British military personnel could be deployed to Syria to increase pressure on the Assad regime over human rights abuses, David Cameron has signalled.
As unrest continued to spread in Syria, the Prime Minister last night told fellow world leaders that more must to done to stop Bashar al-Assad oppressing his own people.
Britain is prepared to contribute officers to an enlarged international monitoring mission in Syria, Mr Cameron told a Group of Eight summit in the US.
There are more than 200 United Nations monitors inside Syria, where more than 9,000 people have …

CHICAGO (AP) — Thousands of anti-NATO demonstrators are expected to converge at a downtown plaza Friday for a rally that promises to be a prelude to a much larger march Sunday, when world leaders begin two days of talks. Meanwhile, many office buildings will be shuttered after workers were told to stay home amid warnings about heightened security, snarled transportation and the possibility of unruly protests.
National Nurses United officials have said they expect about 2,000 nurses to attend Friday’s rally, where they will call for a “Robin Hood” tax on …

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Prosecutors are outlining their evidence of the alleged involvement of former Bosnian Serb military chief Gen. Ratko Mladic in Europe’s worst mass murder since World War II, the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
On the second day of the 70-year-old’s genocide trial Thursday, Yugoslav war crimes tribunal prosecutors will focus on the bloody climax of the 1992-95 Bosnian war, when Serb forces systematically executed some 8,000 Muslim men and boy in the U.N.-protected enclave in northeastern Bosnia and buried them in mass graves.
Mladic is accused of commanding Bosnian Serb …

Former Serb army commander Ratko Mladic, dubbed the “Butcher of Bosnia,” epitomised Serb defiance during the Bosnian war and is blamed for the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II.

Mladic, who led Serb troops at the time of the 1995 siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica massacre, faces a UN war crimes court from Wednesday.
Almost a year after he was arrested in Serbia – a once bull-necked soldier now gaunt and grey – he will again appear before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.
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Socialist Francois Hollande is to be sworn in as France’s president before naming a prime minister and dashing to Germany to battle with Berlin over how to tackle Europe’s debt crisis.

Nine days after he defeated right-winger Nicolas Sarkozy in a fierce campaign, Hollande, 57, is to be inaugurated at the Elysee Palace and only hours later head to Germany for his first foreign visit as president.
He was also set to make the much-anticipated announcement of who will lead his government as prime minister, with Jean-Marc Ayrault, the head of the …