Asia The total death toll from devastating earthquakes and tidal waves earlier this week has soared to at least 117,885 following the latest Indonesian toll of at least 79,940. Asia The confirmed death toll from tsunamis in Sri Lanka climbed to 24,743, while 4,916 people were still missing, the president's office said. Asia Thousands of European tourists in Asian beach resorts remained listed dead or missing as the toll in Asian tidal wave disaster topped 88,000. Asia Nearly 2,400 people, including over 700 foreigners, were confirmed to have died when tidal waves battered southwest Thailand, the interior ministry said. Asia Governments and individuals across the world were digging into their pockets to help the millions of victims of the killer waves that struck southern Asia, as the UN said well over one billion dollars would be needed. Asia Tens of thousands of Indians fled in panic from coastal areas devastated by killer tsunamis after the authorities sounded a new alert, while aid workers struggled to bring relief to the living. Asia Lava is spewing from a crater on India's Andaman islands in the aftermath of the huge earthquake that set off tsunamis killing thousands of people, police chief Samsher Deol said. Asia The toll of people killed in Somalia when a deadly tsunami wave struck the country's Indian Ocean coast at the weekend has climbed to 132, Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi said. Iraq Pitched battles between US troops and Iraqi insurgents in strife-torn Mosul left at least 26 dead including one US soldier as two Lebanese businessmen were kidnapped in Baghdad overnight. Sudan The Sudanese government and the main southern rebel group have agreed on the last issues, including a permanent ceasefire, that were standing in the way of a final peace agreement, mediators said. Mideast Israel came a step closer to having a unity government that will enforce next year's planned pullout from the occupied Gaza Strip where five Palestinians were killed in an upsurge of violence. Syria Two of 22 defendants accused of involvement in a bomb attack and firefight in the Syrian capital in April were sentenced to death by the state security court, a lawyer said.