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President Obama Asks Americans to Act on Gun Control after Oregon Shooting
Nine dead in US college shooting; Campaigning begins in Myanmar; The world's first hydrogen-powered bike
Nine people were killed when a gunman opened fire on a community college campus in the US, police says. Seven others were injured. The twenty-year-old gunman died in an exchange of fire.
In Myanmar campaigning is underway for next month's historic election. It will be the first openly contested poll in 25 years.
And a French firm has just unveiled the world's first hydrogen-powered electric bicycle. Known as 'the Alpha electric bike' it has a range of 100km.
(Picture: President Barack Obama gives a press conference after a man shoots and kills ten people on college campus in Oregon; Credit: Getty Images)
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