Performers smeared with clay demonstrate during the art action "1000 Gestalten" (1000 figures) on July 5, 2017 on the streets in Hamburg, where leaders of the world's top economies will gather for a G-20 summit. (Christof Stache/AFP/Getty Images)For a thousand years, this port city has connected northern Europe to the far reaches of the globe. Its international character will come into focus when world leaders gather here for the G-20 economic summit, which begins Friday. Their protests draw on a tradition of left-wing activism in Germany’s second-largest city and the birthplace of its chancellor, Angela Merkel. Swaths of the city near the central harbor will be cordoned off to counteract a summit blockade planned for Friday.

Source: Washington Post July 06, 2017 06:56 UTC