Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Sunday extended his congratulations to Girma Woldegiorgis and the Ethiopian nation and government on his election as the country’s president.

Iran has the capacity to meet a major part of Asian and European markets’ natural gas need and is prepared to export the commodity to Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates, said the Iranian deputy oil minister on Saturday.

Rival Lebanese leaders say they can agree on a new president in a step seen as vital to defusing a deep political crisis but “everything could still go wrong”, Italy’s foreign minister said on Saturday.