January 26, 2021: Russia’s military drills, Pelosi re-election, New York City officer, Johnson party claims, Omicron, Delta

1. Russia held military drills and deployed more forces and fighter jets to Belarus for exercises next month as officials prepared to sit down for four-way talks in Paris on the conflict in east Ukraine.

2. U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she will run for a 19th term in office, without saying whether she would seek to remain in her Democratic leadership role.

3. A second police officer who was shot Friday in New York City while responding to a domestic violence call has died, the city's police commissioner said on Twitter.

4. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson rejected opposition calls to resign for attending lockdown parties but accepted that a rule that ministers should lose their jobs if they had knowingly misled parliament applied to him.

5. The Omicron variant appears to result in less severe COVID-19 than seen during previous periods of high coronavirus transmission including the Delta wave, with shorter hospital stays, less need for intensive care and fewer deaths, according to a new U.S. study.

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