* World food prices reached their highest point in the 61-year history of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's Food Price Index, pushed higher by supply chain issues and the Ukraine crisis.
* Russian state gas company Gazprom GAZP.MM was shipping natural gas to Europe via Ukraine in the same volume of 109.5 million cubic metres per day as on Friday, the state-owned RIA news agency cited Ukraine's pipeline operator company as saying.
* Ukraine from March 6 will be able to import gas from Poland, including gas from Polish LNG terminals, Ukrainian state-run gas transit system operator said on Saturday.
* Data showing a vibrant US jobs market strengthened the dollar and spurred commodity prices higher, but the war in Ukraine overshadowed the blowout report as the euro plunged on the worsening outlook for slower European economic growth.
* Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio flew to Qatar on Saturday to discuss energy cooperation between the two nations as Italy stepped up efforts to secure new gas supplies in light of the Ukraine crisis.
* Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Saturday pledged to increase local ownership of Hungary's food industry to 80% if re-elected for a fourth consecutive term, noting the industry is currently dominated by foreign firms.
* Iran hopes to resolve all outstanding issues with the visiting U.N. nuclear chief, a senior Iranian official told state TV on Saturday, in the latest push to secure the revival of a 2015 nuclear deal between the Islamic Republic and world powers.
* COVID-19 vaccinations in the European Union fell last week to their lowest level in more than a year, as fears about the pandemic ebbed, governments relaxed restrictions and public attention shifted to the crisis in Ukraine.
* The World Health Organization said that it does not expect an immediate impact on vaccine supply to Africa due to the fighting in Ukraine and that Russia's Sputnik COVID-19 vaccines were a minimal component of imports to the continent.
* Belgium will remove almost all its coronavirus restrictions from Monday.
* COVID-19 cases in Sweden are falling sharply, less than a month after nearly all pandemic-related restrictions were lifted in the country.
* An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck northern Sumatra in Indonesia on Saturday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake was at a depth of 60 km (37.3 miles), EMSC said.
