"This compromise will not fully satisfy anyone. But I am firmly convinced that it allows us to take New Caledonia out of the spiral of violence, uncertainties, and destruction." ...

The agreement does not grant France’s 172 years-old Pacific colony independence, either immediately or in the future.

Between 1632 and 1760, over 700 Indigenous children were enslaved in New France, treated as property to be bought and sold.

French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau delivered a stern rebuke of President Emmanuel Macron's political legacy in an ...