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BAGHDAD: Protesters set fire to Sweden's embassy in Baghdad on Thursday morning, an Agence France-Presse (AFP) journalist said, ahead of a planned burning of a copy of the Quran in the Nordic country.
BAGHDAD BOYS Supporters of Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr climb the fence outside Sweden’s embassy during a protest in Iraq’s capital Baghdad on Thursday, July 20, 2023. AFP PHOTO