LONDON (AFP) - A comprehensive arms embargo must be placed on Israel, Hamas and other armed Palestinian groups in the aftermath of the recent conflict in Gaza and southern Israel, Amnesty International said Monday. The London-based human rights group said it had found evidence that Israel and Hamas ...

COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers appealed Monday for international action to halt a major offensive against their shrinking fiefdom, but the island's military rejected any talk of a truce. With rebel forces cornered in the northeast of the island by a massive attack by government forces, ...

SEOUL (AFP) - Communist North Korea has completed deployment of new medium-range missiles and expanded its military to 1.2 million, South Korea said Monday, calling the threat from its neighbour "direct and serious." The intermediate-range missiles can travel up to 3,000 kilometres " enough to ...

NEW YORK - "Slumdog Millionaire", a British film set in Mumbai's dirty slums casting Indian actors, hauled in the most Oscars on Sunday night as India basked in its reflected glory at Hollywood's top event. The ghetto-to-glory romantic story film tells the story of a tea-boy at a Mumbai call centre ...

KARACHI - The import growth in the transport group declined by 41.72 per cent during the first seven months of the current financial year. In transport group, Pakistan spent 811.327 million dollars on the import of all road motor vehicles ranging from buses to motor cars, motor cycles and aircrafts ...