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 caused widespread anger when he staged multiple Koran burnings in 2023. He was due to receive a verdict in a criminal trial in connection with the burnings today.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Sweden's defence minister said on Thursday the Nordic country had agreed to donate its biggest aid package to Ukraine so far, worth 13.5 billion Swedish crowns ($1.23 billion). The aid package is Sweden's 18th since Russia launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

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.

Sweden wants to bring forward a new law that will allow authorities to secretly wiretap children under the age of 15 as the Nordic country grapples with a spate of bombings linked to criminal gangs.

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

An Iraqi refugee and anti-Islam campaigner was shot dead in Sweden hours before he was due to receive a court verdict following a trial over burning the Koran, and five people were arrested over the shooting on Thursday.

Dem don shoot and kill one man wey cause violent protests afta im burn di Quran, for Sweden, according to reports. Reports say dem kill Salwan Momika, 38, for one house for Södertälje, Stockholm, on Wednesday evening. Kasala start afta oga Momika set fire to one of di Islam holy book outside Stockholm Central Mosque for 2023.

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.

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