Brown: Patience with Zimbabwe is 'wearing thin'

LONDON, Britain (AP) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says the international community's patience with Zimbabwe's regime is "wearing thin."

Brown has said Friday he cannot understand why it is taking so long to announce the results of the March 29 presidential elections in Zimbabwe. The British prime minister says in an e-mailed statement that he is appalled by signs that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's regime is resorting to "intimidation and violence."

"The international community will remain careful to do nothing to undermine efforts to secure an outcome that reflects the democratic will of the people of Zimbabwe," Brown says, before adding that the international community's "patience with the regime is wearing thin."

The warning is the strongest yet from the British leader