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French president Emmanuel Macron is to visit violence-hit New Caledonia
https://www.wboy.com/news/world/ap-french-president-emmanuel-macron-is-to-visit-violence-hit-new-caledonia/French president Emmanuel Macron is to visit violence-hit New Caledonia
by: AP
Posted: May 21, 2024 / 06:02 AM EDT
Updated: May 21, 2024 / 06:06 AM EDT
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is traveling to New Caledonia, signaling French authorities’ growing confidence that reinforced security and emergency measures are bringing unrest on the French Pacific territory under control.
Government spokesperson Prisca Thevenot announced the trip. “He will go there tonight,” she said Tuesday.
The previously unannounced trip required a shake-up of Macron’s schedule. He had previously planned a trip on Wednesday to Normandy in northern France
Instead, he will be heading to the archipelago 10 time zones away from Paris, east of Australia, that has been gripped by deadly armed clashes, looting, arson and other mayhem.
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by: AP
Posted: May 21, 2024 / 06:02 AM EDT
Updated: May 21, 2024 / 06:06 AM EDT
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is traveling to New Caledonia, signaling French authorities’ growing confidence that reinforced security and emergency measures are bringing unrest on the French Pacific territory under control.
Government spokesperson Prisca Thevenot announced the trip. “He will go there tonight,” she said Tuesday.
The previously unannounced trip required a shake-up of Macron’s schedule. He had previously planned a trip on Wednesday to Normandy in northern France
Instead, he will be heading to the archipelago 10 time zones away from Paris, east of Australia, that has been gripped by deadly armed clashes, looting, arson and other mayhem.
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