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The Justices of the United States Supreme Court announced on Friday that they will review the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove former President Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot. The upcoming hearing, announced less than 24 hours before the anniversary of the January 6th Capitol “insurrection,” will determine whether the former president is eligible to hold office once again, setting a precedent for the rest of the 2024 election cycle.

Iran suspects suicide bombers carried out attack on commemoration for slain general that killed 84

Israel will appear before the International Court of Justice to defend itself against charges of committing genocide in Gaza, a government spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday. The announcement came in response to a case filed by the government of South Africa last week, alleging that Israel’s campaign against Hamas violates international law—charges the Israeli government denounced as “absurd blood libel.” The International Court of Justice, headquartered in the Hague, Netherlands, serves as the United Nations’ venue for resolving legal disputes between states. However, its rulings can often be ignored despite the court’s considerable influence, as was the case with the ruling against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. South Africa’s petition to the ICJ on Friday claims that Israel’s retaliation for the October 7 terrorist attacks is in violation of the 1948 Genocide Convention, leading to mass civilian casualties in Gaza. According to the filings, South Africa alleges that “acts and omissions by Israel … are genocidal in character,” with the intention of turning the war with Hamas into a broader ethnic purge of the region.

A ceremony in Iran to commemorate slain General Qassem Soleimani was bombed on Wednesday, killing at least 73 people and wounding over 170. No group or nation has claimed credit for the explosions as of this writing. Iranian state media referred to the attack, which occurred in the city of Kerman about 500 miles from the nation’s capital of Tehran, as “terroristic.” Iranian state television network Babak Yektaparast first reported on the rising death toll. Despite the fact that Israel has previously attacked Iran to thwart its nuclear development program, it has only ever done so through targeted assassinations, never bombings with high casualties. This suggests the attack was carried out by a different belligerent. Sunni terrorist organizations have executed similar attacks on Iranian civilians in the past, but not in Kerman.