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Chinese leader Hu Jintao promises to make communist rule more inclusive and better spread the fruits of China's economic boom during a nationally broadcast speech to China's Communist Party congress.

Turkey's top general insists that U.S.-Turkish military ties will never be the same if Congress adopts a resolution labeling as "genocide" the killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey. Seventy percent of supplies for U.S. troops in Iraq go through Turkey.

Barack Obama says military force is not the only option for dealing with Iran. In an NPR interview, the presidential candidate continued to criticize fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton on her foreign diplomacy positions.

When the House Foreign Relations Committee approved a measure that would officially declare the deaths of as many as 1.5 million Armenians in the early 19th century genocide, it revived a political debate.

Violence across Iraq claimed 44 lives, including that of two Christian women who were killed when guards in a security convoy fired on a car at an intersection in central Baghdad Tuesday. The latest incident draws more questions about the way private security firms operate.

Myanmar's junta signals the change of attitude toward toward detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi but suggests that her release from house is unlikely anytime soon.

An Iraqi government report calls for the U.S. government to sever ties with the private security contractor Blackwater USA. It also wants the company to pay $8 million in compensation to the families of each of the 17 people killed last month by Blackwater guards in Baghdad.

Protesters targeted the site of a planned training facility for Blackwater USA, the private security contractor that is under fire for recent actions in Iraq.

Ibrahim Gambari, the U.N. special envoy to Myanmar, briefed the U.N. Security Council Friday on his visits with Myanmar leader Senior General Than Shwe, and with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

U.S. State Department orders an overhaulof U.S. Embassy security practices in Iraq, tightening government oversight of diplomatic convoys escorted by private security contractors. The action follows a shooting incident by private security contractor Blackwater USA that killed civilian Iraqis.