Reuters World News Highlights 2200 GMT Nov 23

WASHINGTON/LIMA - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama may consider delaying a campaign promise to roll back tax cuts on high-income Americans as he works on a huge stimulus plan to counter the worst economic crisis the world has faced in decades.

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RAMALLAH - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday he would call for elections in 2009 if his secular Fatah movement and its Islamist rivals Hamas do not reconcile by the end of this year.

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LONDON - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday defended his plan to inject billions of pounds of borrowed money into the economy to try to stave off a deep recession, saying failure to act could cause permanent damage.

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LIMA - The United States, China, Japan and 18 other economies in Asia and the Americas pledged quick and decisive action on Sunday to prevent a severe global economic downturn.

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BISSAU - Guinea-Bissau's President Joao Bernardo "Nino" Vieira survived an attack by renegade soldiers early on Sunday, two days after the results of parliamentary elections were rejected by an opposition leader.

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DHARAMSALA, India - The Dalai Lama ruled out retirement on Sunday and reaffirmed the support of Tibetan exiles for his "Middle Way" approach to China.

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TBILISI - Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili called for unity after war with Russia on the fifth anniversary of the street protests that brought him to power, but instead faced a direct challenge from a former ally.

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CARACAS - Venezuelans voted in state elections on Sunday that test President Hugo Chavez's grip after a decade in power as he seeks to renew his drive toward socialism in the OPEC nation despite falling oil prices.

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DHAKA - Bangladesh said on Sunday it had delayed by 11 days until Dec. 29 a parliamentary election which is expected to return the country to democracy after two years of emergency rule by an interim government.

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TEL AVIV - An Israeli court jailed eight Jewish teenagers on Sunday for carrying out neo-Nazi attacks in a case that sparked revulsion in a state that was a haven for Jews after the Holocaust.