Middle East Minute for October 30, 2020 - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Catch up on some of this week’s biggest headlines and a few upcoming events around the region with Al-Monitor's Middle East Minute video. Turkey joins growing calls to boycott French goods, Syria’s Idlib heats up, and construction is underway at an Iranian nuclear facility.

(L-R) Bloomberg Television's journalist Francine Lacqua, Singapore's President Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed al-Jadaan, President of the European Central Bank (ECB) Christine Lagarde, Co-chairman of the private equity firm of The Carlyle Group David Rubenstein, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner and World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala attend a session on the closing day of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 19,

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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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