Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, said in 2023 that Sweden had gone into “battle-array for war on the Muslim world” by supporting “the criminal”, and that “all Islamic scholars agree that those who desecrate the Koran deserved the most severe punishment”.

Sweden will fast-track new legislation to allow police to use electronic surveillance tools against minors after dozens of gang-related bombings in the capital Stockholm in January, the prime minister said on Thursday.

An Iraqi refugee and anti-Islam campaigner was shot dead in Sweden late on Wednesday, just hours before he was due to receive a court verdict following a trial over burning the Koran, a court document showed on Thursday.

While that success has been welcomed, it has put a strain on the prison system. In 2023, the latest year for which records are available, Swedish courts handed down prison sentences totalling just under 200,000 months, a 25% increase from the previous year and a doubling compared with 2014.

Swedish shoppers drove retail sales to their highest monthly gain since before the pandemic, adding to signs of recovery in household spending and bolstering the central bank’s view of no further easing.

Salwan Momika, the Iraqi man who caused outrage by burning copies of Quran in Sweden in 2023, was shot dead in the capital city of Stockholm, CNN, citing Swedish authorities, confirmed the news.A spokesperson for Sweden's prosecutor's office confirmed to CNN that Momika was fatally shot in Stockholm on Wednesday.

As expected, Pittsburgh Penguins forward Sidney Crosby was named as captain of Canada’s entry into the upcoming 4 Nations Face-Off event. Crosby is the NHL’s longest tenured active captain, having served in that role for the Penguins since 2007.

Matthews, 27, led the NHL with 69 goals last season and won the Hart Trophy in 2021-22, when he scored 106 points in 73 games.

Recent scientific reevaluations of remains have historians rethinking the prevalence of women fighters throughout history.

MOSCOW, January 30. /TASS/. Gold futures with delivery in April 2024 set a new historical record on Comex, a division of the New York Mercantile exchange, and are traded above $2,850 per Troy ounce, according to market data.