German police clashes with hundreds of protesters in the port of Rostock following a much larger peaceful demonstration against next week's Group of Eight summit in a nearby Baltic resort. About 2,000 protesters, identified by police as a hard core of violent activists, threw bottles, sticks and stones at riot police, on the fringes of a rally in the town's harbour area on Saturday (June 2). The protesters, most of whom were clad in black from head to toe, set fire to a car, damaged shop windows and torched bins. Tens of thousands had earlier taken part in two peaceful marches protesting against the G8 which converged at the harbour where rock music and speeches were planned. "The so-called 'black block' of activists were agitating," a police spokesman said. "They attacked a car and then attacked police massively, they threw stones and rockets at police, prompting us to change our plans and respond." Water cannon and tear gas were used to disperse the violent protesters, who had...