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Lucy Powell

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    PISA 2025 results show decade-long drop in global reading and maths scores

    Results from the 2025 PISA assessment across 91 countries show 15-year-olds recording their lowest average scores on record, with OECD reading scores falling 28 points and maths 22 points over the past decade.

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Twelve countries ban settlement goods

Allies punish settlements as missiles hit Saudi sites and AfD shakes Germany

Governments spent the day drawing lines, then discovered how quickly others could cross them. Europe hardened trade policy toward Israeli settlements, Saudi energy sites burned after Houthi strikes, and German conservatives confronted the scale of their eastern collapse.

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  • US strike on Iran's Larak Island

    US forces destroy five Iranian oil tankers following attacks, prompting Iran's Revolutionary Guard to warn vessels near Kuwait and Bahrain to evacuate

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The US under Trump: second term

Rubio signed bilateral accords with Colombia on critical minerals and nuclear energy; Trump team prepares expanded tariff roster but no new EU-level measures enacted.

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