<B>CHINA.Tested SARS negative.</B> Two of three members of a Hong Kong television crew who came down with fever after returning from southern China have tested negative for SARS, a government spokesman said yesterday. Test results on the third worker were still pending, he added. All three, who were confined to isolation wards, remain in hospital. The men, from Hong Kong station TVB, had visited a wild animal market and a hospital in Guangzhou city where a man suspected of having SARS was being treated. The man was later confirmed to have the disease but has since recovered.

<B>IRAN. Dialogue with US. </B>Iran?s Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said Tehran was willing to resume dialogue with the United States provided the talks were based on mutual respect, state television reported yesterday. Kharrazi added that Iran?s recent negotiations with European countries over its nuclear programme, which culminated in Iran agreeing to snap inspections of nuclear facilities, was an example to Washington of how outstanding problems can be solved. On the other hand, a 57-year-old man has been rescued alive, but in poor health, after spending 13 days beneath the rubble in Bam which was razed by an earthquake on December 26.

<B>GAZA.One Palestinian killed. </B>Israeli troops guarding a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip fired into a neighbouring Palestinian refugee camp, killing a man in his home, relatives and witnesses said. They said the 42-year-old Palestinian was closing a window in his home in Rafah overnight when troops at a watchtower in Rafiah Yam settlement overlooking the southern Gaza camp shot him dead

<B>USA. Presidential campaign. </B>President George W. Bush unveiled an election-year proposal on Wednesday to let millions of mostly Hispanic immigrants work legally in the United States in what would be the biggest overhaul of US immigration law in almost two decades.