Asia The number of people killed when an earthquake and tsunamis devastated Indian Ocean coastlines on December 26 neared 160,000 after Indonesia added almost 6,000 more victims to its toll. Indonesia: 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 The world's leading industrialised countries agreed a moratorium on the debt repayments of nations worst hit by the Asian tsunami disaster, the British treasury said, amid fears that old rivalries are hampering vital aid deliveries. Japan Japan will send some 1,000 military personnel to Indonesia under the country's biggest overseas deployment since World War II to help victims of the Asian tsunami disaster, an official said. Sudan UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called for new international action to halt violence in Darfur in a report released which highlighted the failure of negotiations and deteriorating security in the Sudanese region. Iraq The Pentagon ordered a top-level review of its strategy and of Iraqi troops after nine US troops were killed, just three weeks from election day. Mideast Two Palestinian presidential candidates were kicked out of Jerusalem by Israel on the final day of campaigning as front-runner Mahmud Abbas drew heavily on the late Yasser Arafat's legacy. Senegal Senegal's national assembly adopted an amnesty law for political offences committed since 1983 and those linked to the 1993 assassination of the vice-president of the constitutional council. Italy Thirteen people died in northern Italy when a passenger train collided with a freight train in heavy fog, turning the leading coaches into a jagged concertina of torn blue and white metal.