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Queen Camilla recently travelled to Samoa with King Charles. Photo: AFP / Pool / Manaui Faulalo Queen Camilla, the wife of Britain's King Charles, has been forced to pull out of her planned engagements this week after suffering a chest infection, Buckingham Palace said. Camilla, 77, is resting at home while she recovers but no further details of her illness have been given, as is usual with royal medical issues. "Her Majesty the Queen is currently unwell with a chest infection, for which her doctors have advised a short period of rest," a palace spokesperson said on Tuesday. "With great regret, Her Majesty has therefore had to withdraw from her engagements for this week, but she very much hopes to be recovered in time to attend this weekend's Remembrance events as normal." The illness m...

Voters in South Philadelphia say voting was "easy" and "safe" this morning. Americans are heading to the polls today in what is shaping up as one of the closest presidential elections in living memory. Polls have candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in a virtual dead heat. Voting stations in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania opened at 7am local time to allow for people to vote prior to work. Jonah Abrams, an elected Democratic official at the first ward voting station in South Philadelphia, told RNZ that turnout had been strong throughout the morning, with queues around the block when the polls opened. Abrams said since then there had been a steady stream of people in coming into vote in what is a predominately Democratic favoured ward. Jonah Abrams outside the South Philad...

By Florence Loeve and Sudip Kar-Gupta, Reuters A pedestrian walks past the Paris offices of the Netflix streaming company at Square Edouard VII in Paris. Photo: AFP Simultaneous raids by French, Dutch authorities Probe follows 2022 tax settlement in Italy Netflix declines to comment Investigators searched the offices of US streaming giant Netflix in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering, a French judicial source said on Tuesday. The French investigation, carried out by the PNF, a special financial crime prosecution unit notorious for pursuing high-stakes white-collar probes that often involve large international companies, was opened in November 2022. Representatives for Netflix in France and the Netherlands did not immediate...

Officials expect will intensify as US voters head to the polls on Election Day. Photo: LEONARDO MUNOZ/AFP The FBI has warned Americans about two new fake videos falsely citing terror threats and voter fraud, the latest in a string of disinformation that officials expect will intensify as voters head to the polls on Election Day and in the weeks afterward. One fabricated video purporting to be from the federal law enforcement agency falsely cited a high terror threat and urged Americans to "vote remotely," while another video includes a fake press release alleging to be from the agency and alleging rigged voting among inmates in five prisons. Both are "not authentic," the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a statement, "Attempts to deceive the public with false content about FBI thr...