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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.

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.

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 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.

Arson has not been ruled out as a possible cause of the Colorado wildfires that have ravaged Boulder County, destroying an estimated 1,000 homes.

Authorities say 874 cars were burned and 441 people were arrested on New Year’s Eve, a time traditionally associated with violence in France.

The homeless man who allegedly set the Fox News Christmas tree alight was freed after his arraignment Wednesday because of lenient new bail reforms introduced under outgoing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D).

Fox News’s 50-foot-tall Christmas Tree went up in flames in Midtown Manhattan early Wednesday morning and a suspected arsonist was arrested.

Police in Queensland, Australia, charged a woman with arson on Sunday after she allegedly set fire to a hotel room in which she was quarantined according to state coronavirus protocol, Australia’s Seven News reported Monday.

New York City fire marshals have arrested a suspect in connection to an alleged arson involving a Molotov cocktail in Brooklyn on October 30.

Muslim mob attacks across Bangladesh have killed at least six people, including four Hindus, after sparking last Friday in response to an image posted to social media allegedly depicting the desecration of Islam’s holy book, the Quran, during a recent Hindu festival, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported Tuesday.

A woman has been charged with a hate crime for allegedly starting a fire outside of a yeshiva in Brooklyn on October 14.

Chilean President Sebastián Piñera declared a state of emergency in the country’s south on Tuesday after militant members of the Mapuche indigenous group used “heavy caliber weapons” to attack local police, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported Wednesday.

El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents arrested an illegal alien they say was intentionally setting fires in the Jacumba Wilderness region on Saturday afternoon. The Mexican national had already lit one blaze and was in the process of starting another when they found him, officials stated.

An Algerian illegal immigrant brutally beat his former girlfriend with an iron bar and then set her apartment on fire after she said she wanted to leave him.

Raging wildfires in Sicily and Calabria are being blamed on arsonists, with one Italian mayor offering a five-year tax exemption to those who can identify any of the alleged arsonists behind the fires.

An Illinois man was sentenced to nearly nine years in prison for lighting a cellphone store on fire in Minneapolis during the rioting after George Floyd’s death.

A former college professor was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of setting fires near the massive Dixie Fire in Northern California, which has already destroyed over 500 homes and is nearing 500,000 acres, the second-worst in California history.

Bishop Giuseppe Marciante of Cefalù publicly “excommunicated” those responsible for devastating wildfires on the Italian island of Sicily in recent weeks.