The collapse of the Bougival process leaves New Caledonia facing elections amid disputes over voting rights and constitutional reform.

LEGISLATION to implement a new political statute for New Caledonia has passed its first hurdle

A new report documents France’s abuses of human rights during 2024’s unrest in the Pacific territory

MARSHALL Islands President Dr. Hilda C. Heine has made a state visit to Australia, the first by a Marshallese leader in more than three decades.

AFTER four days of talks in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron and five parliamentary groups from New Caledonia have signed the Elysée-Oudinot Accord – an agreement on constitutional and economic...

BOWING to reality, the French government has abandoned plans to hold a referendum on March 15 to consider a new political statute.

WHEN France’s new Overseas Minister Naïma Moutchou toured New Caledonia last week, New Caledonians hoped that her visit would end uncertainty over political and economic reforms. Instead, Moutchou fle...

Legislation to defer New Caledonia’s provincial elections has been delayed until next week, as parliamentary manoeuvring in Paris

Why have island nations been so prominent among supporters of Israel?

ACROSS the Pacific Islands, people know that earthquakes can trigger tsunamis that travel across vast distances.

Eighty years on, America prepares for war in the Pacific

Meeting in France, New Caledonian political leaders have signed an agreement on the political and economic future of the French dependency.

“We want to resolve this now, and that is why I am committed to dialogue.” That's Emmanuel Tjiabaou, President of the Independance Party UC.

Turkey on Wednesday doubled down on its pitch to host 2026 UN climate talks, defying calls to step aside and let rival candidate Australia stage the high-profile global event.

From Australia to New Caledonia, symbols of Indigenous sovereignty are proving divisive in both predictable and unpredictable ways

Pacific Small Island Developing States and other developing nations are mobilising to call for new international legal norms.

New Caledonian political leaders and the French government are scheduled to resume political status talks on 29 April.

On 21 April, the Environmental Protection Agency notified hundreds of employees working on diversity, equity, and inclusion and environmental justice issues that they would be fired or reassigned to o...

The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.

A billion-dollar bet on nickel mining gave many New Caledonians hopes of economic prosperity and political independence. But after the market turned, the mine has left behind a ghost town full of brok...

Between 1946 and 1996, the US, Great Britain and France tested over 300 nuclear weapons in the Pacific. The legacies of those nuclear weapons tests continue to affect Pacific Islanders and Islands tod...

After the Cold War, US interest in the Pacific Islands waned. Assistance to Pacific Islands declined, and the US closed its embassies and consular offices in several Pacific Islands. However, China’s ...

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