Asia Rebels in Indonesia's tsunami-hit Aceh called for ceasefire talks to help the aid effort as new restrictions on foreign relief workers prompted the United States to demand "clarification" from Jakarta. South Africa Mark Thatcher, son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, pleaded guilty in a Cape Town court to charges of bankrolling an alleged coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea and was fined three million rand (roughly 380,000 euros, 505,000 dollars). Iraq A representative of revered Iraqi Shiite cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani was assassinated, along with his son and four bodyguards, an official in Sistani's office said. Iraq US-led forces stepped up operations against insurgents, rounding up almost 50 suspects in raids ahead of the January 30 elections which the White House acknowledged will be far from perfect. Asia Bodies of thousands of people killed in the December 26 tsunami could be identified within 30 days, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said, warning though that some victims may never be identified or even found. Asia UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called for "decisive measures" to address climate change and said a global early warning system must be set up in the wake of last month's Asian tsunami disaster. Britain Britain's Prince Harry apologized after a picture of him dressed up as a Nazi soldier at a fancy dress party was splashed across the front page of a mass-circulation newspaper only a fortnight before the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Australia Firefighters battling Australia's worst bushfires in more than 20 years, which left nine dead, brought the blaze under control as the region began a massive cleanup operation and was granted millions of dollars in aid. Georgia Sergei Bagapsh has won the presidential election in Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia, garnering 90.1 percent of the popular vote, with all ballots counted, Central Elections Commission head Batal Batagua said here.