An Iraqi man who staged Quran burnings in Sweden was shot dead hours before he was set to receive a verdict on Thursday in a trial tied to the desecrations of Islam’s holy book that drew worldwide uproar, authorities said.

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”.

He'd also left a notebook behind after an interview & forgot his mobile phone at a foreign embassy. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Salwan Momika was set to stand trial over hate incitement charges on Thursday.

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Russia is "the main actor" in hybrid attacks on the alliance, said a senior NATO official following a spate of incidents.

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

Latvian navy coordinating with Nato over incident which comes after military alliance boosted its presence in Baltic Sea in December

For the first time since officially becoming a NATO member in March 2024, Sweden has taken a major step in its international military role. On January 18, 2025, Sweden deployed a mechanized battalion to Latvia,

Sweden is investigating damage to a data cable linked to Latvia, the latest breach in the Baltic Sea region where European authorities are on high alert.

An anti-Islam refugee who became infamous for publicly burning the Koran in Sweden has been shot dead just hours before a court verdict over his controversial stunts. Swedish police said Iraqi citizen Salwan Momika, 38, was killed on Wednesday night in an apartment near Stockholm while recording a live online video on TikTok.