Reuters World News Highlights 0600 GMT, Nov 4

WASHINGTON - A third of Americans see relations with China as the most important globally for the United States, a survey published on Tuesday showed, but more than half of those polled viewed China was an adversary.

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WASHINGTON/JAKARTA - After being feted in Europe, mobbed in Africa and even cheered in the Middle East, Barack Obama will test the limits of his global starpower next week in his debut presidential tour of Asia.

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SEOUL - North Korea has increased pressure on regional powers trying to persuade it to abandon nuclear arms in exchange for massive aid by saying on Tuesday it had produced more plutonium to make atomic weapons.

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WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama and European leaders pressed re-elected Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday to focus on good governance and other challenges facing his country and backed plans for an international conference on Afghanistan.

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WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama and European Union leaders pledged on Tuesday to redouble efforts for a deal on climate change at a summit in Copenhagen, but gave no details of how to reach that ambitious goal.

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TOKYO - Japan's foreign minister has called off a trip to Washington meant to smooth ties ruffled by a feud over military bases ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama's visit next week, the top government spokesman said on Wednesday.

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BEIJING - Chinese investors in Africa, long used to low-interest policy loans, are being reluctantly pushed towards commercial lending as Chinese investment in the continent outpaces Beijing's willingness to take on risk.

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BRUSSELS - The European Union will quickly appoint its first long-term president and a powerful foreign policy chief after ratifying a treaty on Tuesday to give the 27-country bloc more influence on the world stage.

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TEGUCIGALPA - Honduran lawmakers on Tuesday put off a vote on whether to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya and asked the Supreme Court for its view, bucking outside pressure to quickly end a four-month political crisis.

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WASHINGTON - Republicans rolled to victory in governor's races in Virginia and New Jersey on Tuesday in a sharp blow to Democrats that showed the limits of U.S. President Barack Obama's influence.

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WASHINGTON - Swine flu has driven up the price of horse meat in Mongolia, closed schools across Afghanistan and Ukraine and sparked a quarrel over whether detainees at a U.S. base in Cuba should be vaccinated.