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WASHINGTON (AP) — Younger students have regained ground academically after the pandemic’s disruptions while older students’ test scores continue to stagnate, according to the latest testing data released Wednesday by the federal government. Nine-year-olds rebounded to pre-pandemic reading scores and saw some recovery in math, according to data from a test taken regularly in the United States since the 1970s. The same recovery has not emerged for 13-year-olds, whose average […]

By Gradel Muyisa , Benoit Nyemba and Emma Farge BUNIA, Democratic Republic of Congo, June 10 (Reuters) – After her mother died in late May, baby Buswaza was brought to a church-run orphanage in eastern Congo where the nuns quickly discovered the newborn was running a fever. Within days, she died from what they later found out was Ebola. Carers and medics said that after her death six other babies were identified […]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani army MI-17 helicopter crashed due to a technical fault in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on Wednesday, killing all military personnel on board, the military said. The military did not immediately disclose how many people were aboard the helicopter. The crash occurred near Muzaffarabad, the regional capital, during an ongoing protest and strike called by the Joint Awami Action Committee, a recently banned alliance of various groups. The […]

By Joanna Plucinska and Christina Amann BERLIN, June 10 (Reuters) – Germany’s ILA air show opened on Wednesday under the twin shadows of the Iran war and the collapse this week of a flagship Franco-German fighter jet project, clouding what is meant to be one of Europe’s premier aerospace showcases. The Berlin event, which dates back to 1909, puts a large slice of Europe’s defence industry on display as companies […]

By Rory Carroll LOS ANGELES, June 10 (Reuters) – Security planners for the World Cup are preparing for drones to pose one of the tournament’s most complicated threats, as officials seek to protect stadiums, fan zones, team hotels, training sites and transit routes across multiple U.S. cities and jurisdictions. Industry executives and U.S. officials said the threat ranges from careless spectators seeking social media footage to operators conducting surveillance or […]

June 10 (Reuters) – Traders of short-term U.S. interest rates edged away from bets that the Federal Reserve rate will deliver a rate hike as soon as September, but continued to show strong conviction of a rate hike by October, after a government report showed consumer inflation rose 4.2% last month as economists had expected. Pricing now reflects about a 45% chance of a September rate hike, versus just under […]

BERLIN, June 10 (Reuters) – The world’s top automotive supplier, Robert Bosch GmbH, is on track to meet its financial targets this year despite new challenges emerging, including possible supply chain shocks resulting from the Middle East conflict, CEO Stefan Hartung told Reuters on Wednesday. Facing a slowdown in German car production and an investment-heavy transition to electric vehicles, Bosch plans 22,000 job cuts in its core automotive business, with […]

KYIV, June 10 (Reuters) – Ukraine, whose energy system has been under constant Russian attack, will face power shortages and consumer outages in the summer months despite imports and strong output from solar power plants, the DiXi Group think tank forecast. Russia has attacked Ukraine’s power generation and transmission systems throughout the war, severely damaging thermal power plants and forcing Kyiv to increase imports and resort to large-scale power cuts […]

WASHINGTON, June 10 (Reuters) – The United States, Australia, European allies and other countries condemned Iran-backed groups’ plots to kill Iranian dissidents, journalists and Jewish communities in a joint statement released on Wednesday. “We stand united in our determination to protect our countries and our people against these threats. The Islamic Republic of Iran must halt these actions now,” the statement released by the U.S. Department of State said. The […]