Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi has urged all political powers to take part in a national dialogue to resolve lingering tensions and promised to take necessary steps to heal the economy.

The international envoy charged with pushing to end Syria’s civil war called on Thursday for the formation of a transitional government with “full executive powers” to run the country until new elections can be held.

More than 300 people were reportedly killed in airstrike near a bakery in the town of Halfaya in the central Syrian province of Hama.

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is claiming that the country’s new draft constitution has been passed after the final round of voting in a referendum, even as the opposition has claimed the group engaged in voting fraud.

Egypt’s opposition said on Sunday that it will appeal the results of a referendum that ruling Islamists said approved a new constitution, claiming that voting was riddled with “fraud and violations.”

Syria has consolidated its chemical weapons stocks in one or two locations as rebels make advances in several parts on the country, said Russia’s foreign minister.

The NATO deployment of Patriot air defense systems in Turkey will be defensive only and will not support a no-fly zone or any offensive operation, the North Atlantic alliance said in a statement on Sunday.

Egyptians began voting on Saturday on a new constitution supported by the ruling Islamists but bitterly contested by a secular-leaning opposition.

Several Scud missiles fired at rebels by Syria have landed “fairly close” to the Turkish border, NATO’s senior military commander said in a blog explaining why Patriot anti-missile batteries are being deployed to Turkey.

Thousands of Palestinians have attended a rare Hamas rally in the city of Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank celebrating the 25th anniversary of the group’s founding and its recent “victory” over Israel in Gaza.