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By John O’Donnell

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Unpaid debt from pandemic-stricken borrowers has ravaged profits at Europe’s big banks and kick-started a debate among politicians about whether they may ultimately need state help.

Reflecting on the pandemic impact, many bank executives say the worst is behind them, with Societe Generale CEO Frederic…[Read more]

Russia is becoming a major provider of Covid-19 vaccines to Latin America, a move that could have long-standing consequences in shaping the post-pandemic world and further dent US prestige in the region.

While Moscow faces protests at home and condemnation over human rights issues from the US, France, UK, Canada and other Western countries,…[Read more]

By MICHAEL TARM, AP Legal Affairs Writer  4 hrs

CHICAGO (AP) — Executioners who put 13 inmates to death in the last months of the Trump administration likened the process of dying by lethal injection to falling asleep and called gurneys “beds” and final breaths “snores.”

But those tranquil accounts are at odds with reports by The Associated Pr…[Read more]

By Lucia Mutikani

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. retail sales rebounded sharply in January after households received additional pandemic relief money from the government, suggesting a pick-up in economic activity after being restrained by a fresh wave of COVID-19 infections late last year.

The surge in sales reported by the Commerce Department on…[Read more]

NASA’s sole means of sending commands to the distant space probe, launched 44 years ago, is being restored on Friday.

By Shannon Stirone
Feb. 12, 2021

In the nearly 44 years since NASA launched Voyager 2, the spacecraft has gone beyond the frontiers of human exploration by visiting Uranus, Neptune and, eventually, interstellar space.

Last M…[Read more]

The Taliban Close In on Afghan Cities, Pushing the Country to the Brink
PANJWAI, Afghanistan — The Taliban have been encroaching on key cities around Afghanistan for months, threatening to drive the country to its breaking point and push the Biden administration into a no-win situation just as the United States’ longest war is supposed to be com…[Read more]

Brian K. Sullivan, Naureen S. Malik and Javier Blas
Mon, February 15, 2021, 10:29 AM

(Bloomberg) — Millions of households in Texas are suffering rolling blackouts for the first time in a decade as an unprecedented Arctic freeze sends temperatures plummeting across much of the U.S., roiling energy markets.

Large swaths of Dallas, Houston and…[Read more]

Will Sommer, Kelly Weill
Sat, February 13, 2021, 11:24 PM·8 min read

As federal authorities crack down on the far right after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, the movement’s leaders have found new sources of suspicion: each other.

In the Trumpist “America First” movement and the far-right paramilitary group the Proud Boys, alliances are fractu…[Read more]

After Steve Bannon and his guest explain how to infiltrate the GOP, posters on message boards take notice

WRITTEN BY ERIC KLEEFELD

RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM LEO FERNANDEZ

PUBLISHED 02/10/21 3:38 PM EST

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon’s recent interview with a local Republican Party committee member on how Trump supporters might be able to…[Read more]

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