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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. 

Israel has instructed its diplomatic missions in Europe to try to get the Iran-backed Houthi rebel group in Yemen designated as a terrorist organisation.

Al Jazeera television has clashed with the Palestinian Authority over its coverage of the weeks-long standoff between Palestinian security forces and militant fighters in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.

Morocco aims to grant women more rights over child custody and guardianship as well as a veto over polygamous marriage, in the first review of its family code in 20 years, the justice and Islamic affairs ministers said on Tuesday.