Libya's eastern-based government said in a statement on Wednesday that it had agreed on a proposal to end fuel subsidies and would prepare a mechanism to implement the agreement.
Syrian Christians attended Christmas Eve services on Tuesday for the first time since the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad in early December, in an early test of the new Islamist rulers' pledges to protect the rights of the country's religious minorities.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced on Wednesday that it has reached a staff-level agreement with Egypt for the fourth review under its Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement.
The European Commission has announced the disbursement of €1 billion in loans to Egypt under its Macro-Financial Assistance (MFA) programme.
Expectations of a Turkish central bank rate cut strengthened on Wednesday after a less-than-requested minimum wage hike, economists said, as it showed the government's determination to reach disinflation targets.
In a decisive move against the remnants of Syria’s narco-state legacy, the new Syrian authorities torched a massive stockpile of narcotics on Wednesday, including over one million pills of captagon—an amphetamine widely produced under the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Kurdish militants in Syria will either lay down their weapons or "be buried", amid hostilities between Turkey-backed Syrian fighters and the militants since the fall of Bashar al-Assad this month.
The Palestinian militant group Hamas and Israel traded blame on Wednesday over their failure to conclude a ceasefire agreement despite progress reported by both sides in past days.
The Turkish military killed 21 Kurdish militants in northern Syria and Iraq, the defence ministry said on Wednesday.
The Houthi rebels in Yemen announced on Wednesday that they launched a new missile toward Israel, marking another escalation in their involvement in the ongoing conflict.
In a significant move towards loosening internet restrictions, Iran's Supreme Council of Cyberspace voted on Tuesday to lift the ban on the WhatsApp messaging app, which had been in place for over two years.
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