Middle East Minute for October 2, 2020

Catch up on some of this week’s biggest headlines and now a few upcoming events around the region with Al-Monitor’s Middle East Minute. US diplomats may be heading for the exits in Baghdad. Lebanon’s Prime-Minister designate quits in a case of “collective betrayal.” And Turkey is accused of shooting down an Armenian warplane as a decades-long territorial conflict heats up. 

Catch up on some of this week’s biggest headlines and now a few upcoming events around the region with Al-Monitor’s Middle East Minute. US diplomats may be heading for the exits in Baghdad. Lebanon’s Prime-Minister designate quits in a case of “collective betrayal.” And Turkey is accused of shooting down an Armenian warplane as a decades-long territorial conflict heats up.

An Israeli armoured vehicle is stationed at the end of a blocked-off street during an ongoing military operation in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on July 4, 2023.

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A view of Moscow's Kremlin, Ministry of Foreign affairs and Moscow City business district on October 18 2011. Moscos is a classed as a megacity, those with a population of over 10 million people. The United Nations' Department of Economic and Social Affairs said in a March 2010 report that by 2025, there will be 29 megacities globally, from 21 two years ago, with the majority in developing countries. The world's population will reach seven billion on 31 October 2011. Picture taken October 18 2011. REUTER

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