Violent protests erupted in Hamburg, site of the G-20 summit, as thousands of leftists and anarchists gave German authorities all they could handle. AFP: On Thursday night on the eve of the summit of the leaders of the world's top 20 economies including US President Donald Trump, a protest march in this port city by 12,000 people quickly got out of hand. After a hard core of around 1,000 black-clad militants ignored authorities' demands to remove their masks, riot police moved in with water cannon trucks and tear gas. That set the stage for hours of running battles between police and protestors in the back streets of Germany's second city that left 111 police officers injured, authorities said. It was unclear how many protestors were hurt. Organiser Andreas Blechschmidt criticised what he said was a heavy-handed and "massive" police response with batons. Police, with a sweeping bird's eye view through half a dozen helicopters, coordinated...(Read Full Post)