 Reports in the US media say a number of senior Democrats in the US House of Representatives have privately told colleagues President Biden should end his re-election campaign. The president of Argentina, Javier Millet, has denounced what he called the judicial persecution of Brazil's former leader, Jair Bolsonaro. Japan and the Philippines have signed a defence pact today to allow the deployment of troops on each other's territory. Ministers from the two sides met in Manila to deepen ties in the face of an increasingly assertive China.