{"id":64140,"date":"2024-05-17T12:25:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T03:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/17\/new-caledonia-riots-protests-noumea-out-of-state-control"},"modified":"2024-05-17T20:40:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T11:40:16","slug":"new-caledonia-riots-parts-of-territory-out-of-state-control-french-representative-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64140","title":{"rendered":"New Caledonia riots: parts of territory \u2018out of state control\u2019, French representative says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Days of unrest in the French Pacific territory \u2013 sparked by a plan to change voting rules \u2013 have left five dead<\/p>\n<p>Tensions remained high in Noum\u00e9a, the capital of New Caledonia, on Friday after days of riots as the French government\u2019s representative said areas of the Pacific territory have \u201cescaped\u201d state control.<\/p>\n<p>Louis Le Franc, high commissioner of the Republic in New Caledonia, announced new security deployments. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/16\/hundreds-of-french-police-deployed-amid-new-caledonia-riots\">number of police and gendarmes<\/a> on the island will rise to 2,700 from 1,700 by Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/17\/new-caledonia-riots-protests-noumea-out-of-state-control\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days of unrest in the French Pacific territory \u2013 sparked by a plan to change voting rules \u2013 have left five deadTensions remained high in Noum\u00e9a, the capital of New Caledonia, on Friday after days of riots as the French government\u2019s representative said &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4248,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,526,1102,874],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-france","category-new-caledonia","category-pacific-islands"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64159,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64140\/revisions\/64159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}