| Greetings, QuickTake readers! In this edition: Top watchdog says Trump broke the law, Alphabet joins a super-elite club, and the secret quest to save prehistoric pines.  Mystery virus spreads to Japan The mysterious virus that's killed one person and sickened dozens of others with pneumonia in China has now popped up in Japan, widening the spread of the new strain of coronavirus to three countries globally. Japanese health officials confirmed the first case Thursday in a man in his 30s who traveled in early January to Wuhan, the mainland Chinese city at the center of the outbreak. He returned to Tokyo on Jan. 6 after developing a fever and cough and was hospitalized with pneumonia four days later, officials said. Earlier this week, Thai officials confirmed another case of the SARS-like germ in a 61-year-old Chinese woman who had traveled to Bangkok from Wuhan. More: - The outbreak has been linked to a wholesale seafood market in Wuhan that also sold live animals such as poultry, bats, and marmots, along with wildlife parts, but not every patient visited it.
$ignificant figures $1 trillion. Google's parent company Alphabet crossed that threshold Thursday, becoming the third-ever U.S. company to trade with a 13-digit market cap along with Apple and Microsoft. 383-0. The vote in Russia's lower house of parliament to approve Putin's nominee for PM, Mikhail Mishustin, a day after Dmitry Medvedev—and his entire government—abruptly quit. 165 days. How long the internet had been shut down in the Kashmir Valley before India's top court ruled indefinite shutdowns were an "abuse of power" and limited broadband service returned. Highly quotable "Withheld funds for a policy reason." Trump broke federal law when he froze $214 million in aid to Ukraine last year that had been approved by Congress, the GAO said. "No change after 2047." Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam said the "one country, two systems" rule that grants the city its separate freedoms could continue after it expires if loyalty to Beijing is upheld. "You called me a liar on national TV." What Elizabeth Warren told Bernie Sanders after Tuesday's Democratic debate during which Sanders denied ever saying a woman couldn't win the presidency. This is not normal Record crisis. 45 million people in southern Africa are "gravely food insecure" from repeated drought and floods caused by climate change, the UN said, calling on countries to step up aid and investments in the region.  The future is now It's alive. A newly developed substance that transforms from wet sand into solid brick can use bacteria to build more of itself, scientists say and could be a low-carbon concrete alternative that absorbs greenhouse gases.  What's good Protection quest. In a secret mission up Australia's Gospers Mountain, firefighters have saved the last remaining groves of Wollemi Pines, prehistoric trees that were threatened by the country's raging bushfires.  Now that you're caught up... Tell your friends to sign up to receive the QuickTake newsletter five days a week, and follow us on Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. Before you go: Rugby anyone? Watch Prince Harry make his first public appearance since declaring an exit from royal life last week. Thanks for reading!
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