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• Boys 3/4 Team 2 defeated Carver 8-1 in their first game of the season. Andy Michaelides and Jordan Dunn each scored three goals, while Teddy Misdeer and Kai Funari each scored one goal. The team’s next game is at Plimpton on Saturday, September 14th at noon. 5/6 Soccer lost 7-2 at home to Carver on Saturday, September 7th. Leif Markowitz made some great saves in goal. Finn Smith scored two goals and Slava Rzhevskiy showed great midfield play. The next game is at Pembroke on Saturday, September 14th.• Girls 5/6 soccer played Hanover on their home turf and lost…

BEIJING (AP) — Starting next year, China will raise the retirement age for its youngest workers, now the youngest of any major economy in the world, to address a shrinking population and an aging workforce.The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, the country’s legislative body, passed the new policy on Friday after suddenly announcing earlier this week that it was considering the measure, state broadcaster CCTV reported. The policy change will be implemented over 15 years and will raise the retirement age for men to 63 and for women to 55 or 58 depending on their occupation. The current…

Regular series on choices facing international economic policymakers More from our experts Reports that President Joe Biden has decided to block Nippon Steel’s proposed acquisition of U.S. Steel are creating an uproar in Washington. If true, the decision to block the deal will be widely understood as a political move to appeal to voters in Pennsylvania and the industrial Midwest. Politics is important, but so is policy, and this move will not end well for either party. detail: Japan Trade united states of america It is unclear what U.S. policy objectives would be advanced by the decision to block the…

ESCANABA — Week two of the 2024 high school football season has concluded, with Escanaba moving to 1-1 in dramatic fashion. “Big Dog” Mitch Vosburgh talks about the Eskimos’ win and other area games in the latest issue of Press Breaker. Big Dog and producer Noah (yes, he’s… MANISTIQUE — Speed ​​and athleticism led the Manistique volleyball team to a 21-25, 25-17, 18-25, 25-18, 15-7 victory over Ishpeming on Tuesday. “Tonight was a big step forward for us,” Emerald senior Leah Goudreau said. “We…

Trump says he will not debate Harris againDonald Trump announced he will not participate in a second debate with Kamala Harris, saying she has turned down previous opportunities to meet and alleging she lost their Tuesday night face-off.“When a prizefighter loses a fight, the first words out of his mouth are, ‘I WANT A REMATCH.’ Polls clearly show that I won the Debate against Comrade Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ Radical Left Candidate, on Tuesday night, and she immediately called for a Second Debate,” the former president wrote on Truth Social.Trump restated his much-repeated claim that Harris and Joe Biden have…

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Illegal migration to European Union countries fell significantly overall in the first eight months of this year, despite rising political rhetoric and violence against migrants and electoral gains for far-right parties that advocate anti-immigration policies. But there has been a surge in migrant arrivals to the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago off the African coast that is increasingly being used as another stepping stone to mainland Europe.Illegal immigrants were the norm European Parliament Elections It influenced the recent state elections held in East Germany in June. The far-right party won For the first time since World…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian forces had attacked a Red Cross vehicle in eastern Ukraine, killing three aid workers. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirmed that three staff members were killed and two were wounded when a planned aid distribution site in the Donetsk region was shelled on Thursday. “I strongly condemn the attack on Red Cross workers. Shelling an aid distribution site is unacceptable,” ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric said in a statement, adding: “Our hearts are broken as we mourn the loss of our colleagues and care for the wounded.” Dmytro Rubinets, Ukraine’s human rights…

Getty ImagesThe former president of Ticketmaster has been convicted of illegally accessing a rival company’s computer server and stealing information.British national Stephen Mead stole sensitive data from CrowdSurge, a small business where he previously worked, between 2013 and 2015. The New York Department of Justice said his actions directly contributed to the company’s collapse.Meade pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit computer intrusion against Crowdsurge in June. He has now been ordered to pay $67,970 (around £52,000) in forfeiture funds and is on one year’s probation.According to documents filed in a U.S. state court, Ticketmaster executives had asked Mead to share…

The legacy of Fujimori, who was convicted of corruption and serious human rights violations, remains hotly contested in Peru.The Peruvian government has announced three days of national mourning following the death of controversial former president Alberto Fujimori. President Dina Boluarte signed a decree establishing a period of mourning on Thursday, the day after Fujimori, who was convicted of corruption and human rights violations during his term in office, died at the home of his daughter Keiko Fujimori in the capital, Lima. “The flag was flown at half-mast this morning at the Legislative Assembly following the death of former president of…

Donald Trump has had two criminal charges dismissed in Georgia alleging he tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election, with a presiding judge ruling Thursday that the charges fell under the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which bars state prosecutors from prosecuting federal crimes.”The Federal Supremacy Clause declares that state law must follow federal law when state and federal law conflict,” Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee wrote in his order.The judge ruled that two counts against Trump and additional counts against several of his associates who were charged as co-defendants should be dismissed, but ruled that the…