The management of the Louvre museum denied on Monday having contacted a private Israeli intel firm to investigate the weekend's audacious jewel heist at the iconic French institution.

He won't call himself a duke anymore, but that is not enough for many of Prince Andrew's critics.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says his reportedly tense meeting with U.S President Donald Trump last week was "positive" — even though he did not secure the Tomahawk missiles for Ukraine — and emphasized what he said is continued American interest in economic deals with Kyiv.

Zelenskyy said Trump reneged on the possibility of sending the long-range missiles to Ukraine, which would have been a major boost for Kyiv, following his phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin hours before the Ukrainian leader and American president were to meet on Friday.

Center right senator Rodrigo Paz won a runoff presidential election in Bolivia Sunday, official provisional results showed, ending two decades of socialist rule blamed by many for the South American country's myriad economic problems.

With 97 percent of ballots counted, Paz had 54.5 percent of the vote compared to 45.4 percent for his rival, rightwing former interim president Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal said.

France's Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin admitted Monday to security flaws in protecting the Louvre that had led to robbers a day earlier stealing imperial jewels in broad daylight from the famed Paris museum.

"What is certain is that we have failed, since people were able to park a furniture hoist in the middle of Paris, get people up it in several minutes to grab priceless jewels and give France a terrible image," he told France Inter radio.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called for his country to be given 25 Patriot air defense missiles to help it fend off escalating Russian aerial attacks.

Speaking in Kyiv after talks with U.S. President Donald Trump and American weapons makers, Zelensky told reporters in remarks published Monday that "these are 25 systems that we need", adding that Russia's frozen assets in the West should be used to buy them.

Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed to an "immediate ceasefire" at talks in Doha, after at least 10 Afghans were killed in Pakistani air strikes that broke an earlier truce.

Pakistan officials will hold talks in Qatar Saturday with their Afghan counterparts, a day after Islamabad launched air strikes on its neighbour killing at least 10 people and breaking a ceasefire that had brought two days of calm to the border.

Iran said on Saturday that it was no longer bound by restrictions on its nuclear program as a landmark 10-year deal between it and world powers expired, though Tehran reiterated its "commitment to diplomacy".

The European Commission said Friday it welcomes a meeting in Budapest between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin if it can help end the Ukraine war.