Protesters rampage as world leaders aim to heal Iraq rift

ANARCHISTS and anti-capitalists rampaged through the streets of Geneva and Lausanne yesterday as world leaders clamped a harmonious face on a summit simmering with Iraq war disputes in France.

The Group of Eight major industrial powers struck a united front with pledges of billions of dollars to fight AIDS and hunger in poor nations in the French town of Evian.

Host France chose the Lake Geneva spa town of Evian for the June 1-3 annual meeting, knowing that narrow access roads made it easy to close it off to the often violent protesters who regard the G8 as a rich state club.