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Police have confirmed that a fire in the French church of Notre-Dame de Grâce on Easter Sunday appears to have been intentionally set, making it the latest in a string of desecrations of Christian churches in the country.

Three individuals have been arrested for aggravated arson after allegedly setting a dorm room door on fire during the late hours of Friday night at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Although the motive behind the arson still remains unclear, one of the students living in the targeted dorm room is the president of Tulane’s Turning Point USA chapter, and had recently been “doxed” by leftists seeking to “expose” members of TPUSA and Young American for Liberty (YAL).

Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change has blamed “asthma-inducing smoke from B.C. forest fires” on climate change, while the Canadian Mounted Police claim the deadly string of fires was started by arsonists.

Investigators in Paris have arrested a woman in connection with a fatal apartment fire that led to the deaths of ten people on early Tuesday morning, saying she has a history of psychiatric illness. The fire occurred at around one o’clock in the

Paul Johnson set fire to a Methodist church and a Sikh gurdwara in Scotland because he had “issues” with religion and wanted to make a “political statement”, a court has heard.

The number of incendiary kites and balloons being sent by Palestinians over the Gaza border and causing fires in Israel has fallen in recent weeks, enabling the Israel Nature and Parks Authority to begin assessing the ecological and financial damage to Israeli parks and nature reserves.

A man has been charged on suspicion of arson after fires were set at a Sikh temple and a Methodist church in Edinburgh, Scotland.

A gang of masked “youths” rampaged through Sweden’s second-largest city Monday night, setting cars ablaze in an attack described as “extremely organised” and like a military operation by the Prime Minister.

Firefighters expect big gains toward containing Southern California’s Holy Fire in the coming days, as AccuWeather predicts high temperatures will fall by 19 degrees from earlier this week.

Seven “youths” in the French town of Rochefort have been arrested after setting cars on fire explaining they wanted to act like how those in the “big cities” do.

Twenty-nine fires erupted in Israeli communities ‎near the Gaza Strip border Tuesday, as Palestinian ‎arson terrorism continued to wreak havoc near the ‎volatile frontier. ‎

Arson is suspected in the Cranston Fire, which is 5 percent contained after burning 7,500 acres in the San Jacinto Mountains by Thursday evening due to high temperatures and low humidity.

Cars were burned and locals clashed with police in the French city of Nantes on Tuesday and Wednesday nights after police fatally shot a 22-year-old who tried to avoid a police checkpoint.

Authorities in Colorado arrested an illegal alien Saturday who they accuse of starting a series of wildfires that destroyed over 38,000 acres of land.

A man set his New York City apartment ablaze Saturday, killing his girlfriend and himself after he caught his girlfriend having an affair with another man, police said.

Police allege a Florida man tried to set a Kissimmee motel on fire to kill the child molesters he thought were inside.

College police in Texas discovered a car with a two-year-old girl locked inside, and as they tried to extract her, they allegedly discovered her father had locked himself in the trunk and was trying to set the vehicle on fire.

A Florida woman is accused of attempted murder for allegedly dousing her ex-boyfriend in gasoline and lighting him on fire at an Easter Sunday dinner.

Two young women were arrested in the French department of Morbihan in Brittany after a wave of vandalism on a number of churches in the area and for trying to set one of them on fire.

A woman allegedly set multiple fires on a Minnesota University campus because she was mad at the U.S. military’s actions in foreign countries.

An asylum home security guard in the German city of Brunswick has admitted he tried to burn down the asylum home where he worked but blamed his actions on being angry with his girlfriend.

New Year’s Eve celebrations in France led to national outcry after footage of a female police officer being savagely attacked surfaced, among reports that over 1,000 cars were burned overnight and 510 arrests took place.

A Lebanese asylum seeker found guilty of attempting to burn down his asylum home said he did so out of frustration at not being given a job.

A Santa Monica class action law firm filed the first of what will probably be hundreds of lawsuits blaming the Wine Country firestorms on Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E).

Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) stock spiked up by 8.3 percent on Tuesday following a report that a suspected arsonist Jesus Fabian Gonzalez was arrested regarding at least one Wine Country fire.

The U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) issued a detainer request on the Sonoma County Jail for Jesus Fabian Gonzalez, who was arrested Sunday on suspicion of arson in Wine Country fires that have killed at least 40 residents.

A West Virginia woman succumbed to the injuries she suffered after her boyfriend allegedly set her on fire last month.

Firefighters in the southern Swedish city of Malmö were forced to let a building burn to the ground after they were violently attacked by locals who threw glass bottles at them.

A Virginia man who was battered, bound, and left to die in a burning apartment was rescued by his good Samaritan neighbor Tuesday morning.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of burning down a Phoenix, Arizona, LGBT youth center that he previously attended.

Police in Charleston, West Virginia, are searching for a man who is seen on surveillance video allegedly dousing a sleeping woman with gasoline and lighting her on fire.

A federal grand jury returned a three-count superseding indictment Thursday against the suspect accused of a “hate crime” in connection with the fire that destroyed a South Texas mosque in January.

A Wisconsin woman set a house on fire that killed an elderly man Friday, according to video footage of the incident.

Thieves attempting to steal money from an ATM machine in Washington state botched their planned burglary when they accidentally set the cash they intended to steal on fire, police said.

Three asylum seekers who are suspected of setting an asylum centre on fire in the German town of Hövelhof-Staumühle in January are now on trial for arson. The trio of asylum seekers, aged between 20 and 26, are said to

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted widespread raids throughout the greater Los Angeles area – 90 percent of those taken into custody had prior criminal convictions.