Fourteen Latin American countries requested assistance totaling $4.48 billion (FT) from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) amid the coronavirus crisis. The region has yet to reach the peak of its outbreak, while global reported virus cases top 1.2 million, according to Johns Hopkins University.
 
As medical supply shortages intensify worldwide, the United States has been criticized for diverting shipments (NPR) originally bound for France and Germany. Mask producer 3M warned that a U.S. ban on its exports to Canada and Latin America will have “huge humanitarian implications.” India moved to restrict exports (Reuters) of most coronavirus test kits after already banning exports of some drugs, masks, and protective gear.

U.S. Indo-Pacific Command called for $20.1 billion in new spending (NYT) in the region between 2021 and 2026, to cover intelligence-sharing centers, weaponry, radar systems, and other assets.
 
Japan: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the government would declare a monthlong state of emergency (Japan Times) in Tokyo and six other prefectures due to the coronavirus.

Afghan special forces arrested (TOLO) Aslam Farooqi, the head of an Afghan militant group affiliated with the self-proclaimed Islamic State. The group claimed responsibility (Al Jazeera) for an attack on a Sikh place of worship last week that killed twenty-five people.
 
India: Two gun battles (AP) in Indian-administered Kashmir killed nine suspected militants and three Indian soldiers, an Indian army official said.  

The Turkish defense ministry announced it will minimize the nonessential movement (Reuters) of troops in Syria, with entry and exit now requiring approval from the head of the army.
 
Yemen: Yemen’s internationally recognized government and the rebel Houthi movement blamed each other (Reuters) for an attack on an inactive oil pumping station in the central Marib province.

Rwandan authorities said a grave that could contain as many as thirty thousand victims (AP) of the country’s 1994 genocide was found outside Kigali.
 
Niger: Four soldiers and sixty-three suspected jihadi militants were killed in clashes (AFP) in the country’s west, the government said.
 
CFR’s Africa in Transition blog looks at how jihadi groups could exploit the coronavirus crisis.

Former human rights lawyer Keir Starmer was elected the new leader (FT) of the United Kingdom’s Labour party after campaigning on pledges to unite the party’s far-left and moderate factions.
 
Greece: Authorities quarantined a migrant camp (Kathimerini) north of Athens after a man there tested positive for the new coronavirus. Last week, they quarantined a camp where twenty people tested positive (Kathimerini).
 
In Foreign Affairs, Robert Malley and Richard Malley discuss how the pandemic could affect the world’s most vulnerable populations.

Nineteen people died in a shootout (AP) between the Sinaloa and Juarez drug cartels in Mexico’s northern state of Chihuahua, state prosecutors said.
 
This CFR Backgrounder looks at Mexico’s drug war.

Michael Atkinson, the inspector general fired by U.S. President Donald J. Trump on Friday, said it was “hard not to think” the president was responding (WaPo) to Atkinson’s “impartial” fulfillment of his duties, which most recently included handling the whistleblower complaint at the center of Trump’s impeachment.