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Analysis by Aaron Bryans

Aaron Bryans is a broadcaster who hosts and commentates for ABC Sport, and reads weekend TV sports news for ABC Adelaide. Aaron joined the ABC Sport team in Perth in 2016. He commentates a multitude of sports across South Australia and hosts SA Grandstand on Saturday mornings.

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[Robert J. Fouser] Urban cooling for a hotter Korea

August has always been South Korea’s hottest month, but this year is heading for the record books. Much of the country is under “severe heat warnings” defined as a real feel temperature over 38 degrees Celsius or a temperature over 39 C. Yangsan, South Gyeongsang Province, near Busan, recently reported a record high…

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Speaking Japanese at the movies with ‘Chiikawa’

As the world’s third-largest movie market by box-office revenue, Japan is enjoying a summer packed with 大ヒット (dai hitto, blockbusters) from 「スパイダーマン:ブランド・ニュー・デイ」 (Supaidāman: Burando Nyū Dei, “Spider-Man: Brand New Day”), which opened on July 31, and Christopher Nolan’s 「オデュッセイア」 (Odyusseia, “The Odyssey”) coming Se…

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Antisemitism by proxy: Blood libels against UAE and Morocco - opinion

A video circulating online with a reportedly manipulated deepfake appears to show a Moroccan border guard throwing an object toward an individual. In the original footage, it makes no contact.Last week, Reuters disclosed that a draft report by the United Nations Panel of Experts on Sudan had been submitted to the Se…

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The rule-breaking novelist who Paris couldn’t stop talking about

When the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris caught fire in 2019, the call for proposals for its architectural restoration brought a variety of responses, from biomodern designs with Anthropocene swimming pools on the roof to the meticulous replication of Viollet-le-Duc’s 19th-century remodelling of the church.

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The year in review: Influential people who have died in 2026

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., introduces Adm. Kevin Lunday, acting commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, during a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing on the nomination Lunday for Commandant of the Coast Guard, Nov. 19, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

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