News headlines in July 2011, page 8

The response to the recent atrocities in Norway cannot be more power-wielding and violence. Instead we must create a global culture of peace and non-violence, writes Fredrik S. Heffermehl, author of "The Nobel Peace Prize; What Nobel Really Wanted", a norwegian lawyer and board member of IALANA, the International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms.

Jasinta Nokrek loves nothing better than to range through the dense Modhupur forest, the way her Garo tribal ancestors have always done.

22 July 2011 will be engraved in Norwegian history like 9 April 1940, the German invasion. Words pale before this enormity. The center of Oslo, where the ministries are located, resembles a war-zone more than during the Second World War, when it was hit by some bombs from the resistance and from England. Even worse was the massacre at the Labor Party youth camp on Ut"ya Island near Oslo with 68 killed and many seriously wounded, writes Johan Galtung, born in Norway, Founder of TRANSCEND, a Peace, Development and Environment Network

Speaking at the two-day high level meeting on youth, the Executive Director of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) Dr Babatunde Osotimehin said that 'young people deserve our immediate and unwavering support.'

For the first time ever, the finance minister has allocated almost four million dollars from the current national budget to provide free sanitary pads to schoolgirls.

As Norway mourns the loss of at least 76 of its citizens in Friday's bombing of government buildings in Oslo and mass shootings at a Labour Party youth camp, attention here has focused on the U.S. bloggers and groups whose Islamophobic message appears to have fuelled the alleged perpetrator's murderous rage.

Germany’s delivery of armoured tanks to Saudi Arabia is not aimed at repressing local or regional popular uprisings, but to improve Saudi military capabilities in a likely war against Iran, diplomatic and military experts say.

Egypt's transitional military rulers reiterated Monday their pledge to hand over power to a civilian elected government and denied they are seeking to carve out a patriarchal role in the country's future political life.

The rape of a young woman that has become a symbolic case in Nicaragua was ruled a 'crime of passion' by the Supreme Court in a verdict that is suspected to have political overtones.

International donors have given more than one billion dollars to ease the famine in Somalia and elsewhere in the Horn of Africa, but U.N. officials say another billion will be needed to prevent the situation from deteriorating in other areas.