In an escalation of the current dispute over Belarus siphoning oil from a pipeline running through their country from Russia in retaliation for doubling their gas prices, Russia has counter-retaliated by cutting off the oil supply to Belarus, and therein Western Europe as well. It was initially reported that Belarus was the cause of the shut down, but the Belarus government claims that the stoppage comes from Russian soil. German Chancellor Merkel declared this sudden interruption of oil as "unacceptable," and many German newspapers mulled over the reliability of Russia as a trading partner and their reliance on foreign energy.
In other news:
- Scientists believe that many differing physical characteristics are not caused just by genes themselves, but in variations in their expression.
- Psychology Today talks about how conservatives and liberals are different in many things other than their political opinion.
- Italy considers what to do about 25 CIA agents accused of kidnapping a Muslim cleric within its borders and sending him to Egypt to be tortured.
- Slate weighs in on the Polish archbishop scandal.
- A modification of the burqa allows Australian Muslim women to serve as lifeguards.
- The BBC on how spicy foods can kill cancer cells.
- With the Democrats proposing an increase in the minimum wage, the Christian Science Monitor looks at what it's like to live on the current minimum wage.
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