Indonesia: Indonesia told foreign troops helping tsunami victims to get out of the country soon and defended tough new restrictions on aid workers, while rich nations prepared to freeze Jakarta's debt repayments. France The Paris Club, an informal creditor group of the world's 19 wealthiest nations, is set to agree on freezing debt repayments for tsunami-hit Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Seychelles, French Finance Minister Herve Gaymard said. Iraq Prime Minister Iyad Allawi acknowledged that some parts of Iraq would not be able to take part in this month's election as new attacks killed at least 25 people, six of them in a car bombing in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit. Kenya British finance minister Gordon Brown opened a week-long tour of Africa here with an appeal for the developed world to back a "new Marshall Plan" to ease the continent's chronic poverty. Australia Australia's deadliest bushfires for 22 years have killed nine people and injured dozens, police said, as firefighters battled blazes raging in two states and threatening a third. US The search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq ended before Christmas and an interim report by top US weapons inspector Charles Duelfer saying that there are no weapons to be found will likely stand, The Washington Post said. Mideast Two Palestinians were killed in an exchange of fire with Israeli soldiers in the first deadly incident since the weekend election of a moderate new Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas who is striving to end the armed uprising. Georgia Polling stations opened in Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia for a re-run presidential election with the reformist candidate the firm favourite to win. Britain Winds of up to 200 kilometres (125 miles) an hour lashed Scotland, the north of England and Northern Ireland, killing three people and leaving thousands of homes without power in one of Britain's worst winter storms in years.