Arson suspect says sorry for torching Korean treasure
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A South Korean pensioner on Friday re-enacted entering a 600-year-old gate designated the country's top treasure and setting it on fire, saying he was sorry that the gate was gone, but adding that no one was hurt by his actions.
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A fire which caused extensive damage to a Beptist church in Downpatrick is suspicious, say police.
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South Korean police said on Tuesday they arrested a pensioner who confessed to burning down a 600-year-old gate designated as the country's number one national treasure because he was angry about a compensation payment.
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A man has pleaded no contest to a federal misdemeanor for starting a fire in the Mendocino National Forest a year ago that burned 6,058 acres and cost &#36;33 million to suppress.
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Federal agents joined the search for evidence Wednesday in brush-covered Orange County hills where an arsonist is believed to have ignited one of the wildfires devastating Southern California.
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A fire that broke out in a cold storage facility has killed at least seven people and left 32 missing Monday in Icheon, South Korea, fire officials told CNN.
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An amusement park employee with a background in pyrotechnics was the ringleader in a &#36;10 million arson spree at a suburban Washington housing development, a federal prosecutor said Thursday.
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Gillian Chung, one of several prominent Hong Kong stars caught up in a nude photo scandal, said on Monday she was naive and apologized for the incident that has sparked arrests and a media frenzy.
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FEASTERVILLE, Pa. - A man angry that he got no presents for Christmas burned down his parents' house early the next morning, police said.  Steven Murray, 21, was charged with arson and risking a catastrophe in the blaze that broke out early Sunday. No one was injured.
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A man who told investigators he tried to save his elderly neighbor from her burning home had actually robbed the woman, killed her and set the fire, police said Friday.
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The Burning Man effigy, whose torching marks the highlight of the annual eponymous countercultural festival in the Nevada desert, was set on fire prematurely with arson suspected, organizers said on Tuesday.
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A 600-year-old gate in central Seoul listed as South Korea's number one national treasure and the country's landmark symbol has been destroyed, possibly by an arsonist, police said on Monday.
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Reporter Ahmad Taufik caught a break as he looked for a follow-up story after a fire devoured a centuries-old garment market in the heart of town last year. A city official had told him anonymously that plans to renovate the market were submitted by a powerful businessman three months before the fire.
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YARMOUTH, N.S. (CP) - Lobster traps that were to be used as evidence in an illegal fishing case burned on a federal wharf early Monday in a fire that authorities say was suspicious.
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LIMA, Peru  - Indian peasants burned alive a man  accused of stealing a gas canister in the latest outbreak of  mob justice in Peru's remote southern Andes.
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A fire which extensively damaged a derelict buiding in east Belfast was started deliberately, it is believed.
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Poland's state railway PKP is claiming compensation from a man who caused delays to its services by being run over by a train -- but said it may forgive the debt after learning the man's house had burned down.