Many retirees are now returning to the workforce after pandemic

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Many older adults are now returning to the workforce – and some of them, are actually embarking on a second chapter that looks nothing like the first.

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  • Soccer-Criticism part of life at Manchester United, Fernandes says

    Players must accept criticism as readily as praise at Manchester United, Bruno Fernandes said after the Portuguese midfielder rescued his side with two goals in a 4-2 home Premier League victory over Sheffield United. Fernandes made it 2-2 from the penalty spot in the 61st minute then put United ahead with a long-range strike 20 minutes later after the hosts had fallen behind twice against the Premier League's bottom team. United had come in for heavy criticism following Sunday's FA Cup semi-final against Coventry City where they squandered a 3-0 lead before going through via a penalty shoot-out.

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  • Bucks, Pacers tied 1-1 heading to game 3

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  • AP PHOTOS: Russian kids ride sticks with a horse's head in hobby horsing competition

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  • French police union threatens to disrupt Olympics relay

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  • Edwards and the Timberwolves visit Phoenix with 2-0 series lead

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  • Burkina Faso's army massacred over 200 civilians in village raid - Human Rights Watch

    Military forces in Burkina Faso killed 223 civilians, including babies and many children, in attacks on two villages accused of cooperating with militants, Human Rights Watch said in a report published Thursday. The mass killings took place on Feb. 25 in the country's northern villages of Nondin and Soro, and some 56 children were among the dead, according to the report. The human rights organization called on the United Nations and the African Union to provide investigators and to support local

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  • Portugal: 50 years after the revolution, are the carnations wilting?

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