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German Chancellor Angela Merkel reportedly told Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe last year that his country could joint NATO counting on her support.

"Shinzo, why not join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization? I can convince British Prime Minister Cameron and French President Hollande," The Japan Times, the country's biggest English-language paper, quotes Merkel as saying.

Russia's ruble and Turkey's lira lead a gang of top emerging market currencies to six-month highs on April 29 as signals this week that U.S. interest rates are likely to stay ultra-low cemented a third month of losses for the dollar. 

France on April 26 beat off competition from Germany and Japan to win an Aus$50 billion ($39 billion) contract to design and build Australia's next generation of submarines, a decision Tokyo called "deeply regrettable."

U.S. officials have ordered Boeing to fix engines on some of its 787 Dreamliner airplanes to avoid sudden failure in icy conditions, calling the problem an "urgent safety issue." 

BELGRADE- Former Yugoslav diplomatic and consular offices in New York, Bonn, Bern and Tokyo, worth USD 70-80 million, are to be put up for sale, with Serbia to receive around USD 35 million of the total.

Mitsubishi Motors Corp said it falsified fuel economy test data to make emissions levels look more favorable, and its shares slumped more than 15 percent, wiping $1.2 billion from its market value on April 20.

BELGRADE- Former Yugoslav diplomatic and consular offices in New York, Bonn, Bern and Tokyo, worth USD 70-80 million, are to be put up for sale, with Serbia to receive around USD 35 million of the total.

Oil prices plunged in Asia on April 18, pushing energy firms and regional stock markets lower after the collapse of talks among the world's top oil producers intended to ease a global supply glut.

Hopes that the talks in Doha on Sunday would result in an output cap helped the black gold climb to 2016 highs last week, having approached 13-year lows just months ago.

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A region of Japan looking to use "ninja" warriors to boost tourism has made an American man the first foreigner to draw a salary for joining the ranks of the stealth assassins.