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The United Nations Security Council has voted unanimously to tighten sanctions against Iran over its refusal to stop the enrichment of uranium. The resolution which followed weeks of negotiations includes a ban on Iranian arms exports. From UN headquarters in New York, Jenna Brown reports.

The unanimous vote of the United Nations Security Council followed weeks of arduous negotiations. The agreed resolution calls for financial sanctions against 28 individuals and entities associated with Iran's sensitive nuclear program and an increased arms embargo. The British Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry said the resolution was an incremental and proportionate response to Iran's failure to comply with demands that it give up uranium enrichment. But the Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said the Security Council was operating outside its charter because his country did not represent a threat to peace and international security.

The Iranian armed forces say they have evidence that 15 British naval personnel seized in the Gulf on Friday entered / Iranian waters illegally. A military spokesman said the British sailors and marines had confessed to crossing into Iranian territory. Britain insists they were in Iraqi waters.

The new United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes has been prevented from visiting a refugee camp in the Sudanese region of Darfur. On his first mission since taking over from Jan Egeland, Sudanese soldiers refused him entry. Speaking before the incident, Sudan's Minister of State for Foreigner Affairs, al-Samani al-Wasila told the BBC that the Sudanese government had tried to help humanitarian organizations in Darfur.

"For the humanitarian, for the nongovernmental organizations, we offered them to protect their fleets to reach wherever they wanted their destinations. They said they do not want the support of the Sudanese government because they think this is, is going to minimize their neutrality. "

Iraqi police say more than 60 people have been killed in a wave of attacks across the country. A suicide attack on a Shia mosque killed at least 11 people in the town of Iskandariya. 7 people also died in suicide bombings near the border with Syria. The worst incident was at a police station in the capital Baghdad. Hugh Sykes reports from Baghdad.

It seems to have been a day of coordinated attacks on police stations and checkpoints. On Saturday morning, an explosion reverberated across Baghdad like a roar of thunder when a suicide truck bomber attacked the police headquarters in the suburb of Doura. 20 people were killed including 16 policemen and 3 prisoners in the police cells. 26 were injured. Among them, the district police chief, and half the building was destroyed. The explosives were hidden under a load of bricks, supposedly being delivered by the truck for a construction site within the police compound.

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Police in Russia say they've broken up an unauthorized opposition rally in the centre of the city of Nizhny Novgorod and arrested about 30 people. Demonstrators defied a ban to protest against what they described as attempts by the Kremlin to stifle democracy. As Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports.

Chanting "no to Putin" and "give the money back to the people", hundreds of opposition activists were heading for the main square in Nizhny Novgorod when they were confronted by a wall of riot police. As scuffles ensued, truncheon-wielding police laid into the protestors, dragging at least 30 away to waiting vans. The authorities say this protest was illegal, but activists say taking to the streets is their constitutional right, and the only way to get their voice heard in Russia today.

Police in Jamaica investigating the murder of the Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer have questioned the team captain and the care-taker coach. Mr. Woolmer died hours after Pakistan's elimination from the cricket World Cup a week ago. This report from Andy Gallacher.

The Pakistan team had been due to board a plane from Montego Bay after getting permission from the authorities here to leave Jamaica, then just hours before that happened, officers began re-questioning the team's captain Inzamam-ul-Haq and care-taker coach Mushtaq Ahmed. Some reports are now suggesting that these were just formalities and that the team may still be leaving the island. The Pakistan squad had already been initially questioned here in Kingston. Each member of the team had fingerprints and DNA evidence taken and were then allowed to leave the capital.

The German luxury carmaker Porsche has announced a takeover bid for Volkswagen. The Porsche board said it would increase its current shareholding in Volkswagen to more than 30%, at which point it will be legally obliged to make a bid for the whole company.

And that's the latest BBC World News.