Syria violence rages, France tells U.N. to hurry

BEIRUT, April 26 — Syrian forces shot dead four civilians on a bus yesterday and fighting raged near Damascus, dissidents said, as international pressure mounted on President Bashar al-Assad to honour UN-backed ceasefire pledges to order his troops back to barracks. In the city of Hama, an anti-Assad hotbed, an explosion ripped through a building,