Morning News Brief: UK to commemorate Mahatma Gandhi, new deal for TikTok and more
WION Web Team
New Delhi, IndiaUpdated: Aug 02, 2020, 09:05 AM IST
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There have been local media reports claiming that Microsoft is in talks with the authorities for acquiring the app currently owned by the Chinese company.
The officials will meet again on Monday, after their staff meet on Sunday.
This comes close on the heels of British institutions beginning to re-examine their past as part of a global reassessment of history, colonialism and racism triggered by the death in May of a Black man, George Floyd, in the United States.
