Sep 05, 2000

MOSCOW [MENL] -- Russia is close to finalizing a deal to sell China at least100 medium-range air-to-air missiles.

Sep 19, 2000

TOKYO [MENL] -- The United States and South Korea have ended negotiations onthe request by the Asian ally to extend the range of its missiles to strikemost of the communist north.

Sep 21, 2000

LONDON [MENL] -- Israel has rejected a draft resolution by 16 Arab countriesthat seek inspection of the nuclear facilities of the Jewish state.

Sep 26, 2000

WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The U.S. intelligence community forecasts an Iranianlaunch of an intercontinental ballistic missile by 2005.