US veterans join forces for gun reform
AFP, Washington
Dave Baril has served in the US Marine Corps for over 18 years, deployed twice to Iraq, and is a gun owner. But after a teenager killed 17 people in Florida last month-the deadliest school shooting to hit the country over five years-he took his personal AR-15 rifle to a local police station and turned it in for destruction.
Macron vows cyber hate crackdown
AFP, Paris
French President Emmanuel Macron vowed Wednesday to crack down on cyber hate, telling Jewish leaders that a recent law in Germany punishing web platforms which fail to delete hateful content could be a blueprint to follow.
