BAGHDAD: Iraq on Thursday expelled Sweden's ambassador after a man stomped on a copy of the Quran at a Stockholm demonstration just hours after the Swedish embassy in Baghdad was torched over the planned protest.

Sweden-based Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika, 37, stomped and kicked the Quran, but left the protest without burning it, just weeks after he set fire to pages of the book outside Stockholm's main mosque.

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