Asia The number of people killed in Asia's tsunami disaster edged up towards 146,000, with bodies still being found on the Indian Ocean's devastated shorelines 10 days after the catastrophe. Asia Relief operations to victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster resumed at full pace here after heavy rains that had hampered efforts a day earlier began to clear, officials said. Indonesia United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan arrived in Indonesia to attend an emergency donors' summit on the Asian tsunami disaster, officials said. Asia-US 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. Asia-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. 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. Iraq Rebels took their battle to the heart of Iraq's political and security apparatus, assassinating Baghdad's governor and bombing an elite commando base in another day of bloodshed that left 39 dead. 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. US-Palestinians The United States is sending an observer delegation to a Palestinian presidential election set for January 9, the State Department said. Chile Chile's Supreme Court upholds Augusto Pinochet's indictment on murder and kidnapping charges, bringing the former dictator closer to standing trial for the first time for abuses during his 1973-1990 rule.