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.

Salwan Momika, an Iraqi man who sparked outrage by staging Quran-burning protests in Sweden in 2023, has been shot dead, according to Swedish authorities.

EXCLUSIVE: The Scandinavian nation has ‘sleepwalked' into a crime nightmare where bombings have become commonplace.

Iraqi atheist Salwan Momika’s provocations had sparked violent protests and prompted Turkey to suspend NATO negotiations with Sweden.

Sweden's LKAB could supply around 18% of Europe's rare earth metal demand in the long term if its north Arctic Per Geijer mine enters production, the company said on Tuesday as it began construction of a related processing facility.

Momika, who arrived in Sweden from Iraq in 2018, had earlier called his "Quran-burning protests" as his opposition against the holy book, because he believed the Quran "should be banned in the world because of the danger it causes to democracy,

Swedish state-owned mining company LKAB announced that it can meet around 18% of Europe's rare earth metal demand in the long term if its Per Geijer mine in the Arctic begins production. The company made the announcement during the start of construction on a new processing facility in Lulea,

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.

Sara Beate Eira (Screaming Fox Productions) and Eva Åkergren (Nordisk Film Sweden) have boarded Finnish project "Máttáráhká," aka "When Johan Johanaš Disappeared to the Mountains." Directed by Suvi West,

Experts believe the giant nuclear repository is the only safe way to dispose of Sweden's nuclear waste, and say it will be fully functional by the 2030s.

Incidents damaging Europe’s undersea networks have become more frequent since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, raising suspicions they are the result of sabotage.