After a six-hour grilling by immigration officials, Paris Hilton was denied entry into Japan today, where being a convicted cokehead is apparently frowned upon. She joins Wings-era Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones on Japan's list of druggie deportees.

Reader Charles sent us this screenshot of the Twitter account of France's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which was hacked but still managed to convey President Nicolas Sarkozy's feelings toward the Roma he's busy deporting.

After the European Union justice commissioner called France's deportations of Roma a "disgrace," France's Europe minister Pierre Lellouche got pissy: "You don't address yourself like that to a great state such as France, which is the mother of human rights."

Looking for a popularity boost, unpopular xenophobic French President Nicolas Sarkozy continued his expulsion of Roma, with another 283 deported from France today. Sarkozy's interior minister said Roma "delinquency" had risen 138 percent last year. Meanwhile, everyone hates Sarkozy.

[French President Nicolas Sarkozy's order to deport Gypsies was put in motion yesterday, with the expulsion of nearly 100 Roma from the country. France paid them about $385 each to "voluntarily leave." Image via AP]

French President Nicolas Sarkozy apparently doesn't like Gypsies.

[Israel has begun to expel the pro-Palestine activists it rounded up in a Monday raid on a flotilla of boats carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, currently under an Israeli blockade. Nine activists were killed by Israeli commandos. Pic via AP]

Hey, it's nearly 1 p.m.: If you work at Stuff magazine, that means you're supposed to be at your desk, according to the HR department. Mass firings are so much easier than one on ones. Sorry, guys. From the mailbag: "Saw that email from a Maxim source, and wanted to comment. One third of the company has not been let go. The Stuff staff wouldn't even make up a fifth of the company, probably... and they haven't been let go. But the passport fears are true. Turns out they fired all the work visa employees first. In fact, the first firing on the edit side happened yesterday afternoon. A couple of designers at Maxim—and Ian Robinson, Stuff's art director and the longest-tenured employee at Stuff, was let go without severance. His visa was for a foreign company on US soil, which was obviously complicated by the Dennis sale (to American ownership). Damian Wilkinson married his girlfriend when news of the sale hit. Now it's even worse. Sitting around waiting to get fired is obviously not fun."

From the mailbag: "A little bird told me today that the Maxim people are freaking. 1/3 of the company's staff has been cut (the Stuff side) and most of the editors who have UK passports have already been informed that their visas will not be renewed."