JAKARTA, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The official death toll in Southeast Asia soared to 123,000 Thursday from the weekend earthquake and tsunamis that affected 11 countries.

Indonesia was the hardest hit by the magnitude 9 earthquake, and midday Thursday officials confirmed 80,000 people had been killed there. Sri Lanka raised its toll to 22,800, while India reported 7,330 confirmed dead. Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said casualties in his country could reach 3,000.

Early Thursday, based on aftershocks, Indian authorities issued a tsunami alert and warned people in coastal areas to head for higher ground, triggering panic in the streets of Port Blair, CNN reported.

Foreign governments have pledged more than $220 million in aid, but the United Nations' relief coordinator, Jan Egeland, said it will take another "two or three days" for the relief effort to get into full swing, the BBC reported.

The head of the World Health Organization's crisis team, David Nabarro, says as many as 5 million people lack water, food or adequate sanitation.

The force of the earthquake was so great, the island of Sumatra moved 100 feet to the southwest and the resulting tsunamis killed 100 people in Somalia and one in Kenya, some 4,000 miles away.

Indian tsunami warning retracted

MADRAS, India, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Indian science officials say they've issued no new tsunami warnings, seeking to calm fears of another killer wave.

Word of a fresh alert caused panic in southern India Thursday, in the wake of Sunday's killer earthquake and tidal wave that killed more than 12,000 in India.

"I don't know who is spreading such panic. We sounded no fresh alert," Indian Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal said.

Officials in India's Tamil Nadu state, which was particularly hard hit by Sunday's sea surges, said aftershocks in the Andaman and Nicobar islands could cause more high waves, reported the Press Trust of India.

Local officials overseeing relief operations in the district asked residents of coastal villages to leave immediately.

The latest report in the Hindustan Times Thursday said that 12,500 lives had been lost in India alone. Over 6,000 were in Tamil Nadu.

U.S. kills 25 Iraqi extremists in Mosul

MOSUL, Iraq, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- An attempt by Iraqi insurgents to overrun a U.S. combat post in Mosul resulted in the deaths of one U.S. soldier and 25 extremists, the New York Times (NYSE:NYT) said Thursday.

In the fiercest fighting the city has seen in weeks, about 50 Iraqis used rocket-propelled grenades and a car bomb in the assault that took U.S. troops two hours to contain late Wednesday afternoon.

Fifteen U.S. troops were wounded and one of them later died of his injuries.

The insurgents armed with a car bomb tried to blast the concrete barriers of the combat outpost and a U.S. armored vehicle raced to the scene firing its .50-caliber machine gun to explode or disable the bombs.

Two F-18 and two F-14 military jets were also deployed, which swooped down on strafing runs and also fired Maverick missiles, wiping out much of the insurgent force, said military spokesman Lt. Col. Paul Hastings.

The attack came eight days after a suicide bomber killed 22 people in Mosul after infiltrating a U.S. military mess tent at a military base.

U.S. lawyer's terror trial winding down

NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. prosecutors in New York have begun their summation in the trial of lawyer Lynne Stewart, accused of aiding Muslim terrorists, the New York Times said.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Dember continued his summation Thursday, a day after telling the jury Stewart had been an eager conspirator in a plot to restart a suspended campaign of attacks by Muslim fundamentalists against the government of Egypt.

He also claimed she had failed in her basic obligations as a lawyer, joining an imprisoned terrorist client in breaking the law out of arrogance because she "thought she was above it -- it didn't apply to her."

He said Stewart consciously carried concealed messages from a known terrorist to an imprisoned sheik and relayed the sheik's response favoring violence to that terrorist and to the sheik's militant followers in Egypt.

Stewart's defense was expected to begin its summation to the jury Thursday.

Flying anxiety turns into new baby

ATLANTA, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A British woman trying to fly home from Atlanta after Christmas will get there next week, along with the daughter she gave birth to in an airport washroom.

The unidentified pregnant woman was in Georgia visiting her parents and once at the Atlanta airport Dec. 26, began feeling "unwell," The Sun reported Thursday.

She went into a washroom and within five minutes realized she was about to give birth. An airline ticket agent assisted her in the delivery and airport official Felicia Browder said Wednesday mother and baby were "doing very well."

Mother and baby are staying in Georgia for a few more days with family before trying once again to get back to London.