NEWS OF THE DAY
From Around the World
_1 North Korea threat: North Korea threatened again Thursday to resume nuclear and longrange missile tests, accusing the U.S. of having instigated some members of the U.N. Security Council to condemn its recent weapons tests. The warning by Pyongyang’s foreign ministry followed the weekend breakdown of North KoreaU.S. nuclear negotiations in Sweden, the first such talks between the countries in more than seven months. North Korea said the talks collapsed because the U.S. didn’t have any new proposals, and whether it maintains a selfimposed moratorium on major weapons tests was up to Washington.
_2 No bids: The Brazilian government has failed to auction four oil fields located near one of the nation’s biggest coral reef systems. Seventeen companies participated in the 36block auction held Thursday by the Brazilian Petroleum Agency, which auctioned off a third of the areas for more than $2 billion. But after possible exploration caused worry among some environmental authorities and organizations, none of the companies submitted offers for the four fields off the coast of the northeastern state of Bahia. The fields lie some 81 miles from the Abrolhos Marine National Park, which is home to rare coral formations.
_3 Global fund: French President Emmanuel Macron said a conference of the Global Fund to fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria raised at least $13.92 billion for the next three years. Macron, who hosts the international conference in the French city of Lyon, vowed to keep working to reach the $14 billion goal the organization had set — up from the $12.2 billion brought in during the past conference in 2016. A dozen heads of state and government, mostly from African countries, were attending the twoday conference of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
_4 Minister attacked: A knifewielding man suspected of belonging to a radical Islamic group wounded Indonesia’s security minister, a local police chief and another person in an attack in western Indonesia on Thursday, officials said. President Joko Widodo called the suspect a terrorist and urged people to help combat radicalism following the stabbing of security minister Wiranto in Banten province, where authorities say Muslim militants have a presence. Wiranto, 72, who uses one name, is said to be in stable condition. Investigators were trying to determine whether the attackers belonged to Jemaah Ansharuf Daulah, a Muslim militant network in Indonesia aligned with the Islamic State which security officials believe has followers in Banten. The group has been blamed for past bomb attacks in Indonesia.
_5 Nuremberg trials: Audio recordings from the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders will be made available to the public for the first time in digital form after nearly two years of work conducted in secret. The Memorial of the Shoah in Paris officially accepted the recordings at a ceremony Thursday. The files capture several hundred hours of the first, highprofile trial of top Nazi leaders in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II. Since 1950, they have existed only on 2,000 large discs housed in wooden boxes in the International Court of Justice library in the Hague, Netherlands. Now, curious listeners will be able to listen to the entirety of the judicial proceedings in reading rooms at the Hague, the Shoah Memorial in Paris, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.