The United States provides the Philippines with $100 million in military assistance that could be used to purchase heavy helicopters.
In Burkina Faso, a national conference opens in the capital, Ouagadougou, to appoint a temporary president and map out plans for constitutional rule.
The United Nations World Food Program says Haiti is facing a "humanitarian catastrophe" because of hunger, violence, disease and inflation.
And a U.S. House committee votes to order former President Donald Trump to answer its questions about the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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