New Caledonia reopening airport and shortening curfew as unrest continues to ebb

Violence that flared on May 13 over controversial voting reforms led to nine deaths and widespread destruction of shops, businesses and homes.

The French Pacific territory of New Caledonia is shortening its overnight curfew and reopening its international airport which has been closed to commercial flights for more than a month because of deadly violence that wracked the archipelago where pro-independence indigenous Kanaks want to break from France.