Reuters World News Highlights 0200 GMT, Nov 9

JAKARTA - Indonesia has executed three Muslim militants for the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed 202 people on the resort island, the attorney-general's office said on Sunday.

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MOSCOW - More than 20 people were killed and another 21 injured in an accident aboard a Russian nuclear submarine in the Pacific Ocean, the navy said on Sunday, in the worst submarine disaster since the Kursk sank eight years ago.

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SAO PAULO - The world's leading economies, including emerging powers such as China, agreed on Saturday on the need to take measures to stimulate growth and fight off the threat of a global recession.

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CHICAGO - Barack Obama said on Saturday that, with the long U.S. presidential election campaign over, now was the time for Americans to put aside political differences and work together to solve the economic crisis.

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HAVANA - Hurricane Paloma battered southeastern Cuba with roaring winds, heavy rains and a surging sea when it crashed ashore on Saturday as the third major storm to hit the island this year.

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PORT-AU-PRINCE - The death toll in the collapse of a ramshackle school in Haiti rose above 90 on Saturday after rescue workers uncovered a room full of dead, many of them children, officials said.

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TEHRAN - Iran's head of parliament on Saturday criticised U.S. President-elect Barack Obama for saying its development of a nuclear weapon would be "unacceptable" and repeated the Islamic state's call for fundamental policy change.

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WARSAW - Poland said on Saturday U.S. President-elect Barack Obama had declared he would continue with a missile shield project in eastern Europe, but an Obama aide in Washington said he had given no commitment to deploy the system.

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DAMASCUS/CAIRO - Egypt decided on Saturday to delay Palestinian reconciliation talks it planned to host next week, an Egyptian source said, after Islamist Hamas threatened to boycott the meeting.

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WELLINGTON - National Party leader John Key swept to power in New Zealand's election on Saturday, toppling a nine-year-old Labour government that was dogged by economic recession and political scandal.