Sweden is contemplating the idea of sending its inmates to serve their prison time in foreign nations. This comes as the country struggles with rising incidents of gang crime

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.

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.

Salwan Momika, the Iraqi-born activist known for burning the Quran in Sweden, has been shot dead. His killing comes as a Stockholm court was set to rule on his incitement case. Read more about the shocking incident and its implications.

The Riksbank cut its key interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 2.25%.

Swedish authorities boarded a vessel suspected of being involved in an earlier underwater sabotage of cables in the Baltic Sea on Monday.

The Nordic country has opened an investigation into the damage, just weeks after NATO stepped up its military presence in the area following a series of similar incidents.

A man who repeatedly burnt the Koran in 2023 in Sweden, sparking outrage in Muslim countries, has been shot dead, media reported as police confirmed a man died in a shooting the day before.

Salwan Momika, an Iraqi activist known for burning copies of the Quran, was shot dead in Sweden. The killing, which occurred late Wednesday, has led to the arrest of five suspects. Momika had faced global backlash and legal issues,

An Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings in Sweden has died, a judge in Stockholm said Thursday. However, Swedish media reported that he was killed in a shooting in a nearby city.

The five were arrested in connection with the incident late on Wednesday and ordered detained by a prosecutor, Swedish police said on their website. They did not say if the shooter was among those detained.