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NEW YORK, March 6. /TASS/: Netflix, an American subscription streaming service and production company, suspends its service in Russia over the developments in Ukraine, the Variety magazine said on Sunday, citing a company representative.

"Given the circumstances on the ground, we have decided to suspend our service in Russia," a spokesperson for Netflix was quoted as saying.

UNITED NATIONS, March 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Unable to assure global peace, the UN Security Council is consigned to a watchdog role in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, with little else to do but set more urgent sessions this week on the crisis.

  After five meetings since Russia’s invasion of its eastern European neighbor on Feb 24, the 15-member council will gather again on Monday for two sessions on humanitarian aid — one public and one behind closed doors.

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 06 (APP): The newly-appointed United Nations Crisis Coordinator for Ukraine, Amin Awad, has called for an “immediate humanitarian pause” in the fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces, as UN aid supplies for arrive for suffering pin the country.

NEW YORK, March 6. /TASS/: US financial company Mastercard is suspending its services on the territory of Russia, the company said in a statement, posted on its website on Saturday.

According to the document, the company has "decided to suspend our network services in Russia" amid the current anti-Russian sanctions.

"With this action, cards issued by Russian banks will no longer be supported by the Mastercard network," the document says.

Moreover, any Mastercard issued outside of the country will not work at Russian merchants or ATMs.

NEW YORK, March 6. /TASS/: NATO does not harbor animosity towards Russian people, nor does it question Russia’s status as a world power, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in an op-ed published by The New York Times on Sunday.

"We have no hostility toward the Russian people, and we have no desire to impugn a great nation and a world power," he said, pointing out that "Ukraine had no serious prospect of NATO membership in the near future."

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 05 (APP): World food prices hit a record high in February, led by a surge in vegetable oils and dairy products, to post a 24.1% increase year-on-year, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a Rome-based UN agency.

FAO’s food price index, which tracks the most globally traded food commodities, averaged 140.7 points last month against a downwardly revised 135.4 in January. That figure was previously given as 135.7.

NEW YORK, Mar 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Oil prices spiked yesterday, as the ongoing military conflict between Russia and Ukraine kindled fears about energy supply disruptions.

The West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for Apr delivery, added 8.01 U.S. dollars, or 7.4 percent, to settle at 115.68 dollars a barrel, on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the highest finish since Sept, 2008.

Brent crude for May delivery increased 7.65 dollars, or 6.9 percent, to close at 118.11 dollars a barrel, on the London ICE Futures Exchange, the highest settlement since Feb, 2013.

United Nations, Mar 5 (PTI) Russia has informed the UN Security Council that Russian buses are ready at crossing points to go to the eastern Ukrainian cities of Kharkiv and Sumy to evacuate Indian students and other foreign nationals who are stranded there, amidst the raging conflict in the East European country.

The 15-nation Council held an emergency session on Friday, called by Albania, France, Ireland, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States, following Russia's attack on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, the biggest in Europe.

03 March 2022; MEMO: Oil prices climbed to almost $120 a barrel on Thursday, their highest in nearly a decade, as sanctions disrupted Russian oil sales but the rally lost some of its fizz on rising prospects for an Iran nuclear deal that could add extra supplies, Reuters reports.

Geneva, Mar 3 (AP) The UN human rights office says 227 civilians have been killed and another 525 injured in its latest count of the toll in Ukraine in the wake of Russia's military invasion that began a week ago.

The office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights says the tally eclipses the entire civilian casualty count from the war in eastern Ukraine between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces in 2014 which left 136 dead and 577 injured.