President Donald Trump said the U.S. wants to keep economic sanctions in place to pressure North Korea to give up nuclear weapons. At a meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Thursday, Trump said that the sanctions are at a fair level.

Trump isn’t ruling out a third summit summit with Kim Jong Un and Moon said it’s important to express a positive outlook to the international community so a third U.S.-North Korea summit will be held.

Congo’s Ebola outbreak might be declared global emergency. The outbreak, announced on Aug. 1st., has become the second-deadliest in history.

The head of health and care at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Emanuele Capobianco, presented Congolese health ministry statistics of 40 new cases over two days this week on Thursday.

Officials are increasingly losing track of where this virus is spreading, because many new cases aren’t linked to previously identified patients. On Thursday, the world health organization reported that 57 health zones in Congo reported new cases over the last three weeks.

In local news, four St. Thomas students took first in Business Plan competition. Entrepreneurship students Jacob Mischke, Tia Klaers, Jackson Buelow, and Kyle Schneider won the $10,000 in the annual Business Plan Competition hosted by the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship in February. Their product is a bottle holder that attaches to bed frames.

Isa Tine can be reached at tine8153@stthomas.edu