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World Bank cuts back project in China’s restive Xinjiang

Associated Press

Building site machines stand on the construction site of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in Guba in the North West of Ethiopia, 24 November 2017. The dam is currently being built on the Blue Nile and is going to be the biggest dam in Africa. However, the construction leads to tensions, especially with Egypt that worries about its share in Nile water. Photo by: Gioia Forster/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images

Steven Mnuchin mediated talks see Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam breakthrough

By Jacob Wirtschafter - Special to The Washington Times

A student protester holds a smoke flare during a protest against the government in front of the education ministry in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Nov. 8, 2019. Lebanese protesters are rallying outside state institutions and ministries to keep up the pressure on officials to form a new government to deal with the country's economic crisis. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

World Bank warns of grave risks to Lebanon’s stability

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

An anti-government protester chants slogans during ongoing protests against the Lebanese government, in front of the Justice Palace in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019. Protesters are demonstrating outside state institutions in an effort to keep up the pressure on top leaders to form a new government after the current one resigned. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

World Bank sounds alarm about Lebanon amid protests, crisis

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 18, 2018, file photo, the World Bank CEO Kristalina Georgieva speaks at the World Bank/IMF annual spring meeting in Washington. Georgieva, a top official at the World Bank, was chosen by the IMF’s executive board on Wednesday to become the IMF’s managing director. She succeeds Christine Lagarde who is stepping down to take over as head of the European Central Bank. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Economist who grew up in communist Bulgaria is new IMF chief

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER - Associated Press

FILE - In a Wednesday, March 7, 2018 file photo, World Bank Chief Executive Officer Kristalina Georgieva speaks during a panel at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Georgieva is in line to become the next head of the International Monetary Fund after the organization said Monday, September 9, 2019 Kristalina Georgieva is the one nominated for the job.(Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

World Bank official in line for top job at IMF

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER - Associated Press

EU investment bank aims to stop funding fossil fuel projects

Associated Press

In this June 12, 2019, photo, a man walks past an entrance to the International Finance Corporation, a unit of the World Bank Group, in Washington. The unit of the World Bank has been dragged onto the edges of Latin America’s biggest corruption scandal involving a highway connecting the Colombian capital to busy Caribbean ports. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

World Bank unit implicated in Latin America graft scandal

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

FILE- In this Feb. 6, 2019, file photo David Malpass, undersecretary for international affairs at the Treasury Department, listens to Trish Regan during &quot;Trish Regan Primetime&quot; on Fox Business in Washington. Malpass, the Treasury official nominated by President Donald Trump to head the 189-nation World Bank, has won election to the post. The World Bank says Malpass was approved unanimously by the bank’s 25-member executive board on Friday, April 5. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz, File)

Trump’s pick to head the World Bank wins election

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER - Associated Press

FILE- In this Feb. 6, 2019, file photo David Malpass, undersecretary for international affairs at the Treasury Department, listens to Trish Regan during &quot;Trish Regan Primetime&quot; on Fox Business in Washington. The Treasury official nominated by President Donald Trump to be the next president of the World Bank has cleared a major hurdle, with nominations for the position closing with no other candidates emerging. The World Bank says Malpass was the only candidate put forward by the bank's 189 member countries. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz, File)

US candidate clears big hurdle in effort to head World Bank

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER - Associated Press

Yonas Biru case: Racism at the World Bank

By Ken Cuccinelli II

President Donald Trump congratulates David Malpass, under secretary of the Treasury for international affairs, after announcing his nomination to head the World Bank, during an event in the Rosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Trump introduces World Bank critic David Malpass to lead it

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and JOSH BOAK - Associated Press

President Donald Trump congratulates David Malpass, under secretary of the Treasury for international affairs, after announcing his nomination to head the World Bank, during an event in the Rosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Trump introduces World Bank critic David Malpass to lead it

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and JOSH BOAK - Associated Press

President Donald Trump shakes hands as he announces his nomination of David Malpass, left, under secretary of the Treasury for international affairs, to head the World Bank, during an event in the Rosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

David Malpass, Treasury veteran, named by Donald Trump to lead World Bank

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this 2007 file photo, David Malpass, then the Chief Economist at Bear, Stearns &amp; Co. Inc., speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. President Donald Trump plans to nominate Malpass, an administration critic of the World Bank, to be the institution’s next leader. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

AP source: Trump to tap critic of agency to lead World Bank

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and JOSH BOAK - Associated Press

In this 2007 file photo, David Malpass, then the Chief Economist at Bear, Stearns &amp; Co. Inc., speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. President Donald Trump plans to nominate Malpass, an administration critic of the World Bank, to be the institution’s next leader. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Trump to tap David Malpass, critic of World Bank, to lead it

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and JOSH BOAK - Associated Press

In this 2007 file photo, David Malpass, then the Chief Economist at Bear, Stearns &amp; Co. Inc., speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. President Donald Trump plans to nominate Malpass, an administration critic of the World Bank, to be the institution’s next leader. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

David Malpass, Trump’s expected pick to head World Bank, draws resistance

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

World Bank skeptic David Malpass could be Donald Trump’s pick to lead it

The Washington Times

David Malpass, Under Secretary for International Affairs at the Treasury Dept., right, speaks about Brexit, next to Randal Quarrels, Vice Chairman for Supervision, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, during a meeting of the Financial Stability Oversight Council, Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018, at the Treasury Department, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

David Malpass, World Bank skeptic, to head financial institution

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

Trump Respect for Coal Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Goodbye to a misguided war on coal

By Rupert Darwall and Myron Ebell