are being held in Noumea and Paris.

Police shot dead a man in riot-hit New Caledonia on Friday evening, a day after President Emmanuel Macron visited to the French-ruled Pacific island to try to calm tensions, local media said, citing…

French President Emmanuel Macron will fly to New Caledonia

This high-level dialogue mission could involve members of both Houses of French parliament. Audio

A group belonging to the pro-independence movement has released a communiqué saying they were "moved by and deplored the exactions and violence taking place". Audio

Analysis - The situation in New Caledonia, especially Nouméa, remained tense throughout Tuesday, with scenes of burning, shooting and looting in hot points of the capital and its surroundings.

A scientific study on shark presence and behaviour is to resume shortly in New Caledonia's Southern Province, where two incidents in February last year prompted an indiscriminate culling campaign.

A pro-independence activist in New Caledonia is warning France to immediately halt planned constitution amendments or face "war". Audio

Analysis - Debates in the French Parliament in Paris this week have once again polarised tensions back in New Caledonia.

The president of New Caledonia's Southern Province Sonia Backes says she will quit her position in the French government if it fails to open up New Caledonia's electoral rolls.

The President of the New Caledonian Congress Roch Wamytan says a visit with French representatives will take place on September 12.

Pro-independence leader Roch Wamytan has been re-elected President of the Congress of New Caledonia.

A strategy meeting of the pro-independence Caledonian Union has been told that France must give a firm and irreversible date for New Caledonia's sovereignty.

A New Caledonian delegate has told the UN decolonisation committee that last year's referendum on independence from France has led the territory into a political and institutional impasse.

Two parties of New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS movement have restated their intention to attain the territory's decolonisation from France after last December's referendum in which a majority…

The French government has given New Caledonia a further $US200 million loan to help it balance its budget.

France has declared a health emergency in New Caledonia because of the sharp resurgence of the Covid-19 pandemic.

New Caledonian politicians have expressed regret at the departure of the French prime minister Edouard Philippe who quit after poor results of the ruling party in the municipal elections.