After increasingly strained US-France relations under Donald Trump, President and French President agreed Sunday to work closely together to fight the coronavirus pandemic and climate change. After four years of America First under Trump, the new US president and French leader see eye-to-eye on the importance of cooperation to fight climate change and COVID-19 and in negotiating with Iran. Macron stressed the importance of working jointly within the World Health Organization which Trump abandoned to help ensure vaccine distribution to poor countries. Despite starkly different political views, Macron and Trump developed a surprisingly chummy relationship early on - including a fawning White House reception for the French leader and intimate Eiffel Tower dinner for the two first couples that later soured amid Trump's increasingly mercurial and protectionist policies.

on Sunday opened its embassy in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), months after the two countries established full diplomatic ties. The Israeli Foreign Ministry said the new embassy "will advance the range of relations between the countries in all areas and expand ties with the Emirati government, economic bodies and the private sector, academia, media and more.""Opening the mission will allow the expansion of bilateral ties between Israel and the for the maximum and speedy realization of the potential in those relations," Ashkenazi said. Earlier Sunday, the UAE cabinet approved the decision to open an embassy to Israel in Tel Aviv.

US President spoke to his French counterpart over the phone on Sunday and agreed to work together on shared foreign policy priorities, including China, the Middle East, Russia, and the Sahel. During the phone call, President Biden also stressed his commitment to bolstering the transatlantic relationship, including through NATO and the United States' partnership with the European Union. President Biden also stressed his commitment to bolstering the transatlantic relationship, including through NATO and the United States' partnership with the European Union," the statement read"The leaders agreed on the need for close coordination, including through multilateral organizations, in tackling common challenges such as climate change, COVID-19, and the global economic recovery.

(Reuters) - was the largest recipient of foreign direct investment in 2020 as the coronavirus outbreak spread across the world during the course of the year, with the Chinese having brought in $163 billion in inflows. China's $163 billion in inflows last year, compared to $134 billion attracted by the United States, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said in a report released on Sunday. In 2019, the United States had received $251 billion in inflows and received $140 billion. Overall, global had collapsed in 2020, falling by 42% to an estimated $859 billion, from $1.5 trillion in 2019, according to the UNCTAD report.

“Either it’s nothing, or it’s the New World Order,” said a lecturer at Harvard Law School who studies content moderation, Evelyn Douek, who pushed Facebook to send the Trump case to the Oversight Board. Board members have also begun pushing to have more power over the crucial question of how Facebook amplifies content, rather than just deciding on taking posts down and putting them up, those people said. And it has faced questions about whether it would ever be more than a public relations gesture, including from critics who started an alternate “Real Facebook Oversight Board” to call for a sweeping crackdown on the platform. So when Facebook suspended Mr. Trump’s account indefinitely after the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, the Oversight Board’s leaders didn’t disguise their eagerness to take on a big and meaty question.