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By The Associated Press

Protesters urge Mexican president to ‘respect democracy’

MEXICO CITY | Protesters have marched across Mexico in the latest opposition to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s proposed judicial overhaul and other moves by the governing party that critics say will weaken democratic checks and balances.

Demonstrators rallied Sunday in Mexico City as well as in Michoacan, Puebla, Leon, Jalisco, Oaxaca, Veracruz and a number of other states. In the capital, throngs of people, many of them striking court workers and judges, ended their march outside the Supreme Court building. They waved flags reading “Judicial independence” and “Respect democracy.”

Suspect in Germany attack was motivated by Islamic State group ideology

SOLINGEN, Germany | A 26-year-old Syrian man has been ordered held on suspicion of murder and membership in a terrorist organization in connection with the Solingen knife attack. The attack on Friday night left three dead and eight wounded at a festival marking the city’s 650th anniversary.

A judge at the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsrue ordered Issa Al H. held on Sunday pending further investigation. Federal prosecutors said that the suspect shared the radical ideology of the Islamic State extremist group. Prosecutors said that the man was acting on those beliefs when he stabbed his victims repeatedly from behind in the head and upper body.

The ruling came after the suspect turned himself in.

—From AP reports