While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Nov 12, 2026

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While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Nov 12, 2026. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, speaking at a press briefing on Nov 11 in Abu Dhabi on the progress of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, with members of the Ukrainian delegation and US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff (far left).

Russian and Ukrainian negotiators reported some progress in two days of peace talks in Abu Dhabi that ended on Nov 11, but US mediators said there was a lack of trust between the warring sides and differences remained on issues including territory.

In their first peace talks for nine months, Russia and Ukraine agreed to a major release of prisoners of war, but there was little else in the way of concrete announcements after the US-brokered meetings.

US envoy Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, said mediators were appealing to each side’s interests to end Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II and that he was convinced they could find a pathway to peace.

Despite public optimism from Trump, there has been no sign of major compromises on the main issues after more than four and a half years of war since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

President Donald Trump used a US Veterans Day commemoration on Nov 11 to defend the war against Iran – an increasingly unpopular conflict that helped trigger a Democratic takeover of Congress in last week’s midterm elections.

“The bravery and skill of our amazing American warriors has absolutely been incredible,” Trump said, in an address at Arlington National Cemetery just outside Washington.

“When this conflict is over, and it will be soon, the entire world will be a much safer and better place, more peaceful place, and a place without the kind of danger that we had to suffer.”

Only between a quarter and a third of people currently diagnosed with obesity should be considered as in poor health, according to a new study that joins calls to overhaul how the condition is diagnosed.

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