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As e-scooters have exploded in popularity in New Zealand, more scrutiny is being applied to their potential risks and public health costs. Now, for the first time, the costs of serious e-scooter injuries has been calculated by New Zealand researchers, who have found that they carry some unique dangers.
Surgeons in Auckland are operating on more e-scooter users than on motorbike riders, and the public health costs are beginning to mount.
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The Mongrel Mob member at the centre of an armed standoff prompted by his drug-induced paranoia had to be dragged from the dock after being jailed for two years and five months.
Hemi Taylor, 26, appeared in Napier District Court on Tuesday after pleading guilty to charges of unlawful possession of a firearm and discharging a firearm.
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Read more: Armed gang member whose drug-induced paranoia led to 12-hour stand-off restrained in dock
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Just last year, Captain James Fanell, a former director of intelligence and information operations for the U.S. Pacific Fleet, warned Congress about the need to track and deter Chinese nuclear-armed submarines.
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Read more: Poseidon: America's Secret Weapon to Slaughter China's Stealth Submarines
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- Current and former spies are floored by President Donald Trump’s fervent defence of Russia at this year’s G7 summit in Biarritz, France.
- “It’s hard to see the bar anymore since it’s been pushed so far down the last few years, but President Trump’s behaviour over the weekend was a new low,” one FBI agent who works in counterintelligence told Insider.
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A car had to be retrieved from the waters of Otago Harbour past Port Chalmers yesterday afternoon.
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A Cambridge businessman who opened the door of his ute without checking to see if any cyclists were riding past clipped a rider, sending the man crashing into the path of another ute that ran him over.
The cyclist - a Harrowfield man in his mid 40s - suffered horrific injuries, including a bad injury to his brain in spite of the fact he was wearing a helmet. His ribs were smashed and he had to have a metal plate inserted in his chest to hold them together.
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Read more: Cyclist run over by ute after being sideswiped by opening car door
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/115378617/cyclist-run-over-by-ute-after-being-sideswiped-by-opening-car-door
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Concerns have been raised that a "dangerous" and "deceptive" religious cult which focuses on the apocalypse is operating in Wellington.
Shincheonji, also known as the "New Heaven and New Earth" church, is reportedly attempting to recruit people in the capital.
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Local media reporting that a Kiwi man was spoken to by police after family found dead in the highlands.
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Read more: NZ link to 5 Fiji deaths
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/115400193/nausori-highlands-deaths-police-spoke-to-new-zealand-man-fijian-media-report
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