BANGKOK - RIOT police have fled a checkpoint near Bangkok's main international airport after coming under attack by several hundred anti-government protesters.

About 150 police at the checkpoint jumped into their vehicles and drove away when they saw a convoy of protesters speeding toward them. The checkpoint was about a mile (2 kilometres) from Suvarnabhumi airport.

MUMBAI - A 60-hour terror rampage that killed at least 195 people across India's financial capital ended on Saturday when commandos killed the last three gunmen inside a luxury hotel while it was engulfed in flames.

Authorities searched for any remaining captives hiding in their rooms and began to shift their focus to who was behind the attacks, which killed 18 foreigners including six Americans.

ISLAMABAD (Pakistan) - PASKISTAN's foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told a press conference on Saturday that Pakistan will take action against any group within its borders if it was involved in the Mumbai attacks.

'Any entity or group involved in the ghastly act, the Pakistani government will proceed against it,' he told reporters in a televised press conference.

MOGADISHU - SOMALI pirates demanding US$25 million (S$38 million) for a Saudi supertanker seized two weeks ago said on Saturday they were hoping for a 'favourable' reply as the expiry for the ransom loomed.

The pirates hijacked the 330-metre long Sirius Star on November 15 and have given the owners of the giant oil carrier up to Sunday to pay the ransom.