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Mr. Orr, a professor of political science at Brown University, provides a rewarding portrait of Diggs’s career as a civil-rights activist and legislator in his exhaustively researched biography, “House of Diggs.”

Tensions deepened after the government shelved EU-membership talks with Brussels, triggering months of street protests that have dwindled recently amid a clampdown on opposition politicians, critical journalists and activists.

It was a blow to climate activists after the Strasbourg court last year issued a historic first ruling condemning a state for its lack of action on climate change in another case involving Switzerland.

That she singled out one group of activists, many Jewish, at the very moment Arab toddlers were being blown apart by U.S.-funded bombs raised doubts about her touted values.

It was one of the most dramatic protests in Los Angeles by activists who opposed Israel’s war in Gaza: a shutdown of the southbound lanes of the 110 Freeway as it passes through downtown.