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PARIS (Reuters) - New Caledonia's international airport will remain closed until at least next Sunday, its operator said, nearly two weeks after rioting erupted on the French-ruled Pacific island over a contested electoral reform.

Seven people have died in the riots, in which cars and businesses have been torched and shops looted.

French President Emmanuel Macron, who visited the island on Thursday to try and ease tensions, has hit pause... (continue reading...)

(Reuters) - The death toll in Papua New Guinea's massive earthquake rose to 670, the U.N. migration agency estimated on Sunday, according to AP News.

(Reporting by Chandni Shah in Bengaluru; Editing by William Mallard)

PARIS (Reuters) - The French government is planning to shorten the period people can claim unemployment benefits in order to strengthen incentives to work, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said in an interview published on Sunday.

Unemployment benefits will be limited to a maximum of 15 months, down from 18 months now, Attal told La Tribune Dimanche.

The government also plans to require someone to have worked eight months during the last 20... (continue reading...)

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy appealed to U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Sunday to join an upcoming peace summit as his country struggles to stave off unrelenting attacks by Russia in its 27-month-old invasion.

Moscow's forces have in recent weeks advanced on the battlefield and stepped up air strikes on cities, and Kyiv hopes the June meeting in Switzerland will help pile international pressure on... (continue reading...)

By Tim Cocks

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africans will vote on Wednesday with widespread anger over power cuts, joblessness and corruption threatening to end the dominance of the African National Congress, thirty years after Nelson Mandela led it into power.

At no point since world media beamed iconic images of Black South African voters queueing to cast ballots for the first time following the end of white-minority rule has the ANC... (continue reading...)