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An illegal alien has been charged with attempted murder for allegedly trying to burn six people alive by trapping them in a Robertsdale, Alabama house that was on fire.

Eleven migrants, eight of them children, were injured after an asylum accommodation in north-eastern Germany caught fire this week.

A church Finland caught fire in the middle of a Christmas service, local police believe the incident was a deliberate act of arson. 

A 38-year-old migrant from Morocco died in an Italian detention centre this week after another migrant set his mattress on fire in a protest against the living conditions in the centre.

A nativity scene in a suburb of Strasbourg caught fire this week in an alleged arson attack, according to the local mayor.

The Stroitrakt shopping mall in Balashikha, a suburb of Moscow, caught fire on Monday morning. More than 100,000 square feet of the mall was damaged in the blaze, and at least one person was injured, according to the Russian Emergencies Ministry.

Polk County, Florida, Sheriff Grady Judd intimated that deputies shot alleged arsonist Luke Neely in the penis as he tried to flee following pursuit. 

A group of migrants are alleged to have set a detention facility on fire this week after what was claimed to be a coordinated action.

Five months after the attack, the FBI announced a $25,000 reward for anyone who can give information leading to arrests.

The former hotel in eastern Germany was supposed to be used as accommodation for refugee families starting next week.

Evin Prison in Tehran, long notorious for both its hideous conditions and the large number of political prisoners held there, caught fire on Saturday.

A German court convicted the owner of a Turkish restaurant of ordering an arson attack that he blamed on far-right extremists four years ago.

A man upset at being conscripted into Russia’s war on Ukraine opened fire at a recruiting office in Irkutsk on Monday, gunning down a recruiter at point-blank range.

A 14-year-old girl has been arrested in connection with a fire that occurred at a Walmart in Peachtree City, Georgia, on August 24.

In July, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted two agents of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for working with a ring of Chinese spies whose mission was to intimidate and silence critics of the Chinese Communist regime living abroad. One of their victims was an artist named Chen Weiming, whose sculpture blaming China for the coronavirus pandemic was torched by the espionage team in July 2021. The indomitable sculptor has since recreated the work using non-flammable materials.

A Louisiana woman is accused of stealing from a retail store while her two children ignited a clothing rack on fire earlier in August.

A senior minister in France has demanded that the country create 3,000 ‘green police’ posts in the face of global warming.

German police have identified four shisha-smoking Iraqi migrants as suspects in a forest fire in Saxony that took place last month and devastated the Saxon Switzerland National Park.

French investigators probing the suspected deliberate lighting of a raging wildfire have detained a man for questioning.

A French department has urged locals to hide their cars and garbage bins to prevent them from being set on fire.

A historic church in West Virginia was destroyed recently in what may have been arson, and neighbors are deeply disturbed by the news.

A faith-based center for pregnant women in Colorado was vandalized and burned Saturday, and authorities are looking for those responsible.

A French elected official has decided to resign after her car was set on fire twice outside her home within a period of just five months. 

An alleged serial criminal has been charged with arson for a fire at a California Home Depot that caused $17 million in damages, prosecutors say.

Prosecutors have indicted three North Africans in connection to an alleged arson that led to the deaths of eight, including two infants. 

Haitians protesting against a recent spike in crime in the Haitian city of Les Cayes on Tuesday stormed a local airport and burned a small jet owned by a U.S.-based Christian missionary group, Reuters reported.

An arson incident in Ottawa last month had no connection to Freedom Convoy protestors despite allegations from top politicians in Canada.

A suspect in Memphis, Tennessee, was taken into custody after he allegedly tried to set a local hospital and police officers on fire over the weekend.

A man in Dearborn, Michigan, was killed by police Saturday morning after he allegedly shot at the officers when they responded to a fire at the Al-Huda Islamic Association.

New York lawmakers are calling for stricter bail laws after an upstate firefighter died battling a fire allegedly started by an arsonist.

Thousands of men have rioted across the Indian state of Bihar this week — setting fire to empty passenger trains and disrupting the services of several rail lines — to express their anger over recent changes to an Indian Railways employee entrance exam they perceived as unfair, Reuters reported on Thursday.

A Turkish-linked mosque in the German city of Chemnitz was heavily damaged following a major fire, which may have been arson.

A 36-year-old man appeared at the court of Boulogne Sur Mer this week after being accused of setting four churche fires in November.

A Kentucky community has come together to support five displaced families after a fire destroyed their apartment complex last weekend. 

South African officials are scapegoating a poor, unemployed black man for the fire that broke out in Parliament on Sunday and was only extinguished on Tuesday, according to the man’s lawyer.

South Africa’s historic Old Assembly building was severely damaged by a deliberately set fire on Sunday. The arsonist was evidently able to enter the building and carry out his attack because weekend and holiday shifts for security personnel were canceled to save money.