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This week, Norwegian newspapers launched the "My vote 2013" campaign to young voters. Youth politicians respond to "unpolitical voting morality". Minotenk leader calls for more long-term view.

An ex-prostitute woman is traveling around the streets of Chicago. Using her own gruesome experiences as a means, she helps others out of inferiority and a life that lasts.

ENGLISH: Sardar Ahmad Khan (1974-2014), Ny Tid's correspondent in Kabul since 2006, has been shot dead at Serena Hotel on March 20th 2014. We regret the loss. Below is a collection of his articles published at Ny Tid's website for the last eight years.

A democracy depends on a free press that can report on issues that concern us all. The press, in turn, depends on sources – whistleblowers – but Norwegian media obviously have a way to go when it comes to protecting whistleblowers in today's society.

RAGE: In this essay, Maria Alnæs considers some of what the 'difference society' does to people's emotional lives. Rage and powerlessness are a natural result of tightening social security schemes, crushing trade unions, poor schooling and failing support schemes. And even though many people are far better off today than they might have been a few decades ago, there is an embittered feeling that it is possible to be better off, but that someone has cheated you out of it.

It does not matter which country's forces we attack, the Taliban's spokesman tells Ny Tid, after the attack in which the Norwegian soldier Claes Joachim Olsson was killed.

We need to wreck the totalitarian thoughts of the 68 rebellion. But the need for a settlement with, and a rebellion against, today's adopted truths is at least as great as 40 years ago.

ESSAY: The Golden Age of French philosophy (1945–1989) created something great. An atmosphere, a new way of thinking, a new way of being. A freedom-hungry life experiment. So what then went wrong?

If the people of Gaza breathe in some black humor, it can fuel the belief in change through popular resistance, a Palestinian humor writer believes.

What is the Government doing to help develop new political and legal regulations to ensure human control over killer robots (autonomous weapons)?

* The government's one-time solution for the long-awaited asylum children comprises only a few of the children in question. Now more courts are going to win against the Immigration Board.

* 7 sisters were forcibly dispatched from Namsos to a refugee camp in Jordan. Now they get their case tried in court. In Irbid, they have met with trial lawyer Neda Ibrahim (13) from Sandnes.

This week there have been a record number of elections in a Europe in crisis. The results garnered worldwide attention: Sarkozy's financial problems lost power in France, but neo-Nazis gained entry to Greece. The fear of increased conflict increases.

Siv Jensen's little sister has taken over as Secretary General of the WWF. Nina Jensen is disappointed with the Rio agreement, butts Frp's climate policy and wants most people out in the wild.

Of the two new films about the Utøya massacre, it is Reconstructing Utøya which, through four survivors' honest accounts, in all its simplicity allows us to see both the extent of the tragedy and a way forward for those involved.

Elected Amer Tawakul stands up and confirms that the son of 12 years and the grandson of 7 were killed in a bomb attack in November. He holds Norway co-responsible.

In the documentary The Confessions of Thomas Quick, Sture tells Bergwall himself how he got psychiatrists, investigators and the judiciary to believe that he was Sweden's answer to Hannibal Lecter.

Once in my life, I have also really tasted shame and stigma. That's when I came out as gay in Brumunddal.

Norway and the EU are further tightening up on asylum policy. The alleged refugee stream is a delusion, Amnesty claims.

The Forum for Development and the Environment praises stricter rules in arms exports. Norway's Peace Team, on the other hand, doubts the effect of the measures.