Yahoo! Music UK — world entertainment news - Pop superstar Shakira is among the stars who have been urged to cancel concerts in Belarus amid ongoing political turmoil in the country. more info

ContactMusic — Pop superstar Shakira is among the stars who have been urged to cancel concerts in Belarus amid ongoing political turmoil in the country. The Colombian singer is scheduled to play a gig in Minsk, Belarus in May (11), while dance... more info

Guardian Music — From the Iraq war to the financial crisis, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have a song that seems to fit the occasionAs was reported yesterday, among the tonnes of leaked papers about the Israel-Palestine conflict, there lurks a particularly remarkabl... more info

Reuters — MINSK (Reuters) - Deep snow smothered the noise. Only fresh footprints leading to the tumbledown house in a suburb of the Belarussian capital Minsk betrayed life behind its boarded-up windows. more info

Totally Fuzzy — New Book Concludes - Chernobyl death toll: 985,000, mostly from cancer by Prof. Karl Grossman This past April 26th marked the 24th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear plant accident. It came as the nuclear industry and pro-nuclear government offic... more info

Sky News — Belarus has threatened to shut off the flow of Russian gas to Europe in a dispute over money. more info

AOL Music — (June 23) -- Russia's state-run gas monopoly has cut natural gas shipments to its former Soviet neighbor Belarus by 60 percent as of today, but says the decreased flow hasn't yet had an impact on energy supplies in the rest of Europe. more info

AOL Music — (June 21) -- Russian President Dmitri Medvedev today ordered a cut in natural gas supplies to Belarus, saying it had failed to pay its growing debts and scathingly rejecting accepting goods instead of cash. more info

Sky News — Russia has cut back its gas supply to Belarus over unpaid debts, raising fears of disruption to European supplies. more info

Scotsman.com — Bulgarians with wings, butterflies from Belarus and extrovert Moldovans prancing around the stage like things possessed…yes, it's Eurovision time again. David Elder has be more info