• Three African migrants hurt in Israel arson attack

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    A relative of an Eritrean immigrant family looks at the damage in their burned apartment in Jerusalem on July 12, 2012.

    Abir Sultan / EPA

    The burned apartment inhabited by an Eritrean family in central Jerusalem, Israel, seen on July 12, 2012 after suspected arsonists set it on fire during the night. A 40 year old man was badly burned and two others including his wife, 24 years old and seven months pregnant, suffered from smoke inhalation.

    Reuters reports — Unidentified arsonists set fire on Thursday to the Jerusalem home of Eritrean migrants, injuring three in what Israeli police said appeared to have been a racist attack.

    Street violence has surged in recent months against Africans who cross, without permits, into Israel across the porous Egyptian border in search of work or asylum. Read the full story.

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  • Yves Logghe / AP

    A sandal is seen in the Reda mosque in Brussels, Belgium, on March 13, 2012. A mosque near Brussels was the target Monday evening of an arson attack in which the imam died, Belgian authorities said.

    Imam dies in arson attack on Belgian mosque

    Reuters reports from Brussels — A man threw a petrol bomb through the window of a mosque west of Brussels on Monday, killing the imam and injuring a second person, Belgian newspaper La Derniere Heure reported.

    The newspaper quoted police as saying a suspect was detained after the attack in Anderlecht.

    Belgium has a Muslim population of about 500,000 out of a population of nearly 11 million and there are occasional acts of violence between communities, particularly in areas such as Anderlecht. Read more.

  • Arson suspected as more cars burn in Hollywood

     

    Dan Steinberg / AP

    Los Angeles Fire Department firefighters assist a man out of his apartment along with a cage of birds as multiple cars burn in a carport in the Sun Valley neighborhood of Los Angeles on Saturday, Dec. 31. For the third night in a row, a rash of arson fires has sent firefighters scrambling to extinguish car fires in various neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Most of the fires on this night occurred in the San Fernando Valley.

    AP reports:

    Officials announced at least $35,000 in rewards for information leading to the conviction of the person or persons responsible.

    All of Friday's fires were in a 2-square mile area and most were in densely populated residential neighborhoods where residents would likely be asleep.

    Read the full story.

     

    Mike Meadows / AP

    A Los Angeles Fire Department firefighter is shown at a fire in West Hollywood, Calif., on Friday Dec.30.. An arsonist torched car after car early Friday, sending firefighters scrambling to put out more than a dozen blazes in Hollywood and neighboring West Hollywood. The fires started shortly after midnight and occurred over a four-hour span before dawn.

    A string of fires in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles were deliberately set, leaving police baffled and firefighters fearful for the safety of residents and their own. NBc's George Lewis reports.

     

  • Ryan Garza / AP

    Street signs peeled due to the heat at the corner of Lewis Street and Delaware Avenue in the east side of Flint, Mich., Tuesday, June 21, where an abandoned house burned during a rash of 11 suspicious fires that occurred overnight that left Flint Firefighters needing to call in mutual aid from surrounding communities to help.

    Crews in Flint battle 11 fires at vacant homes

    By Rich Shulman

    This is a fascinating way to show the impact of an arson fire.

    Last night's fires are the latest of several outbreaks of arson in recent years in Flint.

    As the Flint Journal reported, east side residents are glad to see the abandoned houses destroyed.