France

A round-up of news in brief from the French Pacific region, including New Caledonia's pro-French party, Rassemblement, electing its first Kanak president.

A Cook Islands LGBTQI+ activist has been awarded the Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law. Audio

The French President participated in the lighting of a Hanukkah candle inside his official residence, leading to denouncement by both left and right politicians.

A man has died and two others have been injured in a knife and hammer attack on a street in central Paris.

Many children grow up dreaming of living in a world of chocolate, but Thomas Netana Wright has made it his reality.

As the Indian community in Aotearoa gears up for Navratri and Diwali festivities, RNZ finds an Indian migrant in Paris who has taken responsibility for serving the community to new levels.

Last-minute flights to France to catch the Rugby World Cup final could cost rugby fans more than $5000, a travel agency says.

A 20-year-old man fatally stabbed a teacher and gravely wounded two other people in an attack at a school in the city of Arras in northern France on Friday.

Six suspected migrants have been rescued from the back of a truck in France, after the BBC helped track them down and alert the police.

More than 1300 people were arrested in France during a fourth night of rioting and the president cancelled a trip as the funeral took place of a teenager, whose shooting by police sparked nationwide…

France's Prime Minister has used a special procedure to push an unpopular pensions bill through the National Assembly without a vote, triggering chaotic scenes in the French parliament.

Just Fontaine, who holds the record for the most goals scored at a single World Cup, has died at the age of 89.