Asia Confirmed deaths from Asia's tsunami catastrophe pushed past 80,000, with experts predicting much worse to come as the world's biggest ever relief operation stuttered into life against enormous odds. Asia The death toll in Indonesia from a giant earthquake and tsunami has risen to 45,268, a health ministry spokesman said. Asia The death toll in the tidal wave disaster around the Indian Ocean could rise above 100,000 once outlying islands of India are fully checked, a senior international Red Cross official said. Asia The United States, Australia, Japan and India will form a "core group" to lead relief efforts after the Asian tsunami disaster, President George W. Bush said. Asia Some 30,000 to 50,000 people in Somalia are "in need of immediate relief assistance" after the country was hit by the tsunami wave disaster at the weekend, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said. Ukraine Ukraine's Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich vowed to keep up his legal challege of a presidential rerun vote, which final results show he lost to opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko by more than two million votes. Iraq US President George W. Bush said it was crucial for Iraq's election to go ahead on January 30 and that a fresh review of security in the country was underway. Mideast Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon gave the army free rein to respond to repeated attacks by Palestinian militants in Gaza and warned he would not tolerate dissent in the ranks during the pullout from the territory. Mideast Palestinian presidential election favourite Mahmud Abbas called for the tearing down of Israel's West Bank barrier, warning that it would never deliver security. Sudan The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said it has suspended food aid to the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur following a rebel attack on a market town that triggered deadly clashes with government forces.