Morning news brief: Trump 'almost' concedes defeat, US deadline to sell TikTok extended and more
Trump and TikTok
A lot is brewing in the US. Looks like Donald Trump has almost admitted he lost the US election. And Joe Biden's links with India are also creating a frenzy. The Trump administration has extended the deadline to sell TikTok to November 27. The biggest update, however, is that of the coronavirus' -- cases in the US hit a new record as the country officials reported more than 150,000 cases in a day.
Also, in the adjoining Canada, police evacuated a French company's -- Ubisoft -- Montreal office building after a hoax hostage call.
Here is what is brewing across the world this morning:
This is probably the closest one can get to a concession speech when it comes to the incumbent president of the United States Donald Trump | READ MORE
Already bursting with pride at Kamala Harris's ancestry, India has now started digging up potential local roots for US President-elect Joe Biden | READ MORE
The US authorities have granted Bytedance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, a 15-day extension of a divestiture order that had directed it to sell the social media sensation in order to resolve national security concerns | READ MORE
As the world is inching towards the end of the year, the coronavirus cases in the US hit a new record as the country officials reported more than 150,000 cases in a day | READ MORE
A major police operation was under way in Montreal on Friday at offices of French video game company Ubisoft that media reported was a possible hostage-taking | READ MORE