The next presidential election is scheduled for 2021. But business groups and the Organization of American States want to push that date up as a response to increasing violence and civil unrest.
Arkady Babchenko didn't even tell his wife about the scheme.
In an unexpected change in tone, the United States said on Tuesday that it still held the threat of imposing tariffs on $50 billion of imports from China unless it addressed the issue of theft of American intellectual property.
Kim Yong Chol, vice chairman of the ruling Workers' Party's Central Committee and formerly head of a top North Korean military intelligence agency, will meet with Mike Pompeo later this week, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said.
Analysts say Starbucks can ill afford the bad publicity at a time of growing competition in a coffee industry that has seen a number of rivals bought out or merged.
Video shows Mamoudou Gassama, 22, risking his life on Sunday as he climbed up the balconies to rescue the 4-year-old who is clinging to a railing.
The decision to appoint Carlo Cottarelli to form a stopgap administration sets the stage for elections that are likely to be fought over Italy's role in the European Union and the eurozone.
The well covered by the volcanic eruption is considered "potentially explosive" — but so far, no signs of problems.
After initially disrupting Qatar's imports and triggering the withdrawal of billions of dollars from its banks by depositors from the four states, the world's top exporter of liquefied natural gas quickly developed new trade routes and deployed tens of billions of dollars from its sovereign wealth fund to protect its domestic lenders.
Northern Ireland has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe with even rape and fatal fetal abnormality not considered legal grounds for a termination.
