@cyd to World News • 8 months agoFrance imposes state of emergency in New Caledonia as unrest continueswww.npr.orgmessage-square4arrow-up164arrow-down13file-textcross-posted to: world
arrow-up161arrow-down1external-linkFrance imposes state of emergency in New Caledonia as unrest continueswww.npr.org@cyd to World News • 8 months agomessage-square4file-textcross-posted to: world
Always weird to me how France is so insistent on clinging to its colonial empire, two decades into the 21st century, despite the headaches that causes.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•edit-28 months ago And France has banned Tiktok in the country “the country” in reference to New Caledonia https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20240515-french-gendarme-wounded-new-caledonia-riots-dies-toll-rises-four-france If like me, you have never even heard of this place, its a little group of islands next to Australia. https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3407643#map=5/-23.544/169.893 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Caledonia
? TikTok isn’t banned in France.
“the country” in reference to New Caledonia
https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20240515-french-gendarme-wounded-new-caledonia-riots-dies-toll-rises-four-france
If like me, you have never even heard of this place, its a little group of islands next to Australia.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3407643#map=5/-23.544/169.893
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Caledonia