A rare viral infection that can spread from person to person, caused by the monkeypox virus, also reported in Australia, Canada, US.

Oil and gas prices had already been rising because of increasing demand from economies recovering from the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic. They jumped higher after Russia, a major oil and gas producer, launched a military operation against Ukraine, on fears that sanctions and export restrictions could crimp supplies.

A meeting of senior negotiators from Iran and three European countries and a representative of the European Union was held in the presence of experts at the Coburg Hotel in Vienna.