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Obama urges Americans to be courageous after the recent Dallas shooting

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President Barack Obama has encouraged the US to "reject despair" as he paid tribute to five police officers murdered amid a lethal expert marksman assault in Dallas. He told a remembrance administration in the city the US must "attempt to locate some importance in the midst of our distress" and could join together. His trek came in the midst of mounting racial strains the nation over. Micah Johnson executed the Dallas officers at a challenge held over the late police shootings of African Americans in Minnesota and Louisiana. Before he was executed by police, he said he was irate about the shootings. Then, challenges over unnecessary police power against dark Americans have been held in urban communities over the US. Yet, talking at Morton H Meyerson Orchestra Focus in Dallas on Tuesday, Mr Obama encouraged the nation not to give up. Americans are battling with what has happened in the previous week, he said, and occasions

US Wallops ISIS in Online Battle

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T he U.S. government's crusade to counter the Islamic State's online networking nearness is bearing organic product, the Related Press reported Saturday. More hostile to ISIS content than master ISIS substance is showing up on the Net by a proportion of six to one. Twitter activity for records subsidiary with the Islamic State is around 45 percent contrasted with two years back, as indicated by the report, and the normal number of supporters for an ISIS account has dove to 300 from 1,500 in 2014. Online networking has been a noteworthy vehicle for the Islamic State's endeavors to enroll fresh recruits and spread its teaching, so blunting its viability is one approach to keep the gathering from assets to battle its war against the West and to incite terrorist assaults the world over. New Tack Taken Early U.S. endeavors to counter the Islamic State's online networking endeavors were inadequate, noted Laith Alkhouri, chief of Center Ea

South Sudan violence, US insists it must stop

The United States has said a flare-up of viciousness that has left hundreds dead in South Sudan "must stop". Anybody blocking endeavors to end the battling would be considered completely responsible, the White House cautioned. The UN has required a quick arms ban, and also assault helicopters to fortify its peacekeeping power. Days of battling between powers faithful to President Salva Kiir and VP Riek Machar in the capital, Juba, has left hundreds dead. Juba occupants: 'We are numbering the dead' 'We need peace - and ice cream' Five deterrents to peace in South Sudan A truce was approached Monday yet it is most certainly not clear whether the savagery has died down. Overwhelming gunfire kept on being heard in the capital after President Kiir's truce request happened at 1800 neighborhood time (1500 GMT) on Monday. Two Chinese UN peacekeepers and one South Sudanese UN specialist are among the many dead. The US&#