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In 5 days, the outbreak of violence in response to the federal government venture to switch the electoral physique left six victims and several other hundred injured in Nouméa. While the state of emergency got here into pressure on May 15 on the archipelago, the scenario appeared to settle down on Friday. But nothing is resolved, and the scenario stays explosive.
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New Caledonia: the thawing of the voters voted within the Assembly
The National Assembly, just like the Senate earlier than it, adopted on May 14 the constitutional invoice offering for increasing the voters in New Caledonia. To vote for this textual content, the presidential majority obtained the assist of the opposition proper and the far proper, whereas the left and the separatists referred to as for the withdrawal of the textual content. This should be definitively adopted by the deputies and senators gathered in congress.
40 years later after the “Events”, the return of violence in New Caledonia
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Martinique: 122 years after the eruption of Montagne Pelée, wrecks found
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