Of the G-20 countries that met in Hamburg, the United States was the only holdout from a statement reaffirming a commitment to work toward the carbon emission reduction goals outlined in the landmark deal.

The Group of 20 countries have agreed under U.S. pressure to "urgently" call for a solution to the long-standing dispute over China's excess capacity to produce steel.

The final statement Saturday from the Group's summit in Hamburg, Germany pledges to seek "the removal of market-distorting subsidies and other types of support by governments and related entities."

The Trump administration is weighing additional barriers to imported steel under a rarely used national security provision.

Chinese imports to the U.S. have already been reduced by import taxes aimed at blocking dumping, or selling products below market prices

Merkel said Saturday that the summit's final statement "takes account" of the U.S. position rejecting the climate deal.

The Paris accord aims to lower emissions of the greenhouse gases scientists say cause global warming.

[...] it also acknowledged that trade must be mutually beneficial and that countries can use "legitimate" trade defenses to protect workers and industries against being taken advantage of by trade partners.

About 20,000 protesters, including families, socialists, Kurdish groups and anarchists waving flags and shouting anti-capitalist slogans, marched through the city as G-20 leaders were inside the summit grounds tackling contentious issues like climate change, trade and terrorism.

Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said Saturday after rioters set up street barricades, looted supermarkets and attacked police with slingshots: "These were unbounded violent excesses out of a desire for destruction and brutality."

De Maiziere said that police and judicial authorities must take a tough stance against such crimes, and it is good that arrests were made.

Police say a German man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder for allegedly using a laser pointer to temporarily blind pilots of a police helicopter patrolling the skies during the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg.

Police said in a statement Saturday that the 27-year-old man, whose name wasn't released in line with German privacy law, blinded the two crew members of the Libelle 2 helicopter so badly while they were up in the air that they had to stop working because they couldn't see.

The German government said in a brief statement that Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit that a cease-fire that's part of a 2015 peace agreement must be "implemented comprehensively."

European Union officials who briefed reporters on draft final statement say the document contained a general commitment to fighting climate change, and then a separate paragraph that "took note" of the U.S. decision to withdraw.

EU officials at the summit in Hamburg said that the draft trade language keeps the traditional G-20 condemnation of protectionism, or keeping out foreign competitors with unfair import taxes or regulations.

G-20 officials were still haggling over final language on climate change in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement.

International leaders are set to convene for a second day of talks on global trade, climate change and international terrorism at the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg that has been overshadowed by violent riots between anti-globalization activists and police.

The summit's host, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, said the negotiators, including President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin, European and Asian leaders, "still have a great deal of work ahead of them" to formulate the summit's closing communique planned for Saturday.