(AFP) — Cyprus said a deadly forest fire that was the worst to hit the island in decades was close to being brought under control Sunday after water bombing by Greek and Israeli aircraft.
Ten churches in Alberta were vandalised in a single day as Canada continues to see churches, primarily Roman Catholic, burned to the ground in several provinces over the past month.
A Canadian radio personality called for the burning of churches, as news outlets have reported more Catholic and Anglican churches being burned in parts of the country, primarily on First Nations reserves.
Two Catholic churches on First Nations reservations in British Columbia are the latest churches burned down this month under what police have claimed are suspicious circumstances.
On Saturday, a Greek court sentenced four Afghan asylum seekers to ten years in prison for their role in burning down Europe’s largest migrant camp on the island of Lesbos that left at least 13,000 homeless.
The growing homeless population in LA County accounts for 54 percent of fires responded to in the first quarter of 2021.
A Maryland woman is facing attempted murder and arson charges after she allegedly set her house on fire while someone else was inside and watched it burn from a chair on her front lawn.
Dylan Shakespeare Robinson, a 23-year-old Minnesota man, has been sentenced to four years in prison after he helped set fire to a Minneapolis police station following George Floyd’s death, according to prosecutors.
The Montreal mansion of web porn executive Feras Antoon has reportedly been burned down in a suspected arson attack. Antoon is the CEO of Canadian operations for Mindgeek, the parent company of Pornhub, and had placed the mansion for sale at a price of $19,800,000.
Antifa rioters in Portland, Oregon, set fire to the police union building during a pre-announced “direct action.” Despite the advance notice and the history of attacks on the facility, Portland Police Bureau officers were unable to stop the behavior.
A 46-year-old Iraqi man threatened to set his wife and child on fire at a migrant reception centre in Greece after his asylum claim was rejected for the second time.
A man who was severely burned last week after two teens allegedly set him on fire has died from his injuries, police announced Tuesday morning.
Two teen Afghan asylum seekers have been convicted and sentenced to five years in prison for their role in the arson that saw the Moria migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos burn to the ground.
A 54-year-old woman on a bus in the Paris no-go suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis was seriously injured after a man sprayed her with a flammable liquid and set her on fire.
Earlier this week, an unknown individual attempted to light several vehicles of a French newspaper on fire. A claim of responsibility for the attempted arson has been made on a well-known far-left anarchist web platform.
Five men have been arrested after a group of migrants set fire to the former military barracks in Kent, which had been converted into a camp for asylum seekers in the wake of massive illegal boat migration.
An attacker threw three Molotov cocktails at a church in the no-go Stockholm suburb of Spånga-Tensta.
Two young men who are accused of setting fire to a disused mink farm are believed to be connected to terrorist groups, according to the Swedish security police and the FBI.
Investigators believe that an arson attack targetting several German Bundeswehr vehicles on New Year’s Eve in Leipzig is linked to far-left extremists.
A judge has granted humanitarian residency to a Gambian migrant who admitted to having started fires in his native village and killed several people.
A presumed arsonist set fire to the Basilica of the Agony in Gethsemane Friday, a holy site where Jesus is believed to have spent the final night with his apostles before being crucified the next day.
Portland, Oregon, police officials suspect arson may be involved in the burning of a patrol vehicle. The vehicle mysteriously caught fire while parked in a city-owned fleet vehicle parking lot.
Villagers living in Nagorno-Karabakh burned down their houses before fleeing to Armenia this weekend to prevent Azerbaijan, which will soon control the territory, from using them.
Authorities in California have arrested and charged a man with burning signs supporting President Donald Trump and Rep. Devin Nunes.
A Seattle cop suffered minor burns after a man allegedly set his police cruiser on fire Thursday afternoon, according to bodycam footage of the incident.
A so-called “challenge” shared across social media in a Swedish city has called on children to set fires in their schools.
Migrants housed in a Sicilian hotel set fires in the accommodation to protest against anti-coronavirus measures.
A masked man broke into the Incarnation Catholic Church northwest of Tampa, Florida, last weekend and set fire to the interior before fleeing, the Tampa Bay Times reported Tuesday.
Violent rioters set fire to the police headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri, Wednesday night amid nationwide unrest following a Kentucky grand jury decision to not charge police officers in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor.
A home belonging to supporters of President Donald Trump in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, was attacked in the early hours of Wednesday morning before sunrise, according to a Facebook post.
Greece’s police and fire service have launched an investigation after at least 15 fires broke out in just 48 hours in the Evros border area with Turkey.
Greek media have released footage they claim depicts migrants setting fires during the Moria migrant camp blaze that left more than 10,000 migrants homeless on the island of Lesbos.
The FBI Preliminary Uniform Crime Report (UCR) for January-June 2020 shows violent crime and property crime were both down, as compared to the same time frame in 2019, but arson was up 19.2 percent.
Greek police have arrested five migrants, including two underage Afghans, in connection to the alleged arson of the Moria migrant camp which has left more than 13,000 people homeless.
An Oregon woman forced a suspected arsonist to the ground at gunpoint after she allegedly noticed the suspect had matches in his hands, according to a video.
The Portland Police Bureau arrested and then quickly released a man for setting a fire, then re-arrested him for setting six more fires in the wildfire-ravaged state of Oregon.
Four individuals — two in Washington, one in Oregon, and another in California — have been arrested for arson as firefighters battle dozens of blazes across the West Coast. One of the arrestees is reportedly a “regular attendee” of anti-police rallies in Seattle.
Residents on the island of Lesbos have set up roadblocks to prevent the rebuilding of the notorious Moria migrant camp that burned to the ground earlier this week.
At least 13,000 asylum seekers are without housing after a massive fire gutted the notorious Moria migrant camp on the island of Lesbos, with some accusing migrants of setting the blaze.
A dramatic video has surfaced of California police officers trying to break up a domestic dispute while saving people from an apartment fire.
