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A synagogue in north London has become the latest Jewish institution in recent weeks to come under attack after an alleged firebombing on Saturday evening.

British police said Friday they have charged three people in an arson attack at a Persian-language media organization in northwest London.

Police in London arrested two men and a 16-year-old boy on Thursday in connection with an attempted arson attack.

An alleged Mexican illegal migrant was charged with murder and arson after he allegedly killed four people by setting fire to a New York City apartment building.

Czech authorities are investigating an apparent arson attack on an arms factory in Pardubice as a potential terror attack, with a group claiming responsibility and citing the firm’s dealings with Israel.

The son of the transgender shooter who opened fire in a Pawtucket, Rhode Island, ice rink is currently serving a prison sentence for setting fires to “a predominantly black church,” according to the New York Post.

A woman is accused of trying to burn down a building that was proposed to be a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Kansas City, Missouri.

Authorities in Chile on Thursday arrested a suspect for setting the massive Biobio forest fire, which killed at least 21 people.

The father of a man accused of setting a synagogue in Mississippi on fire turned him in after his son laughed in a confession to him, according to the FBI. 

A college instructor in Wisconsin is accused of murdering his pregnant mistress and her unborn child after she refused to have an abortion. 

A Thanksgiving Day argument escalated to a dangerous level after an Illinois man allegedly set his home on fire on one of America’s most cherished family holidays.

A Cook County, Illinois judge dismissed pleas from a state prosecutor that the habitual criminal who allegedly set a 26-year-old woman on fire during her Chicago commute had been likely to “randomly” attack someone else again if she released him, court records show.

The number of anti-Christian arson attacks on churches in Germany has surged to a record high amid a “climate of growing intolerance,” a report from the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe (OIDAC Europe) found.

British judge sentenced five men for their roles in an arson attack in London that authorities say was masterminded by Russian intelligence.

A career criminal out on parole — who allegedly tortured, killed, and burned an elderly couple at their residence in Democrat-controlled New York City — is also accused of making off with their Yankees ball and going on a shopping spree with their credit cards after fleeing the horrific scene.

Jonathan Rinderknecht allegedly burned a bible prior to setting off the Palisades fire that took over 6,000 homes and 12 innocent lives. 

During a Sunday night press conference, Grand Blanc Township Police Chief William Renye indicated two more bodies had been discovered in the burned church, bringing the total number of deaths to four.

Protests in Nepal, dubbed the “Gen Z protest” because so many of the participants are young people, continued to escalate on Tuesday with more reports of vandalism, arson, and fatal shootings by police. Nepal’s Communist government was toppled by the protesters on Tuesday with the resignation of Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli.

A 38-year-old woman from Temple, Texas, was sentenced Thursday for setting a Washington state church on fire in 2023.

An arsonist reportedly targeted a Washington state Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office over the weekend, with photos showing fire damage and shattered glass from objects thrown at the facility.

Days of “massive” disruption after bottleneck sabotaged twice, with a post-left ultra-anarchists claiming strike against the global economy. 

A lawmaker from a Virginia city was hospitalized after being doused in gasoline and set on fire while at work on Wednesday, according to the Danville Police Department (DPD).

Polish PM Tusk on Tuesday said authorities have detained 32 people suspected of coordinating with Russia to engage in acts of sabotage.

A man was charged Sunday over an arson attack on a Melbourne synagogue in an apparent escalation of antisemitic violence in Australia’s second-most populous city.

An arsonist set fire to the door of a Melbourne synagogue and forced the congregation to flee on Friday, seven months after criminals destroyed a synagogue in the same Australian city with an accelerant-fueled blaze that left a worshipper injured.

An arson attack on a restaurant and supermarket in Estonia this year were ordered by Russian intelligence, an Estonian court said Wednesday.

Police investigating a potential infrastructure sabotage that shut railways in the Netherlands as the landmark NATO Summit kicks off.

Specialist police investigating after ultra-left claimed responsibility for burning dozens of Amazon and telecom company trucks in Berlin.

Independent reports out of China revealed that a Chinese factory workers upset by unpaid wages decided to set fire to a textile plant in Sichuan last week.

A top Kremlin official on Monday scoffed at a report that Russia could be involved in recent arson attacks on the private home of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, a building where he once lived and a car that he had owned.

A reverse keyword search warrant served to Google helped Denver police identify three teens responsible for an arson attack that killed five members of a family in 2020.

A massive power outage in France on Saturday that hit the Cannes Film Festival is being investigated as possible arson.

A second man was charged Tuesday over a series of fires that targeted properties linked to U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, police said.

A second suspect was arrested Saturday on arson charges in connection with a series of fires targeting property linked to U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, police said.

Ukrainian national arrested over three suspected arson attacks involving properties connected to the Prime Minister has appeared in court.