Asia Foreign troops airdropped food and set up clean water as the massive aid effort took shape to help millions left homeless and hungry from Asia's tsunami disaster, whose death toll crept towards 150,000. Asia The drive to help nearly two million desperate survivors of Asia's tsunami catastrophe made inroads but aid groups warned the worst-hit communities would take "a generation" to rebuild. Asia Indonesia's tsunami death toll passed 94,000 on as desperate survivors in isolated areas of Aceh province remained without aid more than a week after the disaster, despite a huge global relief effort. Asia Thai officials were narrowing their grim search for bodies to focus on districts worst hit by killer tsunamis, including this fishing town where police say thousands are missing. Asia India was battling to bury or cremate an untold number of corpses and beat aid bottlenecks as the toll from last week's earthquake and tsunamis neared 15,300 dead and missing. Asia US marines arrived in Sri Lanka as foreign military aid efforts picked up while the island's tsunami death toll hit 30,196, fuelling fears that disease could spread ahead of an internationally-backed cleanup effort. Iraq The Islamic Army in Iraq, one of the main armed groups fighting US forces in the war-torn country, threatened to carry out attacks inside the United States in 2005 in a statement posted on a website. Iraq A suicide car bomber rammed his vehicle into a checkpoint near the Baghdad offices of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's political party, killing four people and wounding 24, in an attack claimed by an Al-Qaeda-linked group. Mideast Frontrunner Mahmud Abbas entered the last week of the Palestinian presidential election race with his challengers out of sight, emphasising the need for unity as he sought to maximise his vote. Peru Peru said security forces would storm a rebel-held police station in the south of the country where renegade former soldiers are holding 10 policemen hostage. Croatia Croatian President Stipe Mesic will face his main conservative rival in a runoff presidential vote later this month to decide who will lead the former Yugoslav republic's final push to join the European Union, election results showed.