Asia The United Nations warned that tens of thousands more people may have died in Asia's tsunami disaster, as the death toll crept towards 150,000 amd former US presidents to rock stars mobilised to feed the millions of destitute. Asia The World Bank, IMF and the United Nations are coordinating plans to help tsunami-affected countries make the transition from receiving humanitarian relief to long-term recovery, officials said. Asia-US The United States and Thailand have agreed to cooperate in developing an early warning system to avert future tsunami disasters like the one that devastated parts of Asia last week, the chief diplomats from both countries said. Iraq A powerful blast rocked western Baghdad and smoke was seen rising from the area, AFP correspondents said. Its cause and whether there were any casualties were not known. Asia President George W. Bush puts his father, George Bush, and his predecessor, Bill Clinton, in charge of efforts to raise private US aid for nations devastated by the Indian Ocean tsunamis. Japan-NKorea Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Japan could not take North Korean remarks at face value after the seclusive state threatened to end dialogue with Tokyo and warned of war. Peru The leader of a group of former soldiers holding 17 people hostage in southern Peru has been arrested by the military while he was negotiating a surrender, the rebel leader Antauro Humala himself told AFP by telephone. An official of the Ombudsman's Office confirmed the arrest. SKorea South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun said he would conduct a cabinet reshuffle to replace six ministers, aides said. Those affected would include the ministers of education, agriculture, home affairs, government legislature, gender equality, and maritime affairs. 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. Argentina A small boy may have fired the flare that set off the Argentine nightclub inferno as the toll from the blaze rises to 183 after an 11-year-old girl dies.