A senior Northern Ireland police officer is in critical but stable condition in a hospital after being shot by two masked men while he coached children’s soccer.

Greece’s coast guard says a search and rescue operation is underway off the coast of an eastern Greek island for four people believed missing from a boat of migrants attempting to reach Greece from the nearby Turkish coast.

Among them is a Japanese volunteer soldier and an Indian restaurant owner providing food to those in need.

The bloodshed extends one of the deadliest periods in years between Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank.