At the Place de la République, the meeting place for the masses of demonstrators in Paris, children rode on an inflatable carnival ride while street vendors sold kebabs and French fries to hungry marchers and onlookers.
Ahead of the meeting, demonstrators were barred from parts of Athens including Syntagma Square, the focus of recent anti-austerity protests.
Near the hilltop Congress Center, where the meetings were held, a small group of demonstrators provoked the police by hurling fist-sized stones that later littered the street behind police lines.
They were met by a handful of protesters outside, a change from recent years when throngs of demonstrators had descended on the meeting.
A small group of demonstrators gathered in Ramallah as the meeting took place Thursday, protesting a delegation that is widely seen as biased toward Israel.
But the meeting, called the Business Olympics, was almost scuttled by thousands of demonstrators who tried to blockade the hotel where it was held, clashing with riot police.
Susanna Thomas, the young New Jersey woman arrested with a group of demonstrators after the Group of 8 economic meeting here three weeks ago, came out of a closed courtroom here today looking exhausted after three hours of questioning by prosecutors.
The meeting had been deferred once, in December, when a different group of demonstrators threatened that gathering.
A group of demonstrators stood outside Kensington Town Hall during the meeting holding Justice for Grenfell placards.
But then, Indian police clashed with demonstrators protecting a meeting of pro-independence religious leaders in his village,..
A1 A day after Mr. Bush visited Goteborg, Sweden, hundreds of demonstrators continued protesting an array of issues during a meeting of European Union leaders.
