Obama cuts short Europe trip

Obama cuts short Europe trip
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Obama would travel to Spain on Saturday as scheduled but would return to Washington on Sunday and visit Dallas where 12 police officers were shot in an ambush on Thursday that left five of them dead, NBCnews reported. 

Washington : US President Barack Obama would cut short his trip to the Europe by a day and visit Dallas early next week, the White House said on Friday.

Obama would travel to Spain on Saturday as scheduled but would return to Washington on Sunday and visit Dallas where 12 police officers were shot in an ambush on Thursday that left five of them dead, NBCnews reported. 

Obama was invited to visit Dallas by the city's Mayor Mike Rawlings. The deadly shooting in Dallas was the largest loss of police lives since the September 11 attacks.

Obama ordered flags flown at half-staff until Tuesday as a mark of respect to the victims. Later in the week, Obama "will continue the work to bring people together to support our police officers and communities, and find common ground by discussing policy ideas for addressing the persistent racial disparities in our criminal justice system", the White House said.

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