Iraq election security tightened

No-one is going to be allowed to travel in or out of Iraq for three days while elections happen at the end of January.

There has been lots of violence in Iraq recently and people running the country are worried it could get worse.

They're also planning to ban people from driving without the right permit and will make curfews in Iraq tougher.

The election takes place on 30 January and will pick a group of people to form a national assembly that will run Iraq until another set of elections in 2005.

Click here to find out more about Iraq

Some people will be allowed to cross the border, but only if they are returning from the Hajj in Saudi Arabia.

In Baghdad a bomb blast rocked a building belonging to one of the political parties there, and eight Chinese people have been taken hostage.

But the Catholic bishop of Mosul, Archbishop Basile Georges Casmoussa, was freed on Tuesday a day after he was kidnapped.

At least two people were killed and two injured in the attack on the offices of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (Sciri).

Sciri is a Shia political party and they think the attacks are trying to trick them into starting fighting with Sunni muslims.