LONDON - The Summer Olympics start in London in about two months, on July 27, and while interest has started to build a little, the city is not overflowing with excitement. At Trafalgar Square, in the heart of the city, the official Olympic countdown clock gets a steady stream of people posing for pictures.  But most of them are foreign tourists. Many Londoners appear indifferent, worried or actually hostile toward the Games.   "I think it is a waste of ...

Syrian protesters launched anti-government rallies on Friday as activists blamed security forces for at least five deaths in attacks that have continued to erode a shaky cease-fire. Although hundreds of United Nations observers are in the country, there appears to be little signs that violence between rebels and government forces is subsiding. The opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that government forces shot and killed four people in the flashpoint Hama region and ...