Conservative Muslim school leaders in Britain's second city of Birmingham conducted an "organized campaign" to impose faith-based ideology on their pupils, Education Secretary Michael Gove said on Monday.

Clashes between Muslim governors and non-Muslim senior staff had led to a "culture of fear and intimidation" in which some headteachers felt forced to leave their jobs, leaving those remaining free to impose a narrow curriculum, the minister said.

Dramatic election gains for anti-EU parties show the European Union has got "too big and too bossy" and should concentrate on what really matters, British Prime Minister David Cameron said Tuesday.

The vote "is a clear message that we cannot just shrug off ... and carry on as before," Cameron said, adding: "The EU has got too big, too bossy, too interfering and needs to concentrate on growth and jobs."

Jordan has arrested two Israelis and a Briton suspected of involvement in fraud and counterfeiting currency, a security official said on Friday.

The men, arrested by security services Wednesday, are "being detained in a hotel, and not jail, for their own safety," the official said without explaining why they might be in danger.

British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged Tuesday to speed up the deportation of terror suspects after hardline Islamist cleric Abu Hamza was convicted in the United States.

"It's good that he has faced justice and justice has been done. I think we should reflect on whether we can extradite faster," Cameron told BBC radio.

A 31-year-old man on Tuesday became the first person to be convicted in Britain of terror offenses related to the Syria conflict.

Mashudur Choudhury, from Portsmouth on the southern English coast, traveled to Syria in October with the intention of attending a terrorist training camp, his trial heard.

The United States and European partners are ready to impose tougher sanctions against Russia if it seeks to disrupt Ukraine's upcoming presidential elections, top diplomats warned Thursday.

Ukrainian officials are also working to hold another round of unity talks in eastern Ukraine in the coming days, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said after talks in London.

Britain has upgraded the status of the London office of the Syrian opposition to a mission, Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Thursday, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry described the Syrian presidential vote planned for June as an "insult" and a "farce."

The boost to the National Coalition headed by Ahmad Jarba comes 10 days after the United States extended similar recognition to the umbrella group.

Britain has offered Nigeria a surveillance plane and a military team to help with the search for more than 200 missing schoolgirls abducted a month ago by Boko Haram militants, Prime Minister David Cameron said Wednesday.

"Today I can announce we have offered Nigeria further assistance in terms of surveillance aircraft, a military team to embed with the Nigerian army in their HQ and a team to work with U.S. experts to analyse information on the girls' location," he told parliament.

The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor said Tuesday she has reopened an initial probe into allegations of war crimes committed by British soldiers after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Fatou Bensouda said in a statement from the ICC, based in The Hague, that the initial investigation was reopened after new allegations of prisoner abuse were submitted.

Britain's military said on Friday it was investigating photographs that appear to show a serviceman in Afghanistan posing beside a dead Taliban fighter.

The pictures were allegedly taken in the aftermath of a 2012 attack by the Taliban on Camp Bastion, the main British base in Afghanistan.