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State of emergency declared in New Caledonia after riots over reform

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PARIS — France declared a state of emergency on the Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia, the government said Wednesday, after a police officer and three other people were killed in riots over electoral reform.

The violence — the worst in decades — is the latest flash point in long-running tensions over France’s role in New Caledonia, a French overseas territory located hundreds of miles off Australia’s eastern coast.





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