Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his reportedly tense meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump last week was “positive,” even though he did not secure Tomahawk missiles for the fight against Russia.

In comments to journalists on Sunday and embargoed until Monday morning, Zelenskyy asserted that Trump reneged on the possibility of sending the long-range missiles to Ukraine after speaking by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin hours before Friday’s meeting.

Trump on Friday called on Kyiv and Moscow to “stop where they are” and end the war.

“In my opinion, he does not want an escalation with the Russians until he meets with them,” Zelenskyy said.

According to Zelenskyy, Trump said during their meeting that Putin’s maximalist demand — that Ukraine cede the entirety of its eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions — was unchanged.

Zelenskyy expressed skepticism about Putin’s proposal to swap some territory it holds in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions if Ukraine surrenders Donetsk and Luhansk, saying the proposal was unclear.

Ukraine’s leader said Trump ultimately supported a freeze along the current front line.

“We share President Trump’s positive outlook if it leads to the end of the war,” Zelenskyy said, citing “many rounds of discussion over more than two hours with him and his team.”

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Zelenskyy was diplomatic about his meeting with Trump despite reports that he faced pressure to accept Putin’s demands. The meeting followed the disastrous Oval Office spat on Feb. 28 when the Ukrainian president was scolded on live television for not being grateful for continued U.S. support.

Later on Monday, Trump told reporters that Ukraine could still win the war. “I don’t think they will. They could still win it. I never said they would win it,” he said. “Anything can happen, you know war is a very strange thing.”

Zelenskyy said he hopes that Trump’s meeting in the coming weeks with Putin in Hungary — which does not support Ukraine — will pave the way for a peace deal. Their first summit of Trump’s current term was in Alaska in August.

Zelenskyy said he has not been invited to attend but would consider it if the format for talks were fair to Kyiv.

He also took a stab at Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, saying he does not believe that a prime minister “who blocks Ukraine everywhere can do anything positive for Ukrainians or even provide a balanced contribution.”

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Zelenskyy said he thinks that all parties have “moved closer” to a possible end to the war.

“That doesn’t mean it will definitely end, but President Trump has achieved a lot in the Middle East, and riding that wave he wants to end Russia’s war against Ukraine,” he added.

Ukraine is hoping to purchase 25 Patriot air defense systems from U.S. firms using frozen Russian assets and assistance from partners, but Zelenskyy said procuring all would require time because of long production waits. He said he spoke to Trump about help procuring them more quickly, potentially from European partners.

Zelenskyy said the United States is interested in bilateral gas projects with Ukraine, including the construction of an LNG terminal in the southern port city of Odesa. Other projects of interest include those related to nuclear energy and oil.

Associated Press writer Aamer Mahdani contributed from Washington.

Canadians struggling to find stable employment or switch jobs may face an uphill battle over the next 12 months as the trade war keeps most businesses stuck in neutral and the job market “subdued.”

A new report from the Bank of Canada shows a large portion of businesses say they are taking a wait-and-see approach rather than investing in growing their operations and hiring new workers.

According to the central bank’s Business Outlook Survey for the third quarter of 2025, most businesses say they expect demand “weakness” for their products and services over the next year, which means many are expected to hold off on hiring new employees.

“Hiring intentions remain subdued. Most firms do not plan to increase the size of their workforce over the next 12 months. Soft demand, ongoing tariff uncertainty and minimal capacity pressures mean few businesses need to add staff,” said the Bank of Canada.

“Businesses no longer expect sales growth to strengthen over the coming year as tariff-related impacts continue to hold back demand. Firms attribute this anticipated weakness largely to broad spillover effects from the trade conflict,” said the Bank of Canada.

Some of these “spillover effects” include weaker spending by customers on services like renovations, corporate travel and events, as well as worries of less consumer spending over the next 12 months as affordability remains a struggle for many, according to the survey report.

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The central bank also cited the weak outlook for the housing sector as one of these trade war effects, which has hampered demand for businesses and their services. This may include demand for home renovations and housing developments.

Tariffs imposed by the United States in particular have meant higher costs for some goods and services, which has led businesses and global economies, including Canada, to seek alternative trading partners.

Wages may also be affected. On top of a tough job market to get into, Canadians who are currently employed may find out their wages and salaries are not going to increase as much as last year.

The Bank of Canada says businesses participating in the third quarter survey expect to increase wages for their workers by 2.3 per cent on average over the next 12 months, down from 2.9 per cent a year prior.

The unemployment rate in Canada was recorded at 7.1 per cent in September and has risen from 6.9 per cent in June as businesses adapt to the evolving trade outlook, especially for manufacturing.

Although most businesses say they plan to pause hiring rather than lay off workers, the Bank of Canada highlighted the aluminum and steel industry as being at a higher risk for layoffs as a result of tariffs.

“The share of firms planning outright staff reductions remains similar to that in [the] previous quarter. However, special consultations this quarter with firms in the aluminum and steel industry revealed that the impacts of U.S. tariff increases are leading to significant layoffs,” said the Bank of Canada.

“Canadian exporters of steel and aluminum products currently facing sectoral U.S. tariffs reported especially weak outlooks,” said the Bank of Canada.

“Although some exports of primary aluminum have been redirected to Europe, these exporters view this strategy as an unsustainable alternative to U.S. market access because of concerns about long-term profitability.”

Prime Minister Mark Carney is still working with U.S. President Donald Trump on a trade deal, with the goal of reducing or eliminating the U.S. tariffs on Canada that Trump has repeatedly imposed.

On Sunday, thieves rode a basket lift (or cherry picker) up the Louvre’s facade and smashed an upstairs window and display cases before fleeing with priceless Napoleonic jewels, officials said.

The heist took place about 30 minutes after the museum opened, with visitors already inside, and unfolded just 250 metres from the Mona Lisa.

Here’s everything we know so far about one of the highest-profile museum thefts as a manhunt for the perpetrators is underway in Paris.

How it happened

At around 9:30 a.m. local time on Sunday, masked thieves used an electric ladder and grinders to break into the second-floor Galerie d’Apollon (Apollo’s Gallery), which is a large room where the Crown Diamonds are displayed, including the Regent, the Sancy and the Hortensia.

The intruders forced open a window, cut panes with a disc cutter and went straight for the glass display cases, officials said.

Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said the crew entered from outside using a cherry picker via the riverfront facade to reach the hall with the 23-item royal collection.

The thieves smashed two display cases and fled on motorbikes, Nunez said. Alarms brought Louvre agents to the room, forcing the intruders to bolt, but the theft was already done.

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The cherry picker remained against the wall where they entered. Officials say the thieves brought the electric ladder and it was later removed.

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What jewels were stolen?

Thieves stole eight items from two high-security display cases, the Ministry of Culture confirmed on Sunday evening.

They took off with pieces that belonged to Empress Marie-Louise, who was the wife of French Emperor Napoleon I, and others that belonged to Empress Eugénie, the wife of Napoleon III.

The eight objects stolen include:

Empress Eugénie tiara

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Empress Eugénie decorative bow brooch

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Sapphire diadem, necklace and single earring from a matching set linked to 19th-century French queens Marie-Amélie and Hortense

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Emerald necklace and earrings from the matching set of Empress Marie-Louise

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The thieves also took a reliquary brooch of Empress Eugénie.

Thieves attempted to steal Empress Eugénie’s emerald-set imperial crown, containing more than 1,300 diamonds, but it was later found outside the museum, French authorities said. It was reportedly recovered broken.

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What police have discovered so far

Forensic teams are examining the site of the crime and adjoining access points while a full inventory is taken, authorities said. Officials have described the haul as of “inestimable” historical value.

No injuries were reported following the robbery but the thieves remained at large as of Sunday night.

According to French media, there were four perpetrators: two dressed as construction workers in yellow safety vests on the lift, and two each on a scooter. French authorities did not immediately comment on this.

Investigators are reviewing CCTV from the Denon wing and the riverfront, inspecting the cherry picker used to reach the gallery and interviewing staff who were on site when the museum opened, authorities said.

Five museum workers were in the room and adjacent rooms when the robbery took place and immediately contacted police, the culture ministry said.

The Ministry of Culture thanked its employees for calling police, which resulted in the thieves fleeing and leaving behind their equipment.

Culture Minister Rachida Dati said investigators are working on evidence found at the scene.

“We did find motorcycles and they have a licence plate,” Dati told news broadcaster CNews. “I also want to pay tribute to the security officers who prevented the basket lift from being set on fire. One of the criminals tried to set it on fire, but they forced him to flee. This allowed us to recover evidence at the scene.”

Officials said the heist lasted less than eight minutes in total, including less than four minutes inside the Louvre.

“They went straight to the display windows, they knew exactly what they wanted. They were very efficient,” Dati said.

Dati stressed that a decade-long “Louvre New Renaissance” plan that was launched earlier this year includes security improvements.

“When the Louvre Museum was designed, it was not meant to accommodate 10 million visitors,” she said.

The 700-million-euro plan is intended to modernize infrastructure, ease crowding and give the Mona Lisa a dedicated gallery by 2031.

When will the Louvre reopen?

The Louvre closed for the rest of Sunday for the forensic investigation to begin as police sealed gates, cleared courtyards and shut nearby streets along the Seine.

The museum said Monday that it would remain closed.

“Visitors who have already booked tickets will be refunded,” it said in a statement on X.

The museum’s staff asked dozens of visitors who were queuing in front of the glass pyramid entrance to leave.

It currently remains unclear when the museum may reopen to the public. The Louvre is always closed on Tuesdays, so the earliest it could reopen this week would be Wednesday, the BBC reports.

What French politicians are saying about the theft

French President Emmanuel Macron took to social media, calling the heist an “attack on a heritage that we cherish because it is our history.”

“The perpetrators will be brought to justice,” Macron added. “Everything is being done, everywhere, to achieve this, under the leadership of the Paris prosecutor’s office.”

Gérald Darmanin, France’s justice minister, told France Inter radio that “the French people, for the most part, feel as though they have been robbed.”

“In the same way that when Notre-Dame burned, it was our church that was burning — even if you weren’t Catholic — such an incredible jewelry robbery at the Louvre looks bad,” Darmania added.

Darmanin also acknowledged security failures on Monday.

“One can wonder about the fact that, for example, the windows hadn’t been secured, about the fact that a basket lift was on a public road,” he said. “Having (previously) been interior minister, I know that we cannot completely secure all places, but what is certain is that we have failed.”

Interior Minister Nunez ordered prefects across France to immediately reassess security measures protecting museums and other cultural sites and enhance them if necessary.

— With files from The Associated Press

Amazon said its cloud computing service was recovering from a major outage that disrupted online activity around the world on Monday.

Amazon Web Services provides remote computing services to many governments, universities and companies, including The Associated Press.

On DownDetector, a website that tracks online outages, users reported issues with Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood, the McDonald’s app and many other services. Coinbase and Signal both said on X that they were experiencing issues related to the AWS outage.

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The first signs of trouble emerged at around 3:11 a.m. Eastern Time, when Amazon Web Services reported on its Health Dashboard that it is “investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region.”

Later the company reported that there were “significant error rates” and that engineers were “actively working” on the problem.

Around 6 a.m. Eastern Time, the company said that it was seeing recovery across most of the affected services. “We can confirm global services and features that rely on US-EAST-1 have also recovered,” it said, adding that it is working on a “full resolution.”

AWS customers include some of the world’s biggest businesses and organizations.

“So much of the world now relies on these three or four big (cloud) compute companies who provide the underlying infrastructure that when there’s an issue like this, it can be really impactful across a broad range, a broad spectrum” of online services, said Patrick Burgess, a cybersecurity expert at U.K.-based BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.

“The world now runs on the cloud” and the internet is seen as a utility like water or electricity as we spend so much of our lives on our smartphones, Burgess said.

And because so much of the online world’s plumbing is underpinned by a handful of companies, when something goes wrong “it’s very difficult for users to pinpoint what is happening because we don’t see Amazon, we just see Snapchat or Roblox,” Burgess said.

“The good news is that this kind of issue is usually relatively fast (to resolve)” and there’s no indication that it was caused by a cyber incident like a cyberattack, Burgess said.

“This look’s like a good old fashioned technology issue, something’s gone wrong and it will be fixed by Amazon,” he said.

There are “well-established processes” to deal with outages at Amazon Web Services, as well as rivals Google and Microsoft, which together provide most of the world’s cloud computing infrastructure, Burgess said, adding that such outages are usually fixed in “hours rather than days.”

Amazon Web Services said at about 6:30 a.m. Eastern time that “most AWS Service operations are succeeding normally now.”

U.S. President Donald Trump meanwhile suggested that Kyiv may have to give up territory in exchange for an end to Moscow’s more than three-and-a-half-year invasion, in the latest of apparent reversals on how to pursue peace.

The Orenburg plant, run by state-owned gas giant Gazprom and located in a region of the same name near the Kazakh border, is part of a production and processing complex that is one of the world’s largest facilities of its kind, with an annual capacity of 45 billion cubic meters. It handles gas condensate from Kazakhstan’s Karachaganak field, alongside Orenburg’s own oil and gas fields.

According to regional Gov. Yevgeny Solntsev, the drone strikes set fire to a workshop at the plant and damaged part of it. The Kazakh Energy Ministry on Sunday said, citing a notification from Gazprom, that the plant was temporarily unable to process gas originating in Kazakhstan, “due to an emergency situation following a drone attack.”

Ukraine’s General Staff said in a statement Sunday that a “large-scale fire” erupted at the Orenburg plant, and that one of its gas processing and purification units was damaged.

Kyiv has ramped up attacks in recent months on Russian energy facilities it says both fund and directly fuel Moscow’s war effort.

Trump appeared to edge back in the direction of pressing Ukraine to give up on retaking land it has lost to Russia, in exchange for an end to Moscow’s aggression.

Asked in a Fox News interview conducted Thursday whether Russian President Vladimir Putin would be open to ending the war “without taking significant property from Ukraine,” Trump responded: “Well, he’s going to take something.”

“They fought and he has a lot of property. He’s won certain property,” Trump said. “We’re the only nation that goes in, wins a war and then leaves.”

The interview was aired on Sunday on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” but was conducted before Trump spoke to Putin and Zelenskyy last week.

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The comments amounted to another shift in position on the war by the U.S. leader. In recent weeks, Trump had shown growing impatience with Putin and expressed greater openness to helping Ukraine win the war.

In Thursday’s interview, he was noncommittal about sending Tomahawk missiles requested by Ukraine, saying “I’m looking at it” but expressing concern about depleting U.S. weapons stocks.

“We need them for ourselves too,” Trump said. “We can’t give all our weapons to Ukraine. We just can’t do that.”

Contrary to Kyiv’s hopes, Trump did not commit to providing it with Tomahawks following their meeting at the White House on Friday. The missiles would be the longest-range weapons in Ukraine’s arsenal and would allow it to strike targets deep inside Russia, including Moscow, with precision.

Deliveries of Tomahawks could provide leverage to help push the Kremlin into negotiations, analysts say, after Trump expressed frustration over Putin’s refusal to budge on key aspects of a possible peace deal.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian prosecutors claim that Moscow is modifying its deadly aerial-guided bombs to strike civilians deeper in Ukraine. Local authorities in Kharkiv said Russia struck a residential neighborhood using a new rocket-powered aerial bomb for the first time.

Kharkiv’s regional prosecutor’s office said in a statement that Russia used the weapon called the UMPB-5R, which can travel up to 130 kilometres (80 miles), in an attack on the city of Lozava on Saturday afternoon. The city lies 150 kilometres (93 miles) south of Kharkiv, a considerable distance for the weapon to fly.

Russia continued to strike other parts of Ukraine closer to the front line. In the Dnipropetrovsk region, at least 11 people were injured after Russian drones hit the Shakhtarske area. At least 14 five-story buildings and a store were damaged, said acting regional Gov. Vladyslav Haivanenko.

A Russian strike also hit a coal mine in the Dnipropetrovk region. Some 192 miners were brought to the surface without injury, the company that operates the mine said.

Ukraine’s General Staff also claimed a separate drone strike hit Russia’s Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery, in the Samara region near Orenburg, sparking a blaze and damaging its main refining units.

The Novokuibyshevsk facility, operated by Russian gas major Rosneft, has an annual capacity of 4.9 million tonnes, and turns out over 20 kinds of oil-based products. Russian authorities did not immediately acknowledge the Ukrainian claim or discuss any damage.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement early Sunday that its air defense forces had shot down 45 Ukrainian drones during the night, including 12 over the Samara region, one over the Orenburg region and 11 over the Saratov region neighboring Samara.

In turn, Ukraine’s air force reported Sunday that Russia during the night launched 62 drones into Ukrainian territory. It said 40 of these were shot down, or veered off course due to electronic jamming.