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    Gunmen killed four people and wounded 16 during an attack in an open air shopping complex in Tel Aviv on Wednesday night. Israeli police said the men are Palestinian cousins from the occupied West Bank. Channel 10 TV reported that at least one of the attackers was disguised as an ultra-Orthodox Jew with black coat and hat. Authorities described the attack at the popular open-air Sharona market as a harsh terror attack. The dead have been named as Ilana Nave, 39, Mila Mishayev, 32, Ido Ben Aryeh, 42, and Michael Feige, 58. Early reports from Israeli spokeswoman Luba Samri said the “two terrorists” were both “neutralised”, which can mean either killed or detained. Dramatic photographs show Israeli policemen arresting a blood-spattered suspect shortly after the shooting, whic...

    A rush-hour car bomb attack targeting a bus carrying riot police killed 11 people and wounded 36 others Tuesday, Istanbul's governor said. Speaking at the scene of the blast in the district of Beyazit, Istanbul Governor Vasip Sahin said the dead included seven police officers and four civilians. At least three of the wounded were in serious condition. The explosion was caused by a bomb placed inside a car and was detonated as the police vehicle was passing by, Sahin said. The police bus was overturned from the force of the blast which also damaged nearby buildings, including a closed hotel whose entrance appeared gutted and windows were blown out. The blast also shattered windows at a famous 16th-century Ottoman mosque, Sehzadebasi, wrecked several cars and forced cancella...