Pres. Obama "No Excuse For Excessive Force" in Ferguson

Barack Obama said there was “no excuse for police to use excessive force”, after a fourth night of confrontation in Ferguson, Missouri, over the death of an unarmed teenager, Michael Brown.

“We lost a young man in heartbreaking and tragic circumstances,” Obama said of Brown, who was shot dead by…

Samsung Launches Solar Powered Internet School in Ghana

Ghana’s first Solar Powered Internet School (SPIS) has been launched in a junior high school in local Dago community. This will foster ICT integration in the country’s educational sector.
The SPIS initiative is powered by the Samsung, the government of Ghana and the Korean Education and Research Information…

FBI to Investigate Murder of Mike Brown

Hundreds of protesters gathered at a suburban St. Louis police station on Monday demanding murder charges against an officer who shot to death an unarmed black teenager over the weekend.
Up to 15 people were arrested during the largely peaceful protests, which took place after a night of rioting when…

Chicago Police Call in Reinforcements

Forty Illinois state troopers are being dispatched to Chicago to help the city’s police department combat street violence during what is typically the most dangerous time of year.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Governor Pat Quinn announced Wednesday that the troopers will be assigned to the police department’s fugitive…

US General Killed in Afghanistan

An American major general was shot to death Tuesday in one of the bloodiest insider attacks of the long Afghanistan war when a gunman dressed as an Afghan soldier turned on allied troops, wounding about 15 including a German general and two Afghan generals.
The American officer was Maj. Gen…