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Monday, March 16, 2026
TopicRacist tweet

Topic: Racist tweet

Verbal racist insults can hurt physically too, like ‘mini-slaps in the face’

Research suggests that although words are abstract they really can cause a reaction similar to physical hurt. In fact, pain is intimately linked to language.

Twitter is testing new feature that will warn users to ‘revise’ offensive posts

Before posting a tweet or replying to one, Twitter users will be alerted if words in their content match those found in posts that were previously 'reported'.

‘Avoid Chinese people with a cough’ — Coronavirus fuels racism against Asians worldwide

Indian Twitter users also targeted the Chinese and asked them to stop eating dogs, bats and snakes in order to contain the outbreak.

Chinese diplomat in Pakistan deletes ‘racist’ tweet after Twitter spat with Susan Rice

The deputy chief of mission at China's embassy in Islamabad wrote a string of messages that highlighted U.S. hypocrisy in criticising China's human rights record.

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Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.