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The latest stories from the Middle East section of the BBC News web site.

BBC News - Middle East
  • VIDEO: European unemployed migrating to UAE
    Traditionally European ex-pats coming to the Gulf have been executives recruited on tax-free salaries, but with rising unemployment levels in Europe a wider range of professionals have changed continent.

  • VIDEO: Push for Arabic internet content
    While the number of people using the internet in the Middle East is rising rapidly, Arabic still only makes up just 2% of all content on the web.

  • Syria town shelling 'kills 34'
    Shelling by Syrian forces kills 34 people, according to the British-based group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

  • Lockerbie bomber Megrahi is dead
    Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi dies at home in Tripoli, nearly three years after he was controversially freed from a Scottish prison.

  • Lebanon profile
    Provides an overview of Lebanon, including key events and facts about a country which has often been at the centre of Middle Eastern conflicts

  • Dialogue eludes fragmented Syria
    The elusive search for dialogue in battle-scarred Syria

  • Benghazi votes in local elections
    Residents in the Libyan city of Benghazi vote in local council elections, the first polls held in the city since the 1960s.