In the News

• The chief executive of the U.S. Olympic Committee stepped down under pressure from the gymnastics sex-abuse scandal. [The New York Times]

• Australia has issued a compulsory recall for all 2.7 million vehicles with defective Takata airbags, which the government has linked to at least 23 deaths. [Associated Press]

• The North Korean leaders Kim Jong-un and his father, Kim Jong-il, reportedly used fraudulent Brazilian passports to apply for visas in the 1990s. [Reuters]

• The E.U. proposed keeping Northern Ireland in a customs union with the European Union when Britain leaves the bloc. [The New York Times]

• In his latest overture to the Taliban, President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan offered to treat the insurgent group as a legitimate political party and provide them with passports if they agreed to peace talks. [The New York Times]

• The death toll from the 7.5-magnitude earthquake in Papua New Guinea this week rose to 20. [CNN]

• Most of the roughly 90 people who drowned when a boat capsized off Libya’s coast in February were Pakistani migrants. Seven were from a single tiny village, which has been rocked by the tragedy. [The New York Times]

• Indonesia seized a luxury yacht sought by the U.S. Department of Justice as part of a corruption investigation related to a Malaysian state fund. [Reuters]