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Kosovo, a country of 1.8 million, suffers from an unemployment rate of 40 percent, according to the World Bank. Stagnation has taken hold as the young nation experiences what some describe as the worst political and economic crisis since independence, prompting the largest mass exodus since the refugee crisis during the 1998-99 war. (Valerie Plesch/SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES)

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George David Banks, the chief U.S. representative to the 23rd Conference of Parties of the Paris accord on climate change, popularly known as COP23, said the World Bank ban on underwriting projects using coal was "very, very wrong" and the Trump administration would seek to reverse it.

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