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Air New Zealand is resuming its Auckland-Nouméa service
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Air New Zealand to resume Auckland-Nouméa flights from November

A poster highlighting the issue of political prisoners depicting the Kanak flag after the pro-independence unrest and riots
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Kanaky New Caledonia's CCAT leader Christian Téin detained in France
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Kanak pro-independence leader Christian Téin to remain in mainland French jail

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CCAT leader Christian Téin, organiser of a series of marches and protests, mainly peaceful
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Condemnation of "despicable acts" by French colonialism
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Solidarity action in Vanuatu in support of the indigenous Kanak Indigenous people of New Caledonia
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Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: ‘Everything is negotiable, except independence’

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French Ambassador to the Pacific Véronique Roger-Lacan
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Bound for New Caledonia
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France sends armoured vehicles with machine gun capability to New Caledonia

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ULMWP president Benny Wenda
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A message to the news media among the charred Nouméa protest debris
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A Kanak pro-independence barricade near Nouméa during the current unrest
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A Kanak protest barricade (in the distance behind the group of protesters) near Nouméa
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Solidarity action group calls on NZ to support Kanak, Papuan independence

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Kanak roadblocks on the highway to Nouméa's La Tontouta International Airport
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Some of the passengers on the special flight out of New Caledonia
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Kanak and Palestine solidarity activists hold a joint demonstration at Montpellier, southern France
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Gordon Campbell: Israel’s political split, and the New Caledonia crisis

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The shrine at Uvanu in northern New Caledonia where a ceremony was held yesterday to mark the anniversary of the execution of 10 Kanaks resisting French colonial rule in 1868
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"No to neocolonialism" say Christian Tein of the protest group CCAT and thousands of Kanak protesters
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Air New Zealand scheduled Saturday flight to Nouméa's Tontouta International Airport off
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