| Iran seeks to avert disaster in Syria's Idlib: Iranian senior official Posted: 11 Sep 2018 11:53 AM PDT  Iran shares the United Nations' concern about a potential humanitarian catastrophe in Syria's Idlib province and will seek to avert it, Hossein Jaberi Ansari, special assistant to Iran's foreign minister, told reporters on Tuesday. Iran and Russia are President Bashar al-Assad's main backers in Syria's seven-year-old civil war.
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| 45 Tweets That Break Down The Math Of Parenting Posted: 11 Sep 2018 09:49 AM PDT  If parenting were a pie chart, what would it look like?
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| Google buys into new Finnish wind energy in renewables search Posted: 11 Sep 2018 08:45 AM PDT  Google said it has signed a 10-year deal to buy renewable energy from three new wind farms that are being built in Finland and which will power one of its data centres. Big companies have rushed to secure cheap renewable energy to manage costs and reduce their carbon footprint through so-called corporate power purchase agreements (PPAs), which allow firms such as Google, owned by Alphabet Inc, Facebook and Microsoft to buy directly from the energy generator. Google said on Tuesday that the Finnish deal is the first where it is buying power from European projects that will not receive any government subsidies.
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| Ethiopia and Eritrea reopen border after 20 years as part of extraordinary rapprochement Posted: 11 Sep 2018 05:44 AM PDT  Celebrating their dramatic diplomatic thaw, the leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea on Tuesday officially opened the border where a bloody war and ensuing tensions had divided them for decades, with emotional residents embracing after years of separation. Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia's new reformist prime minister, and Isaias Afwerki, the longtime president of Eritrea, visited the Bure Front along with members of their militaries to mark the Ethiopian new year, Mr Abiy's chief of staff Fitsum Arega said in a Twitter post. The two opened the border post "for road transport connectivity" and later were doing the same at the Serha-Zalambesa crossing, Eritrean Information Minister Yemane Meskel said on Twitter. Photos posted by both officials showed Mr Abiy in camouflage walking alongside Mr Isaias in olive drab, while hundreds of civilians lined a road with the countries' flags in hand. Television footage showed people of the countries' Tigray region, who share close cultural ties, dancing while flag-draped camels wandered by. The former bitter rivals have made a stunning reconciliation since Mr Abiy weeks after taking office in April announced that Ethiopia would fully embrace a peace deal that ended a 1998-2000 border war that killed tens of thousands. Eritrean soldiers wait at the Bure front in May 2000 Credit: Sami Sallinen/Reuters At the time, he said the countries would celebrate the Ethiopian new year together: "We want our brothers and sisters to come here and visit us as soon as possible." Embassies have reopened, telephone lines have been restored and commercial flights between the capitals have resumed as some long-separated families have held tearful reunions. Landlocked Ethiopia, one of Africa's fastest-growing economies, and Eritrea, one of the world's most closed-off nations, also plan development cooperation around Eritrea's Red Sea ports in particular. Reports on social media on Monday indicated that mine-clearing activities were underway in one border area, signaling that an opening was planned. The United Nations has called the border one of the world's most heavily mined. It was not clear if the countries would withdraw troops from the border. Factfile | Eritrea Mr Abiy on Monday told a new year's eve concert crowd of thousands in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, that "as of today, Ethiopian and Eritrean people will prosper together and march in unison... The last five months have brought hope and reconciliation." The Ethiopian new year has roots in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and is related to the Julian calendar. Eritrea has used the Gregorian calendar since it gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993. The reconciliation between Ethiopia and Eritrea has been warmly welcomed by the international community and has led to a series of further thaws in the fragile Horn of Africa region, with Eritrea resuming diplomatic ties with both turbulent Somalia and the small but strategic port and military nation of Djibouti. Observers now wonder whether the thaw will inspire Eritrea's leader, who has led since independence without elections, to embrace reforms and loosen a strict military conscription system that has led the small country to become one of the largest sources of migrants fleeing toward Europe, Israel and elsewhere.
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| Attorneys for family criticize affidavit in Dallas shooting Posted: 11 Sep 2018 03:11 AM PDT  DALLAS (AP) — Attorneys for the family of a black man who was shot and killed by a white Dallas police officer who says she mistook his apartment for hers are criticizing an affidavit that gives a narrative of what happened.
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| Violence displaces over 30,000 in northwest Syria this month: UN Posted: 10 Sep 2018 09:58 PM PDT  Fighting has forced more than 30,000 people from their homes this month in northwest Syria, home to the country's last major rebel stronghold, the United Nations said Monday. The regime and its ally Russia have increased their bombardment in the past few days on the region, which includes most of Idlib province and parts of adjacent Hama. "We're deeply concerned about this recent escalation of violence, which has resulted in the displacement of over 30,000 in the area," said a spokesman for the UN humanitarian coordination agency, David Swanson.
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| Trump Adviser Threatens Syria With 'Much Stronger' Military Assault If It Uses Chemical Weapons Posted: 10 Sep 2018 08:46 PM PDT  If Syria uses chemical weapons again, National Security Adviser John Bolton promised the U.S. would deliver a counterattack.
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| Trump Achieves The Impossible: Democratic Voters Want Jeff Sessions To Stick Around Posted: 10 Sep 2018 06:59 PM PDT  President Donald Trump has scrambled many of Washington's standard operating
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| Vatican preparing response to archbishop's accusations, cardinals say Posted: 10 Sep 2018 04:29 PM PDT  The statement came at the end of the first day of a three-day meeting of the "C-9", a group of nine cardinals from around the world who meet with the pope at the Vatican several times a year to advise him on Church matters. In an 11-page statement published on Aug. 26, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the former Vatican ambassador to Washington, launched an unprecedented broadside by a Church insider against the pope and a long list of Vatican and U.S. Church officials. The cardinals' statement said they had expressed their "total solidarity with the pope over events of the last few weeks" and added that the Holy See was preparing "eventual and necessary clarifications".
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| California Pledges 100% Clean Electricity by 2045 Posted: 10 Sep 2018 03:54 PM PDT  The ambitious commitment comes as the state gears up for a sprawling climate change summit
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