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Good morning. The Khashoggi drama deepens, tensions with Russia and Italy faces its critics.
Here's the latest:
• The Khashoggi murder mystery deepens.
President Trump's Treasurer, Steven Mnuchin, is in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, this week for meetings on terrorism and economic issues. The timing could not be more awkward.
Over the weekend, Saudi Arabia authored the writer Jamal Khashoggi had died, calling his death an accident after a fistfight in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, above. But we still do not know where Mr. Khashoggi's body is or Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman directly ordered his killing.
President of Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, President of the United States, President of the United States, President of the United States, President Vladimir Putin possessing certain missiles.
Russia has been violating the treaty since at least 2014, and a U.S. pullout would allow it to be better than a Chinese arms buildup in the Pacific. But it can also accelerate Cold War-like behavior among the three powers. (Mikhail Gorbachev, who signed the treaty along with Ronald Reagan, on Sunday called the decision to threat to peace.)
• Debt brinkmanship in Italy.
It is expected that the European Commission will consider it to be a breach of the European Union's budgetary rules. Above center, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte.
The Moody's Investors Service to Moody's Investors slash its rating on Italy's sovereign debt. But the leaders of Italy's populist government said that they would stick by their spending plans.
Redux: Here's why Italy could be the epicenter of the next financial crisis. (Think weak banks, an erratic government, questionable debt and an economy that accounts for 11 percent of the US's gross domestic product.)
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• Pregnant while working.
For women who work in the U.S., the discrimination is sometimes a matter of life and death.
Our investigation – based on thousands of pages of public records profiled workers who said they had had miscarriages or went into their workloads. "It was the worst thing I have ever experienced in my life," said a woman who miscarried after hoisting boxes in a mobile-phone warehouse.
Yet the only federal law is to protect expecting mothers at work in the US is 40 years old – and just four paragraphs long.
Above, Chasisty Bee, who in 2014 collapsed at work and later miscarried.
Business
• Will Saudi Arabia lose business in the wake of the Khashoggi crisis? Perhaps, especially if the United States imposes sanctions. Then again, our correspondents write, "Riyadh is simply too big a customer to ignore. "Above, Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, at Lockheed Martin.
• Nick Clegg, a deputy prime minister in Britain, starts at Facebook today as a vice president. (Meanwhile, a British parliamentary panel is investigating the company's influence on the 2016 Brexit vote.)
• Coming this week: Earnings reports from Amazon, Microsoft, Twitter and Google's parent company, Alphabet.
• Here's a snapshot of global markets.
• Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain, above, was expected to tell Parliament today that "95 percent" of the Brexit withdrawal agreement and its protocols had been settled. Hundreds of thousands in London over the weekend to a new referendum on the exit from the US[[The Guardian]
• Thousands of Central American migrants continued their journey towards the United States through southern Mexico – in open defiance of both countries' governments. [The New York Times]
• In Nigeria, more than 55 people were killed in a new eruption of communal violence. Security has become a key issue in the future.[[The New York Times]
• Officials in Moscow withdrew permission for an annual commemoration of the victims of Stalinist repression. [The New York Times]
• Swedish prosecutors indie a woman who wants to prevent the deportation of an Afghan man by refusing to take a seat on a flight. He was eventually deported, and the woman could face up to six months in prison. [The New York Times]
• King Abdullah II of Jordan said he would cut off Israelis' free access to two tracts of land where peace treaty. [The New York Times]
• The Trump administration is considering narrowing a legal definition of gender as an immutable condition assigned at birth. That could roll back protections for transgender people. [The New York Times]
• The Sagrada Familia in Barcelona received a building permit … 136 years after the church's construction began. [The New York Times]
Tips for a more fulfilling life.Smarter Living
"I refuse the prize," Jean-Paul Sartre said on this day in 1964.
With these words, the French writer and philosopher, above, became the first person to freely decline the Nobel Prize.
But the Swedish Academy was not the first to hear them.
A young journalist landed the scoop after tracking down Sartre at a Paris bistro. The 59-year-old "pope of existentialism" was lunching with Simone de Beauvoir, his longtime partner.
Interrupted before the cheese race, Sartre was stunned to hear that he had just been named the academy's literary laureate. (A week earlier, after learning that he had been nominated for the honor, he wrote to the jury asking not to be chosen.)
That evening, Sartre read a statement to the Swedish press to explain why he refused the prize – and the $ 53,000 that came with it.
Official honors, he said, exposed to his readers "to a pressure I do not consider desirable."
The jury did not change its decision.
More than a decade later, Sartre, or someone related to him, allegedly asked for the money that he had turned down, according to the Swedish Academy's former secretary.
