Residents of the Indian Ocean island of La Reunion took stock of the damage Saturday after a devastating cyclone barreled through the overseas French territory, killing four people. Local people ...

Paris (AFP) – A remote island that is part of France's French Southern and Antarctic Lands in the Indian Ocean has seen half of its territory hit by a wildfire that has raged since mid-January ...

For nearly a month the French territory of Amsterdam Island in the southern Indian Ocean has been engulfed in flames. Located about halfway between Australia, Antarctica and Madagascar ...

PARIS — French police said at least three people were killed when a tropical storm packing fierce winds and torrential rains thumped the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion on Friday.

Tromelin Island forms part of the Scattered Islands and a district of the French South and Antarctic Lands, meaning it is a French Overseas Territory. Mauritius, however, also claims sovereignty ...

Residents of the Indian Ocean island of La Reunion took stock of the damage Saturday after a devastating cyclone barrelled through the overseas French territory, killing four people. Local people ...

During the passage of the cyclone on Friday, French weather office Meteo-France recorded winds of up to 230 kilometres (143 miles) per hour in Piton Sainte-Rose on the island's eastern coast.

More than 800 people took shelter in emergency structures across the island. Around 100 troops and firefighters were to be dispatched from Mayotte a French territory nearly 1,500 kilometres away ...