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The math performance of U.S. teenagers has sharply declined since 2018, with scores lower than 20 years ago, and with American students continuing to trail global competitors, according to the results of a key international exam released on Tuesday.In the first comparable global results since the coronavirus pandemic, 15-year-olds in the United States scored below students in similar industrialized democracies like the United Kingdom, Australia and Germany, and well behind students in the highest-performing countries such as Singapore, South Korea and Estonia — continuing an underperformance in math that predated the pandemic.The bleak math results were offset by a stronger performance in reading and science, where the United States scored above average internationally.About 66 percent of ...

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of Nigeria on Tuesday called for an investigation into a drone attack by his country’s military that killed scores of civilians on Sunday, the latest in a series of accidental bombings that have hit local populations.The strike occurred on Sunday evening in a village in the northern state of Kaduna, where armed groups have been rampant. Many of the victims were gathered for a Muslim celebration, according to the local authorities.As of Tuesday, at least 85 people had been pronounced dead, including children, women and older people, Nigeria’s main emergency body, the National Emergency Management Agency, said in a statement.At least 66 others were injured, and the search for more bodies was continuing, it said. Although there have been other accidental bombings i...