If you live in an overseas department of France, then you get a good, free education and a French level of public and social services. Per capita income in New Caledonia is 10 times that in other ...

The storm is one of the most powerful to ever hit the French overseas territory. It brought winds of more than 200kph flattening entire neighbourhoods and cutting off power and communications to ...

PARIS, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Authorities will put the French overseas territory of Mayotte on red alert late on Saturday, Overseas Minister Manuel Valls said, as a tropical storm nears the Indian ...

A protest leader in Martinique went on trial on Tuesday accused of trespassing on state property during cost-of-living ...

The French overseas territory of Mayotte is located in the Indian Ocean, roughly midway between the south-east African coast of Mozambique and the island nation of Madagascar. Around 310,000 ...

Marine Le Pen learned of her father's death during a layover in Kenya as she returned from the cyclone-hit French overseas territory of Mayotte. Born in Brittany in 1928, Le Pen studied law ...

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot once again voiced unsubstantiated allegations against Azerbaijan, accusing the ...

Tokelau: This remote territory of New Zealand, with a population of around 1,500, offers a glimpse into traditional Polynesian life. Falkland Islands: Home to around 3,000 people, these islands in the ...

FORT-DE-FRANCE, Martinique (Reuters) -Rodrigue Petitot, who led protests in French-ruled Martinique, left prison on Friday ...

Authorities have put the French overseas territory of Mayotte on red alert late on Saturday, Prefect Francois-Xavier Bieuville said, as a tropical storm nears the Indian Ocean archipelago that was ...

Tropical Storm Dikeledi was moving south of France's Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte on Sunday after dumping heavy rains on parts of the archipelago just weeks after it was ravaged by a ...