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The United States Supreme Court, with unanimous agreement from all nine justices,"overturned" the Colorado state court's ruling that had barred former President "Donald Trump" from participating in the presidential primaries due to his alleged involvement in the "January 6, 2021 Capitol riot". The Supreme Court emphasized that the power to determine a candidate's eligibility belongs to "Congress", not individual states. This decision "restores Trump's eligibility" for the 2024 presidential primaries and has implications for similar cases in other states.

Since the outbreak of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, approximately **300,000** Palestinians have been suffering from food shortages and lack of clean drinking water. In the northern Gaza Strip, children have even died due to hunger. Despite recent efforts, the situation remains dire.

Armed gangs in Haiti launched a surprise attack on the main prison in the capital, Port-au-Prince, on the 2nd, resulting in a mass prison break, with at least 3 known deaths. A human rights lawyer pointed out that of the nearly 4,000 prisoners held there, less than a hundred remain.

Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim stated on the 4th that he would be "very willing to reopen" the search operation for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 if there is "convincing" evidence. This opens a door to restart the search mission 10 years after the plane disappeared.

In November last year, the Yemeni rebel youth movement (Houthi, an armed Houthi organization) began to attack international merchant ships passing through the Red Sea, causing global shipping chaos and creating the Red Sea Crisis, and on February 2, a British freighter in the southern waters of the Red Sea was sunk by the Yemeni rebel youth movement, and a large amount of fertilizers and fuel oils on board the ship were lost to the sea, impacting the marine ecosystem.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi recently stated that Egypt will continue to support the State of Palestine until its establishment, and will continue to air-drop aid to the Gaza Strip.

The ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza has once again drawn international attention. U.S. President Biden hopes that both Israel and Hamas will reach a six-week ceasefire agreement before the start of Ramadan on the 10th. The latest news indicates that a senior U.S. official has revealed that Israel has largely agreed to a six-week ceasefire agreement, and now it only needs Hamas to agree to release hostages for the agreement to take effect.

France's Senate overwhelmingly passed a constitutional amendment on Thursday (2/29), incorporating women's right to abortion into the Constitution. This is the first country in the world to protect the freedom of abortion in the form of a constitution, rather than prohibiting abortion.

Former Romanian Prime Minister Petre Roman rang the Bell of World Peace and Love, praying for the creation of peace.

Delaying retirement has become a highly focused issue recently as China steps into an aging society. On the eve of the 2024 National People's Congress in mainland China, coupled with the recently published 'China Pension Development Report 2023', the necessity of delaying retirement policy is highlighted while calculating the pension replacement rate.