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In this Monday, Dec. 10, 2018, file photo, a bust of the Nobel Prize founder, Alfred Nobel on display at the Concert Hall during the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm. (Henrik Montgomery/Pool Photo via AP, File)

3 get Nobel Medicine prize for learning how cells use oxygen

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North Korean negotiator Kim Miyong Gil, center, reads statement outside the North Korean Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019. North Korea's chief negotiator said Saturday that discussions with the U.S. on Pyongyang's nuclear program have broken down, but Washington said the two sides had &quot;good discussions&quot; that it intends to build on in two weeks. (Kyodo News via AP)

North Korea decries breakdown of talks US says were ‘good’

By JARI TANNER and MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

In this June 30, 2019, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, left, meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the North Korean side of the border at the village of Panmunjom in Demilitarized Zone. North Korea's chief negotiator says discussions with the U.S. on Pyongyang's nuclear program have broken down, but Washington says the two sides had "good discussions" that it intends to build on in two weeks. The North Korean negotiator, Kim Miyong-gil, said Saturday, Oct. 5, talks in Stockholm broke down "entirely because the U.S. has not discarded its old stance and attitude." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

North Korea decries breakdown of talks US says were ‘good’

By JARI TANNER and MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

Swede has arm amputated after Castro’s crocodile bit him

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A$AP Rocky, background right, leaves the district court in Stockholm by car, after the third day of his trial, Friday, Aug. 2, 2019. He and two other American suspects were temporarily freed from a Swedish jail to head back to the U.S., as judges mull a verdict in the assault case against them. (Fredrik Persson/TT via AP)

The Latest: A$AP Rocky lawyer ‘disappointed’ by verdict

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One of A$AP Rocky's bodyguards arrives at the district court in Stockholm, Friday Aug. 2, 2019, the third day of A$AP Rocky's trial. American rapper A$AP Rocky testified Thursday at his assault trial that he did everything possible to avoid a confrontation with two men he said were persistently following his entourage in Stockholm, but one of those men picked a fight with one of his bodyguards. (Fredrik Persson/TT via AP)

The Latest: A$AP Rocky: Detention was “humbling” experience

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US Deputy Foreign Minister Carl Risch on his way to visit rapper A$AP Rocky at the Kronoberg custody in Stockholm, Friday, July 19, 2019. A Swedish prosecutor wants U.S. rapper A$AP Rocky held for another week in pre-trial detention to allow police to finish investigating a June 30 fight in downtown Stockholm. Prosecutor Daniel Suneson has asked Stockholm's District Court to hold A$AP Rocky - the stage name of Rakim Mayers - until July 25. (Fredrik Persson/TT News Agency via AP)

Sweden wants extension of rapper’s detention after fight

By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven, right, reacts next to Gunilla Lindberg, IOC member of Sweden, left, during the first day of the 134th Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), at the SwissTech Convention Centre, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Monday, June 24, 2019. The host city of the 2026 Olympic Winter Games will be decided during the134th IOC Session. Stockholm-Are in Sweden and Milan-Cortina in Italy are the two candidate cities for the Olympic Winter Games 2026. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

The Latest: Milan-Cortina wins bid by 47-34 votes

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Member of the candidate for the Olympic Winter Games 2026 Stockholm-Are delegation, Crown Princess Victoria listens after International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach from Germany, right, announced that Milan-Cortina has won the bid to host the 2026 Winter Olympic Games, during the first day of the 134th Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), at the SwissTech Convention Centre, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Monday, June 24, 2019. Italy will host the 2026 Olympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, taking the Winter Games to the Alpine country for the second time in 20 years. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

Star quality can’t save Sweden from 8th Olympic bid loss

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Sweden's IOC Executive Board Member Gunilla Lindberg, member of the candidate for the Olympic Winter Games 2026 Stockholm-Are delegation reacts as International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach from Germany announces that Milan-Cortina has won the bid to host the 2026 Winter Olympic Games, during the first day of the 134th Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), at the SwissTech Convention Centre, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Monday, June 24, 2019. Italy will host the 2026 Olympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, taking the Winter Games to the Alpine country for the second time in 20 years. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

Sweden shrugs and sighs as Italy wins fight for 2026 Games

By STEVE DOUGLAS - Associated Press

International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach, center, Italy's Under Secretary of State Giancarlo Giorgetti, left, Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) president Giovanni Malago, second left, the mayor of Milan Giuseppe Sala, second right, and Italy's Lombardy region President Attilio Fontana, right, before a meeting at the Olympic Museum, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Sunday, June 23, 2019. The host city of the 2026 Olympic Winter Games will be decided in Lausanne on Monday. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP) ** FILE **

Italy’s Milan-Cortina bid wins vote to host 2026 Winter Olympics

By Graham Dunbar and Daniella Matar - Associated Press

The new headquarters building of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), in Lausanne, Switzerland, Tuesday, June 18, 2019. The inauguration of the Olympic House will take place on June 23, during the celebration of Olympic Day. (Cyril Zingaro/Keystone via AP)

A look at the 2026 Winter Olympic bids in Monday’s vote

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

The new headquarters building of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), in Lausanne, Switzerland, Tuesday, June 18, 2019. The inauguration of the Olympic House will take place on June 23, during the celebration of Olympic Day. (Cyril Zingaro/Keystone via AP)

A look at the 2026 Winter Olympic bids in Monday’s vote

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Second Swede jailed for royal jewels heist

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Sweden says Russia expels 2 diplomats in reprisal

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Swedish court sentences Uzbek man for preparing attack

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FILE - This file image made available on Wednesday Aug. 1, 2018 by the Swedish Police, shows a collection of Swedish Crown jewels that were stolen from Strangnas cathedral. A 22-year-old Swede has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison after he was convicted of stealing 17th-century Swedish royal treasures estimated to be worth 65 million kronor ($7 million) from a cathedral last year, it was reported on Friday, Feb. 22, 2019. (Swedish Police via AP, File)

Swede gets 4 ½ years in prison for royal jewels heist

By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019 file photo, United Nations Special Envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths, center, and President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Peter Maurer, participate in a new round of talks by Yemen's warring parties in Amman, Jordan. Yemeni security officials said sunday, Feb. 17, 2019, that Griffiths arrived in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, to discuss the &quot;complex situation&quot; in and around the key port city of Hodeida. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh, File)

UN envoy says Yemen ports deal is chance for peace talks

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this file photo dated Tuesday, July 31, 2018, a police cordon near the scene of a robbery at the Strangnas Cathedral, in Strangnas, Sweden, after priceless treasures from the Swedish royal regalia were stolen. Swedish broadcaster SVT are reporting Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, that the main suspect in the theft of royal funeral artifacts has confessed after his DNA was found on the items that were pulled this month from a garbage bin north of Stockholm. (Pontus Stenberg/TT News Agency FILE via AP)

Main suspect in Sweden’s royal jewels heist confesses

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This undated handout photo shows Izzy Young in Sweden. Izzy Young, who in 1961 organized the first New York concert by Bob Dylan and devoted decades of his life supporting folk music, has died at age 90 in Sweden it was announced Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019. Young was a big name in folk music _ Dylan, a regular visitor at his New York music shop, the Folklore Center, once called it “the citadel of Americana folk music.” Young moved to Sweden in 1973 and reopened his store there. (Markus Adler via AP)

Izzy Young, who organized Dylan’s first big concert, dies

By DAVID KEYTON - Associated Press