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UNITED STATES

Trial may determine Trump's 2024 bid

Lawyers for a group of Colorado voters on Monday focused on the January 2021 assault on the US Capitol and former president Donald Trump's role, opening a trial that could determine whether the Constitution's insurrection clause bars Trump from running again for the White House. Attorney Eric Olson recounted Trump's violent rhetoric preceding the Jan 6 attack. He said Trump "summoned and organized the mob". Trump's legal team and presidential campaign assailed the lawsuit as little more than an attempt by Democrats to derail his attempt to reclaim his old job.

NIGERIA

17 bodies recovered after boat capsizes

At least 17 bodies have been recovered after a passenger boat capsized in Nigeria's eastern Taraba state over the weekend, local officials said on Monday. More than 70 people went missing, media reported. Twelve people have been rescued so far from the incident, said Bashir Garga, head of operations for the National Emergency Management Agency in Taraba. Garga told reporters that the boat, carrying at least 104 passengers, including women and children from a local market, capsized en route to the Karim Lamido local government area of Taraba. The official attributed the incident to "overloading of the boat by operators".

SOUTH KOREA

Police officers stabbed near presidential office

Two South Korean police officers were stabbed outside a compound that houses the presidential office in Seoul, Yonhap News Agency reported Tuesday. The assailant, identified by his surname Park, 77, began yelling in front of the compound and stabbed the officers as they tried to subdue him, the report said. One officer was stabbed in the stomach and the other in the left arm, and both were being treated in hospital, it said. The man was arrested at the scene, according to the report. This year, a man went on a stabbing spree in a commuter town near Seoul, wounding 14 people just days after a stabbing attack in Seoul, Reuters reported.

Agencies Via Xinhua