Obama will be at His Daughter’s High School Graduation and not Attend Muhammad Ali’s Memorial

Muhammad Ali died last Friday at the age of 74 in hospital in Phoenix, Arizona.

World leaders will be among thousands attending Friday’s procession and memorial service in Louisville, Kentucky, where Ali was born in 1942.

The White House said Mr Obama and his wife Michelle will be at daughter Malia’s graduation in Washington, DC.

US President Barack Obama is to miss the memorial to boxer Muhammad Ali on Friday because it clashes with his daughter’s high school graduation.

The Obamas will send a letter to the Ali family with White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, who knew Ali.