Germany secretly strips AfD supporters of gun rights. The German state of Saxony has been quietly revoking and denying firearms licenses to members and supporters of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party under a secret internal decree issued last July, according to reporting by Berliner Zeitung. Saxony’s Interior Ministry confirmed the measure exists but refused to publish it. The AfD, which polls at 27% in the state, has campaigned on anti-immigration and anti-Ukraine-aid platforms.
Pakistan’s Punjab sets equal marriage age. The Punjab Assembly passed the Child Marriage Restraint Bill 2026, establishing 18 as the minimum legal marriage age for both boys and girls and making underage marriage a non-bailable offence. The bill’s passage was marred by a heated debate after lawmakers were not initially given copies of the legislation.
Murder suspect used ChatGPT to research body disposal. Prosecutors in the United States revealed that the suspect in the killings of two University of South Florida doctoral students from Bangladesh had asked ChatGPT what would happen if a human body were placed in a garbage bag and thrown in a dumpster — days before the students went missing.
UK’s Starmer faces Parliament probe. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer confronted the prospect of a parliamentary investigation over the ongoing Mandelson scandal, which has plagued his government for months and generated calls for his resignation.
The threads connecting Monday’s headlines are difficult to ignore: a shooting at a press dinner, a journalist murdered in Guatemala, reporters censored in India, and energy markets held hostage by a war with no diplomatic off-ramp. It was a day that underscored how fragile the institutions of press freedom, diplomacy, and stability remain — everywhere at once.
