[02:50.75]Mr. Mugabe, who is been in power for more than 30 years, will contest the presidential election later this year.
[02:57.14]World News from the BBC
[03:00.01]The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been granted more time to try to form a coalition government,
[03:06.80] five weeks after a general election failed to produce a decisive result.
[03:10.74]President Shimon Peres gave Mr. Netanyahu another two weeks saying democracy takes effort.
[03:16.76]Mr. Netanyahu complained that some potential partners were boycotting others.
[03:21.56]From Jerusalem, Yolande Knell
[03:23.52]In a televised address, Mr. Netanyahu indirectly referred to how the second and third biggest parties were driving a hard bargain.
[03:31.71]Centrist Yesh Atid and the far-right Jewish Home are refusing to enter a coalition with ultra-Orthodox parties
[03:38.41]who would oppose their efforts to end military draft exemptions for students’ religious seminaries.
[03:44.06]If the prime minister can’t muster a parliamentary majority by the 16th of March, President Peres could ask another politician to try.
[03:52.74]However, most analysts still expect Mr. Netanyahu to meet his deadline.
[03:57.27]At least 20 people have been injured in Macedonia when police clashed with members of the country’s ethnic Albanian minority in the capital Skopje.