Asia United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan voiced shock at the devastation from Asia's tsunamis as the death toll continued rising and countries began assessing the cost of rebuilding their shattered coastlines. Asia Nearly two weeks after earthquake-triggered tsunamis slammed death and destruction onto south Asia's coastlines, the unprecedented global response has raised some four billion dollars in relief efforts for the stricken nations while the death toll Friday stood at just over 153,000. Asia The Indonesian government revised down the death toll from last month's earthquake and tsunami disaster to 101,318 after a counting error was discovered, the social affairs ministry said. Asia US Secretary of State Colin Powell toured Sri Lanka's battered coastline as the tsunami relief focus shifted to the island amid a bitter row between government and rebels over aid distribution. Asia Health workers have reported cases of diarrhoea, skin and respiratory illnesses in areas devastated by the tsunamis nearly two weeks ago, but no sign of epidemics, the World Health Organisation said. Asia The Group of Seven industrialised nations has agreed to a moratorium on the debt repayments of countries worst affected by the tsunamis in Asia, sources at the British Treasury said. Asia European Union (EU) foreign ministers were gathering for hastily-arranged talks on further ways of helping disaster-hit south Asia, a day after Europe boosted aid pledges to some 1.5 billion euros. Iraq The Pentagon was reportedly planning a top-level review of its Iraq policy after nine US troops were killed in the bloodiest day for American forces this year, while Prime Minister Iyad Allawi extended emergency laws in a bid to quell pre-election violence. Mideast Palestinian presidential candidate Mustafa Barghuti was arrested on his way to prayers at the Al-Aqsa mosque in occupied east Jerusalem on the final day of campaigning for Sunday's election. Philippines Philippines police arrested 16 Islamic militants planning to carry out suicide bombings on a Roman Catholic procession in the capital this weekend, officials said. NIreland The police blamed the Irish Republican Army (IRA) for a major bank robbery last month in Northern Ireland, triggering concerns about efforts to revive the peace process in the British province. Africa The UN food agency warned that the locust plagues to have hit north and west Africa remain serious and urged no let up in battling the swarms that have infested millions of hectares of farm land in the region. Sudan Sudan accused ethnic minority rebels in the Darfur region of trying to sabotage peace with the south by stepping up operations ahead of the signing of a final deal with southern rebels. Somalia Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Gedi announced in Nairobi the names of 47 ministers who will form his new cabinet, nearly a month after the country's parliament sacked his first team.