Qur’an burner shot dead in Sweden, five arrested

An Iraqi refugee in Sweden who repeatedly burned the Qur’an in 2023, sparking outrage in Muslim countries, has been shot dead, investigators said Thursday, with Sweden’s prime minister suggesting a…

146 countries now recognise a Palestinian state

The Israel-Hamas war, raging in Gaza since the Palestinian militant group’s October 7 attack, has revived a global push for Palestinians to be given a state of their own. Slovenia…

Sweden finally joins NATO, ending non-alignment, in Ukraine war shadow

Sweden on Thursday became the 32nd member of NATO in the shadow of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, turning the page on two centuries of non-alignment and capping two years of…