sworn in
on 1 December as the Mexico's president. Mr. Lopez Obrador meanwhile has reacted by rejecting the tribunal's decision.
Lawyers in South Africa are threatening legal action on behalf of 270 miners who have been charged murder after 34 of their colleagues were shot dead by police. They say the arrested miners must be released by Sunday or they will apply to the high court to order their release. Earlier, the justice minister Jeff Radebe asked prosecutors to explain the murder charges as Karen Allen reports from Johannesburg.
The justice minister Jeff Radebe said the decision to charge the protesting miners with causing the death of their own colleagues had led to shock, panic and confusion across South Africa. Prosecutors have charged 270 demonstrators with murder under the common purpose doctrine, an
apartheid
era law used in crowd situations when there is uncertainty about blame. But the governing ANC is trying to distant itself from what critics say is a politically motivated decision, which appears to
contradict
TV footage of the violence broadcast at the time.
Industrial unrest is spreading elsewhere. The big mine on a gold field says 12,000 of its miners have been on strike since Wednesday evening. Talks to end the three weeks strike at the Marikana platinum mine have been suspended on Monday.
World news from the BBC.
Voting has ended in Angola for a new president and parliament after an initial rush polling was said to have been slow and there were complaint of irregularities in some polling stations. President Jose Eduardo dos Santos is seeking another term after more than 30 years in power.