World News Highlights at 1000 GMT, Nov 14

HONG KONG/LONDON - World leaders headed to Washington to discuss ways to protect the global economy from the effects of the worst financial crisis in 80 years.

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MIRANSHAH, Pakistan - Suspected U.S. drones fired missiles into a Pakistani tribal region, killing 12 people, including five foreigners, in an area known as a stronghold of Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud.

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WASHINGTON - U.S. pressure on al Qaeda near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan has put the group "off balance," but the region remains the biggest terrorism threat to the United States, the CIA's chief said.

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CHICAGO - Sen. Hillary Clinton has emerged as a candidate to be U.S. secretary of state for Barack Obama, months after he defeated her in an intense contest for the Democratic presidential nomination.

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SEOUL - Former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, architect of a policy a decade ago to bring the two Koreas together, has warned relations may be heading towards catastrophe as the prickly North draws deeper into its shell.

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WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama will have a chance to appoint dozens of sympathetic judges to U.S. federal courts over the next four years, reversing the judiciary's shift to the right under President George W. Bush.

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BANGKOK - Thailand's rival political camps began a three-day truce for the cremation of the king's sister, but the hostilities that have hampered economic growth and claimed three lives look set to resume after her funeral.

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ISLAMABAD - Pakistan expects the IMF and other lenders to provide billions of dollars in loans soon, and China to pitch in with $500 million to avert a balance of payments crisis, the country's top economic adviser said.

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GAZA - An Israeli military aircraft fired a missile at gunmen in the Gaza Strip, wounding two of them, after a rocket and a mortar were fired at Israel, Palestinian medical workers said.