Jared Kushner

Former White House senior advisor and Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and his deputy Avi Berkowitz have been nominated for the Nobel peace prize by for their involvement in negotiating the "Abraham Accords" – a series of four normalisation deals between Arab nations and Israel.

The nomination was submitted by American attorney Alan Dershowitz, who is among thousands of people eligible to nominate candidates.

In a major thawing of relations, leaders from Saudi Arabia and its regional allies reached a breakthrough agreement with Qatar on Tuesday, ending three and a half years of impasse and restoring ties between the Arabian Gulf neighbours. The agreement brokered by Kuwait and the United States, among others, took place at an annual summit of Gulf Arab leaders, with White House senior adviser Jared Kushner in attendance, along with Avi Berkowitz, special representative for international negotiations.

Prince Faisal bin Farhan told a news conference after the annual GCC gathering in the city of Al-Ula, also attended by Egypt, that there were political will and good faith to guarantee the implementation of the agreement to restore diplomatic and other ties, including the resumption of flights.

In his second wave of pardons, President Donald Trump issued another 26 pardons on Wednesday evening, including for his longtime informal adviser and friend Roger Stone, his 2016 campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

A Deutsche Bank spokesperson confirmed that the bank has launched an internal investigation into Rosemary Vrablic, the longtime personal banker of Donald J. Trump and Jared Kushner.

After Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner declared in a financial disclosure report on Friday that they've received between $1 and $5 million from Bergel 715 in 2019, an investigation has been launched into Rosemary Vrablic. Deutsche Bank is looking to determine if she had acted improperly by buying an apartment from Bergel 715 Associates in 2013 together with two colleagues.

According to the original reporting by the New York Times, neither Vrablic nor her colleagues did know about Kushner having an ownership stake in the company at the time they bought the apartment.