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• Olmert to Moscow: Don't arm Israel's enemies
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, traveling to Russia this week on one of his last diplomatic missions, said Sunday he would urge Moscow not to sell sophisticated weapons to Israel's enemies. Iran is interested in buying anti-aircraft missiles ...
• Huge exoplanet puzzles astronomers
Ground-based telescopes around the world helped pinpoint the object, including observatories in France, Chile, Germany, Hawaii, Israel and Spain's Canary Islands. The hunt for exoplanets has intensified over recent years, with astronomers usually ...
• Poll: Israel, Iran, U.S. have most negative image
LONDON - Israel, Iran and the United States were the countries with the most negative image in a globe-spanning survey of attitudes toward 12 major nations. Canada and Japan came out best in the poll, released Tuesday. The survey for the British ...
• Jewish 'modesty patrols' sow fear in Israel
JERUSALEM - In Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, where the rule of law sometimes takes a back seat to the rule of God, zealots are on a campaign to stamp out behavior they consider unchaste. They hurl stones at women for such "sins" as ...
• Lying about your age? A computer can tell
Israel-based YCD Multimedia has already taken several steps toward turning fiction into fact with customized in-store ads based in part on each viewer’s perceived age. Japanese company Fujitaka has taken a different tack by equipping some vending ...