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["Someone threw a firebomb, a Molotov cocktail at the building,"]

Police officers investigate a suspected arson attack after a fire in a mosque in the southern
Swedish town of Eslov on December 29, 2014. Drago Prvulovic/AFP Photo

STOCKHOLM // Sweden was hit by a third arson attack on a mosque in a week on Thursday.  Police were hunting for at least one suspect after he was seen throwing a burning object at the mosque in Uppsala, in eastern Sweden.

"Someone threw a firebomb, a Molotov cocktail at the building," Torsten Hemlin a spokesman for Uppsala policesaid, adding that the bomb did not set the mosque in eastern Sweden alight. "They also wrote some vulgar racist words," he said. No one was in the building at the time of the attack. Police in Uppsala, Sweden's fourth largest city, were alerted by passers-by who reportedly saw a man throw a burning object at the mosque at 3.30am local time.

"The crime has been classed as attempted arson, vandalism and incitement to hatred," the police said, appealing for eyewitnesses to come forward. Thursday's attack came just three days after a late night blaze at a mosque in Esloev in southern Sweden which police suspect was also arson. On Christmas Day, five people were injured when a petrol bomb was thrown through the window of a mosque in Eskilstuna, east of the capital Stockholm. The country's leftist prime minister Stefan Loefven called the Christmas attack a spurt of "hateful violence" and said Sweden would "never tolerate this kind of crime".

According to the anti-racism magazine Expo, there have been more than a dozen attacks on mosques in Sweden in the last year. The attacks come as debate intensifies in the country over immigration and the integration of asylum seekers in the traditionally tolerant Nordic country. Last month the far right Sweden Democrats – which doubled its support to 13 per cent in September elections – came close to bringing down the left-green government over its liberal refugee policies, further boosting its support in opinion polls.

http://www.thenational.ae/world/europe/sweden-suffers-third-mosque-arson-attack-in-a-week

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["illegal deprivation of liberty, torture, rape and homicide,"]

A court in Argentina has handed down life sentence to four former military officers for committing crimes against humanity during the 1970s' US-backed military dictatorship in the South American country.

On Thursday, the court in the capital, Buenos Aires, found the four guilty of "illegal deprivation of liberty, torture, rape and homicide," involving 204 people out of the total 2,500 held at the Vesubio detention center between 1976 and 1978.

The four defendants are former colonels Federico Minicucci and Jorge Crespi, former intelligence officer, Gustavo Cacivio, and former colonel and prison official, Nestor Cendon.

http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2014/12/19/390482/4-Argentine-exofficers-given-life-term

[200 migrants]

Around 200 migrants stormed the six metre high border fences between Morocco and the Spanish enclave Melilla on Tuesday. 102 managed to climb across, Spain's interior ministry said, according to Associated Press. In total around 2,000 migrants managed to scale the fences in 2014.

http://euobserver.com/tickers/127070

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Scores of aboriginal women are still missing in Canada in 2014 — cases that are likely to haunt this nation for years and decades ahead.

Below are just a handful of the aboriginal women who are still missing. They are all-too-often on the short end of the media glare, despite being over-represented among Canada's missing and murdered women.

This list is far from authoritative. Therein lies the tragedy. Besides grassroots organizations, there are scant government resources dedicated to missing aboriginal women. According to the Native Women's Association of Canada, there are no federally funded data sources for missing aboriginal women in Canada.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/12/19/missing-aboriginal-women-canada-2014_n_6357050.html