Clashes mark start of G-8 Gleneagles summit

  • 06/07/2005

  • Hindu (New Delhi)

Angry anti-globalisation protesters fought running battles with the police as leaders of the world's richest nations gathered in the picturesque Gleneagles estate, near Edinburgh in Scotland, on Wednesday for a summit seen as a test of their political will to deliver on their pledge to alleviate poverty in Africa