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Welcome to SBS News in Easy English. I'm Biwa Kwan.
President Donald Trump is considering the potential use of the U-S military to acquire Greenland.
A statement from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says using U-S troops is among the range of options on Greenland being considered by Mr Trump and his team.
The US military operation in Venezuela over the weekend has increased concerns that Greenland might face a similar scenario.
Greenland has repeatedly said it does not want to be part of the United States.
Republican Congressman Don Bacon has told CNN that the Trump administration's approach on Greenland needs to change.
"So they're (Greenland is) a proven ally. The way we are treating them is really demeaning. And it has no upside. All it does is make our NATO allies angry. It is creating distrust. We're NATO allies. We have bases there - we could build on that. So this is one of the silliest things I have heard come out of the White House in the last year. And it is unacceptable. And I hope other Republicans line up behind me - and make it clear to the White House that it is wrong."
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Australians are being urged to heed fire warnings as severe heat pushes temperatures to levels not seen since the Black Summer bushfires.
The Bureau of Meteorology says South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, the ACT and New South Wales are forecast to endure extreme heat into the weekend.
The bureau's Miriam Bradbury say the conditions could be the most extreme since the 2019–20 bushfire season, which killed more than 30 people and burned millions of hectares.
"We can see plenty of clear skies across much of western, southern and eastern Australia. It will be hot though we've got a low pressure trough moving east from Western Australia, and that's going to drive significant heat across those southern and south eastern states, with severe heat waves, building."
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A new study is warning against combining multiple diet strategies such as gluten free, low-fat and clean eating among others at the same time.
The trend known as diet stacking can lead to serious health risks according to research from Swinburne University.
The study's authors say unsupervised diet stacking can precipiate disorded eating and could lead to chronic conditions like heart disease, type 2 diabetes, certain cancers and poor mental health.
One of the study's author's Monash University’s Sarah Melton says people need to get their information from accredited professionals.
"There's certainly legitimate scenarios where multiple diets can be stacked to treat a condition. And we've described that in our publication of where a health professional may be recommending that, but caution and supervision needs to be present when we're doing that. But I think where we're seeing this present more commonly is where individuals are getting information, not from health professionals, but perhaps from social media or friends or family, and they're being instructed or given suggestions to follow particular diets.And you get to a point where they're following three or four dietary modifications."
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A large sinkhole has opened near a sports oval in Melbourne's northeast where tunnel-boring machines have been used as part of an underground road project.
The sinkhole emerged near the North East Link road tunnel, which is being constructed underneath Banyule Reserve.
Victorian Minister for Transport Infrastructure Gabrielle Williams says an investigation is underway into the cause.
"Obviously, when you're tunneling underground, there are a variety of different events that can take place as a consequence of that. You know, we have the world's best engineers working on our projects to not only try and predict that in their geotechnical testing ahead of projects, but also to manage it as the project is underway and that's exactly what's happening now."
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Australia’s inflation rate has fallen more than expected.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics says over the 12 months to November, headline inflation rose 3.4 per cent - that annual rise is less than the 3.8 per cent figure from the year to October.
Housing accounted for most of the increase, followed by food and non-alcoholic beverages; and transport.
The metric on underlying inflation, dropped down to 3.2 per cent - from 3.3 per cent in October.
That figure is still above the Reserve Bank's target range of between 2 and 3 per cent.
The board of central bank is meeting next month to decide on interest rates.
