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The International Monetary Fund should not bail out Iran

By Jed Babbin

In this April 8, 2020 photo, laborers wear facemasks to protect against the spread of the new coronavirus as they look at job postings at a labor market in Qingdao in eastern China's Shandong Province. China has reported its biggest economic decline since the 1970s as it fought the coronavirus in the first quarter of the year. (Chinatopix via AP)

IMF, World Bank pledge help amid calls for more debt relief

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER - Associated Press

‘A crisis like no other’: IMF facing huge demand for support

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER - Associated Press

A staff member talks on his mobile phone at the Dubai Financial Market in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, March 9, 2020. Saudi Arabia closed off air and sea travel to nine countries affected by the new coronavirus Monday as Mideast stock markets tumbled over fears about the widening outbreak's effect on the global economy. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Mideast economies battered by virus, oil prices and conflict

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

A man with a protective mask walks in the rain past an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm in Tokyo Monday, April 13, 2020. Asian shares fell Monday amid absence of fresh news after U.S. markets were closed for Good Friday and European, Australian and Hong Kong trading continued to be closed for Easter holidays. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Asian stocks sink after IMF says global economy will shrink

By JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

A highway is empty of cars during a lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, April 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

IMF projects Lebanon’s economy will shrink 12% in 2020

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

The buildings of the banking district are seen in Frankfurt, Germany, early Tuesday, April 14, 2020. Due to the coronavirus the economy expects worldwide heavy losses. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

IMF: Global economy will suffer worst year since Depression

By PAUL WISEMAN and MARTIN CRUTSINGER - Associated Press

Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, attends a session on the first day of the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Feb. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer) ** FILE **

IMF head sees worst economic downturn since Great Depression

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER - Associated Press

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wearing a face mask to protect against coronavirus speaks during an extraordinary parliamentary session in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 30, 2020. Ukraine has been under quarantine since March 12. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo)

Ukraine approves legislation in a bid for IMF aid

Associated Press

IMF head says global economy now in recession

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER - Associated Press

In this image from video, Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., speaks on the Senate floor at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 17, 2020. (Senate Television via AP) ** FILE **

Bob Menendez, Patrick Leahy press G20 to fund WHO, IMF and World Bank

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Volunteers disinfectant a sidewalk in an effort to curb the spread of coronavirus outbreak in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, March 25, 2020. The new virus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

World Bank, IMF plead for rich countries to give poorer ones a break amid pandemic

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

People wearing protective masks as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus travel on a bus in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, March 17, 2020. President Nicolas Maduro ordered citizens to stay home, and to wear a mask in public under a quarantine in a bid to control the spread of the coronavirus. The vast majority of people recover from the new virus. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

IMF rejects Maduro’s bid for emergency loan to fight virus

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, March, 10, 2020 photo, paramedics test samples taken from patients suspected of being infected with the new coronavirus, at a laboratory in the southwestern city of Ahvaz, Iran. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. (Amin Nazari/ISNA via AP)

Iran asks for billions in loans as virus death toll climbs

By NASSER KARIMI and AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva speaks during a news conference during the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) **FILE**

IMF, World Bank team up to try to calm coronavirus fears

By Madison Hirneisen - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, photo, Thai public health officers operate a health checkpoint with thermo scan, targeting to pick people traveling with fever, a symptom of COVID-19 at Suvarnabhumi International airport in Bangkok, Thailand. Thai Public Health Ministry on Monday, Feb 17, 2020, informed Thais to reschedule their visits to Japan and Singapore citing the rising number of people infected by new coronavirus in those two countries. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Coronavirus threatens to global economy as Iran reports 2 deaths

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Members of political parties and social movements protest the visit of an International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation, one with a sign that reads in Spanish &quot;Get out of Argentina IMF. No to the debt payment,&quot; in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020. Argentina announced Tuesday that it will delay paying principal on a peso-denominated bond that had been due this week while it works on restructuring an overall debt it says is unpayable at a time of economic hardship. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)

Argentina and IMF discuss debt in shadow of 2001 crisis

By DÉBORA REY and CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA - Associated Press

FILE- In this Dec. 20, 2015 file photo, a man rides a camel through the desert oil field and winter camping area of Sakhir, Bahrain. The International Monetary Fund is warning that energy-rich Gulf Arab states could burn through all their savings in the next 15 years. An IMF report released Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, points to worries about climate change and supply from new competitors as dampening global oil prices. The IMF said those nations need to cut costs and diversify their economies. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)

IMF: Oil-rich Gulf Arab states may spend savings in 15 years

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Pope Francis caresses a baby during his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope, with eye to Argentine debt, urges financial solidarity

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Indian workers repair an advertising hoarding in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. The IMF on Monday lowered India’s economic growth estimate for the current fiscal to 4.8% and listed the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) numbers as the single biggest drag on its global growth forecast for two years. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

IMF downgrade of growth outlook ups pressure on India’s Modi

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press