Asia A global push to reach survivors of Asia's tsunami faltered after a plane accident in Indonesia and heavy rain in Sri Lanka with the United Nations warning that the death toll from the disaster could rise by tens of thousands. Asia Secretary of State Colin Powell toured relief operations on the tsunami-battered resort island of Phuket and pledged US help to develop an early warning system to avert future tsunami catastrophes. Asia Britain, the current chair of the G8 group of industrialised nations, unveiled a proposal to freeze immediately about three billion dollars in annual debt repayments from countries hit by the tsunami disaster. Asia The chaotic operation to help Indonesia's tsunami survivors stalled temporarily after a plane crash blocked the relief effort's main airport. Asia The World Health Organisation put at 500,000 the number of people believed to have been injured in the Indian Ocean tidal waves and warned of a "health disaster" if survivors are not given quick access to clean drinking water. Asia Heavy rains slowed relief operations in Sri Lanka's worst affected region as international aid piled up while doctors warned tsunami survivors were beginning to crack under the stress of their trauma. Asia Ships scoured the seas for thousands of bodies still missing in the tsunami-hit Andamans as India refused offers of foreign aid for the ravaged islands amid a mounting clamor for relief among survivors. Asia Hundreds of fishermen were probably killed in Myanmar by Indian Ocean killer waves, the World Food Program (WFP) said, as Yangon put the tsunami toll at 53 killed and 21 missing. Iraq Baghdad Governor Ali Radi al-Haidari and one of his bodyguards were killed in a roadside ambush, an attack the Al-Qaeda linked group of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed it carried out. Iraq A truck bombing outside a special Iraqi forces command post in western Baghdad killed 10 people, eight of them policemen, and wounded 56. Mideast Palestinian presidential election front-runner Mahmud Abbas launched a withering attack on the "Zionist enemy" after Israeli troops killed seven people in the northern Gaza Strip. Peru The leader of a group of former soldiers holding 17 people hostage in a police station in the southern Peruvian town of Adahuaylas was arrested while he was negotiating a surrender.