Reuters: OPEC members have complied well with sharp production cuts agreed since September to shore up falling oil prices, top officials from Qatar and Iran said on Sunday.

AFP: Iran's parliament on Sunday approved a budget of 298 billion dollars for the year to March 2010 that was submitted by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in January, the official IRNA news agency said.

Reuters: Iran's oil minister called for cooperation between crude producers inside and outside OPEC, saying it was necessary in view of the global economic downturn, the official IRNA news agency reported.

AFP: The US State Department on Sunday reiterated its call for Iran to help locate Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent who went missing on an island in the Gulf two years ago.

AFP: Afghan President Hamid Karzai is to visit Iran to attend an economic summit of regional countries beginning Wednesday in Tehran, Hamshahri newspaper reported.

AFP: Iranian Foreign Minister Monouchehr Mottaki on Saturday said Tehran found Morocco's decision to sever ties with the Islamic republic in a spat over Bahrain both surprising and questionable.

AFP: Iran has expelled an Italian journalist who was reporting from the Islamic republic without a valid press visa, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Saturday.

Bloomberg: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Ankara for her first extended talks with NATO ally Turkey on issues including Iraq, Iran, Middle East peace and the security of energy supplies.

VOA: A prominent Iranian cleric has criticized Saudi Arabia's foreign minister for his recent remarks about Iran.