While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Jan 21

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WHO to hold emergency meeting as Sars-like virus spreads in Asia The World Health Organisation said Monday that a key emergency committee would meet this week to discuss a new Sars-like virus spreading across China after it reached three other Asian countries.

The World Health Organisation has meanwhile said an animal source seemed to be"the most likely primary source" with"some limited human-to-human transmission occurring between close contacts".US President Donald Trump on Monday rejected Democratic-led House of Representatives' impeachment charges as an affront to the US Constitution in a pre-trial brief that was as much a political case against removing him as it was a legal defence.

Johnson's Conservatives won a large majority in the lower chamber, the House of commons, at the Dec 12 vote and lawmakers there quickly approved the legislation needed to ratify his exit deal with Brussels earlier this month.

 

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