TOKYO (Dispatches) - The Japanese government on Wednesday insisted the U.S. military report cases of mishaps and accidents more promptly following a serious delay in it being informed of a part falling off a F-15 fighter jet during a flight.
On Feb. 27, an antenna-like object weighing 1.4 kg fell off the jet which was stationed at the U.S. Kadena Air Base in Okinawa.
But Japan's Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said the government was only informed of the mishap on Monday.


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CARACAS (Dispatches) - Five candidates, including incumbent President Nicolas Maduro, will compete in Venezuela's presidential elections on May 20, the National Electoral Council (CNE) has announced.
Following the registration deadline, CNE President Socorro Hernandez released the candidates' names in an interview with a local radio station.
Maduro will be running for re-election as the candidate of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela.
Former Lara State Governor Henri Falcon, an ex-Chavista (a follower of former President Hugo Chavez) opposed to Maduro's administration, will run as the candidate of the Progressive Advance and Movement Towards Socialism parties.

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Wreckage from the USS Lexington, a U.S. aircraft carrier which sank during World War II, has been found in the Coral Sea, a search team led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen said.
The wreckage was found by the team's research vessel, the R/V Petrel, some 3,000 meters (two miles) below the surface more than 500 miles (800 kilometers) off the eastern coast of Australia.
The search team released pictures and video of the wreckage of the Lexington, one of the first ever US aircraft carriers, and some of the planes which went down with the ship.

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KIEV (Dispatches) - Ukraine is looking forward to receiving at least one billion euro (1.24 billion U.S. dollars) from the European Union (EU) under the new macro-financial assistance program, Ukrainian Finance Minister Oleksandr Danylyuk said on Wednesday.
"The program of one billion euros has been preliminarily approved, but we will continue consultations with the European Commission in order to find a way to increase this sum," Danylyuk said in an interview with the RBC-Ukraine online media outlet.

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican left-wing presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador extended his lead to 14 points in an opinion poll completed last week, with a fight between his opponents over accusations of financial wrongdoing weighing on their support.
Lopez Obrador has 35 percent support ahead of the July 1 vote according to the survey by polling firm Parametria, published by Reuters on Wednesday ahead of wider publication.