Nov 24 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

- BHP BHP.AX on Monday pulled back from a last-ditch effort to buy Anglo American AAL.L and bolster its dominance in copper, just two weeks before shareholders at Anglo and Canada's Teck Resources were set to vote on a $60 billion tie-up.

- Bayer BAYGn.DE said it had positive results in late-stage clinical trials for a drug preventing stroke, after a previous study with the same drug failed to reduce blood-clot formation.

- The United States and Ukraine said they had created an "updated and refined peace framework" to end the war with Russia that apparently modified an earlier plan drafted by the Trump administration which Kyiv and its allies saw as too sympathetic to Moscow.

(Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)

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