Paris

Leftist murdered: Thousands turned out to protest the killing of an anti-fascism activist by skinheads in Paris last week. Clément Méric, 19, was out shopping with friends when he exchanged words with the skinheads, who beat him to death with brass knuckles. Five suspects under investigation were linked to a far-right movement called the Third Way; the government said it would shut down its militant wing, the Revolutionary Nationalist Youths. But “there are still many other groups, probably around 15 to 20 of them, which are as violent, radical, racist, or anti-Semitic, if not more,” said political scientist Jean-Yves Camus. Far-right violence has been growing all year, as extremist groups joined a broader movement against the legalization of gay marriage.

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Sarajevo, Bosnia

Stroller revolution: Thousands of women, many pushing infants in strollers, blockaded the Bosnian parliament building this week to protest the government’s failure to provide infants with national ID numbers. Political squabbling has held up legislation to update the ID system: Serbs want numbers that show which region a person comes from, while Croats and Bosnian Muslims want them assigned at random. The protest was sparked by the news that a sick baby couldn’t travel to Germany for a stem-cell transplant because her parents couldn’t get her a passport as she had no ID number.

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