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A general view shows the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)

World Bank estimates $216 billion needed to rebuild Syria after civil war

Associated Press

The U.S. costs of the Ukraine war illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

The U.S. cannot remain Ukraine’s democracy underwriter

By Stephen Szypulski

Aerial view of the a substation, in Songo, Mozambique, Saturday, July 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Carlos Uqueio)

Mozambique embraces a $6 billion electricity project, southern Africa’s biggest in 50 years

By Charles Mangwiro and Farai Mutsaka - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks during an "Invest in America" roundtable with business leaders at the White House, Monday, June 9, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Citing trade wars, the World Bank sharply downgrades global economic growth forecast to 2.3%

By Paul Wiseman - Associated Press

Syrian men unload a truck as around 60 displaced families, supported by an NGO, return to their village after more than five years in the Atmeh camps near the Syrian-Turkish border, in Kafr Sijna, south of Idlib, Syria, Sunday, May 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Rebranding a leader, rebuilding a country fuel hope in Damascus

By Jacob Wirtschafter - Special to The Washington Times

FILE - Rescue workers use a bulldozer to remove rubble of destroyed buildings at the site of an Israeli airstrike that hit several branches of the Hezbollah-run Qard al-Hassan Association in Beirut's southern suburb, Lebanon, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Lebanese whose homes were destroyed in the war want to rebuild. Many face a long wait

By Sally Abou Aljoud - Associated Press

Pedro Pascal arrives at a For Your Consideration red carpet for "The Last Of Us" on Friday, April 28, 2023, at Directors Guild of America Theatre in Los Angeles. Pascal is on this year’s Great Immigrants list announced Wednesday by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Pedro Pascal and World Bank’s Ajay Banga among those named to Carnegie’s 2023 Great Immigrants list

By Glenn Gamboa - Associated Press

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva walks to the podium during the 2022 annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group on Oct. 14, 2022, in Washington. Heads of state, finance leaders and activists from around the world will converge in Paris this week to seek ways to overhaul the world's development banks — like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank — and help them weather a warmer and stormier world.(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Paris summit aims to shake up the financial system. It will test leaders’ resolve on climate

By FATIMA Hussein and Paul Wiseman - Associated Press

Ajay Banga, then-president and CEO of MasterCard, speaks during the U.S. Africa Business Forum during the U.S. Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, Aug. 5, 2014. The incoming president of the World Bank was born in India and forged his early business success there, a fact supporters say gives Banga valuable insight into the challenges faced by the developing countries the bank is supposed to help. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

New India-born World Bank chief: Real change or rebranding?

By Sibi Arasu - Associated Press

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech for a Spring Festival reception the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Jan. 20, 2023. China has ordered closer adherence to the dictates of the ruling Communist Party and leader Xi Jinping in legal education, demanding that schools “oppose and resist Western erroneous views” such as constitutional government, separation of powers, and independence of the judiciary. (Li Xueren/Xinhua via AP) **FILE**

China is not a developing country and should not be treated as one

By Brett D. Schaefer

MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga speaks to reporters in New York, April 6, 2011. Former Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga has been nominated by the U.S. to lead the World Bank, President Joe Biden announced on Thursday morning. The news comes days after Trump-appointee David Malpass announced plans to step down from his role leading the 189-nation agency. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

U.S. nominates Ajay Banga for World Bank president

By Fatima Hussein - Associated Press

File -World Bank Group President David Malpass speaks during the 2022 annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group, Friday, Oct. 14, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

World Bank’s David Malpass has stood up to radical green agenda

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Container cranes at a port in New Jersey appear behind the Statue of Liberty, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022, in New York. The global economy will come "perilously close" to a recession this year, led by weaker growth in all the world's top economies — the United States, Europe and China — the World Bank warned Tuesday. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)

World Bank warning: Global economy is at risk of recession

By Christopher Rugaber - Associated Press

U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo speaks during a joint media conference with European Commissionner for Financial services Mairead McGuinness at EU headquarters in Brussels, Tuesday, March 29, 2022. (Johanna Geron, Pool Photo via AP)

U.S. puts $3.5 billion seized from Afghan central bank into relief fund held in Switzerland

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

A young man pushes a wheelbarrow in front of a destroyed apartment building in the town of Borodyanka, Ukraine, on Sunday, April 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Russia’s war to shrink Ukraine economy 45%, World Bank says

By Kelvin Chan - Associated Press

In this Oct. 19, 2019 file photo, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva speaks during a news conference after the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) meeting, at the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

IMF, World Bank condemn invasion, prepare emergency aid for Ukraine

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 6, 2021, file photo, Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), delivers a speech during the opening ceremony for the Floating Office where a high-level dialogue on climate adaptation takes place in Rotterdam, Netherlands. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

IMF board confident about leader despite data-rigging claims

By Martin Crutsinger and Elaine Kurtenbach - Associated Press

Afghans wait for hours to try to withdraw money, in front a bank, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. Officials say Taliban fighters have entered Kabul and are seeking the unconditional surrender of the central government. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

World Bank halts financial aid to Afghanistan

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 3, 2021 file photo, Mounir Hujairi, 23, throws gasoline to sets fire to tires that are blocking a road, during a protest in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. It's an expression of anger but also of helplessness: Dense palls of smoke rising around Beirut and other parts of Lebanon from burning tires that anti-government protesters are using to block roads. The tactic has become the hallmark of a new flare-up of demonstrations against an intransigent political class that does nothing as its country slides toward the political and economic abyss. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Lebanese parliament approves World Bank loan to help poor

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, attendees applaud during a ceremony to mark the official end of extreme poverty in China held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. The ruling Communist Party is celebrating the official end of extreme poverty in China with a propaganda campaign that praises President Xi Jinping's role, adding to efforts to cement his image as a history-making leader who is reclaiming his country's rightful place as a global power. (Yan Yan/Xinhua via AP)

China celebrates official end of extreme poverty, lauds Xi

By JOE McDONALD - Associated Press