Samoa Prime Minister has apologised after a video of him resurfaced, showing him leading a Nazi salute and saying ‘Heil Hitler’ at a family gathering.
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India is facing growing discontent among its youth and they are taking to the streets. One Indian artist tells Al Jazeera the Modi government changed his voting status and had his Instagram post taken down. Now he’ll join thousands expected at a Cockroach Janta Party-led protest demanding change.
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GLASTONBURY punters have fumed over the ‘s*** show’ website chaos after the first set of 2027 tickets went on sale tonight.
Those who have managed to get their hands on them will travel to Worthy Farm in Somerset and dance away to their favourite tunes between Wednesday 23 June to Sunday 27 June next year.
Festival-goers logged online just before 6:00pm this evening (Thursday 1 October) to try and get their hands on ticket + coach passes for the five day music event.
They were told to enter the website at 5:50pm, and those who were on the page were given a place in the queue.
This was followed by a progress bar which showed how close you were to purchasing.
It comes as no surprise that they sold out within 30 minutes – meaning that loads of people have sadly gone without.
Those took to X, formerly known to Twitter, to complain about the system which made them miss out.
One fan fumed on the social media app: “Shit show.”
Another wrote: “Think I would have preferred to be stuck on two bars than get right to the end as they sold out.”
A third chimed in: “These 2 bars are going to give me nightmares for the rest of my life I fear.”
A fourth asked: “Anyone even get past 2 bars? On to Sunday.”
“TRAPPED at the abysmal two green bars…,” a fifth tweeted.
Hopefuls will be able to log back on this Sunday to try and purchase general admission tickets at 9:00am.
BROOKLYN Beckham and his wife Nicola Peltz have risked running in to his parents David and Victoria.
The young couple have flown into Paris for fashion week ahead of his mum’s fashion show.
Brooklyn, 27, and Nicola, 31, have been seen walking hand-in-hand around the city of love.
Looking smitten as they wandered around, the pair narrowly avoided bumping into David and Victoria.
Brooklyn’s parents are currently in Paris, with Victoria seen taking on the most fashionable week of the year earlier this week.
Despite being in the city at the same time, Brooklyn is not expected to attend his mum’s show due to them being locked in a bitter family feud.
Nicola and Brooklyn continue to be embroiled in the ongoing row which has now rumbled on for almost a year.
The feud heated up when Brooklyn let loose on his family in a scathing social media post in January.
Brooklyn said at the start of the year that he did “not want to reconcile” with his family, and accused his parents of “controlling” the narrative.
His initial statement read: “I have been silent for years and made every effort to keep these matters private.
“Unfortunately my parents and their team have continued to go to the press, leaving me with no choice but to speak for myself and tell the truth about only some of the lies that have been printed.
“I do not want to reconcile with my family. I’m not being controlled, I’m standing up for myself for the first time in my life.”
He then went on to recall the night of his wedding and how his mother danced in an “inappropriate way”.
Brooklyn also sent his parents David and Victoria a legal notice warning they can now contact him only via lawyers.
The extraordinary “desist” letter also instructed them not to “tag” him on social media.
Things then led to Brooklyn snubbing his father’s Hollywood star unveiling in June.
Hate speech against Indians, Bangladeshis and Pakistanis in the United States has risen sharply online, according to a report that traces the surge to US President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and rhetoric, economic anxiety, and the South Asian community’s growing visibility in US life.
The report, titled “The Rising Tide of Anti-South Asian Hate in the United States”, by the Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH), published on Sunday, found that the monthly volume of hate towards South Asians in the US on the social media platform X rose 240 percent between January 2024 and June 2026, from 12,904 posts to 43,843.
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Researchers identified more than 542,000 hateful posts on the platform between January 2025 and June 2026 alone towards people from South Asia living in the US, with five of the six highest-volume months falling at the end of that period.
The researchers used the United Nations definition of hate speech. They tracked recurring anti-South Asian slurs and narratives online, reviewing posts to exclude criticism that did not meet the UN threshold.
They found that nearly half of the hate posts on X accused South Asians of invading the US, stealing jobs or threatening the country demographically, while the derogatory slur “pajeet” and its variants showed up in 30 percent of hateful posts on X and 45 percent on fringe platforms.
Posts depicting South Asians as dirty or unhygienic grew by 171 percent on X, “the fastest of all narratives”.
The hate frequently collapsed South Asian ethnic and religious groups into one, with Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis conflated with one another, and Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and Christians also treated as a monolith.
Racism against Indians, Bangladeshis and Pakistanis has a long history in the US, but researchers argue the current surge reflects a confluence of longstanding prejudices and new political and economic pressures.
The report points to the H-1B visa programme, which allows US employers to hire skilled foreign workers, as a major flashpoint. Indians account for more than 70 percent of H-1B visa holders, and researchers linked several spikes in anti-South Asian hate to political fights over the programme, such as when Trump imposed a $100,000 payment requirement on certain new H-1B petitions in September 2025.
“Such actions serve a powerful symbolic function, in the bargain reinforcing the hostility of Trump’s base toward South Asians,” said the report.
The report makes the same argument about the administration’s rhetoric, highlighting Trump’s speech at an AI summit in July 2025, in which he criticised US technology companies for outsourcing jobs to India, after which researchers saw a sharp spike in anti-South Asian rhetoric online.
As more recent examples, the report points to a since-deleted September 2026 Department of Homeland Security post titled “Transformers: Age of Deportations”, featuring a Sikh man identified as “Mr Singh” and telling him to “get off our roads”.
Days later, the Department of Education posted “Make College Football Great Again”, after Texas Republican Bo French had complained about the presence of South Asians at a University of Texas football game.
The report argues that such rhetoric reinforces the idea of South Asians as outsiders who “can never truly belong in the country”.
Economic resentment is another factor, researchers wrote, with the success of some South Asians increasingly being weaponised against them.
Indian Americans once stereotyped as a “model minority” are now portrayed as “opportunists and cheats”, and South Asians are used more broadly as a scapegoat for anger over jobs and the economy.
This comes as South Asians have become increasingly visible in US politics, from former Vice President Kamala Harris and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani to Vice President JD Vance’s wife, Usha Vance, and politician Vivek Ramaswamy. The report documents racist attacks against figures across party lines and highlights how, for example, Mamdani’s primary and mayoral victories triggered spikes in anti-South Asian and Islamophobic abuse.
Researchers say both trends are now also tied up with “anxieties on the part of the majority about loss of status”, and feed the “Great Replacement Theory”, a conspiracy about the white population in Western countries being replaced by an orchestrated takeover.
Social media has also turned those narratives into targeted harassment.
Researchers found X accounts doxxing South Asians accused of taking jobs or committing visa fraud, while influencers have confronted people at their homes and workplaces and posted the encounters online. Doxxing refers to exposing a person’s private details, such as their home address, online.
In one example, right-wing influencer Sara Gonzalez posted a video to more than half a million followers in which the report says she harassed a South Asian person she accused of exploiting the H-1B programme.
Meanwhile, generative AI has made that content even easier to produce, researchers say, depicting South Asians as “filthy and unclean, sexually predatory, culturally backward, or a demographic threat”.
While the report tracks hate largely through what is happening online, researchers write that online hate “does not exist in isolation from offline forms of hostility”. It cites a July incident in which an Indian Muslim mall employee in Utah was repeatedly stabbed in an attack that federal prosecutors charged as a hate crime. In September, a Sikh truck driver was stabbed 17 times at a Wyoming truck stop.
“Online and offline hate can reinforce one another”, the researchers wrote, “as narratives, stereotypes, and forms of demonization move between digital platforms, political discourse, media, and everyday life”.
Influencers Jake and Logan Paul visited the Pentagon and addressed US troops last week, praising them for serving the country. It isn’t clear who invited them, but they met Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, whose department said they came ‘to meet with our warriors’.
Published On 22 Sep 202622 Sep 2026
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A mysterious object filmed hovering over Tehran has sparked online speculation, with theories ranging from a children’s kite to advanced military surveillance equipment, while Iranian authorities have not identified it.
Published On 21 Sep 202621 Sep 2026
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PM Anthony Albanese asks Apple CEO Tim Cook to back Canberra’s online safety laws to ‘keep Australians safe’.
Published On 20 Sep 202620 Sep 2026
The Australian government is seeking support from global tech giants as it works to strengthen the country’s online safety laws and artificial intelligence (AI) regulations.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who met Apple CEO Tim Cook at the tech company’s headquarters in Cupertino, California, on Saturday, said that “Australia can’t do it alone” when it came to protecting children from the dangers of the internet.
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“We spoke about what we’re doing to protect children from online harm and the work ahead,” Albanese wrote on social media.
“We’re putting stronger rules in place to keep Australians safe online,” he said. “And now, big tech companies like Apple are stepping up too.”
Albanese, who is also in the United States for the United Nations General Assembly, used his trip to call for stronger AI regulation after dire safety warnings from industry leaders.
Australia will introduce new standards for AI by the end of the year, he said.
In a video posted to his X account, Albanese said his Labor government is “making sure technology works for Australians”, and not the other way around.
In a post on X, Cook also said he shared with Albanese new “strong and intuitive controls to help keep kids safe online”.
New Australian legislation unveiled this month would place a “duty of care” requirement on the firms behind popular platforms, such as Facebook, TikTok and Instagram, and allow users to turn off their algorithms.
The draft laws will be introduced to parliament later this year after consultation with social media companies, industry bodies and civil society groups.
The opposition Liberal-National Coalition opposes the bill “in its current form”, according to a statement published on September 10, saying that it “contains inadequate safeguards for free speech and journalism, and leaves too much power in the hands of the Communications Minister”.
Australia implemented legislation barring children under 16 from social media platforms last year as part of a world-first crackdown designed to protect children from online bullying and “predatory algorithms”.
However, data last month found that Australians under 16 continued using social media apps such as Instagram and TikTok despite the ban.
Acclaimed Russian film director who won 2026 Grand Prix award at Cannes, has been critical of the war in Ukraine.
Published On 18 Sep 202618 Sep 2026
The winner of a prestigious Cannes Film Festival award has been declared a foreign agent by Russian authorities for his criticism of Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
Acclaimed Russian film director Andrey Zvyagintsev was designated a “foreign agent” by the Kremlin on Friday, according to state news agency TASS.
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Zvyagintsev won the 2026 Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival for, Minotaur, a film depicting a Russian businessman who is forced to decide which of his employees should be mobilised to go and fight in Ukraine.
“Millions of people on both sides of the front line dream of only one thing: for the massacres to stop,” Zvyagintsev said in his acceptance speech, adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin was the only person capable of ending the war.
Moscow has kept casualty numbers from the fighting in Ukraine heavily restricted and has not provided timely or complete public updates, but estimates of Russian soldiers killed in the four-year war range from anywhere from 200,000 to half a million.
Russia’s Ministry of Justice on Friday accused Zvyagintsev of disseminating “false information about decisions taken by the public authorities of the Russian Federation and the policies they pursue”.
“He interacted with foreign agents and resides outside the Russian Federation,” it said.
The 62-year-old director, who has lived outside Russia since the COVID pandemic, is known for a series of other films including, The Return, The Banishment, and, Leviathan, a bleak portrayal of life in rural Russia.
People listed as foreign agents are subjected to onerous bureaucratic requirements and restrictions on their income in Russia.
They are barred from holding public office and forced to register their activities with the authorities.
They also have to add warnings on everything they publish, including on social media, that the content was produced by a foreign agent.
The label adds connotations of espionage to numerous people, including public figures, whom it deems to be engaging in anti-Russian activity with support from abroad.
Previously, writer Boris Akunin and rock musician Boris Grebenshchikov have been labelled as foreign agents by Moscow.
Paris: The French government submitted a reworked proposal to ban social media for children, after its previous ban was struck down by the country’s top constitutional authority, President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday.
“After rigorous technical work the government today is notifying” the European Commission of the new draft, Macron wrote on X. The notification is a key step, as it ensures that the legislation is in line with European Union laws.
MONTANA Brown has left her fans baffled AGAIN after she fumed over being unable to get her son an EpiPen – despite having no diagnosis for him.
The Love Island star, 31, often ruffles the feathers of fellow parents with her social media videos, and today was no different.
Speaking in her latest TikTok video, Montana began: “Guys, I’m about to have a rant, so beware.
“I went to the GP last week because basically Jude had this really random skin reaction, it was an allergic reaction, but we hadn’t actually given him any food.
“So I was like, This is weird,’ like his eyes were like swelling out of his head. I was like, He’s definitely allergic to something, but not sure what it is because we haven’t given him any food?
“So I went to the GP to basically say, ‘Look, I’ve got a nut allergy. You can see that on my records. I have anaphylaxis, so I’m worried that he’s now developed an allergy to something that I’m not quite sure what it is yet.
“I’d like to get two kids’ EpiPens so that I can be prepared if he does have a worse reaction to whatever it is. Like in the meantime, like before we figure out, you know, get him allergy tested.”
Continuing her story, the reality star said: “Guess what they said? ‘No’.
“I was like, ‘Why? It’s just so painful.’ Like, I understand that there is a process to these things. But to me, I’m like, what am I going to do with an EpiPen apart from be safe with it?’
“Like, what are the dangers of me having an EpiPen? And I’m like, am I going to have to try and get an EpiPen off the deep dark web?
“Is that what this is coming to? I’m trying to safely protect my child in case he has an anaphylactic shock in my care to buy him enough time to get him to hospital. Like, is it me? Is it me?”
However, fans couldn’t believe what they were hearing, with one said: “They can’t just give you a medication without a diagnosis.”
A second shared: “Are you actually for real?”
A third added: “She’s is honestly on another planet!”
This isn’t the first time Montana has ruffled the feathers of fans.
The mum-of-two recently left her fans fuming after revealing the “privileged” reason why she didn’t plan to send her son to school.
And earlier this year a comment she made about food pouches in stores being “c***” for children left busy mothers who saw them as a convenient option feeling patronised.
