French Polynesia

The court case brought by French Polynesia's pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru against the French prosecutor has been deferred until 4 November.

The health minister in French Polynesia has ordered the closure of a high school in Tahiti because of a Covid-19 outbreak.

French Polynesia's Covid-19 pandemic has claimed two more lives, bringing the death toll to 16.

French Polynesia's Covid-19 pandemic has claimed a 14th life as the number of patients in hospital has risen to 61.

French Polynesia's former president Gaston Flosse has tested positive for Covid-19, prompting a deferral of today's appeal court hearing.

More than 20 students at a boarding school in French Polynesia have tested positive for Covid-19.

French Polynesia's Covid-19 pandemic has claimed another two lives and another 321 cases have been recorded in the past two days.

French Polynesia's oldest newspaper La Depeche de Tahiti is about to be liquidated.

Paris says the French president Emmanuel Macron is not considered a Covid-19 contact case despite meeting French Polynesia's president Edouard Fritch.

French Polynesia has recorded its 11th Covid-19 fatality as case numbers soared to 3252.

French Polynesia's president Edouard Fritch says he tested positive for Covid-19 on his return from France.

The criminal court in French Polynesia has sent 25 people to prison for their roles in the territory's biggest methamphetamine smuggling and distribution case.

The election of French Polynesia's two members of the French Senate is being challenged in France's Constitutional Court.

The French president Emmanuel Macron is expected to make a twice delayed official visit to French Polynesia in the first quarter of 2021.

French Polynesia's Covid-19 pandemic is accelerating, with 344 new cases recorded in the past two days.

The French Polynesian government is criticised for inaction on a planned study of the genetic impact of the French nuclear weapons tests.

A 10th person has died in French Polynesia's Covid-19 pandemic as 491 cases remain active.

The French military will repatriate about 20 Rapa Nui people stranded in Tahiti since the outbreak of the Covid-19 outbreak.