Istanbul bomb attack on police bus kills 11

A car bomb attack targeting a police bus has killed seven officers and four civilians in central Istanbul.      It was the fourth major attack in Turkey’s largest city this year.      No group has claimed it, but President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pointed to the involvement of Kurdish militants.      Turkish media…

Berlin car bombing a murder, police say

(CNN)An explosion —  described as “murder using a car bomb” by a local prosecutor — rocked a residential area of western Berlin Tuesday morning, killing a 43-year-old Turkish citizen. The blast occurred around 8 a.m. (3 a.m. ET) along the main thoroughfare of Bismarckstrasse in Charlottenburg, a large, predominantly residential western Berlin neighborhood. The man…