Obama to deliver eulogy Friday for slain pastor

Washington: US President Barack Obama will visit Charleston on Friday to deliver the eulogy at the funeral of the pastor of a historic black church who was slain in last week`s mass shooting, a White House official said Monday.

Vice President Joe Biden will also attend the funeral of Clementa Pinckney, one of nine victims of the rampage at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in the southeastern US city, carried out by a suspected white supremacist.