A court in Stockholm says an Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings in Sweden has died. Swedish media reported Thursday that he was killed in a shooting in a nearby city.

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.

STOCKHOLM–Sweden’s central bank lowered its key interest rate on Wednesday, with policymakers signaling they might be finished with their monetary policy easing. The Riksbank cut its key interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 2.

The Swedish government said Wednesday that it was examining the possibility of sending some inmates to serve their sentences in prisons abroad, anticipating heavy pressure on its own prisons in the coming years.

Swedish telecoms group Tele2 plans to cut more than 600 jobs in 2025 as it seeks to reduce costs and boost profitability, the company said as it reported a rise in fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday.

Stockholm Wood City is swapping polluting steel and concrete for a more climate-friendly construction material: timber.

Sweden has opened a preliminary investigation into suspected aggravated “sabotage” and ordered the detention of a vessel in the Baltic Sea suspected of damaging an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland earlier that day.

Samuel Ersson has been named to Team Sweden's roster for the 4 Nations Face-Off. The Philadelphia Flyers goalie will replace Jacob Markstrom of the New Jersey Devils, who is expected to be out 4-6 weeks because of a sprained MCL in his knee sustained Jan. 22.

A man who repeatedly burnt the Quran in 2023 in Sweden, sparking outrage in Muslim countries, has been shot dead, media reported Thursday, with police

Telia reiterated its 2025 targets on Thursday, even as the Swedish telecom operator reported a smaller-than-expected increase in fourth-quarter adjusted core earnings weighed down by its core markets Sweden and Norway.

Russia and China have stepped up military activity in the Arctic, while NATO states in the region are reporting more acts of sabotage on energy and communications lines. President Donald Trump has recently revived U.