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The justices will hear petitions in September against a new law that curbs their own authority, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pushed ahead despite Israel’s political turmoil.

“I don’t want people to struggle like me,” said Shinjiro Atae, making an announcement that is extremely unusual in conservative Japan.

The government’s vote to limit judicial power set off a night of street chaos. More showdowns are expected, but with Parliament about to recess, it is not clear when or in what form.

Members of an international panel said that the Mexican armed forces had repeatedly obstructed their efforts to investigate the 2014 disappearance and that they were leaving the country.

More than 11,000 Israelis in the military reserve said last week they’d resign if the government’s judicial overhaul went ahead.

Political turmoil that has been brewing for months reached a crescendo after Parliament passed a law aimed at curbing the power of the judiciary.

The law could make it easier for the government to fire the embattled official, Gali Baharav-Miara, who has criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul.

Now, political leaders will be more powerful and judges less so.

Israel’s Parliament passed a contentious measure limiting the Supreme Court’s powers. The country’s nationalist right celebrated the law’s passage as just the beginning.

Israeli lawmakers advanced parts of a contentious plan by the right-wing government to reduce the power of the Supreme Court, defying threats by protesters to shut down large parts of the economy.