カテゴリー: France
Exclusive: In the wake of unrest that rattled the French overseas territory, Alcide Ponga discusses how to rebuild and his plan for the futureOne year after the deadly riots that ravaged Nouméa and shattered New Caledonia’s economy and social fabric, n…
Severe thunderstorms around Delhi cause seven deaths, with western Europe also hit by stormy conditions Residents of Delhi and surrounding areas woke last week to severe thunderstorms with intense rainfall, large hailstones and squally winds. The storm…
Writer, actor and director Lawrence Valin says that in Little Jaffna he wanted to ‘show new role models’It has been hailed as one of the most innovative and surprising French gangster films this year: a suspense movie that tears through Paris’s Tamil n…
Billionaire appears to have been asked to pressure friend to return to China to help pursue out-of-favour officialThe Chinese regime enlisted Jack Ma, the billionaire co-founder of Alibaba, in an intimidation campaign to press a businessman to help in …
Supporters of the UN treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons gathered this month in New York to call for wider ratificationGrowing up in the Pacific nation of Kiribati, Oemwa Johnson heard her grandfather’s stories about nuclear explosions he witnessed in t…
Serge Atlaoui is expected to be transferred after an agreement was reached with the government in Paris, Yusril Ihza Mahendra saysA French man who has been on death row in Indonesia since 2007 for alleged drug offences is expected to return home in wee…
Begum TV beams educational and entertainment shows into homes of women living under strict Taliban ruleFrom a tiny television studio in Paris, 4,500 miles from Kabul, a raft of programmes geared towards women and presented by female hosts beams 24 hour…
New leader Alcide Ponga says people want a ‘signal of hope’ after turmoil in the French Pacific territory Weeks after its first ever pro-independence government collapsed, New Caledonia has named a French loyalist as its new president as the territory …
Revellers around the world ring in the new year with parties, celebrations and fireworksNew Year’s Eve live: celebrations around the world as 2025 begins Continue reading…
Minister says request regarding welder arrested in 2005 on drugs charges will be discussed in January amid spate of transfer of high-profile detaineesIndonesia has received an official request from France to transfer a French death row inmate imprisone…
This live blog is now closed, you can read more of our Ukraine war coverage herePoland summoned the chargé d’affaires of Belarus (a diplomat of a lower rank acting in place of an ambassador), Alexei Ponkratiev, on Thursday to protest against what it ca…
Non-proliferation groups call on government not to oppose creation of a study into effects of nuclear conflictNon-proliferation groups are urging the UK government to make a late about-turn on plans to vote alongside France, Russia and North Korea agai…
The French Pacific territory has been hit by violent unrest between communities loyal to Paris and pro-independence Indigenous KanaksFrance’s new prime minister, Michel Barnier, has announced that a provincial election scheduled for December in the Fre…
For decades nori-wrapped rice dish was mainly a snack eaten at home or in a bento, but now it has come into its ownIt is barely 10am and the queue outside Onigiri Bongo already stretches around the block. Some of the 30 or so early-bird diners sit on s…
Police stationed across territory and curfews tightened over concern of new outbreaks of violence after months of deadly unrestNew Caledonia was on edge on Tuesday, with fears tensions could spill over into fresh unrest as the territory marked the anni…