Karl Ritter

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True or false: How well do you know Nobel Prizes?

Karl Ritter · October 5, 2014 8:23 am

Sweden's new Prime Minister Stefan Lofven announces his new government in the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm Friday, Oct. 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Jonas Ekstromer, TT News Agency) SWEDEN OUT

Sweden to recognize Palestinian state

Karl Ritter · October 3, 2014 6:37 pm

FILE - In this June 9, 2013 file photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, in Hong Kong. Edward Snowden has been selected among the winners of the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the "alternative Nobel," for his disclosures of top secret surveillance programs. The award foundation on Wednesday Sept. 24, 2014 said the former National Security Agency contractor splits the honorary portion of the prize with Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger. (AP Photo/The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, File)

Snowden honored with ‘alternative Nobel’

Karl Ritter · September 24, 2014 5:18 pm

Kiribati leader visits Arctic on climate mission

Karl Ritter · September 20, 2014 9:18 am

Jens Breivik, the father of Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik speaks at a press conference in connection with the launch of his book, "My fault?", in Oslo, Norway, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014. In his first news conference since the July 22, 2011, attacks that killed 77 people, Jens Breivik told reporters: "If I had had more contact with him, If I had been a better father, then maybe he would have been a different person today." (AP Photo, NTB Scanpix, Torstein Boe)

Breivik’s father feels guilt over son’s dark path

Karl Ritter · September 18, 2014 11:13 am

Opposition leader Stefan Lofven speaks at the election night party of the Social Democrats, in Stockholm, Sweden, on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014. Sweden's Social Democrats were poised to return to power as the leaders of a left-leaning bloc that defeated the center-right government in a parliamentary election Sunday, but without an absolute majority. (AP Photo / News Agency TT, Jonas Ekstromer) SWEDEN OUT

Sweden’s far-right rises amid immigration debate

Karl Ritter · September 15, 2014 1:40 pm

Sweden shifts to left in parliamentary election

Karl Ritter · September 14, 2014 11:37 pm

Power shift expected in Swedish election

Karl Ritter · September 14, 2014 8:04 am

FILE - This July 19, 2011 file photo shows the Electrolux company offices in Stockholm. Sweden's Electrolux is buying the appliances business of General Electric for $3.3 billion, boosting its presence on the North American market, the companies said Monday, Sept. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Scanpix, Fredrik Persson, File) SWEDEN OUT

Electrolux to buy GE Appliances in $3.3B deal

Karl Ritter · September 8, 2014 6:28 pm

Counter-demonstrators protesting against an election meeting arranged by the neo-Nazi party "Svenskarnas Parti" clash with the police at the Kungstradgarden square in central Stockholm, Sweden, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014. The protesters let off smoke-bombs as they confronted police who enforced a cordon to enable the far right Svenskarnas Parti to hold their meeting. (AP Photo / Fredrik Persson / TT) SWEDEN OUT

Clashes at Stockholm protest against neo-Nazis

Karl Ritter · August 30, 2014 6:35 pm

Costa Rica angered by Swedish comedy show

Karl Ritter · August 22, 2014 2:20 pm

FILE - In this file photo taken August, 1, 2014, showing a chess board at the Chess Olympiad Norway 2014 in Tromsoe, Norway. The major international chess tournament in northern Norway ended Thursday Aug. 14, 2014, on a grim note, with one player dying in the middle of a game and another found dead in a hotel room. Organizers say a 67-year-old member of the Seychelles team collapsed and died during the final round, and another player from Uzbekistan, was found dead in a hotel room later Thursday. (AP Photo / Rune Stoltz Bertinussen, NTB scanpix, FILE)

2 deaths overshadow end of Chess Olympiad

Karl Ritter · August 15, 2014 3:14 pm