STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - 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.

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 can send criminals to serve their sentences in prisons abroad, a government-appointed commission said on Wednesday, as the country struggles to handle an influx of new inmates arising from a wave 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.

The United States, Canada, Finland and Sweden will play in the Feb. 12-20 4 Nations Face-Off. Here are the rosters and captains.

Salwan Momika, known for burning the Qur'an, was murdered in Sweden, prompting a murder investigation amid rising tensions.- Watch Video on English Oneindia

STOCKHOLM: An Iraqi refugee in Sweden who repeatedly burned the Quran in 2023, sparking outrage in Muslim countries, has been shot dead south of Stockholm, investigators said on Thursday (Jan 30), with Sweden's prime minister suggesting "a foreign power" might have been involved.

Center trying to shake off rough stretch earlier this season, hoping to help Sweden in best-on-best tournament

NEW YORK, January 31. /TASS/. The black boxes of the plane that fell into Potomac River in Washington late on Wednesday have been recovered and handed over to experts, ABC television reported citing sources. According to the report, the flight data recorders were taken to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).

UC Davis women’s basketball standout Tova Sabel has taken a remarkable journey to become an Aggie. Born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden, she grew up surrounded by basketball, though it wasn’t always her first love.