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Deadly convienence: Keyless cars and their carbon monoxide toll

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It seems like a common convenience in a digital age: a car that can be powered on and off with the push of a button, rather than the mechanical turning of a key. But it is a convenience that can have a deadly effect.

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On a summer morning last year, Fred Schaub drove his Toyota RAV4 into the garage attached to his Florida home and went into the house with the wireless key fob, evidently believing the car was shut off. Twenty-nine hours later, he was found dead, overcome with carbon monoxide that flooded his home while he slept.

"After 75 years of driving, my father thought that when he took the key with him when he left the car, the car would be off," said Schaub's son Doug.

Schaub is among more than two dozen people killed by carbon monoxide nationwide since 2006 after a keyless-ignition vehicle was inadvertently left running in a garage. Dozens of others have been injured, some left with brain damage.

Keyless ignitions are now standard in over half of the 17 million new vehicles sold annually in the United States, according to the auto information website Edmunds. Rather than a physical key, drivers carry a fob that transmits a radio signal, and as long as the fob is present, a car can be started with the touch of a button. But weaned from the habit of turning and removing a key to shut off the motor, drivers - particularly older ones - can be lulled by newer, quieter engines into mistakenly thinking that it has stopped running.

Seven years ago, the world's leading automotive standards group, the Society of Automotive Engineers, called for features like a series of beeps to alert drivers that cars were still running without the key fob in or near the car, and in some cases to shut the engine off automatically.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposed a federal regulation based on that idea, a software change that it said could be accomplished for pennies per vehicle. In the face of auto industry opposition, the agency let the plan languish, though it says a rule is still under consideration.

For now, regulators say they are relying on carmakers to incorporate such warning features voluntarily. But a survey of 17 car companies by The New York Times found that while some automakers go beyond the features recommended by the standards group, others fall short.

Safety measures have been a matter of contention among automakers, sometimes even internally. Toyota, for example, has a system of three audible signals outside the car, and one inside, to alert drivers getting out of a vehicle that the motor is still running. But when Toyota engineers determined that more effective warning signals were needed - like flashing lights or a unique tone - the company rejected the recommendation, according to testimony in a wrongful-death suit.

Toyota models, including Lexus, have figured in almost half of the carbon monoxide fatalities and injuries identified by The Times. Toyota says its keyless ignition system "meets or exceeds all relevant federal safety standards."

Some automakers have designed newer models that alert drivers more insistently when the engine is left running - or that shut it off after a certain period. Ford's keyless vehicles now have a feature that automatically turns off the engine after 30 minutes of idling if the key fob is not in the vehicle, the company said recently.

But many older vehicles have not been retrofitted to reduce the hazard, despite the modest expense of doing so. It cost General Motors $5 per car to install the automatic shut-off in a 2015 recall, according to a GM report to the safety agency.

Regulations require automakers to address other hazards associated with keyless vehicles - theft and rollaways - and those measures might also reduce the carbon monoxide danger. But the safety agency has found shortcomings and inconsistencies by automakers in meeting those rules.

A Florida fire chief saw so many cases that he took to handing out carbon monoxide detectors. And litigation against the companies is mounting.

"We're going to continue to see deaths and injuries," said Sean Kane, founder of Safety Research and Strategies, an auto safety research group. "And the manufacturers will continue to settle cases."

The exact number of deaths related to carbon monoxide from keyless-ignition vehicles left running is unknown, as no federal agency keeps comprehensive records. Through 2016, the most recent year for which data is available, the safety agency had investigated only four fatal incidents. From news reports, lawsuits, police and fire records and incidents tracked by advocacy groups, The Times has identified 28 deaths and 45 injuries since 2006, but the figures could be higher.

The Society of Automotive Engineers' recommendations, issued in January 2011, called on carmakers to install an "externally audible or visual alert" - implying an unspecified number of beeps, or a warning light - when all doors are closed, the key fob is not present and the engine is still running. If the engine automatically shuts off, the alerts are not necessary.

The same year, the traffic safety administration proposed a key fob rule that would require car manufacturers to provide additional internal and external warning beeps. In addition to protecting against rollaways, it said this would reduce "incidents of carbon monoxide poisoning." Although it made no provision for an auto-shutoff function - an option that the Society of Automotive Engineers cited - the agency said its own proposal would be "more enforceable."

Compliance would cost the industry less than $500,000 a year in software coding for millions of keyless vehicles,the traffic safety administration said.

The auto industry opposed the proposal, and a trade group asserted that the regulator's use of vehicle owners' questionnaires to compile a database of defects did not meet the evidence standards of federal vehicle-safety law.

The traffic safety administration released a video two years ago that highlighted the risks of keyless vehicles, including carbon monoxide poisoning. But the agency has postponed adoption of the keyless ignition regulation three times, and in the meantime at least 21 people have died.

"Once NHTSA has finished its review and determined the best path forward, NHTSA will take appropriate action," the agency said in a statement in March.

With no standard in place for alerts or other features that would address the problems of keyless vehicles left running in confined spaces, the traffic safety administration has said repeatedly that it is convinced that automakers intend to meet the Society of Automotive Engineers' recommended practices. And some do.

But it can be difficult to determine with precision what measures automakers have taken on their own.

"You can't trust car corporations to police themselves," said John Uustal, a Florida-based lawyer involved in two keyless ignition cases. "There's no adequate punishment."

At one point, the traffic safety administration appeared to start taking a keener interest in the hazards. It undertook an investigation of seven automakers in 2013-14, conducting tests and asking for documentation of their safety features for keyless vehicles. But the inquiry was quickly and inconclusively wound down.

In a statement in March, the agency said it was evaluating comments on the proposed rule and the data for carbon monoxide deaths and injuries.

In the meantime, in a society increasingly growing older, the hazard is likely to be compounded by demographics.

At the funeral of Fred Schaub, his family said farewell while he lay in the coffin wearing a New York Police Department hat from his detective years. It partly covered the rash on his head.

"My dad isn't going to be the last one who passes away from this," Doug Schaub said.

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Migration

Artic terns are known as migration champions. They travel 22,000 miles every year. Grey Whales and Northern Elephant seals hold the record of longest migration among mammals with an impressive 13,000 miles round trip. Ten years ago a great white shark made it from Africa to Australia, travelling the 12,400 miles in nine months. But the longest non-stop migration by a bird (that was recorded!) was done by a bar-tailed godwit. In just nine days it flew 7,145 miles from Alaska to New Zealand. It lost half its body weight as it didn't stop to drink or eat during this time.

Do we even dare compare humans to this? Firstly, we can't fly. Even after we built planes, the longest non-stop flight covered 10,376 miles from Singapore to New York and the Airbus had four engines, a pilot and co-pilot and everyone got to take breaks for food. The bar-tailed godwit did it all alone.

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A St Andrews man has come across what he believes may be the worst local case of freedom camping.

Jon Bird, who lives in the small South Canterbury community just outside Timaru, came across the campers while walking his dog on the beach on Sunday morning.

Spotting their van parked up in a paddock off Galletly Road, he thought "how on Earth did they get there?" and went to investigate.

He believes they must have driven along a private farm access road before crossing the field.

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"I woke up the occupants and told them they were on private land and had driven across a farmer's crop to get where they were," he said.

"Their excuse was that it was late and they had to stop so I pointed out that the St Andrews Domain Camp Ground was two kilometres away. They were also within sight of freedom campers on Galletly Rd, about 200 metres away.

"To my mind, they had deliberately tried to tuck themselves away where they couldn't be seen."

Bird, who noticed that the van's vehicle licence had expired, said the campers were "quite apologetic".

"They spoke very good English so it's not as if they had a problem with understanding."

Galletly Rd is popular with freedom campers year round as the large amount of rubbish in the area attests, he said.

"It's not the first time I have found someone parking illegally there. Last week there was an Autobarn camper parked in another field next to Galletly Rd.

"It's a bit of a problem there. I think it needs addressing urgently."

Bird would like to see a no-camping bylaw for all areas off SH1 in the vicinity.

He also believes there should be more signs for the St Andrews camp ground, which charges $13 per adult per night for a non-power site and $14 for a power site.

The Waimate District Council allows freedom campers with self-contained vehicles to stay on Galletlys Rd and two other sites: Gunn's Bush and Hakataramea River.

Bird feels that freedom campers without self-contained vehicles should be banned.

"These little vans are cheap to rent and the people won't be spending a lot of money. It's not worth having them here really."

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The book is dead, long live the book.

Digital technology has certainly had a profound effect on the traditional book publishing and retailing industries, but has it also given the book a new lease of life?

At one point it looked as if the rise of e-books at knock-down prices and e-readers like Amazon's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's Nook posed an existential threat to book publishers and sellers.

"Literature found itself at war with the internet," as Jim Hinks, digital editor of Comma Press, succinctly puts it.

But contrary to expectations, the printed book is still surviving alongside its upstart e-book cousin, and technology is helping publishers and retailers reach new audiences and find new ways to tell stories.

Print fights back?

While there can be no denying that printed book sales have taken a massive hit with the rise of digital, there is some evidence that the rate of decline is slowing and that the excitement over e-readers is subsiding.

Kindle sales - peaking at 13.44 million in 2011 - fell back to 9.7 million in 2012 and have plateaued since. Barnes & Noble's Nook e-reader has been losing about $70m (£45m) a year and the US bookseller has been trying - and failing - to find a buyer for the division.

In the UK, roughly £1.7bn was spent on print books last year, compared with £393m on e-books, says Nielsen Book Research's Scott Morton. The digital newcomers' share of the market seems to have settled at about 30%.

On the high street, Waterstones saw physical book sales grow 5% over the Christmas period compared with the year before, while Foyles saw sales rise 8.1%.

The era of the printed book, it would seem, is far from over. But a lot depends on the sector you're looking at.

Adult fiction - particularly romantic and erotic - has migrated strongly to the e-book, whereas cookery and religious books still do well in print, as do books with illustrations. All for fairly obvious reasons.

Does format matter?

There are plenty of services out there trying to bridge the gap between the physical and the digital, extending the definition of what a book is.

In 2014, a personalised publishing experiment won the largest equity deal ever on the BBC Dragons' Den TV programme.

The Little Girl Who Lost Her Name - a printed book that could be digitally individualised to include the name of the child reading it - went on to be the top-selling children's picture book in Britain and Australia.

Spanish company SeeBook offers e-books as physical cards that can be bought online or in bookshops like other gift cards. Simply scan the QR code in the card with your smartphone or tablet to download the book.

"Some book stores still see digital as the big monster that's going to eat them, and prefer to put their head into the sand," says SeeBook director Dr Rosa Sala Rose.

London-based tech start-up Bookindy is using technology to encourage people back to struggling local bookshops.

It does this with a Chrome browser plug-in - each time you search Amazon for a book, a window pops up saying how much it would cost at your nearest independent bookseller.

Founder William Cookson, who describes himself as "just an average sort of book reader", says his creation took just three days to code.

It helped that he could tap in to an existing network of 350 independent British bookshops called Hive, which enables retailers to check stock and fulfil orders.

Serial revival

Digital is also reviving some centuries-old publishing ideas, says Anna Rafferty, until recently head of Penguin Books Digital.

Just as Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers was published in instalments in 1836, so Serial, a prizewinning US murder story, was podcast last year in 12 episodes, to great acclaim.

"Digital technology and the rise in the digital reading culture has allowed authors and publishers many more new creative opportunities to develop 'the book' further and delight readers," she says.

"It also allows authors to publish directly, to connect intimately with their readers and, crucially, to create new ways of telling their stories."

The Pigeonhole - launched in October by former Random House employee Anna Jean Hughes and partner Jacob Cockcroft - serialises books and enables readers to share comments and interact with the authors, all via an app. It's like a digital book club.

In a similar vein, Manchester-based MacGuffin from Comma Press acts like a Spotify for books - you can hear authors reading their stories out loud. Its analytics reveal what gets read where, and at what point people lose interest.

Readers can append tags to a story - "sci fi", "dystopian", or "feminist", for example - and use these to discover other new fiction, much in the same way someone might browse through a physical bookshop.

Digital distraction

Competition from mobile devices is one reason for Kindle sales levelling off.

"With mobile phones, screens are so much bigger, and the experience not as garish as it used to be," says Mr Hinks.

But although smartphones are convenient - you can buy and download a book in seconds - they can also be very distracting, posing an added challenge to e-book sellers.

Books on electronic devices "compete with games, news, and social media, and so need to be slicker," says Laura Summers, co-founder of BookMachine, a popular publishing networking website.

To hook people into reading, another start-up, Rook, is offering access to free e-books at wi-fi hotspots, such as London Underground stations, participating coffee shops and retailers.

"By the time they have to leave and go off about their life", says co-founder Curtis Moran, "they'll be so hooked into the book they're going to have to buy it."

He compares his start-up to a traditional bookshop, where you can sit and read for as long as you wish, but have to pay if you want to take the book with you.

So the book isn't dead; technology is simply helping it evolve beyond its physical confines.

Long live the book.

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On Wednesday, 104-year-old scientist David Goodall bid farewell to his home in Australia to fly across the world to end his life.

The lauded ecologist and botanist is not suffering from a serious illness but wishes to bring forward his death. Key to his decision, he says, has been his diminishing independence.

"I greatly regret having reached that age," Dr Goodall said on his birthday last month, in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

"I'm not happy. I want to die. It's not sad particularly. What is sad is if one is prevented."

Assisted dying was legalised by one Australian state last year following a divisive debate, but eligibility requires a person be terminally ill. It is illegal in other states.

Dr Goodall says he will travel to a clinic in Switzerland to voluntarily end his life. However, he says he resents having to leave Australia to do so.

Active life

The London-born academic had lived on his own in a small flat in Perth, Western Australia, until only a few weeks ago.

He stepped back from full-time employment in 1979, but remained heavily involved in his field of work.

Among his achievements in recent years, Dr Goodall edited a 30-volume book series called Ecosystems of the World and was made a Member of the Order of Australia for his scientific work.

In 2016, aged 102, he won a battle to keep working on campus at Perth's Edith Cowan University, where he was an unpaid honorary research associate.

Accompanying Dr Goodall on his journey out of Australia on Wednesday was his friend, Carol O'Neill, a representative from assisted dying advocacy group Exit International.

Mrs O'Neill said the dispute in 2016 over Dr Goodall's working space had affected him greatly. The row began when the university raised concerns about his safety, including his ability to commute.

Although Dr Goodall ultimately prevailed, he was forced to work in a location closer to home. It came at a time when he was also forced to give up driving and performing in theatre, Mrs O'Neill said.

"It was just the beginning of the end," she told the BBC.

"He didn't get to see the same colleagues and friends any more at the old office. He just didn't have the same spirit and he was packing up all his books. It was the beginning of not being happy any more."

Dr Goodall's decision to end his life was hastened by a serious fall in his apartment last month. He was not found for two days. Later, doctors said he needed to engage 24-hour care or be moved into a nursing home.

"He's an independent man. He doesn't want people around him all the time, a stranger acting as a carer. He doesn't want that," Mrs O'Neill said.

"He wants to have intelligent conversation and still be able to do the same things like catching the bus into town."

Divisive debate

Switzerland has allowed assisted suicide since 1942. Other countries and jurisdictions have passed laws allowing people to voluntarily end their life, but many state terminal illness as a condition of eligibility.

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) remains strongly opposed to assisted dying, which it sees as an unethical practice of medicine.

Where else is assisted dying allowed?

Assisted suicide describes any act that intentionally helps another person kill themselves, for example by providing them with the means to do so, most commonly by prescribing a lethal medication.

It differs from euthanasia, which is a third-party intervention to end a life to relieve suffering, such as when a doctor administers the lethal dose.

In Switzerland, assisted suicide is allowed only if the person assisting acts unselfishly. It is the only country with centres offering assisted suicide to foreign nationals

The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg permit euthanasia and assisted suicide. In the Netherlands and Belgium, euthanasia is available to minors in specific instances

Colombia allows euthanasia

Six US states - Oregon, Washington, Vermont, Montana, California and Colorado - permit assisted dying for terminally ill patients. The US capital Washington DC implemented a similar law for the city's residents in 2017

Canada followed the province of Quebec in permitting euthanasia and assisted suicide in 2016

"Doctors are not trained to kill people. It is deep within our ethics, deep within our training that that's not appropriate," president Dr Michael Gannon said during last year's legislative debate in the state of Victoria.

"Now, not every doctor agrees with that," he added. Indeed, a survey of the AMA - Australia's most influential medical association - found four in 10 members supported right-to-die policies.

What different countries say about assisted dying

Man 'best judge' of 'undignified death'

Mrs O'Neill said Dr Goodall's main desire was to die peacefully and with dignity.

"He's not depressed or miserable, but there's just not that little spark that was there a couple of years ago," she said.

An online petition raised $A20,000 (£11,000; $15,000) for the scientist to fly in business class to Europe. He will visit family in France before heading to Switzerland with his closest relatives.

"They [my family] realise how unsatisfactory my life here is, unsatisfactory in almost every respect," Dr Goodall told the ABC. "The sooner it comes to an end, the better."

Mrs O'Neill said he had spent recent days revising his final letters and holding conversations with his extended family, including his many grandchildren.

Dr Goodall's story has gained attention locally at a time when his home state, Western Australia, considers whether to debate assisted dying legislation.

The state government has publicly expressed sympathy for Dr Goodall, but said any proposed legislation would cover only terminally ill patients.

"My feeling is that an old person like myself should have full citizenship rights including the right of assisted suicide," Dr Goodall said last month.

He told ABC he hoped the public would understand his decision, saying: "If one chooses to kill oneself then that's fair enough. I don't think anyone else should interfere."

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A family of six who carried out three church bombings in Indonesia had returned from Syria, police say.

The Islamic State group has claimed the attacks, which killed at least 13 people on Sunday.

A mother and two daughters blew themselves up at a church, while the father and two sons targeted two others in Indonesia's second city, Surabaya.

National police chief Tito Karnavian said they belonged to an IS-inspired network, Jemaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD).

Police say the family were among hundreds of Indonesians who had returned from Syria, where IS has been fighting government forces. No details were given about the family's alleged involvement in that conflict.

The bombings are the deadliest in Indonesia in more than a decade, and also left more than 40 people injured.

Visiting the scene of one of the attacks, President Joko Widodo described them as "barbaric", adding that he had ordered police to "look into and break up networks of perpetrators".

Why is Indonesia a target for militants?

Inside the home of Indonesia's most notorious IS militant

How did the family stage the attack?

Police identified the father as Dita Futrianto, saying he was the head of a local JAD cell.

He reportedly dropped off his wife, Puji Kuswati, and their two daughters at Diponegoro Indonesian Christian Church, where they blew themselves up. The girls - aged 9 and 12 - had bombs strapped to them, as did their mother.

Futrianto then drove off, launching his own bomb-laden car into the grounds of Surabaya Centre Pentecostal Church, police said.

The sons - aged 16 and 18 - rode motorcycles into Santa Maria Catholic Church, and detonated explosives they were carrying. It was their attack that came first, at around 07:30 local time (00:30 GMT). The other two attacks followed five minutes apart, police said.

A security guard told the Associated Press news agency that the woman had arrived at the Diponegoro church carrying two bags, and forced her way inside ignoring the guards.

"Suddenly, she hugged a civilian, then [the bomb] exploded," said the eyewitness, who identified himself as Antonius.

What happened next?

Later on Sunday, another bomb exploded at an apartment complex in Surabaya, killing three people, according to AFP news agency.

East Java's police chief, Mahfud Arifin, said that those killed at the apartment were the perpetrators, not victims.

It is not yet known if this bombing was connected to the other attacks.

Officials reportedly foiled attacks against other churches too.

Also on Sunday, police said they killed four suspected members of JAD in Cianjur, in West Java province, and arrested two others.

How does this compare to previous attacks?

This appears to be the worst attack linked to IS in Indonesia. The group claimed its first attack in the country in 2016, when four civilians were killed in explosions and shootings in the capital Jakarta.

It has also claimed other attacks, including one in a high-security prison near Jakarta which killed five members of security forces earlier this month.

But the country's deadliest jihadist attacks predate IS.

In 2002, over 200 people were killed in two bombings carried out by al-Qaeda-linked militants on the island of Bali, a popular tourist destination.

In May 2005, bomb blasts killed 22 on the island of Sulawesi. Less than six months later, a suicide bombing in Bali killed 20.

The BBC's Rebecca Henschke in Jakarta says Indonesia had been widely praised for its anti-terrorism crackdown since then, but the rise of IS overseas has invigorated the country's loosely constituted jihadi networks.

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The Today programme on Radio 4 often sets the news agenda with tough interviews and taut foreign analysis. Yet on Saturday David Beasley, a former Republican governor turned World Food Programme bigwig, was given time to waffle vacuously about seeing people plant crops in fields during a short trip to North Korea.

"There's a sense of optimism," he gushed. "There's a sense of turning a new page in history, writing a new chapter, going forward in peace and opportunity." He even suggested without challenge that his four-day visit, accompanied by minders, offered the best access any outsider had been given to the hermit kingdom since 1961.

But many Westerners have visited North Korea, even running marathons and taking cycling trips. I went five years ago for a week, travelling by train from China and then driving down to the demilitarised southern border zone.

I joined weeping locals beside the waxy corpses of Kim's Jong-un's predecessors. I watched a cruel circus with sad ice-skating bears, then attended the Arirang games with amazing mass choreography. I enjoyed a funny, drunken night of karaoke with four minders (although one stayed sober to monitor events). Yet everything was controlled. And almost everything was designed to glorify the ruling dictatorship.

I was told I could go anywhere

I left with more questions about this secretive neo-fascist state than when I arrived. I was given huge quantities of food to prove there was no hunger following the devastating famine at end of the last century. I was told I could go anywhere.

But when I dived into a shop that seemed to sell only red shoes, the woman inside looked terrified and hastily locked the door when I left to prevent other foreigners entering her premises. When I took a photograph of a female work party marching along the road, an official jumped out from behind a bush and started screaming.

One day I asked my minder if I could go to the sort of bar used by ordinary citizens in Pyongyang (albeit accepting that only members of the elite can live in the capital). Of course she replied, taking me to a simple place for a beer and some dried squid.

I felt chuffed as I downed my drink - only to discover when I went to the toilet even this was a Potemkin place for foreigners. Another time my minder lost our pass for travel along the empty roads heading south; she looked terrified until it turned up.

North Korea is a place of unparalleled barbarity

Is it really possible these shackled people might soon be free - or at least relations with the world's most repulsive regime normalised? Later on Saturday came news Pyongyang plans to start dismantling its Punggye-ri nuclear test site this month in front of foreign journalists.

This follows release of three American captives, greeted by Donald Trump ahead of his meeting with Kim in Singapore next month. These are stunning moves - not least since just a year ago the United States President was threatening "fire and fury" for his "Rocket Man" foe.

Everyone wants a peace pact on the Korean peninsula. But we must remember this is not just another nation. North Korea is a place of unparalleled barbarity that runs death camps, a regime that condemns three generations to lifelong slave labour for minor transgressions of one family member.

I have met defectors, even guards and survivors of these camps, and heard chilling insights into the horrors of this hideous regime.

For the sake of 25 million people trapped under a cruel family dictatorship, we must be cautious over suggestions North Korea is truly coming in from the cold.

Kim is boxed into a corner by sanctions, economic struggles, Chinese pressure and probable damage to his nuclear test site after the last detonation, which literally moved a mountain.

Yet this regime spent decades developing nuclear and chemical weapons as its ultimate protection. It has a history of lying over these programmes while using peace discussions to strengthen its deadly arsenal and armed forces.
The nation is ruled by a man who happily used a nerve agent to kill his own half-brother and has tightened border controls to stop defections. So do not be duped by images of a smiling despot or airy talk of "optimism" from an instant expert.

Perhaps we are witnessing an unpredictable president force a maverick dictator to make peace. But it remains hard to see why the shrewd Kim would relinquish his most powerful shield, especially when some information about the outside world is seeping through the bamboo curtain and weakening his control.

They sneer at Western gullibility

It might simply be as one key official stated to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during his visit to Pyongyang: it is now regime policy to focus on economic progress since they had "perfected" their nuclear capability.

It is all too possible that Trump - naive, inexperienced and desperate for a foreign-policy win - is playing into Kim's hands, providing time to recreate a test site and aid to help develop the economy while offering the cachet of equal status to the world's most powerful man, something North Korea has long sought.

Trump has also indicated he wants to formally end the 1950-53 Korean War, which would fuel questions over the need for nearly 30,000 American troops on the peninsula.

Last year in Seoul I met a former special-forces soldier from North Korea, who told me his commanding officer sneered at the gullibility of outsiders during previous peace talks. "North Korea appeared to be offering a deal and negotiating terms," he said. "Behind the scenes they were planning revenge and war."

Hopefully things are different now, for the sake of those enslaved people and the wider world. But can we trust Trump to make the right moves in his diplomatic dance with this dictator?

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Can we trust Donald Trump in his meeting with Kim Jong-un?

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Global Warming making an impact on Health?

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Global Warming making an impact on Health?

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Jungle V. Desert: Which biome has the most advantages?

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Which environment is better to live in, the Amazonian Rain forest, or the Sahara Desert?
https://prezi.com/elimyh1zurar/the-amazon-jungle-vs-the-sahara-desert/

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do we need new cop cars  do we or do  we not need  new cop cars 

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The boys and girls in blue will soon be driving around in cars in blue.

Sergeant Graeme Evans, of Dunedin road policing, said a fleet of 10 new blue patrol cars was being introduced throughout New Zealand.

One would begin operating in the Southern district towards the end of January.

The blue vehicles would be the latest addition to the police's coloured highway patrol vehicles.

Recent highway patrol vehicle colours have been maroon, orange and red, in addition to the traditional white.

Sgt Evans said the blue cars added a bit of variety to the fleet ``much the same way as the red and orange marked highway cars do''.

``The novelty factor will also hopefully drive conversations among people who see them out and about on the road and provide an additional prompt for people to be conscious about road safety,'' Sgt Evans said.
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The boys and girls in blue will soon be driving around in cars in blue. Sergeant Graeme Evans, of Dunedin road policing, said a fleet of 10 new blue patrol cars was being introduced throughout New Zealand. One would begin operating in the Southern district towards the end of January.

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Did girl guiding NZ make the right choice to stop selling girl guide biscuits.

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Girl Guiding New Zealand has announced that they will stop selling its famous biscuits next year.

The group has been selling the iconic biscuit for more than six decades.

Biscuit sales have helped keep Girl Guides funded for more than half of its 111-year history.

Every year, nearly 900,000 packets of the vanilla-flavoured biscuit proved popular with the people of New Zealand.

Its chief executive Susan Coleman said the organisation wanted to allow members and volunteers to focus more on its core purpose and programmes.

The biscuits will continue to be manufactured this year and are expected to remain available for sale until early 2019.

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Girl Guiding New Zealand has announced that they will stop selling its famous biscuits next year. The group has been selling the iconic biscuit for more than six decades. Biscuit sales have helped keep Girl Guides funded for more than half of its 111-year history.

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people should not be living in Hawaii as the lava is exploding and  people are having to evacuate their homes . https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/13/lava-fissures-hawaii-kilauea-volcano-explosive-eruption

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