Indonesia: 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 US Secretary of State Colin Powell got a first-hand look at damage from last week's Asian tsunami disaster and expressed confidence his country's relief efforts would boost its battered image in the Muslim world. Britain 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. Indonesia: The chaotic operation to help Indonesia's tsunami survivors stalled temporarily after a plane crash blocked the relief effort's main airport. UN 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. SriLanka 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. India: 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. UN 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 Insurgents took their battle to the heart of Iraq's government and security apparatus, assassinating Baghdad's governor and bombing an elite commando base, but London and Washington insisted elections would go ahead as planned this month. 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 Israeli troops killed eight Palestinians as they intensified a campaign against rocket attacks, prompting a furious denunciation of the "Zionist enemy" by presidential election favourite Mahmud Abbas. Chile Chile's Supreme Court upheld an indictment of former dictator Augusto Pinochet, ruling to keep him under house arrest for murder and kidnapping charges related to Operation Condor, a 1970s-era conspiracy of South American dictatorships to kill opponents. 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.