A surgeon may try to reattach a fingertip that is cut off below the first joint.

VOA: special.2011.02.02

But this week, French and Chinese destroyers staged joint manoeuvres off the Chinese coast, the Chinese navy's biggest ever with a foreign country, according to the Chinese press.

ECONOMIST: Taiwan's elections, seen from the mainland

Indeed, May's joint sell-off in commodities and equities echoes similarly timed declines in 2010 and 2011.

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Talks about talks with the North have just started in New York, and South Korea has called off joint military exercises with the United States.

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