(AP) - Video purportedly showing the release of two activists who jumped on board a Japanese whaling boat last week, was released by the group who organise Japan's whale hunts.

Images released by the Institute of Cetacean Research purportedly show Sea Shepherd activists Australian Benjamin Potts, 28, and Briton Giles Lane, 35 jumping into an inflatable vessel which pulled up alongside the Yushin Maru 2 as they were handed over to Australian officials.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israel said Monday it will ease a blockade of Gaza imposed in retaliation for militant rocket attacks, allowing some food and fuel in for one day. The announcement followed a U.N. warning that international food aid to the impoverished territory may have to be suspended by the weekend.

LONDON (AP) - Officials are clearing the wreckage of a British Airways jet that made a crash landing at Heathrow airport last week.

The Boeing 777, which suffered engine failure before landing at Britain's largest airport on Thursday, had remained on the edge of one of the runways while it was examined by crash investigators.

An initial inquiry found that everything had gone normally with the Beijing-to-London flight until the aircraft was just two miles from landing.

Passengers and witnesses say the plane's landing gear ripped

BAGHDAD (AP) - A suicide bombing killed six people in Anbar province on Sunday, but the target of the attack, a U.S.-backed Sunni tribal sheik, was unhurt, police said.

The bomber detonated explosives in his belt after four guards stopped him at the checkpoint leading to the sheik's farm near Fallujah. The attack killed the four guards and two civilians and injured four people, according to a police official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he feared reprisals.

The sheik, Aeifan al-Issawi, is a leading member of the Anbar

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A roadside bomb probably intended for Afghan or NATO forces killed five civilians in a taxi in an unstable part of southern Afghanistan, an official said Sunday.

The explosion late Saturday came in the Panjwayi district of Kandahar province, the site of heavy battles between NATO troops and Taliban fighters over the last 18 months.

"Usually the Taliban are planting mines for Afghan and NATO forces, but this time it exploded on civilians," said Shah Baran, the local government leader.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP)- A fourth Russian shipment of nuclear fuel arrived in Iran on Sunday, destined for a power plant being constructed in the southern port of Bushehr, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

The report said 11 tons of fuel arrived at the Bushehr power plant. Iran received its third Russian shipment on Friday.

Russia has reportedly pledged to give Iran a total of 85 tons of fuel for the plant.

The remainder of the fuel, about 40 tons, was scheduled to arrive in four separate shipments in the coming months, the report said.

MADRID, Spain (AP) - Police arrested 14 suspected Islamic militants in early morning raids Saturday, amid fears the men were plotting a terrorist attack in Barcelona, the interior minister said.

The suspects, 12 Pakistanis and two Indian nationals, were arrested less than two months before national elections in Spain. The country's last vote in March 2004 was held just after the Madrid train bombings - Europe's worst Islamic-linked terror attack.

There are fears that Islamic militants could try a similar plot to disrupt this year's vote, scheduled for March 9.

(NECN) - Pakistani officials have announced the arrests of two people in connection with the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. One of them a 15-year-old boy, was arrested near the Afghan border admitting he joined a team of assassins sent by a top militant to kill the popular opposition leader.

Pakistan's interior secretary says interrogators are working to get a similar confession from the other detainee before accepting the boy's confession.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israeli aircraft killed two Hamas militants in Gaza fighting early Saturday, a day after Israel sealed the borders and bombed an empty Hamas building in an intensifying campaign to halt rocket fire on Israeli border towns.

Hamas was defiant Saturday, saying it would keep firing rockets. "We will not surrender and we will not raise white flags," said Hamas spokesman Ayman Taha.

The group said Saturday it had caught a would-be suicide bomber sent by President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement to assassinate

MADRID, Spain (AP) - Spanish police on Saturday arrested 14 people suspected of links with Islamic terrorism, the prime minister and Interior Ministry said.

Civil Guard officers made the arrests in the northern port city of Barcelona as part of raids planned with the National Intelligence Center, the Spanish equivalent of the CIA, a ministry statement said.

Authorities did not rule out more arrests, the ministry said. Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero confirmed the report to journalists and said the investigations continued.