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White House Aims to Ban Modified Guns
US President Donald Trump has signed an order to ban bump-stock devices, which enable a rifle to shoot hundreds of rounds a minute.
President Trump has promised his administration will take steps to ban devices which enable a rifle to shoot hundreds of rounds a minute.
The United Nations in Syria says it is deeply worried for hundreds of thousands of people trapped under a mounting government bombardment of the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta.
And French scientists have found new evidence that heavy drinking may be a major cause of dementia.
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