World News Highlights at 2209 GMT, Nov 11

NEW YORK - Fresh signs of economic weakness from China, Japan and Britain reinforced fears of a prolonged recession, and U.S. President-elect Barack Obama urged the Bush administration to back a second economic stimulus package and aid the ailing auto industry.

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NEW YORK - Economic gloom overpowered financial markets again on Tuesday, sending world stock and commodity prices sharply lower as enthusiasm about China's $600 billion stimulus plan announced late Sunday fizzled out.

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NEW YORK - The White House said on Tuesday President George W. Bush did not link support for economic stimulus measures or further aid to U.S. automakers to congressional passage of free trade pacts in a meeting with President-elect Barack Obama.

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GAZA - Israel renewed fuel deliveries to the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, ending a week-long suspension of supplies that led to blackouts in the Hamas-controlled enclave where militants had launched cross-border rocket attacks.

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TEHRAN - Iran has test-fired a new type of missile during war games near the Iraqi border, state television said on Tuesday, after warning the United States it would respond to any violation of Iranian airspace.

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LANDIKOTAL, Pakistan - Pakistani security forces aim to recapture trucks hijacked by militants as they were taking supplies to Western forces in Afghanistan through the Khyber Pass, a government official said on Tuesday.

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MOSCOW - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev asked lawmakers on Tuesday to approve a draft law extending the presidential term of office, a change some observers say is part of a plan to bring Vladimir Putin back to the Kremlin.

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TAIPEI - Former Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian, a firebrand advocate of the island's formal independence from China, was detained on Tuesday after being questioned for most of the day about a money-laundering case.

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GOMA, Congo - Packed into squalid refugee camps or roaming in the bush, hundreds of thousands of Congolese children face hunger, disease, sexual abuse or recruitment by marauding armed factions, aid workers said on Tuesday.

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NAIROBI - Somali pirates have hijacked a second ship chartered by chemical tanker shipping group Stolt-Nielsen, a regional maritime official said on Tuesday.