Speaking after a day of meetings with leaders of Indigenous Kanaks who want independence and pro-Paris leaders who do not, Macron laid out a roadmap that he said could lead to another referendum on the archipelago.

By Claire Rush, John Leicester, Associated Press

The president binned his previously announced schedule to make the journey of some 16,000 kilometers (10,000 miles) himself, stung into action by the most severe violence to hit New Caledonia since the 1980s.

By Thomas Adamson, Associated Press

Final results had 56.4 percent of voters in New Caledonia deciding to remain part of France, which has ruled the an archipelago east of Australia since the mid-19th century.

By Charlotte Antoine, Associated Press